Questions tagged [ipb]

Invision Power Board (abbreviated IPB, IP.Board or IP Board) is Internet forum software produced by Invision Power Services, Inc. It is written in PHP and primarily uses MySQL as a database management system. The software is commercially sold under a propriety license.

Invision Power Board (sometimes abbreviated IPB, IP.Board or IP Board) is an Internet forum software produced by Invision Power Services, Inc. It is part of the IPS Community Suite. It is written in PHP and primarily uses MySQL as a database management system. The software is commercially sold under a proprietary license.

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It does not create an account in the database

I changed from IPS 3 to IPS 4 and can not create a user account with PHP. This is for a new Linux server, running MySQL 5, PHP 7.3.1 and Nginx. The engine is IPS 4.4.3. require_once('init.php'); $member = new \IPS\Member; $member->real_name = 'Test…
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Request entity too large - 413 error IPS 4.3.4

I am trying to upload a language pack to my forum. When I click upload button I getting error - Request entity too large . This is error 413 . My server is apache. I tried change value client_max_body_size in htaccess file but this does not work.…
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Invision Power Board: Add message at top of board index

And here I am, wasting my time trying to achieve things that would take two minutes with any other forum software. IPB's template system is insane. Anyway: I just want to add a simple block of HTML, specifically a paragraph of text, on top of my…
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Getting session variables from IP.Suite in Angular 2

I'm working on an Angular 2 project, but now I have to get currently logged in user from IP.Suite (if the user is logged in there) and fetch variables like his ID etc. I tried asking on their forums, but no one answered. I first thought of fetching…
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How can I use a Laravel function in my IPS Forum?

So I'm trying to integrate a fresh install of IPS into my Laravel website. Please note that the forum was installed in a directory inside the public folder of the Laravel website, called forum, and that I am using Laravel 5.4. Part of this process…
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IP.Board - Single Sign On in php

I'm developing a small hand made web portal for a community and I want it to have a loggin system with IP.Board (easier for the end user). I have the forum and the app on the same hosting. For the loggin, the user clicks on a button and is…
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Creating a Newsticker

I am using IPboard 4 and am trying to create a newsticker. Currently it looks like this: But, it should look like this: The Problem is I cannot find any material on ipb on how to edit output. Basically what I want to achieve is that the Title of…
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IPB: equivalent for $this->registry->class_forums->forum_by_id

Hi, I would like to know whats the right code that does the same as $this->registry->class_forums->forum_by_id[ $forumid ]; but for posts? I thought it was something like: $this->registry->classPost->post_by_topic_id[ $topic_id ]; but it wont…
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authenticate member through database with hashed/salted password

i am using ipb forum software. I have member table with name entity and members_pass_hash and members_pass_salt. I have problem writing query statement to authorize member String Sql="Select * from members where name=? and…
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IPB4 - Where are the group names stored?

https://invisionpower.com/ I'm building an application that requires groups to be dynamically created in the IPB 4 Forums back end. This is easily accomplished by adding a new row in the core_groups table. However, I can't find where to change the…
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Password hash in IPB 4

I am using IPB 4 forum platform for my community and I want to make a portal that uses the forums user/password combo The problem is that I cant figure out how to hash the password when logging in I've tried this function ipbhash($salt,…
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Cannot change the color of this block in forums (CSS)

I've been working on recoloring a theme. I have on IPB I've been changing everything from white to a grey, but this one part. Gyazo attached with a sample of a post where the white is below the userblock. How can I possibly change this to match…
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Speed up forum conversion

I'm converting a forum from myBB to IPBoard (the conversion is done through a PHP script), however I have over 4 million posts that need to be converted, and it will take about 10 hours at the current rate. I basically have unlimited RAM and CPU,…
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External Authentication IPB Forum

I coded an external authentication in PHP and it works for 99% of all users. However the authentication doesn't work for the other 1% which is quite a lot in absolute numbers. I already wrote IPB but they are not able to help me. I located that the…
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Fetch group data

I want to fetch the group data (primary and secondary group ids) of a single user. I am using the IPSMember Class in order to load a user and I thought I would be able to access those attributes directly then. This is what I have tried to echo all…