[Temp] XenForo Discussion Thread

So, will the url of the "new" site be the same or different? If I have the site favorited and haven't visited in a while, for example, it would be nice to not be directed to a broken link.

 

That is a field I created. You can enter text but no links. There is an option to use URLs but I didn't want to make things overly complicated and force resource creators to be hooking up links. Now that I think about it a URL would be more user friendly for the person downloading

 

I have no preference about hosting or uploading images though its simpler if the images are hosted here since we won't end up with broken image links when one of those hosting sites shuts down or the person cancels their account. There is room for over 100,000 photos here

 

You should see something similar on the right Column if you are the resource owner (not all the options may be there since I have admin access) with ability to "Edit Resource Icon"

 

The URL will not be changing

 

Probably not, no worries though http://XLNation.net will work

 

They use Paypal. Bonus of using these addons is the extra features.

Example,

Donation Manager

A simple yet powerful donation manager designed to convince your community to give you money! It is designed to present donation goals in a noticeable manner to be very clear on where you are with donations and why you need them. When a user decides he or she wants to donate they use a streamlined system which never loads another page until going to PayPal for the final step. Includes anonymous donations, ability to specify amounts and/or allow for a custom amount and for the donor to leave a note to be shown to public (if permissions permit). Everything is as simple as possible however still powerful as can be seen by the screenshots below.

Features

• ability to set a minumum donation amount
• ability to set a goal with title and description. Progress is shown graphically. Goals are monthly, this is something that will be extended to allow more options, see below
• ability to manually add donors as well as edit any donations already received/created
• donors can be anonymous when donating, also can leave notes if they want
• each donor has all their contributions logged with 2 totals, one for public donations and one for anonymous, that way top donors can be anonymous donors
• 3 different sidebars: goal/donate, top donors and top donations
• donation list and a donor list
• donating is powered via ajax so a page load isn't needed until going to paypal itself
• paypal integration supports refunds, if refunded the donation will be removed and goal reduced like expected
• monthly goal logs
• criteria integration. Under user criteria you will see new options: user has donated within the last X days, user has donated more than X days ago, user has donated at least X dollars, user has donated no more than X dollars
• various permissions for viewing and donating

 

I don't think you need paypal to pay into a paypal account do you?

 

Yeah, you don't. I just checked XLN's donation page.

 

Monty pointed out to me that new stuff should be posted here. So I have a few concerning questions.

1. Is the resource manager operating from it's own database or is it part of the Xenforo database?
2. When the migrating the forum is done, will be to a new database or it will overwrite the one recently setup?