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Nov 29, 2005, 1:24 AM

Andy

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Nov 29, 2005, 1:24 AM

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[NEW PLUGIN] WordPress

Hi,

After several requests for such a plugin, I finally took the plunge =)

http://www.ultranerds.com/...?g=Detailed/161.html

In short, this plugin keeps your users from GLinks synchronized with your WordPress installation.

NB: this plugin is part of the Ultra Package and Ultra Package PRO packages.

Requirements

GLinks 3.0.1+
WordPress 1.5.2+

Features

You can "synchronize" your users from GLinks -> WordPress
You can specify any kind of "prefix" that you are using on WordPress, example wp_
When a user is deleted from GLinks, the user is also removed from WordPress
When you update a profile in GLinks, the user is updated in WordPress too (ideal for password changes).
Quick to setup.
Option to only "export" Administrators (defined by Status)
Can be setup to run via cronjob, to keep your users up-to-date.

Price: $100

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Nov 29, 2005, 1:40 PM

Clint

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Nov 29, 2005, 1:40 PM

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Andy:

Sounds good!

Will it synchronise with Community?

Regards,

Clint.
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Nov 29, 2005, 3:29 PM

Jag

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Nov 29, 2005, 3:29 PM

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Hi,

I asked Andy about this afternoon and he'll be able to fill you in on this but I would also be interested in seeing a version that works with Community.

Sounds to be a great plug-in, nice one Andy Smile

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Nov 30, 2005, 1:31 AM

Andy

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Nov 30, 2005, 1:31 AM

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In Reply To:

Andy:

Sounds good!

Will it synchronise with Community?

Regards,

Clint.

Hi,

Yeah, the problem is getting the passwords. GComm "encrypts" the passwords.. so there would need to be some kind of intermeditory "clear password" field (or even a new table .. still debating on that) .. which stores the password as non-encrypted.

Wordpress works in a similar way, with the MD5() encryption method (so thats not reversable). Basically, the password from GLinks/GComm will then get encrypted, and entered into the wp_users table.

The theory is all fine.. its just that I'll prob need to rewrite quite a bit of it, to get it working quite right with Community.

Anyway, I'll post my progress later today/tomorrow =)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Nov 30, 2005, 1:41 AM

eupos

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Nov 30, 2005, 1:41 AM

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Are you talking about community?
If so ... you are totally wrong the community HAS clear_pass field, but depends on configuration needs to use or not, this option

Cheers,
Boris

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Nov 30, 2005, 1:56 AM

Andy

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Nov 30, 2005, 1:56 AM

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Hi,

Thats what I'm looking into ;) I know it already has that field.. but not many people use it :P

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Andy (mod)
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Nov 30, 2005, 2:07 AM

eupos

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Nov 30, 2005, 2:07 AM

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I'm using it Tongue

We have GForum+GComm+another GPS application which uses the clear pass flatfile database. I've wrote a plugin in style of other GComm apps to authorize all the users through GComm, and it's so easy. Smile

GComm is awesome application.

Cheers,
Boris

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Nov 30, 2005, 2:42 AM

Andy

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Nov 30, 2005, 2:42 AM

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Hi,

yeah, I'm thinking of writing something that'll "synchronize" the users between applications. Gcomm doesn't seem to do a very good job of this ATM :| (at least I havn't managed to get it working .. as if I can't, then the chances are not many novices will be able too =))

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Nov 30, 2005, 2:53 AM

eupos

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Nov 30, 2005, 2:53 AM

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Hmz ... what do you mean with "synchronize".

At the moment we have using the GComm exactly for this, centralized login service and user administration between 2 apps, so when i decide to add/remove/update and etc user GComm does the the job for me in both applications and users have same data in GForum and in other application.

Are you want to do something more specific?

Cheers,
Boris

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Nov 30, 2005, 2:58 AM

Andy

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Nov 30, 2005, 2:58 AM

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Hi,

What I mean is for people who do similar things as this;

1) Already have LSQL / Glinks being used on their site
2) Decide to add community, and GForum
3) The users don't seem to get "setup" in GLinks (although most of them were imported into GComm, not all of them were).

