Integrating Vanilla 3.3 in to the wordpress directory!

TheCandidate

I have tried looking for a smooth step by step as to how this works but I have failed to understand it.

My understanding is that I am able to self host Vanilla Forums and integrate this in to my wordpress website via the Vanilla Forums plugin. I have unzipped the file and also d/l jsconnect and placed in the plugin folder but I do not know where this is meant to go in the wordpress directory on my host server. I tried to send this via FTP but I really don't know where it is meant to reside.

My second issue is that the Vanilla Forums plugin has a setup category and requests you to 'Enter the full url of your Vanilla Forum:' followed by a response stating 'Couldn't find a Vanilla Forum at this url :/' after an invalid entry.

Can someone please explain simply where i am going wrong?

R_J

The misunderstanding here is that vanilla is no wordpress plugin. You need to have a running installation of Vanilla and only after that you can connect both Vsnilla forum and WordPress blog-abused-as-cms.

So you have start to install Vanilla before you can integrate it with WordPress

donshakespeare

When you are able to get Vanilla installed and running then look here for some jsConnect help

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/comment/258764/#Comment_258764

TheCandidate

Hi, thank you both for your replies.

I have decided to locally host Vanilla Forums via MAMP.

I have placed the unzipped vanilla folder in the root folder 'htdocs' and created a new MySQL database titled as vanilla.

The youtube tutorials seem to show that browsing localhost/vanilla generates a user login page but in my case I am presented with an error:

Fatal Error in LocalesApiController.{closure}();

Class 'Locale' not found

The error occurred on or near: C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\applications\dashboard\controllers\api\LocalesApiController.php

 99: 
100:         $populate = function (array &$row, array $locales) {
101:             $displayNames = [];
102:             foreach ($locales as $locale) {
103:                 $displayName = \Locale::getDisplayLanguage($row["localeKey"], $locale);
104: 
105:                 // Standardize capitalization
106:                 $displayName = mb_convert_case($displayName, MB_CASE_TITLE);
107: 

Backtrace:

[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\applications\dashboard\controllers\api\LocalesApiController.php:117] LocalesApiController->{closure}();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\applications\dashboard\controllers\api\LocalesApiController.php:45] LocalesApiController->expandDisplayNames();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\Vanilla\Models\LocalePreloadProvider.php:36] LocalesApiController->index();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\Vanilla\Web\JsInterpop\ReduxActionPreloadTrait.php:51] Vanilla\Models\LocalePreloadProvider->createActions();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\core\class.controller.php:1967] Gdn_Controller->getReduxActionsAsJsVariable();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\core\class.controller.php:1471] Gdn_Controller->renderMaster();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\core\class.pluggable.php:217] Gdn_Controller->xRender();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\applications\dashboard\controllers\class.setupcontroller.php:155] Gdn_Pluggable->__call();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\core\class.dispatcher.php:872] SetupController->index();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\library\core\class.dispatcher.php:289] Gdn_Dispatcher->dispatchController();
[C:\MAMP\htdocs\vanilla\index.php:29] Gdn_Dispatcher->dispatch();

Can anybody shed some light on rectifying this problem please?