garryn / discuss

A native forum solution for MODx Revolution.

Discuss

A native, threaded forum solution for MODx Revolution.

This is an alpha prerelease. Therefore, things might break. But have fun. :)

Feel free to suggest ideas/improvements/bugs.

Installation

Clone the Git repo in a directory outside of MODx.

That'll let you develop and run it straight from your Git repo. Next, build it by copying the _build/build.config.sample.php to build.config.php, filling it out and running _build/build.transport.php. This will create a transport zip file.

Go to Package Management, click 'Add New Package', and select 'Scan from Local'. This will load the local package you just built. Install it, which will setup the tables, Resources and other stuff.

Then add these system settings:

• discuss.core_path - point to path/of/yourdiscussrepo/core/components/discuss/
• discuss.assets_path - point to path/of/yourdiscussrepo/assets/components/discuss/
• discuss.assets_url - point to the web path to /url/of/yourdiscussrepo/assets/components/discuss/

If you're wanting to modify the Snippets, simply replace the Discuss Snippet calls in the Resources with [[!include]] calls, such as this for the DiscussThread snippet:

[[!include? &file=`[[++discuss.core_path]]elements/snippets/snippet.discussthread.php`]]

Where the include snippet is just:

<?php $o = include $file; return $o; ?>

If you further want to work on the content within a Resource, simply replace the entire Resource with that snippet call, and set the System Setting 'discuss.debug' to 1.

And that's it!