Forum Explorer (duplicate from general forum)

[ted]

Hello -

I've been working on activating the forum explorer, and so far, just getting a blank screen when I click the synchronize button.

Here's what I've done so far:

File Stuff
Dowloaded the cerb4_vbulltin_xml.php.txt file and removed the .txt
Edited it to changed the base url to point to my forum directory

helpdesk setup > Web API
created an access key
set all Rights to Read Only

helpdesk setup > Forum Explorer
Created a forum with the following info in the three fields:
Name: Made up a nickname for the forum
URL: http://www.mydomain.com/forum/cerb4_vbulletin_xml.php
Secret Key: pasted the secret key from the Web API page


After all that, I go to the forums tab, click the Synchronize tab, and get no results.

What have I missed here?

Thanks,
Ted

[Hildy]

Okay, I worked with Ted in chat and we got this running. There are a couple issues to be brought up here:

One, the Web-API is totally unrelated to the Forums Explorer plugin (and unnecessary for it to work)

Two, the Forums Explorer plugin doesn't actually use the secret key at this time, so leave it blank

Three, his particular vBulletin install had the table named "vbthread" instead of "thread", so the SELECT statement on line 23 of the forum adapter file had to be changed to reflect that name.