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Geek Culture / Writing a forum - test it out!

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David T
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Posted: 1st May 2004 16:39 Edited at: 1st May 2004 16:40
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Hi,

(Some of you may remember this)

I've been writing my own forum in PHP for the last 13 days - you can check it out here

http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/pb2

Please do sign up (it's v quick) and post a message!

So far I've got

- Quick, very quick (1 query for a whole board view page, 2 less than apollo atm)
- Flexible BBcode:
[ u r l = x y z ] l i n k n a m e [ / u r l ]
[ u r l ] x y z [ / u r l ]
(Same for href)

- Very nice avatar selector!
- All the usualy features
- Highlighting of NEW, UPDATED and VIEWED topics plues telling you when you last viewed it.

On my list is

- Quoting that works every time
- PMs
- Uploading files
- Forum Search
- Stats, such as topic views and replies

Have you got anything that you really wished was in a forum? Any niggles about the forums currently out? Let me know

ps - I have taken a bit of inspriation from Apollo. In RIch's own words, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"!

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SubNova
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Posted: 1st May 2004 21:24
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Maybe a Projects section in everyone's profile, to put screens, code, etc in...like a treasure chest for a user.

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andrew11
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Posted: 1st May 2004 21:32
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I wrote my own forum once. Tell me though, how did u get the viewed/posted icon to work?

"All programmers are playwrites and all computers are lousy actors" -Anon
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Rob K
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Posted: 1st May 2004 21:45
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@David

Looks very nice, but its hard to say how fast the board is as there are nowhere near the number of threads.

Although the query count is sometimes more on Apollo, the total execution time on Apollo is much faster.

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Martyn Pittuck
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Posted: 1st May 2004 22:24
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speed is not an issue.

Chances are this forum is run off a 3Ghz Pentium with a couple of gigs of RAM.

David would be lucky to have 1.5Ghz, and will most probably be used by 30+ other websites.

Also its not so much the number of queries, but the size of em...

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st May 2004 22:45
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Martyn - actually, this server isn't anywhere close to that spec and as well as running the forum it has to run all of the web sites as well (which are _very_ traffic heavy).

But you're right, the number of queries isn't really the issue, it's the ability at which they query - what indexes are being used, how much memory do the tables take up? Are they fixed or dynamic length? etc.

Cheers,

Rich

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 1st May 2004 22:48
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Some comments for David

Looking nice indeed, obviously still some things left to do on it (views, etc) but it's definitely getting there. I like the contents of the "hidden" board 0

Cheers,

Rich

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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd May 2004 05:43
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There's an edit button to the bottom left of your post Rich, use it!


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j00 n00b R1<h, $0|\/|31 m@y b@n j00
lol, j/k...

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@Exeat: Being Sarcastic to an Admin . Your either really brave or REALLY REALLY REEEAAALY stupid. Personaly, I think it's the second one.

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@ MN, I can vouch for Exeat and he is not stupid, stupid!
He posted what he did as he has a repoire on these forums and Rich knows he was only joking and if it didn't give it away before I will point it out again that he said at the end of the line meaning "wink wink" as in "HA HA funny - only joking"

get a clue


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David T
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Posted: 2nd May 2004 21:31
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Quote: "Maybe a Projects section in everyone's profile, to put screens, code, etc in...like a treasure chest for a user."


Probably will, I might fuse it with the upload feature.

Quote: "I wrote my own forum once. Tell me though, how did u get the viewed/posted icon to work? "


I asked this before Basically, whenever somebody views a topic a row is created in a topic_views table. When I query the DB for the topics in each board I use the LEFT JOIN statement to join any of the rows in the topic_views table that were created by the current user to their respective topics. In the end I end up with an array with all the standard topic info plus when the user last viewed the topic. From there I can calculate whether there have been any new posts.

Quote: "@David

Looks very nice, but its hard to say how fast the board is as there are nowhere near the number of threads.

Although the query count is sometimes more on Apollo, the total execution time on Apollo is much faster."


I didn't mean to start any argument here - I was simply proud that I'd managed to do it in one query! I did not, in any way, intend to put Rich down

Quote: "Looking nice indeed, obviously still some things left to do on it (views, etc) but it's definitely getting there. I like the contents of the "hidden" board 0 "


Cheers Yep, all thta rubbish is there because I changed "topic_id" to "topicid" and forgot to update it in the create topics query, so I ended up with alot of topics disappearing!

Quote: "@Exeat: Being Sarcastic to an Admin . Your either really brave or REALLY REALLY REEEAAALY stupid. Personaly, I think it's the second one."


You suck up Admins aren't Gods, well not yet...

Thanks for the comments guys, I'm back off to code

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Posted: 2nd May 2004 21:34
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Oh, and, RobK, thanks for your comments

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EDIT BUTTON!!!!
lol

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andrew11
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Posted: 2nd May 2004 22:29
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Cool thanks..

Your forum looks very professional.

"All programmers are playwrites and all computers are lousy actors" -Anon
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David T
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Posted: 2nd May 2004 22:48
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Thank you

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Posted: 3rd May 2004 00:31
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Okay, (sorry for double post)

I've got a forum search feature working.

As suggested by RobK, there's now the infrastructure in place to allow users to hide the Key to Icons, to display signatures as text only, and to hide all signatures - However not coded!

(If a sig is text-only, links won't be removed: just written as [LINKwww.whatever.com link name)

For tomorrow:

- Code user preferences
- Number of replies, number of views for topics
- Number of posts in forum, highlighting forums where there's been new activity

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