phpBB Topic Solved Extension

Allows posting questions, and accepting answers as solved.

Solved indicators will be shown next to titles throughout forum and topic views. Mostly ideal for support forums, but can be customized for marking topics for other purposes such as classifieds being marked as sold.

This is an update of the phpBB 3.0.x Topic Solved MOD, written by Jari Kanerva.

Features

• Solved indicators show in the following locations:
  • Forum View
  • Topic View
  • Search Results (both Post and Topic views)
  • MCP Forum View
• Use custom text indicator instead of default image.
• Custom text indicators can use custom colour.
• Only topic author or moderator can solve topics.
• Can be locked to only moderator access for solving topics.
• Solving topics may be set to automatically lock/unlock the topic.
• All settings can be customized per-forum.

Translations

This extension comes bundled with support for the following languages:

• Arabic (ar)
• Czech (cs)
• Danish (da)
• Dutch (nl)
• English (en)
• Estonian (et)
• Finnish (fi)
• French (fr)
• German (de)
• German (Formal Honorifics) (de_x_sie)
• Italian (it)
• Japanese (ja)
• Polish (pl)
• Portuguese (pt)
• Portuguese (Brazilian) (pt_br)
• Russian (ru)
• Spanish (es)
• Swedish (sv)
• Turkish (tr)

Additional translations can be requested and submitted here.

Supported Styles

Most phpBB 3.1.x styles should work with this extension out of the box, however, some styles require additional changes for full functionality. If your style does not work correctly, you can request support for your style from the Issue Tracker. The following styles are explicitly supported:

• prosilver
• subsilver2
• bb3-mobi
• pbtech
• subway

Requirements

• PHP 5.3.10+
• phpBB 3.1.3+

Install

You can install this extension in phpBB by following the steps below:

1. Download the latest release.
2. Unzip the downloaded release, and change the name of the folder to topicsolved.
3. In the ext directory of your phpBB board, create a new directory named tierra (if it does not already exist).
4. Copy the topicsolved directory to phpBB/ext/tierra/ (if done correctly, this readme file should be located at: phpBB/ext/tierra/topicsolved/readme.md).
5. Navigate in the ACP to Customise -> Manage extensions.
6. Look for Topic Solved under the Disabled Extensions list, and click its Enable link.

Getting Started

After enabling the extension, you must configure each individual forum you would like solved topic functionality to be enabled for. Under the "Forums" section in the Administration Control Panel, find each forum you would like to enable solved topics for, and click "Edit forum".

Topic Solved will not work for "Category" or "Link" type forums, it will only work with "Forum" forum types. Once you have ensured your forum is set for the "Forum" type, the topic solved settings will show up in it's own section near the bottom of the settings form.

At the minimum, you must select either "Yes" or "Moderator" for the "Allow topics to be marked as solved" setting in order to enable solved topics for the forum you wish to use this extension with.

The remaining settings alter the behavior and permissions required to mark topics as solved or unsolved, as well as the appearance of the indicator.

Uninstall

1. Navigate in the ACP to Customise -> Extension Management -> Extensions.
2. Look for Topic Solved under the Enabled Extensions list, and click its Disable link.
3. To permanently uninstall, click Delete Data and then delete the /ext/tierra/topicsolved directory.

Support

Please report bugs and other issues to the Issue Tracker.

Contributing

The primary release ZIP is not designed for local development. Consider forking and cloning this repository with git in order to submit patches using git pull requests. A convenient docker environment is provided that allows for testing changes with a fresh installation of phpBB 3.1 and 3.2:

1. Download and install Docker.
2. Also install Docker Compose.
3. On OSX, install dinghy.
4. On Linux, install dory.

Now spin up the compose environment:

docker-compose up

If everything was installed correctly, you can open phpBB now:

• phpBB 3.1: http://phpbb31.topicsolved.docker/
• phpBB 3.2: http://phpbb32.topicsolved.docker/

Simply run through the normal phpBB installation procedures, and you should find the Topic Solved extension available in the ACP customizations. For the database, use "db" for the host, "root" for user, leave password blank, and use "phpbb" for database. You will need to use different table prefixes for each version of phpBB since they use the same database, like "bb31_" and "bb32_".

You will want to edit the phpBB config files in order to enable debug mode, which allows you to leave the "install" directory in place while viewing the board:

docker-compose run --rm phpbb31 bash
vim config.php # Enable @define('DEBUG', true);

License

The phpBB Topic Solved extension is released under the GNU General Public License v2.