PunBB 1.2 - What's to come (Page 5 of 13)

gosh... i was doing that on my own!

Can't you give us an example page or someting. Not images. I want to test it and see how you have built it.

No, it's not done yet.

Thanks for writing 1.2 in XHTML/CSS.
That's the main reason I like this forum and am planning to use it.

I was planning to take another one - the FUD Forum maybe, and convert it from table-layout to CSS, but you saved me the trouble.

I haven't looked at the source code yet and I don't know much about PHP, but it sounds like you gave as much attention to writing well-structured PHP as you did to writing clean markup.

Good job.

I should remind everybody though that with a script like PunBB or any other web application the backend is everything. Writing the xhtml/css which puts the thing on the screen is relatively simple. Writing the kind of php code which Rickard has produced requires real talent.

I wouldn't say it's harder to write good PHP code than it is to write good markup/CSS. That's like saying football is more difficult than table tennis.

How good is it?  I know - that sounds like a joke, and I'm sure it's good.  But I don't know much about programming so the only way I can know is to ask.  People have told me, for example, that phpBB's code is really bad, and that FUD's is relatively good.

I'm flattered you like the code. The trick behind writing code that other people enjoy reading is consistency. It doesn't really matter where you put your curly braces as long as you always put them in the same spot :)

I won't make any predictions. It will be released "when it's done".

That will probably be the only way to upgrade since there will be many changes in the source. But an upgrade script for the db will be included in the release.

Richard: are you waiting for the CSS to be ready or are you just waiting for an opportunity to start coding?