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elbertvan
The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/19 9:08

  • elbertvan

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 16

  • Since: 2004/10/4


Link:http://the-starport.net

After strugeling for nearly 1.5 years with a Joomla / SMF combo on our site we decided to look into other CMS systems, of wich one of them was Xoops.
After reviewing a LOT of systems, XOOPS turned out the most suiteble for our needs wich were:
Inline Forum.
Good flexible security system.
Code had to to be structured enough to get changed to fit our needs.

The starport is dedicated to a game called Freelancer, you can read more about that herehttp://the-starport.net/modules/mediawiki/index.php/Beginner_Guide

Since we get a fair few visitors a day we had to move over quick from SMF / Joomla to Xoops, after a migration of 2 hours we fixed that (made and tested the scripts long before ofc) and the XOOPS site was up and running.

Our main coder had some issues with the newbb system, especialy the way how it handled the Read/Unread topics so he revised that practicly complete. He also gave me a list of what he changed to the site.

Quote:
# IMG forum tags are now case insensitive

# DHTMLArea will not show the image button unless the image extension is online

# All tags are case insensitive (b and B, U and u, etc.)

# Added better styling for quote blocks

# Added full support for ordered and non-ordered lists

# Added better styling for code blocks

# Added buttons for lists

# Added direct links to NewBB forum search and MediaWiki search in the Advanced Search page

# Added support for an image gallery for every News item; only 6 items are displayed on the front page and they use a lightbox powered by jQuery to show up in full size; images are parsed from HTTP links, thumbnails are created and the images are saved locally

# Added automatic news posting on NewBB forums, including updating said thread's first post if the news gets updated; the post always has a link to the full article at the beginning

# News shown on the front page only display the first 750 characters; a prominent "Read More..." link is automatically displayed if necessary and an ellipsis is added at the end of the text

# Modified News submission body text's legend to feature a counter for the number of characters left for front page display

# Added Geshi support for the MediaWiki built into Xoops' MediaWiki module

# Largely overhauled VideoTube's random video block to use a custom JavaScript-based player when using YouTube streams

# Overhauled query for fetching the "most recent replied topics" so that it would mark which are unread to the user logged in; if a guest, it would mark all topics posted in within the last hour

# Removed the limit criterion for setRead_items_db in NewBB so that marking topics as read does not ignore older topics

# Overhauled list.topic's "unread" status SQL queries so that they would only fetch the unread posts for the user currently logged in and that it would not return the same topic multiple times

# Fixed bug which would disallow registered users from editing their own posts

# Overhauled action when mark_read is found in NewBB as a GET variable; it will now mark as read all the forums AND the topics in said forums

# Changed RSS feed behavior so that the links would point to the post in question, not only to the thread in which the post was

# Overhauled the IMG tags so that they would open a lightbox using Slimbox 2 only if the image has been resized from its original value and if there is no link wrapping it already

# Fixed a problem with the CODE tag where all the code would always appear on a single line

# Major reworking of the template, particularly the "most recent replied topics" template which now displays the forum followed by the topic, both linked, and where hovering on the topic link changes its display mode so it word wraps; the main menu was also changed a lot as well as the search box


Thank you for your time.

Regards.

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trabis
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/19 10:41

  • trabis

  • Core Developer

  • Posts: 2269

  • Since: 2006/9/1 1


Your site looks just great!
Congratulations to the main coder, seems he did lot of work there.

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ghia
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/19 10:52

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


Very nice work! Congratulations!

Are the modifications done to the core available?

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elbertvan
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/19 10:58

  • elbertvan

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 16

  • Since: 2004/10/4


Not yet,

But will ask him to make them availeble, can imagine some could get handy for other developers.

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sailjapan
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net

Very nice site, elbertvan! Congratulations!

Some of those hacks are very cool... is the main coder part of the XOOPS community? If not, send him/her on over

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ghia
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/20 8:48

  • ghia

  • Community Support Member

  • Posts: 4953

  • Since: 2008/7/3 1


Also some people would be interested in the SMF to XOOPS conversion (scripts, howto).

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urbanspacema
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net

Wow, fantastic design! Many compliments!

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elbertvan
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/20 11:25

  • elbertvan

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 16

  • Since: 2004/10/4


@ghia

Already posted that a long time agoo.

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=310852#forumpost310852

Also works with the latest newbb the RC version.

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elbertvan
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/20 19:24

  • elbertvan

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 16

  • Since: 2004/10/4


Our coder would love to share all things he did, but he isn't able to register on the main XOOPS site (allready posted it in review forums.

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Mamba
Re: The starport at http://the-starport.net
  • 2009/8/20 19:41

  • Mamba

  • Moderator

  • Posts: 11366

  • Since: 2004/4/23


Please PM me his user name under he registered, and I'll look into it.

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