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Thank you very much. I wasn't aware of the API. It sounds like exactly what I need.

Hello. Is there a recommended way to allow a standalone php application, running on the same server as our XF instance, to use the authentication from the XF user database? We have an application we want to carry forward to the new forum site, but it has no relationship to the forums (separate...

Got it, thanks. I didn't correctly ask my question, I just wanted to make sure that the other addColumns from the original installStep didn't have to be included in the upgrade steps. The fuzziness was still my being concerned about tampering with the original Columns, and you've clarified that...

Thanks very much for the response. So the upgrade Step just contains a single $table->addColumn? This will never be installed except as an upgrade which will completely replace the relevant code so versioning isn't necessary if it's possible to do it without. Can one just specify a method of...

I finally did the addon update on our dev server. What I found was the table additions in Setup.php weren't made Would it have been more appropriate to manually run the cmd.php Installstep1 command after installing the addon update?

We found both problems. The first was not having the Apache2 conf setup to allow the rewrite to occur in .htaccess. The second was unrelated and was a cloudflare rewrite that was trapping the trailing Preview on the friendly version of the hover URL. Thank you for all your suggestions.

Just to add to what Justin has said, manually entering the URL for the preview fails with the Friendly URL option turned on but returns the expected content when it's off. It really seems like a rewrite issue though I see that this forum is using friendly URLs and the hover works fine. Could it...

I have a few million archived posts currently read only on a pre-2007 wwwboard. It is have been requested that these be included in our current production XF 2.2 instance so they are searchable by keyword (though not by user). These posts don't have real usernames frequently because wwwboard...

Thank you, it was your suggestion to check the error.log that uncovered the problem. Sadly, it was more basic. I have never used a .htaccess for anything but authusers, and have put all rewrites directly in the httpd.conf for 30 some years. I stupidly didn't have "AllowOverride All" in the...

I now see why no one has answered. This is a conceptual bug in my own addon, so no one would have seen this problem. It has to do with how XF decides a thread has been read. For a thread to be marked as read, XF appears to only look to the last reply in the thread, if that last post is not New...

I would add to this that the read flag isn't cleared if the thread was moved to a different node either. The original threads that triggered my question were not moved threads though, and the moved thread issue is predicable to mods, thus explainable to users. Additional info on this is that...

We've had some instances where user's browsers fail to mark a thread as read. It gets stuck in the browser's cache (I think) and refuses to let go, even with edits and further replies. I would have written this off except it's now happened to me a couple of times on two different browsers. I...

My Setup.php contains only dropColumn and addColumn methods and I will be adding an additional column for the change. I wasn't aware of the update method so it contains none (nor would these changes require an update). I've only added, and will be adding, columns, no tables. It's sounds like...

Thank you for that. I presume it won't active the db column removal portion then to reinstall.

We went live with my addon last week and naturally, now I have a list of changes to apply to it for user taste. I had one emergency change I needed to make and noticed on the production system where I installed the addon, the addon files were now read only (presumably supposed to be, not to...