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how to a widget on a particular category page.

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:31:11 +0000

For example We have two category like : Q2Acore & plugins on q2a

If a user click Q2Acore then widget only visible on page "http://www.question2answer.org/qa/core" not on other page.

Is it posiible if yes , can i have some sort of help..

Answered: how to include css file in plugin folder

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:06:19 +0000

Use the constant, QA_HTML_THEME_LAYER_URLTOROOT:

QA_HTML_THEME_LAYER_DIRECTORY contains the full local path of the plugin directory. This can be used as a prefix for include statements within the layer's code.
QA_HTML_THEME_LAYER_URLTOROOT contains the URL of the plugin directory, relative to the current page request. If the layer outputs HTML that references other files (such as images) within the plugin directory, this prefix should be used for the corresponding URLs.

http://www.question2answer.org/layers.php

The embed plugin uses this.

how to resolve session_start() Warning on all pages ?

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:59:10 +0000

I am getting the below warning on all pages. However, i am able to ask questions and answer questions.

Installed on Godaddy shared hosting.

See the error below:

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/var/chroot/home/content/49/3812349/tmp/sess_589qa53e1u81uusq3f2mknf3q5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php on line 131

Also, the following errors are coming on the admin dashboard top...

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/var/chroot/home/content/49/3812349/tmp/sess_uogldm9q9vkq25dnevf117tjr7, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php on line 131

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php:131) in /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php on line 131

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php:131) in /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-page.php on line 703

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php:131) in /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-page.php on line 205

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-app-users.php:131) in /home/content/49/3812349/html/tmapp/qa-include/qa-page.php on line 334

Also, on installation i got the same kind of errors..

How to resolve this ?

Note: i tested with my localhost version and it worked well.

Thanks.

How to make Q2A even easier to adapt for other uses?

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:10:46 +0000

Q2A is an awesome, well documented script that can be adapted for multiple uses other than just Q&A sites. To make it even easier to adapt for non-tech users who don't want to bother with editing templates and/or files, do you (developers) think it would be a nice addition to offer a language config page where terms like "ask a question", "questions", "asked" (the native default terminology that relates to Q&A type of site) could be changed to suit the users needs. So for example, if I wanted to just make it a site where people write reviews, I could go into the language file and quickly update the "ask a question" to "write a review", and change "answers" to "comments", etc. What do you think of this idea? Some scripts I've tried (Pligg for example) have a language file and it makes it so easy to customize the site very quickly. Thanks!

Logo graphic not showing with Parchment theme

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:15:56 +0000

Hi. I'm new to Q2A and have been going through the Admin options. I installed the Parchment theme, which looks good because of the earth colors for my wife's home gardening site/blog. However, I am not having success with getting a graphic logo file to display accordingly. It's a .PNG file and I have an absolute URL to it within the Admin, "Show a logo image..." check box is checked, image dimensions filled in, etc.

When I switch to either of the initial themes (Default or Candy), the logo image appears fine (and clickable). When I switch back to Parchment theme, the image disappears for just the text site name. Cleared browser cache, reloaded, etc. but with no success. The image logo only appears for me via Default or Candy, not for Parchment. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks.

Another notice...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:22:08 +0000

I know that notices are harmless but still... Actually i don't know where they came from, i use alot of NoahY plugins.

Here is 4 rows notice that appears in every question and answer:

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /x/x/x/x/qa-include/qa-app-format.php(1452) : eval()'d code on line 60

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /x/x/x/x/qa-include/qa-app-format.php(1452) : eval()'d code on line 60

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /x/x/x/x/qa-include/qa-app-format.php(1452) : eval()'d code on line 60

Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /x/x/x/x/qa-include/qa-app-format.php(1452) : eval()'d code on line 60

how to ask ?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:11:14 +0000

http://google.com

How can i disable the viewing of the list of members for not registered ?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:54:18 +0000

Only users has certain points can view the content?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:35:35 +0000

How can I make only users who has certain points can view the content. This will make visitors and members to answer some questions to view the content. I have try to find a way by admin but I think there is not an option for this. What did the community think about this idea?

Answered: How to change the background according to the current user favorites in /questions

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:21:29 +0000

No plugin for that currently exists so you'd need to make it yourself. Here's a short summary of the parts you would need:

A new database table for storing user's favourite tags.
A page plugin to add a tag to the user's favourite, that would get called when the user presses a button on the tag page. (Doesn't need to actually display anything, you can just redirect back to the previous page).
A layer override to add said button to each tag page.
A layer override that adds a class to the user's favourite questions in the question list.

Answered: how to stop q2a form stoping some users adding to many qestions

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:01:39 +0000

You will find those options at Admin > Spam. Where it says "Rate limit for asking questions" change the two boxes to something high like 100 per user per hour.

Note that means they can ask a new question every 30 seconds or so...

Answered: v1.4 to 1.5BETA can't create table

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:34:50 +0000

This could happen if you switched the qa_users table to MyISAM, rather than leaving it as InnoDB. This creates a problem for foreign keys that reference the table.

Two solutions:

1. Convert qa_users back to InnoDB

2. Remove the foreign key in the definition by changing this in qa-db-install.php:

'CONSTRAINT ^userfavorites_ibfk_1 FOREIGN KEY (userid) REFERENCES ^users(userid) ON DELETE CASCADE'

... to ...

null

You will have to do similar things with subsequent problematic upgrade steps if you choose this route.

Another solution might be to replace InnoDB with MyISAM in the source code of qa-db-install.php, if you want all tables to by MyISAM.

Answered: Automatically shorten urls. Any idea ???

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:07:12 +0000

I have used YOURLS. You could easily create a plug-in to extract urls from a question and call the yourls function. Here is a list of more open source shorteners.

With yourls you can make short urls on your own domain or subdomain, and it gives you some extra stats.

If you just want to make the url look shorter, like your example, that is simple php.

Answered: Where Can i upload my translation for Q2A 1.5?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:06:20 +0000

Send your lang files to gideon - he does it manually:
http://www.question2answer.org/qa/user/gidgreen

Answered: Questions on First Page (Front Page) still visible

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:56:55 +0000

In qa-theme-base.php

find

$this->main();

replace by

if(qa_get_logged_in_userid())
{
$this->main();

}

Get the value of a custom field added in profile

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:54:03 +0000

I would like to get the value of a field I've add in user profile and display it in a custom tooltip on the username hover.

Announcing: Proxy Single Sign-on for v 1.5

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:27:19 +0000

I've updated Proxy Single Sign-on plugin for v 1.5

See the screencast which show the features and architecture of the plug-in. The screencast is for the first version of the plugin, but the user experience and architecture remain the same.

How can get old style related questions section ?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:11:13 +0000

So i finally updated to 1.5 and as i understand related questions function is now as widget. How can show in old style ?

NEW js button pop-up "answer"

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:01:02 +0000

Hello!

I had an idea a little, but not like I can not realize it ... In general, I have to Q2A large user activity, they often answer questions and comment on the answers of other participants, in this case, the page with the question becomes very long ... whether using js to add a button pop-up "answer" that pops up when scrolling down?

P.S. Sorry for my English, I'm from Russia

Answered: how to make first letter of all question to uppercase ??

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:03:59 +0000

.qa-q-item-title{text-transform:capitalize}

in css