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Hey Andy, Papa..

First of all, let me thank you for another major step in SF-Development! Although there were some bugs (the already “well known” bug within Firefox and some others) I successfully mastered to get my forums up to 4.0.

So far, our users are really happy with it! Some really nice addons, redone functions etc.pp. Me as an admin at least – i’m very happy to tell that we could finally re-activate RSS for our forums again as it contains also an “internal” forum, which contains confidential data und could be read by ANY user knowing (or testing out) the correct ID of the forum/s. Now everything works just fine!

What i’m looking for now are some – probably – very simple things: I’m trying to integrate the new “CubePoints” Plugin into the whole WP-System. Means: Not only comments and articles, but forums also.

The Plan:

1. Topic Starter receives – let’s say – 5 Points for opening a new topic
2. Follow up posts receive 1 point for each post
3. Upon deletion of a topic/posting points get deducted from achieved score again

Just an example to give you a picture.

What i need now:

1. Name/Location of the script/s and function/s that execute a new topic posting
2. Name/Location of the script/s and function/s that execute a new follow up posting
3. Name/Location of the script/s and function/s that execute a new postings deletion
4. Name/Location of the script/s and function/s that execute a topics deletion
   (Question: Does that delete every post ONE by ONE? Then it would know every users ID etc. pp – and therefore be ideal to deduct the according score from every users account? Or is there any possible workaround?)
5. If you could name the exact lines that would have to be edited/where code would need to be inserted – that would be just perfect, but maybe too much asked for?!

I’m quite willing to give you something back in exchange, like a full documentation of what has to be done to achieve the above mentioned or whatever to get a full community thing up and running.. Deal?[Edit: PS – a little donation to show respect and support further development has just been done..)

Thanks for the quick reply though i'm a bit disappointed about it's richness of details. Or the lack of it ;)

However, after some research I can now answer most of my questions. Actually it's already working ~90% already now.

1. Post creation – score can easily be increased.
   File: sf-hook-template.txt – File has to be renamed to *.php to make it work. Lines to be edited as follows, beginning at line #294:
   function sf_hook_post_save($permalink, $content)
   {
   /* Additional CubePoints integration */
   if( function_exists('cp_alterPoints') && is_user_logged_in() ){
   cp_alterPoints(cp_currentUser(), 1);
   }
   return;
   }

   This will add just one point at post creation.

2. The editable hook-thingie is really a nice idea. Just a pity that it lacks some functions for post deletion, topic creation etc. So we have to mingle with the core-files
   To deduct a point upon TOPIC deletion:
   File: sf-database.php. Lines to be edited as follows, beginning at line #2634:
   if($wpdb === false)
   {
   if($show) update_sfnotice('sfmessage', '1@'.__("Deletion Failed", "sforum"));
   return;
   } else { # CubePoints integration
   if( function_exists('cp_alterPoints') && is_user_logged_in() )
   {
   cp_alterPoints(cp_currentUser(), -1);
   }
   }
3. To deduct a point upon POST deletion:
   File: sf-database.php. Lines to be edited as follows, beginning at (with the lines above already inserted) line #2684:
   if($wpdb === false)
   {
   if($show) update_sfnotice('sfmessage', '1@'.__("Deletion Failed", "sforum"));
   } else {
   if( function_exists('cp_alterPoints') && is_user_logged_in() )
   {
   cp_alterPoints(cp_currentUser(), -1);
   }
   if($show) update_sfnotice('sfmessage', '0@'.__("Post Deleted", "sforum"));
   }

Works like a charm now – with just small deductions from my original plan as follows:

• It does not seem possible to distinguish a TOPIC and a POST creation. So also not possible to give like 5 points for topic creation and just 1 for topic postings.
• It does not decrease the score of any follow up posters when a complete TOPIC is removed. Points will just be removed from the original topic poster. I have an idea on how to fix that, but any input/quick solution/code would be nice.

Any further input on these things would be really nice!

Besides: Why i prefer CubePoints or any other system over a just simple-press internal function is that CubePoints already integrates flawlessly with article and comment creation as well as deletion. So it's a more global approach to a real community rather than just a forum-community thingie..