General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: Sorunome on May 26, 2012, 05:08:20 am
Title: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on May 26, 2012, 05:08:20 am
Well, I'm making a forum currently with PHP. Well, it is just a general forum, I just do it coz of the fun :D What I have already: - Listing topic and forum board from the mySQL databank - Listing a topic - Quick reply on topic (just works if your logged in) - Register and verify via email - BB-Code parser (need to add some more options)
ToDos: - some better CSS - creating a new topic - allow admins to create new forum boards - some chat? - new posts stuff - editing posts - ...
Tell what you think about it! :)
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: turiqwalrus on May 26, 2012, 05:15:27 am
Well, I don't know... after all, I no has link :P
One thing, though: your sign-up form is a bit weirdly arranged: instead of this:
Spoiler For Spoiler:
password email retype password retype email
I'd probably do this:
Spoiler For Spoiler:
password retype password email retype email
EDIT: /me can't spell today... 'passwod' XD
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on May 26, 2012, 05:40:51 am
Haha, why i didn't post the link...well, I could, http://forum.sorunome.de As you notice you can't access it. And I sorted it that way on purpose that there is more time between retyping.
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: stevon8ter on May 26, 2012, 12:11:41 pm
Isn't it also handy againsy bots? Pk, most bots first look at the fieldname, but i'm sure there are bots who just always type in the same, and those are then a very little few bots who can't spam your forum anymore
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on May 26, 2012, 01:12:51 pm
For stopping bot spamming I need to add hidden text fields, that works pretty well. :)
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: p2 on May 28, 2012, 08:35:00 am
Already have an account!! ;D
:evillaugh:
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 28, 2012, 02:28:36 pm
It would be nice to see a screenshot of how it looks like. :) There isn't any preview anywhere ???
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on May 28, 2012, 02:29:36 pm
well, it is atm online at forum.sorunome.de If you want to you can pm me a username and passwd so you can access it, but you'd have to promise not to hack it as it's still possible, was to lazy to prevent that so far :D
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 28, 2012, 02:31:05 pm
Yeah I meant a guest-available preview for everyone <_<
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on May 28, 2012, 02:32:39 pm
Well, as it is hackable at this point i won't make it online for everyone, I'd fear that people would delete my databases.
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: p2 on June 01, 2012, 08:22:20 am
what's about a bot, automatically restoring it all every 30 minutes?
wouldn't that be possible?
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on June 01, 2012, 08:24:54 am
That would be just some massive dataflow...and then you just need to hack the bot and changes will be deleted after 30 minuets.
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: p2 on June 01, 2012, 09:17:49 am
oh... :P ok, I agree this won't be a good solution!
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on June 10, 2012, 04:50:45 am
Ok, now you can create topics and I work a bit on the styling. This is how it looks at the moment: (http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/forum.png) The cool thing is that it won't load the threads from the server until you hit 'load more', and once loaded from the server and you hit 'Show less' it only says 'Show more' - and it doesn't need to load from the server again! :)
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on July 31, 2012, 11:21:54 am
Yeah I meant a guest-available preview for everyone <_<
Now it is! :D Have fun exploring and trying stuff out guys :P
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 31, 2012, 08:40:39 pm
It starts to look nice, although I would probably try to make the colors a little less bright/saturated. Else it might hurt people eyes after a while. Maybe make the cells lighter too?
Title: Re: Making a forum
Post by: Sorunome on August 01, 2012, 02:31:00 am
I'm fine as long as someone gives me hex codes for colors, lol I am to bad to create 'em, Nick created the ones i'm using currently