The main problem, is that it doesn't seem to copy them into GLinks .. which is a MAJOR PITA, as it means adding (in the example I had yesterday), to 2000+ users ;)

I'll probably just write a simple script, that goes through the comm_users table, and "copies" the listings into lsql_Users/glinks_Users, if they don't already exist. Currently, this doesn't seem possible (at least not with the built in "import users" options with community.. which is a shame Unsure

)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Nov 30, 2005, 5:58 AM

Andy

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Nov 30, 2005, 5:58 AM

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Hi,

I've just released version 1.2, which has a couple of bug fixes.. and the ability to work with (or without) community :)

NB: This requires the system_store_clear_pass option in Setup > User Signup to be set to "yes", or else it doesn't have anything to base the "clear" password off, for encryption with MD5() in WordPress's database =)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Dec 1, 2005, 1:12 PM

erichcyber

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Dec 1, 2005, 1:12 PM

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Andy,

it´s great that more and more software becomes compatible with G-Links programs in terms of synchronization of userdata, especially with G-Community.

BTW:
Talking about "WordPress", I still do not understand the difference from a "Forum" to a "Blog".....?
What is the advantage of using Wordpress over G-Forum ? Please explain.

Best regards,

Erich

Dec 1, 2005, 10:59 PM

Andy

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Dec 1, 2005, 10:59 PM

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Hi,

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Talking about "WordPress", I still do not understand the difference from a "Forum" to a "Blog".....?
What is the advantage of using Wordpress over G-Forum ? Please explain.

A blog is somewhere that people post their daily (or however often they want) comments. I've used one before at work, to keep a log of what I've done / need to do / how much time has been spent on stuff (thats how I became award of Wordpress =)).

Others, use it for "student diaries", list their cooking recipies on them, etc. Basically, anything you want to "jot down" can be done in a blog.

Forums are designed more as an "ask-to-get-reply" type system, whereas blogs tend to be the reverse (i.e offering suggestions, help).

Its quite a complicated one :D

Wikipedia describes it best <G>

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blog
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forum

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Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Dec 14, 2005, 1:07 AM

wesley

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Dec 14, 2005, 1:07 AM

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Getting back on topic.....

Hi Andy,

I'm aware of the requirements for GLinks but I have to ask if your plugin might work with or has been tested for the 2.2.1 version (just not wanting to upgrade ATM).

I'm currently running Links SQL 2.2.1 + GForum 1.2.3 + Community 1.0.2. I will be adding GLinks 3.0.4 to the mix + Links SQL 2.2.1 + Forum + Community + Wordpress (potentially). So...when I delete a user from within Community, that user also gets deleted across all my applications, correct?

Just curious about enabling system_store_clear_pass and having my previously registered users still with encrypted passwords (that is the case I think). If that is the case, what are my options for those users.

Sincerely,

Rob Wesley
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Dec 14, 2005, 1:22 AM

Andy

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Dec 14, 2005, 1:22 AM

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Hi,

Yup, its been tested on LSQL 2.2.x versions :)

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So...when I delete a user from within Community, that user also gets deleted across all my applications, correct?

Exactly :)

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Just curious about enabling system_store_clear_pass and having my previously registered users still with encrypted passwords (that is the case I think). If that is the case, what are my options for those users.

Yeah, thats where the problem comes in =) The best bet there, is to randomly assign a password for those that have no value for cln_pass, and then when they update in GLinks/LSQL, it will just update them in wordpress, with their new password :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Dec 17, 2005, 4:46 AM

blacknight

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Dec 17, 2005, 4:46 AM

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Andy - sounds interesting
Have you tested it with Wordpress 2? It's currently in beta, but should be released sometime in the new year
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Dec 17, 2005, 4:50 AM

Andy

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Dec 17, 2005, 4:50 AM

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Hi,

Nah, afraid I havn't. As long as the wp_users table has roughly the same field layout, I cant see there being any major problems :) If the layout is different, then the generated .def files will need some changes - but the overall working of it should be fine Angelic

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Dec 17, 2005, 4:52 AM

blacknight

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Dec 17, 2005, 4:52 AM

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Fair enough

I haven't tried it out yet, but I understand that it has changed a lot of the hooks, so a lot of plugins etc., will have to be rewritten entirely
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Dec 17, 2005, 5:05 AM

Andy

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Dec 17, 2005, 5:05 AM

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Hi,

I don't use their hooks =) Only the built in one for GLinks (user related ones). The process is only a one-way thing (Glinks -> WordPress, and not the other way).

