Emoticons, Forms and Forums

December 11th, 2005

I’ve just updated the code to the latest copy. There are a huge number of changes but not many visible ones so I’ll just briefly go over what has changed.

Emoticons

I’ve added emoticons to the WYSIWYG editor. The icons were taken from Ajaboard CVS which is GPL licensed. Ideally, I’d like to be able to let people type in codes such as :) or :rolleyes: and have the editor convert the text to the image as it is typed in.

Forms

Just rewritten the form templating. Added some label tags to improve accessibility and the form has been redesigned so your eye only needs to move down in one direction. Comment Titles are now also optional (yay!)

Forum

The code for the forum is actually on the server but you can’t try the forum out yet because a forum object has not been created. The actual forum-specific code is probably only around 50kb. The forum consists of 4 different types of objects - Forum Centre, Forum, Discussion and Comment. In more traditional terminology: board, forum, topic and post. The good thing about building it into your community and using the object system is that you can have a forum without the forum centre/board. So you can run a very small board. Theoretically you can also have a discussion without the forum.

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7 Responses to “Emoticons, Forms and Forums”

  1. # Sexysoraon 11 Dec 2005 at 9:54 pm

    Ok, good.
    However, i’m now seeing a weird rendering error in Opera:
    http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/4408/error3hn.jpg

  2. # Khloon 11 Dec 2005 at 10:03 pm

    What’s so weird about that? By the way, Ctrl+F5 as it appears you have some cached stuff.

    Also, there is some strange Javascript error in IE. No idea why.

  3. # Skovon 11 Dec 2005 at 10:17 pm

    I like the smilies :)

  4. # Khloon 11 Dec 2005 at 10:57 pm

    Nomicons pwn

  5. # Jasidogon 12 Dec 2005 at 12:55 am

    I’ll be honest, I don’t really follow what you do enough to have an idea.

    How far along is the forum and is it something you plan to release? :)

  6. # Aktlauson 12 Dec 2005 at 1:16 am

    Is your forum an updated version of the one you wrote for the neondragon game community back on your old site, or is this a completely new software.

  7. # Khloon 12 Dec 2005 at 6:10 pm

    There’s actually not much stuff that is uber-radical in the forum so I’ve not written much about the forum or made many screenshots. It’s currently at the stage where it’s barely usable but I really want to get it to a stage where it is more usable before showing anything.

    This is a total rewrite and the code is not based on that of the Evolution community. It is mildly based on the blogging code. 

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