n6smith Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Any further thoughts/news on the ability to track one's own posts as was possible under the old forum layout? I recall you commented early on in the life of the new forum, that you would look into this but so far, no news that i am aware of? .....and so it came to pass... and David did summarily add the requested feature and the world become a happier place... Thanks!!! Works a treat!!!! Cheers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 A very welcome return of "view your posts"! Thanks David. Next on my wish list is opening links in a new tab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 (edited) This is the one I'm waiting for as well. Even links to other threads in the forum used to open up in a new window. Very useful. [Edit] Only now noticed RJS mentioned the same thing. Edited March 9, 2012 by Scott Jackson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 Glad you guys like it. Next on my wish list is opening links in a new tab This is the one I'm waiting for. Gotchas. Unfortunately that's a much more complicated one that it may seem at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Unfortunately that's a much more complicated one that it may seem at first. I'm no web design guru by any stretch but I have designed 7 websites over the years using Dreamweaver. I know you are working with a different animal but in Dreamweaver you can designate whether the link opens in the same window when clicked or in a new window. I''m not versed on CSS (and I should be) but that is supposed to make it easier to make global changes from what I understand. Thanks for your constant effort to improve the site David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 I'm no web design guru by any stretch but I have designed 7 websites over the years using Dreamweaver. I know you are working with a different animal but in Dreamweaver you can designate whether the link opens in the same window when clicked or in a new window. Yeah. Completely different animal here. I don't just write code, which is what Dreamweaver can help with. That would be SUPER easy, with or without Dreamweaver. Just add target="_blank" to any tag and the links open in a new window. Done. But here I have text that is entered by users. Some of the text is links. Some links are wrapped with tags. Some aren't. Then I have to parse the text and automatically recognize links, and turn them into proper HTML. It's a bit more complex. To give you an idea, here's some of the code used to parse and create links in the forum: case 'bbcode_htm': return array( '#<!\-\- e \-\-><a href="mailto:(.*?)">.*?</a><!\-\- e \-\->#', '#<!\-\- l \-\-><a (?:class="[\w-]+" )?href="(.*?)(?:(&|\?)sid=[0-9a-f]{32})?" onclick="window\.open\(this\.href\);return false;">.*?</a><!\-\- l \-\->#', '#<!\-\- ([mw]) \-\-><a (?:class="[\w-]+" )?href="(.*?)" onclick="window\.open\(this\.href\);return false;">.*?</a><!\-\- \1 \-\->#', '#<!\-\- s(.*?) \-\-><img src="\{SMILIES_PATH\}\/.*? \/><!\-\- s\1 \-\->#', '#<!\-\- .*? \-\->#s', '#<.*?>#s', ); if ($type == MAGIC_URL_EMAIL) { $html = "$whitespace<!-- $tag --><a$class href=\"$url\">$text</a><!-- $tag -->$append"; } else { $html = "$whitespace<!-- $tag --><a$class href=\"$url\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href);return false;\">$text</a><!-- $tag -->$append"; } Try that in Dreamweaver. On top of that, there's a reason why the phpBB team decided to change the link behavior in their last update. Modifying that code will make the entire website no longer compliant with XHTML 1.0 Strict-validation. That's not necessarily a HUGE deal, but it's a bit of a pain in the neck for various reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 Yeah. Completely different animal here. Well, like I said. No web guru here. I know that what I've done in web design is quite easy compared to what you are dealing with (and it's a PITA just designing a web site with Dreamweaver with all the little details to look after). I wouldn't want to take on your task. I commend you! If the links must open in the same page I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. I was just trained on the old site and now I constantly find myself closing windows after following links only to have to re-navigate to where I was. Just got to get used to using the Back button. Makes me think of Pavlov's Dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 David, I've modified the code to make your life a little easier. Try this: ------------------------------------------- just in case 'bbcode_htm' = '#.*WTF #', '#&|\?)sid=[0-9a-f]{32})?" onclick="quit phpBB programming program without dialog and go out for some lunch" = SMILES PATH\} ------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 9, 2012 Author Share Posted March 9, 2012 I tried that, ski. Here's what I get, though: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cardenas Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 I tried that, ski. Here's what I get, though: [attachment=0]Picture 3.png[/attachment] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted March 9, 2012 Share Posted March 9, 2012 One small correction though... that's "a bassoon player with a pager" which, as we know, is the definition of an optimist. Now... STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER AND STOP FUTZING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted March 10, 2012 Author Share Posted March 10, 2012 that's "a bassoon player with a pager" which, as we know, is the definition of an optimist. HMmmmpffffff.... took me a while to get that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandagondo Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Hello guys, I'm newbie here aka your junior I would like to thank you David as the site admin for making this great forum and also the other moderators. I hope I can learn a lot and get various good information also great knowledge regarding the software. See you soon guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 No problem gandagondo, and welcome here! See you on the boards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 David, why are attachments not viewable to Guests? The way the site is designed now you have to be signed in to view attachments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Wasn't it always like that? I believe I made that decision to: 1) Avoid unnecessary server load triggered by bots. 2) Encourage people to become members before they can download files attached to this forum. Any cons to that decision? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordi Torres Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 The way the site is designed now you have to be signed in to view attachments. That's pretty much how most forums do it, as far as I know. Well, some let you see the attachments but won't let you download unless you sign in. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Wasn't it always like that? I don't think so. I don't recall having to sign-in to view attachments on the old site. I believe I made that decision to: 1) Avoid unnecessary server load triggered by bots. 2) Encourage people to become members before they can download files attached to this forum. Those are two good pro's. Any cons to that decision? Not all attachments are downloadable files. Many if not the majority are screenshots which are meant to be part of a post. So, guests will be missing "a thousand words", so to speak, in some cases when they can't view an image that goes with a post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Well, some let you see the attachments but won't let you download unless you sign in. That sounds like the best way to go. Solves both issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Just logged off, I could see attachments without problems, in fact I could even still download some files from our file sharing section... Can you give me a link to the thread where you got that alert? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Can you give me a link to the thread where you got that alert? Thanks. viewtopic.php?p=447237#p447237 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Thanks Scott, I checked and I get the same alert as you do. This actually seems to be a mistake, apparently I had set the forum so that anyone could download anything even when not logged in (so scratch what I said earlier). Let me look into it. Thanks for pointing it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Ok I fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Thanks Scott, I checked and I get the same alert as you do. Interestingly I could see some attachments but I've gotten that alert frequently with others. For instance I was able to see ski's attachment here: viewtopic.php?p=447059#p447059 Thanks for pointing it out. You're welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Ok I fixed it. Yup. I can now view that attachment even when logged out. Strange though how I could see some but not all attachments even before you made the fix. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 Those are forum-based permissions, so somehow that forum didn't have that permission - it now does. The new forum software has a complex permission scheme, which is very flexible but a bit ... well.. complex to use. There are user based permissions, forum based permissions, group based permissions, permission roles, permission masks, etc etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Jackson Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Those are forum-based permissions, so somehow that forum didn't have that permission - it now does. Ah! Well that explains it then. Thanks for the fix David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 No problem. Thanks for pointing out the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slim Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Nice.....................a whole new look, fresh new buttons to bang on....................very cool ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRobinson Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Safari is real fast on the forum, os x and iPad1 both work very well... looks amazing.. pleasure to use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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