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Figured I'd post some screen shots on the latest added stuff.

This is the board view, as you can see I implimented forum categories. Was very tricky to do as it's unlimited sub forums which means there's not a sql table for categories and one for forums - it's strictly forums, and forums with parant ID of -1 are considered categories, but can still be posted into, but normally posting would be disabled there. But if you click on the title of the category it's like IPB where you get the forums alone, but in this case you'd also see the posts, if allowed.




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:25999

This feature is rather clever, it reads the $SBconf array (general config stuff such as mysql password etc) and spits it out in this format, and when you change and save it, it regenerates the configuration file which is just a bunch of variable declarations. These are mostly all settings that are more practicle to have in a file then the database.




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The create/edit forum form. I think I posted this one before. You'll notice how the forms are nice and crisp, and even have hovers to them. CSS forms really make things more nice.




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very simple profile view, but as more features are added, such as avatars, it will simply be the thing of plugging in variables.




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And added this today: the groups section. This lists the different user groups and with a quick glance you know if they have admin access or not, then when you click on it you get the group edit form...




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26004

That's pretty cool!

Still waiting patiently to register there.

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And the edit group form.

Quite tricky to get the permission table working , took me a while to figure how to do it.

And its only like 10 lines of code for that permission section, just lot of thinking involved. I also found a flaw in the permission table's format, which I'll fix tomorow. Better finding flaws now then later.

and this is it for now as for screenshots. Does not seem like lot has been done but keep in mind lot of work is involved in the behind the scenes stuff. I try as much as possible to create functions and methods to make repetitious tasks much easier. Forms are a good example, I have functions that I call which generate the forms based on given data.

A really good function I made which will save lot of time goes through an array and produces a list var=value,var2=value2 etc... which is used in select and update queries. So lot of time has been put to make things as efficient as possible, and as to make things easy to work with. Since I've been working on this very slowly, lot of code done before is actually not using some of the new concepts that I made recently, so it's things I may eventually renew, but for now my goal is to make it functional, then redo the parts that should be redone.

Also, I may change the default skin color, since the site will be green, so I may make the board's default skin match with green, but this skin will also be available.

I want to make a skinning system where you can choose skins and stylesheets. So let's say you choose skin A there may be style sheet A or B to choose from. So it makes skinning possibilities endless.

Oh, and unlike IPB this will be a brease to skin. Only thing is, it may be harder to change specific aspects. For example if you want one form a certain color, and another form another color since all forms call the same skin functions. But in most cases this is not wanted anyway. But most forms allow you to change the order of things and also allow youto add things to the "wrapper" of the form. So skining is still decent in terms of customization.




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26007

Pyr-O-Rgasm wrote: That's pretty cool!

Still waiting patiently to register there.

Hopefully I'll make that possible soon.

My goal was by the end of this week but there's just no way. But you never know. It will be very incomplete but at least give people an idea of the general structuring of things. I still have not started on the mod cp functions yet. But those should be easy. Delete, move, close, etc.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26008

I'm going to send you that picture of the squirrel, maybe you can use it in logo'ing?

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Pretty swank! Looks like it's really starting to come together.

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Well did the permission stuff today, well redid. Fixed a flaw in the way it stored the permission strings.

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This thing is cool. Will be used mostly in admin sections for when doing potential dangeraus operations.




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26243

That is pretty cool. Can't wait to actually use the new software!

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Wow things are actually getting done.

Today I completed the group management section. Can add/edit/delete groups. Deleting a groups moves any existing members to the specified group, if none is specified then it errors out saying why. For edit/create forums permissions work well too. (had a few bugs with that)

Tomorow I finish way before 5:30 like today, so much more will get done. I plan to do the user CP.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26247

Redid the css so the default template will match with the site. Simplicity has been put in mind for the default skin to make it easier to customize and/or make a skin from scratch. (less html in each template)

Though some graphics will be added right before release time. (where you see [.] for example)




Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26278

Nice color. I really like your choice of green. I was going to suggest having the defualt theme blue, but that's what IPB uses.

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Yeah blue seems to be what allot of boards used so tried to stay away from that just to be different. Orange was ok, but figured green is better and less flashy.

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Green looks the best, stick with it. Nice relaxing color. Perfect for forums. As is blue, but blue is used too much. The reason I was going to suggest blue is because IceTeks is blue.

Hey, you could've named it IceBBS.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26307

Haha yeah that would of worked too.

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Woo finally got bothered to add a bit of graphics. (title shade)




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very simple User CP... most of it is not implimented yet. Well what you see is it, and works, but still need to do sig and do the PM module... oh man still lots to be done before I can release it.




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Shouldn't you have a "previous password" box for that window? So that it's not so easy for someone to change your password.

Archived topic from Iceteks, old topic ID:3188, old post ID:26319

Yeah I might add that in. I think that's how phpbb does it.

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