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ZeroBoard was formally known as SquirrelBBS and the official site is here:
http://zeroboard.iceteks.com

It will be less publisized then squirrelbbs and I'll only work on it on my spare time.


But I'll start with a screen shot of the admin feature to make a new forum. That part is fully functional and so is posting/viewing forums/topics.




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I don't know why, but I really like this error, since I see similar errors in lot of software but they don't assume that the administrator can also get the errors. For example when you're in windows, logged in as administrator and it tells you to contact the administrator. Well I got my bases covered.






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Oh and here's a less friendly error. In this particular example, I put a comma where I was not suppost to, in a query.




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Wow, I got the edit forum feature fully working now, even editting the permissions now work, and they fully take affect to the user groups and all!

That was tricky though, and while it works, the code to do it could be more efficient.... right now it needs to loop through the groups and do an UPDATE query on each group.

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Just a worlthless update...

I havent had time to work on it, but I plan to finish up enough to make a worthwhile release for around January. I'm not promissing anything but just saying I'll actually work on it very soon. Got 3 exams and I'll be on vacation.

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Red Squirrel wrote: Just a worlthless update...

I havent had time to work on it, but I plan to finish up enough to make a worthwhile release for around January. I'm not promissing anything but just saying I'll actually work on it very soon. Got 3 exams and I'll be on vacation.

Holah crap, someone's found vulnerabilities in ZeroBoard already
http://computercops.biz/modules.php?name=N...article&sid=913



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Oh crap... I thought I did a search to make sure I don't use a name that's already used... I wonder if they'll sue me if I keep the same name.

I should just call it FreeVision PowerBoard LOL


I think this will turn into another firebird I mean firefox issue.

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Oh and I should get more screenshots in here... errors are not all that exciting, and trust me there's more features now.

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Well 1 month and 2 days later, I must admit I did not even touch it during Christmas break (did the cybervillage instead ) but at this very moment I'm actually working on it. Heck, I'm already redoing some code that I now deem nasty. Just shows how old this project is, when really I should have a final product by now. Anyway back to working on it.

Screen shots later.

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This is the main board index, as you can see I now implimented forum categories, I had a bit of trouble with those since I could not come up with the right sql query to get it all in the right order and groups etc... but I fixed that by loading all forums in memory, then sorting them out through php directly instead of a sql query. Rather effecient anyway as it's only 2 queries, and could possibly be limited to 1 at some point in time. Only thing I'm not too fond of is having an if statement in a large loop that could potentially have thousands of entries (hey, you never know, some people might want to have that many categories... especially with unlimited sub forum levels, the posibilities are endless... but god forbid having so many forums though )

But anyway, won't get on the code side too much. The way it is now is good and as things progress I'll come up with a better way. I think the forum structure alone is a really big advancement compared to many other forum software, since already, in version 0.2 (ingore the 0.1 in the title, I only noticed that after) it is pretty good to already support unlimited sub forums.

Anyway, on with the screen shot, oh and you'll notice that there's no admin CP, instead, all the admin functions are directly in the option pull down menu. Figured I'd take a different aproach then every single forum software, and my take is that it will be more convinient, as long as I keep it organized. Maybe slightly less secure, since if the admin logs in on a public computer and leaves, but I think that's more of a user issue - it's up to them not to stay logged in.






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This is the create/edit forum section. Yes, it's used for both. On the pull down menu if you click edit, it edits the forum you're in, and it shows this dialog with the current info if you hit create you get blanks, and the forum is created as a sub forum of the forum you are in.

Rather simple, really.




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This is the forum view with sub forums and topics. This will change a bit though, since I don't really like the title being in the category header, I rather put it under, just need to do it so it's nice. Got a few ideas in mind, it's mostly a template issue then anything, just plug in the variables in the html. BTW this template system will blow away IPB's. Because there is NO template system, simply files you edit, and it's very well organized and easy to edit. No storing html in the database. That is by far the worse way to make templates work. Templates = html = files, end of story!

I may do a template system in the future if it's a demand but I don't plan it. But if I do, it will be based strictly on files, and may simply use a mysql DB for temp caching while editing, but personally I find it much easier to use a program like notepad and edit the files directly. You can use all the text editor features you want such as find, replace etc...




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Login screen... very simplified.




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Register screen.

You'll notice the forms look pretty cool too, and they even have mouse hover effects as set in the css template. Gota love css, I find normal forms just look so dull and ugly, after I work on this, since these forms are so sophisticated and really cool. The text is also a non true type font (assuming the user has it on their PC) so it's easy to do ascii art.

If I can keep myself motivated with this project I can actually work on it more and do a release some time.

Since one thing for sure I DO have plenty of time for it, it's just the thing of actually doing it instead of surfing the internet.




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The more I progress the more I realize I need to restructure things big time. Stuff like global vars, and the way template data is executed etc... So I'm actually thinking of restarting the engine from scratch.

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