Hook requests (Page 2 of 7)

co_common is the place for that. You can't add a hook to functions.php because it's loaded too early.

Done.

Done. One before the list, one after and one in the loop. Using the one in the loop, it should be easy to, for example, assign a special CSS class to administrators etc.

I added a hook at the end of header.php instead. Just check PUN_PAGE and do your output if you're on the right page.

Wouldn't a hook in viewtopic right before <div class="paged-head"> make more sense by the way? In my opinion, the poll is a part of the topic and should appear "inside the topic" and not above the paging and posting links.

What good would a hook do there? If you want to modify the announcement, you can do it anywhere before that.

Done.

Done.

Done.

You probably could use po_form_submitted and and ed_form_submitted, but I added hooks nonetheless.

Done (a few lines further down though).

The profile.php one I suggested for adding sections I think.

Yeah, sorry

preferably looking at this section

// Check if the new settings differ from the old

if(count(array_intersect($perms_new, $perms_old)) != count($perms_new))
{
    if(count(array_intersect($perms_new, $perms_default)) == count($perms_new))
    {
        // Delete
    }
    
    else
    {
        // Insert/Update
    }
}

It should be quite easy to build the queries and the form directly from $perms. If done right, you will just have to add elements to $perms and $perms_default to add permissions. Forms, validation and queries are so similar that it will work most of the time, and when it doesn't you can always use some other hook. Depending on how it's all implemented you might have to use array_intersect_assoc() instead of array_intersect(), as the latter doesn't care about indexes.

Last time i had to integrate punbb with my intranet, i had to edit the punbb source files. I dont know how much things have change since then.

However, for an external auth system to work properly, following hooks may be neccesary:

1. a hook just before the actual login is performed. users may sync user accounts just before the actual login process. ( like wordpress's wp_authenticate hook )

2. a simple sample plugin should be included with new releases, for performing authentication against external database and ldap. These are the most common scenario, and will serve most people.

we can provide easy options for users to fill up:

database connection params, external db table name, name of user field, name of pass field, password hash scheme ( must support atleast md5 and sha1 )

If the external db is using different password encryption scheme ( for example , django uses random salt + sha1 hash ), user must be able to provide a custom fucntion to verify the passwords.

Invision board provides an easy to use sample plugin, that I modified a little bit for integration with django user database.

3. some more hooks to for proper user interface integration in case of external sso:

a. hook to enable / disable password update field within punbb ( just  like wordpress's "show_password_fields" hook )

b. hook to get custom registration url, to show on top menu bar. ( to redirect user to external registration system , instead of redirecting to punbb's registration page )

c. hook to enable/disable password retrieve and reset function in punbb ( just like wordpress's "retrieve_password" and 'password_reset' hooks )

In short, SSO is not "just" user integration. Its about user interface too. And a forum should not try to be the CMS, but try to accompany a CMS. It's destined to work with external systems, so its SSO system should be really flexible.

And please take a look at wodpress's hooks. they seem to have covered almost everything imagineable...from output filters to sso...

And as much as i hate invision board, i had to use it this time, because i was able to get it working with django user db in just 10-15 minutes ...

But i am so much in love with punbb's slick interface, that I cant wait to replace it with punbb...

Not yet, no, as everything is still subject to change

Yup, i was going through the code

It seems that you people have placed lots of hooks .... almost every place has got some kind of hook.

It's nice to see punbb devs taking such interest in making punbb expandable using hooks and plugins

I will let you know if some specific place may need any kind of hook as soon as soon as I finish browsing the code.

Thanks for your prompt replys Smartys.

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Hello!

Hooks and feature request:

- display the forums moderators (like in punbb 1.2 or/and on viewforum.php)
- display the forums description on viewforum.php
- display the last topic on index.php
- different icons for new / no new threads on index.php and new / no new posts on viewforum.php (?)
- add attachments / polls to posts

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