Question Kunena and JomSocial. And the signature?

Matias wrote:

Answering all the support questions slows down development, so large projects need to balance between those two. But you're right -- profile should be saved into one place instead of two.

Indeed!
Dont get me wrong, i really appreciate your volunteer work on Kunena, but this plugin is "duct tape and chicken wire" solution which merely just add links in Jomsocial toolbar TO the Kunena profile pages.
When we talk about INTEGRATION, for example, one would like to see that nifty male icon in the forums WITHOUT the need to set the gender in kunena profile.
You know, regular users dont even know what Kunena or Jomsocial is, and im tired of explanations that they have to set their profile on 2 locations.

In other words, something like a CB plugin for subscriptions and favorite items in a form of a jomsocial application, and integrated profile fields would be a killer features

The way I look at it Kunena have done all they can do to enable us to make alterations to our signatures, Skype, MSN, website information on the actual forum. Really, it is up to JomSocial to make their products fully compatible with Kunena.

I like the way the JoniJnm done the integration of a fields.
Its clean, and straightforward.

Hopefully, it will be the part of a Kunena 1.6 core

Well, JoniJnm just joined back into development team..

a beginner question:

where do I upload my de-DE language file? I can´t find the gb-GB file in the language folder

Thanks for this module.
Here is russian translation.

Hey guys,,

Studies few earlier messages in this post for the same requirement, the signautre integration with jomsocial. I think you ppl have got the solution with a plugin may be.

in the meantime, i built up my own solution, thought it might help anyone there.

Its an extra field in jomsocial which picks and puts signature in kunena table with following code.

// no direct access
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');

class CFieldsForumSignature
{
function getFieldHTML( $field , $required )
{
$config =& CFactory::getConfig();
$js = '/assets/validate-1.5';
$js .= ( $config->getBool('usepackedjavascript') ) ? '.pack.js' : '.js';
CAssets::attach($js, 'js');

// If maximum is not set, we define it to a default
$field->max = empty( $field->max ) ? 200 : $field->max;

$loggedInUser =& JFactory::getUser();
$userid = JRequest::getVar('userid',$loggedInUser->id,'get');
$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "SELECT signature FROM #__kunena_users WHERE userid = $userid";
$db->setQuery($query);
$field->value = $db->loadResult();

$class = ($field->required == 1) ? ' required' : '';
CFactory::load( 'helpers' , 'string' );
$html = '<textarea id="field' . $field->id . '" name="field' . $field->id . '" class="jomTips tipRight inputbox textarea' . $class . '" title="' . $field->name . '::' . CStringHelper::escape( $field->tips ) . '">' . $field->value . '</textarea>';
$html .= '<span id="errfield'.$field->id.'msg" style="display:none;">&nbsp;</span>';
$html .= '<script type="text/javascript">cvalidate.setMaxLength("#field' . $field->id . '", "' . $field->max . '");</script>';

return $html;
}

function isValid( $value , $required )
{
if( $required && empty($value))
{
return false;
}
$loggedInUser =& JFactory::getUser();
$userid = JRequest::getVar('id',$loggedInUser->id);
$db =& JFactory::getDBO();
$query = "UPDATE #__kunena_users SET signature ='$value' WHERE userid = $userid";
$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();

return true;
}
}

Regards,
The signature from jomsocial

Hi there,

could you please provide us with screenshot or a live test site/example?

Which file should I modify?

Best regards Mikkel.

Hi,

You have to follow these steps:

1. This code is to be added in a new file "forumsignature.php" created in /components/com_community/libraries/fields.

2. Edit the file "customfields.xml" and add new field tag:
<field>
<type>forumsignature</type>
<name>Forum Signature</name>
</field>

3. Now go into backend menu Components -> Jomsocial -> Custom Profiles -> New Field
4. Select "Forum Signature" and you are done.

Regards

Coldsystems version 2.1 works perfectly. Excellent, easy-to-follow instructions and having fully tested it (after some initial teething problems which I caused! :blush: ) I am very pleased with the outcome.

mibnbikes wrote: Hi there,

could you please provide us with screenshot or a live test site/example?

Which file should I modify?

Best regards Mikkel.