Thank you for the quick reply and good to hear that it’s technically possible in PHP!

I’ll check out the libraries you’ve mentioned and may well be in touch to get a quote for a bespoke plugin.

Thanks again,

Greg

I think the Convert to Text plugin is fantastic however as it requires Java I can’t use it for clients that are on the shared hosting platform we use (as Java isn’t supported).

Is there any workaround someone can suggest?

I’m also wondering if Java really is necessary to index files or if it could be done purely in PHP… I’m hoping something in PHP8 maybe can handle this that wasn’t available when the plugin was first developed back in 2016.

Any knowledge or guidance would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Greg

Thanks for the reply.

Great to hear there will be updates coming soon for the main plugins and that's really useful to know about PHP 8.1.

Thanks again!

Regards,

Greg

Thanks for the notification about this and, of course, for releasing v3.57!

Are the latest versions of all the plugins that are available to download from your website compatible with PHP 8? For example, I am wondering about the website membership plugin, which doesn't seem to have been updated since Jan 19, 2018 so I would be surprised if this didn't need an update.

Also, is there a free scanner/script that can identify code that won't work with PHP 8 or is is just a case of upgrading and then manually testing everything?

Thanks again,

Greg

Thanks for the reply on this. Useful to know about the option to extend the session length!

Regards,

Greg

Is there a feature in the website membership plugin to allow a user to tick a checkbox to save their username and password on the login form?

Thanks,

Greg

Thanks for the reply on this. I'm pleased to hear this on the roadmap! I appreciate you probably can't commit to anything but it would be helpful if you could give me an idea as to when this might be released. If it's a way off then we might start developing this ourselves in which case I will be in touch with you directly if I have any questions.

Many thanks,

Greg

That's fantastic to know, thank you so much for the advice.

Regards,

Greg

Thank you for your reply. In the end, I switched to a Microsoft 365 account and there seems to be no prefix applied so "archive" worked!

.... there may be some alternate options to find the folder name if the above doesn't work

However I would be very grateful if you could share these alternative options as I often seem to go round in circles with this!

Thanks again,

Greg

That's useful to know, thank you for explaining. I have checked the num values and they seem to be int(10) unsigned so I think that looks OK.

However, I will review this in more detail and carry out some tests on a dev environment.

Thanks again,

Greg

I have been told that my database tables are not well structured. Columns being joined are of type medium text, which means they are not indexed and are going to perform really bad if the data increases.

Can anyone please advise whether changing the type of the columns will cause any issues with CMSB?

Thank you,

Greg

 'testmode' => false, // (optional) don't archive or erase messages after downloading them

I am able to send SMS messages using the following SNS server in Ireland:

sns.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

However when I try to use the London region:

sns.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

I receive an error:

Sender - InvalidClientTokenId - The security token included in the request is invalid

I have contacted AWS support and they said:

The error is likely due to invalid SigV4 request being signed: [1].

Make sure client region, User Credentials have access to publish API calls, instance clock is in sync with NTP, HTTP Method or any other request parameter is correct.

The developers will need to code the script to save to a log.

Is anyone able to advise what the issue might be please?

Thanks,

Greg

I would like the downloadMail plugin to archive emails instead of deleting them. I am using IMAP and have created a folder in the email account called "archive". I have specified the folder in the settings as:

'archive' => 'archive', // IMAP Only, move messages to this folder instead of deleting them

However the emails are still being deleted. I guess the folder path is incorrect... how can I confirm what the folder path is?

Thank you,

Greg

Thanks for the reply on this. That's great to hear!

Regards,

Greg

I'm looking for a way to replace the settings.dat.php with a settings table in my database and then store the schema files in a remote storage location (e.g. Amazon S3).

Is this possible? Is there anything that needs to be considered carefully when doing this? Any information that anyone could share that might help me achieve this?

My reasoning is that if I lose access to the server then I want to be able to just spin up a new server and not worry about any of the files stored on the local disk of the old server.

 Regards,

Greg

Thanks for the follow up. Yes, I'm still hoping to get an answer for this.

Thanks,

Greg

global $SETTINGS;

to the s3 functions file and now it works.

Thanks,

Greg

I am using the Website Comments plugin and currently users can upload files with their posts. The files are uploaded to the app server however I would like to upload the files to S3.

We already have the S3 file upload functionality working well in other areas of the site. The main file is at /cmsb/lib/s3_functions.php

So I would like to include this file in the websiteComments.php code but when I try the following it does not work:

include_once(__DIR__ .'/../../lib/s3_functions.php');

I receive this error:

#85 - UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION: Credentials must be an instance of Aws\Credentials\CredentialsInterface, an associative array that contains "key", "secret", and an optional "token" key-value pairs, a credentials provider function, or false./var/www/html/php/dev/cmsb/vendor/aws/aws-sdk-php/src/ClientResolver.php (line 419)http://dev.test/bulletin_board.php

I'm not sure why we are able to upload to S3 on normal "list" and "detail" pages but can't get this to work when used in a plugin. Is there something like a hook that needs to be written?

If anyone could offer some advice that would be great!

Thank you,
Greg

I am just following up on this post.

I was wondering if there is any downside to using sendMessage rather than nlb_sendMessage? Because I could just use sendMessage if it will work just as well.

Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Greg

I have built on the "nlb_sendMessage" function to send emails out to users and I am using an email template defined in /admin.php?menu=_email_templates

When I insert a value in the Email template for either cc or bcc no emails are sent to these addresses.

The cc and bcc emails work with the sendMessage function but not with nlb_sendMessage.

Is there any way I can get cc and bcc emails to be sent using nlb_sendMessage?

Thank you,

Greg

Thank you very much for suggesting this solution - I can confirm that it now works.

I am very grateful for your support!

Regards,

Greg

Overall this plugin is working well for us however we are noticing that some .docx and .xlsx files are not being converted to text.

For example, when I upload .xlsx files these are never converted to text however it works for .xls files. I am also able to create and upload .docx files and these are converted to text correctly but when I use an existing .docx file from a sample file website (e.g. https://file-examples-com.github.io/uploads/2017/02/file-sample_100kB.docx) this never converts.

Are there any known issues with .xlsx and .docx file types or could there be some code that needs checking over?

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Regards,

Greg

That's fantastic, thank you very much!

Regards,

Greg

This is what I have so far:

<?php
require_once('cmsb/lib/schema_functions.php');
require_once('cmsb/lib/mysql_functions.php');
require_once('cmsb/lib/database_functions.php');
require_once('cmsb/plugins/permalinks/permalinks_pluginsMenu.php');

$response = _permalink_updateTable('listings');

But when I run this I am seeing this error:

PHP Warning:  Use of undefined constant DATA_DIR - assumed 'DATA_DIR' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/lib/schema_functions.php on line 127
PHP Warning:  scandir(): Directory name cannot be empty in /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/lib/schema_functions.php on line 131
PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/lib/schema_functions.php on line 131
PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function startsWith() in /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/lib/database_functions.php:202
Stack trace:
#0 /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/lib/schema_functions.php(172): getTableNameWithoutPrefix('listings')
#1 /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/plugins/permalinks/permalinks_pluginsMenu.php(149): loadSchema('listings')
#2 /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/update_permalinks_listings.php(7): _permalink_updateTable('listings')
#3 {main}
  thrown in /home/sites/8b/7/786382f535/public_html/cmsb/lib/database_functions.php on line 202