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Dec 18, 2005, 5:11 PM

erichcyber

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Dec 18, 2005, 5:11 PM

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Hi Andy,

how to set-up the Word-Press within G-Links ? What makes sense here ? What would you recommend and what is possible ?

Is it possible to set it up like this:

"Home" > "Category" > "Subcategory" > "Blog"

or

set up a Blog for each User ?

Many thanks,

Erich

Dec 18, 2005, 11:42 PM

Andy

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Dec 18, 2005, 11:42 PM

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Hi,

At the moment, all this plugin does is "synchronize" your users with WordPress. In the future, I'm going to also add a "category" style thing, where a category is setup for each user (depending if people want this feature <G>).

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 20, 2006, 4:24 PM

Jobu

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Sep 20, 2006, 4:24 PM

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Hi Andy,

Please excuse my ignornace.

We would like to offer all of our users the ability to create a blog. We have been looking at WordPress.

We are running the latest versions of Forum, Links and Community. We would like users who sign up to our COmmunity DB to, with one login, be able to add links, participate in the forums and start their blog.

Will this plugin work for me?

In other words, if we buy it, we'll be able to integrate WordPress with Forum and Links with the Community database?

Can I assume the plugin works for the latest versions of all of these software?

Finally, what version of WordPress should i be downloading? The multi-user version?

Thanks!

Mar 30, 2010, 12:56 PM

colintho

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Mar 30, 2010, 12:56 PM

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Andy

is the Wordpress plugin in the Ultranerds.com members download area the Wordpress Blog plugin for GLinks?

Also, on install, it asks for these details / settings

Are these settings the same as the Glinks Admin > Setup > SQL Server or where would I get these from?

This plugin will synchronize your GLinks users, into WordPress, so that they can post blogs.
WordPress Database Details:

Username: (WordPress Username to access the database.)
Password: (Wordpress database password.)
Prefix: (This is the prefix used on the WordPress database tables.)
Host: (The Database host for WordPress)

Database Name: (The database name for WordPress.)

Thanks
Colin Thompson

Mar 31, 2010, 12:10 AM

Andy

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Mar 31, 2010, 12:10 AM

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What are you trying to achieve with the plugin?

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Are these settings the same as the Glinks Admin > Setup > SQL Server or where would I get these from?

It can be - or it can be a new set of login details for another DB (just for wordpress)

Please note, you need to be using Wordpress 1.5.2, as they totally renevated their user system i the newer version, and this broke the system (I could never work out their new format for user permissions) - http://wordpress.org/wordpress-1.5.2.zip

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Andy (mod)
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Mar 31, 2010, 12:46 AM

colintho

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Mar 31, 2010, 12:46 AM

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I was looking through the list of plugin that are part of the Ultra Package Pro plugins on www.ultranerds.com to see if there were any that I wasn't using that would be useful addition to my site

I saw this one for Wordpress and thought I would take a look as I've never used Wordpress before and wanted to see what it could do.

From what I see, it allows you to easily create a blog on your website?

Thanks
Colin Thompson

Mar 31, 2010, 12:59 AM

Andy

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Mar 31, 2010, 12:59 AM

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From what I see, it allows you to easily create a blog on your website?

Yup

It synchronizes your user table with the wordpress one (so they can login with the same details). Nothing amazingly fancy (all it means, is they can post comments on your blog entries etc - not post their own)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Mar 31, 2010, 1:50 AM

Matthias70

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Mar 31, 2010, 1:50 AM

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Andy wrote:

What are you trying to achieve with the plugin?

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Are these settings the same as the Glinks Admin > Setup > SQL Server or where would I get these from?

Ups, I would not recommed to use this version of wp. This version is too old. At the moment they are at 2.9.2

Matthias
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Mar 31, 2010, 1:54 AM

Andy

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Mar 31, 2010, 1:54 AM

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Yeah, I do need to have another look at it - buy they have changed their user permissions stuff to weird stuff like:

{s:3,d:5,h:7}

..which makes no sense at all =)

I did try asking on their support forum about this format, but no-one seemed to know the answer at the time.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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