Recent content by TJ Adams

The online manual doesn't appear to have anything related to advertising: https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/manual/search.html?q=advertising I'm mostly interested in an overview that explains the approach to be used now since things have changed from XenForo 1. I've found the predefined ad...

If the users in question have the desired usergroup as a secondary_group_id... this example is selecting members in user group 9 and showing their last post time: SELECT user.username, MAX(post.post_date) AS last_post_date FROM xf_user AS user LEFT JOIN xf_post AS post ON(post.user_id =...

I did a conversion from IPB 3.4 to XenForo and found that a percentage of members were unable to authenticate on their first login attempt. But, many users could authenticate fine. Took a while to figure out, but, the information on how passwords are treated in IPB is explained here...

This bug is actually still there. IE 11 shows a horizontal scroll bar going way out right, even though there is nothing visible there. This occurs when you are in thread_view and quick reply is available, and, of course, the HTML5 uploader is enabled. The bug is in...

Excellent, that fixed the problem. Thank you. Yes, it was quite surprising to see when it was reported to me. Oh, it's not that we are allowing people to post HTML. These are just .TXT attachment uploads. People are sharing html and script samples with each other as forum attachments. They...

Here's an interesting side effect while using DeferJS. If a site user uploads a text file which happens to be an HTML sample that contains script tags, DeferJS will resequence the script tags in that text attachment when others download it. I tested using a very basic HTML sample that had...

The ability for members to edit posts is disabled once a thread is closed. However, members can delete posts in those same closed threads. Code-wise, ./library/XenForo/Model/Post.php has a check for thread closure in function canEditPost(), right after checking that it is not a guest viewing...