Website baker Forum Download

[kev]

Heres the first release of my forum module, its straight foward to install.

one should take into account that because the forum post table are set using a fixed width in the forums css that depending on the size of the content area of your template you will need to modify it.

feedback please, any problems installing let me know. rember this is inital release and might need tweeking but we will see.

http://webdev.dhphp.co.uk/wb/

hit the forum tab and login using these.

login: forum_member
pass: forum_member

current features
100% integated forum

EDIT, the following file needs editing for latest posts to work
forgot account/logout.php

add this after include("../config.php");


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//   Modifyed to store the current time a user logged out of website baker.
//  We use the field 'forum_last_login' to decide if theres new posts in the forum
//
//
         // Update the users table with current ip and timestamp
         $get_ts = strtotime(date("d.m.Y G:i:s"));
         $query = "UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."users SET forum_last_login = '$get_ts' WHERE user_id = '".$_SESSION['USER_ID']."'";
         $database->query($query);


//
//    should logging out from website baker remove all current posts,
//  
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


thanks
kev

[Waldschwein]

Hello!

I just had a small glance at it and it seems quite nice - I will have a more detailled look the next days.

But one note: I wouldn't use CKEditor as WYSIWYG editor in a forum. At least you included the very big _source folder, which is only for developers and not being used.
For a forum I would instead using no WYSIWYG editor (just BBcode) or a smaller one, like whizzywig http://unverse.net/Whizzywig-web-based-rich-text-editor or http://nicedit.com/.

Yours Michael

[kev]

many thanks for the links, ive coded for many,many years but never coded a forum and without much thinking i stuck a wysiwyg editor in. your links you posted are much more suited to a forum i see that know.

a new updated forum will be available soon with one of them BBcode editors and some fixes to missed table css and some extra fixes and cleanups. one thing i would like to fix would be the post display in view topic so that it auto sizes to the current template block that would make it much cleaner. i just dont have a soultion yet if there is one it seems content in a table cell that is longer than its width has that affect.

i would love to hear more feedback guy, install and check it out and leave your comments. im open to some updates fire them and we can look at the possablty that i continue to develop the forum as a open module

thanks again for the links
kev

[PurpleEdge]

Yeah, ditch the html editor, or make it an option with beefed up security, and add the option for captcha - it might be needed, even though the forum is only accessible to logged-in users.

[Bachson]

I've done a little test. It woks fine. Suggestions

• like Waldschwein said, use another wysiwyg editor.
  
• second make an easy button adjustment on the backend to ajust the colors of the forum on the frontend.
• use les table lines on the backend, it's confusing.
• separate the text parts from the php programming. Then it's easy to create language modules.

Succes I'm  looking foreward to the next version. willing to make a dutch language module.....

franc

[batcity]

Where is the actual link to download this module?

[Argos]

Where is the actual link to download this module?

http://www.websitebakers.com/pages/modules/interaction/k-forum.php

[Argos]

a new updated forum will be available soon with one of them BBcode editors and some fixes to missed table css and some extra fixes and cleanups.

6 months have passed since you promised a new version to arrive "soon"...  Is this new forum module dead already?

[Bachson]

Still no response. Any further development? or is it death?