Dawnrazor.co.uk

the board seems to be going well! nice one

here's a few add-ons for phpBB which i've found really useful on the various forums i run

they fall into 2 categories - forum stuff (add new features to the board software) and admin stuff (give administrators more tools)

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FORUM STUFF:

Quick Reply Hack with Quote (quick reply box at the bottom of every topic page)
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/540

Search Posts by Time (the drop down on HL that allows you to show all posts in last X minutes/hours/days)
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/348

Statistics (forum stats!)
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/477


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ADMIN STUFF:

Account Activation Overview
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/483

eXtreme Styles (caches templates for speed, and allows PHP code in .tpl files)
http://www.phpbbstyles.com/viewtopic.php?t=356

Log Registration IP
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2975


there's a stack more that i've used on HL but i found that adding too many means upgrading is a nightmare

those few that i've mentioned add key functionality, and more importantly they are pretty straightforward to do, and the admin ones in particular dont usually involve any code changes - its all just a case of dropping new files into certain folders

Quiff Boy: YOU ARE A STAR!

I'll look into them ASAP!

no worries

one other comment - its a bit hard to distinguish between the icons for forums with "new posts" and those with "no new posts"

i found that on the HL "industrial groove machine" style (which had similar icons to this one) i had to colour the "new post" ones in - have a look at that theme on HL - they're blue and (i hope) stand out a bit more...

your current theme is very monochrome - i'd maybe suggest choosing 1 other colour (something nephlimiy - green? brown? khaki maybe?) and adding splashes of it to the colour scheme (a:hover links, topic icons etc) - it will liven the whole thing up

if you want to use the HL blue "new" icons let me know and i'll zip them all up for you

You're right! I have been trying to modify the new post icon this morning, but it doesn't look nice.

I've also tried to change the icons to this indianstyle Nephilim logo,
"totem" I think it's also called. New posts will glow in yellow/orange, but like above.. it dosen't look nice.

I'll check out the theme you mention at Heartland and get back soon.

..and about one more color, I was thinking this orange/yellow they have on their official homepage. Thumbs up, thumbs down - what do you think?

Oh yes, I like the blue icons in the IGM theme.
Something similar to that, but maybe orange instead blue..

Quick Reply

nice

a darkish reddy orange sounds good

Yepp, I think it works just as it should..

Just updated the icons a bit, don't know really. I want to have whole new icons.

...and I have question for you: how do you put up a gallery for members?

you have 2 options for galleries - one thats fully intergrated into the forum, or that just shares the users db

heartland uses a standalone gallery that plugs in to the user db - the main two for this are 4images (which HL uses) and coppermine (i'm not a huge fan of this one)

the main option for one that plugs straight into the forum is written by a guy called smartor - Smartors Photo Album

i'd try smartor's album as its pretty easy to get up and running and does the job quite nicely

Thank you!
I'll look into the Smarters one then.. as it sounds the easiest. ;D

I can't seem to be able to paste text when I post a reply. Is that intentional?

kazamel wrote:I can't seem to be able to paste text when I post a reply. Is that intentional?

No, that's not intentional. Hrm. Wonder why it does a such strange behaviour.


EDIT: It works for me though.

TheBoyNextDoor wrote:

kazamel wrote:I can't seem to be able to paste text when I post a reply. Is that intentional?

No, that's not intentional. Hrm. Wonder why it does a such strange behaviour.


EDIT: It works for me though.

wow, something's very wrong with my pc
i can't ctrl+c anymore in IE6. sorry, it was a pebkac

like the new bronze logo...

next step - get that bronze colour repeated throughout the site

change all the :hover links from that orange to something a bit more like the colour of the logo

in the css:

current colour: #FFCCOO (might be written as #FC0)

try one of these:

#DF773F
#D0672E
#A54113

which ever you settle on, try setting H1 and .maintitle to have the same "color" in the css too

then i'd also change the yellow arrow on your "latest reply" icon



to whatever of those bronzey colours you use

am i doing your head in yet?

sorry

Thanks Quiff Boy!

If it's going on like this, I never get finished. ;D

show all the smilies on the main posting page & remove that "more" link

open includes/functions_post.php

find about line 725

change the value to about line 725

Danke!
I'll fix that.. after I've fixed my computer.. it broke down again.

i see you've done it then?