PunBB 1.2 development source (Page 3 of 12)

Regarding the smiley problem. Are smilies enabled at all? (admin/options).

Did the fix I proposed for the guest post problem help?

Try posting a long string without any spaces as normal text. It should just get chopped off without messing up the layout.

hmmm it cuts it off but if you drag your mouse along it it scrolls, should it not wrap it?

works in a quote box as well

oh yeh it doesn't in IE

its in FF it scrolls, but it still looks cool when its scrolls

Rickard... smilies, i found out why, when you quickpost for some reason it chooses do not show smilies in this post

Updated the download archive. News since the last dev release:

2004-09-10
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*  Post errors (such as missing subject, flood protection, invalid BBCode
   etc.) are now displayed above the post new message form instead of on it's
   own page. This prevents the old "go back and notice the 10K post you just
   wrote is gone problem". Reported by CodeDuck and Andy.

2004-09-08
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*  Added post preview.

2004-09-07
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*  Removed the generic JavaScript that disables submit buttons upon form
   submittal. The code is now placed directly in the onsubmit event handler
   of the affected forms. Should shave off a few bytes in quite a few files.
*  Prettied up the code for form field auto focus and required form field
   validation.
*  Fixed subscriptions not being removed when deleting topics. Reported by
   paolo.
*  Rewrote topic reply counting code to be less error prone. The reply count
   for a topic is now re-calculated whenever a post is added or removed.

2004-09-06
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*  Added checkbox to delete user confirmation form that sets whether all
   posts made by the user should be deleted as well.
*  Created functions delete_post() and delete_topic() in functions.php. The
   functionality was taken from delete.php which after this change is much
   smaller. The new functions will also be used in profile.php when deleting
   all posts by a user.

2004-09-05
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*  Added check to install.php that makes sure the cache directory is
   writable.

2004-09-04
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*  Added table collision check to install.php. Thanks to Smartys for
   suggestion.

On top of that, a lot of markup and CSS tweaks by Paul.

All the text alignment is set in the stylesheet so it should be easy enough to change. Table cell widths are also set in the stylesheet. It should also be possible to reverse the position of some elements just using the stylesheet e.g. by changing float:left to float:right.

Whilst it is possible to reverse the appearance of a table what you cannot do is change the order in which the contents appears, not unless you make which content goes in which cell conditional on the language direction.

The new stylesheet is totally different. There is no equivelant of punright or punleft.

For example to right align all table cells you would use this
TD, TH {text-align:right)

To right align all the TD elements on the index page you would use #idx TD {text-align:right}

To right align ust the right hand column on the viewforum page you would use
#vf TD.tcr {text-align:right}

I have used the terms right and left in a couple of places though. I will make sure to change that.

Heres what the css looks like which sets up the index main table.

/****** Index Main Table Setup ******/
#idx TD, #idx TH {WHITE-SPACE: nowrap}
#idx .tcl {WIDTH: 24px; TEXT-ALIGN: center}
#idx .tc1, #idx .tcat {TEXT-ALIGN: left; WHITE-SPACE: normal}
#idx .tc2, #idx .tc3 {WIDTH: 7%; TEXT-ALIGN: center}
#idx .tcr {WIDTH: 25%; TEXT-ALIGN: left}

Basically what I've done is to use class names and id's just to identify a board element rather than to indicate the way it is styled. I can't see why changing the text -alignment of any particular element would cause problems.

The only problem to overcome is that you need to change the content of table cells for different displays. For example, the first cell on index is the new post icon, on RTL it would be last post. You would need to do something like this

<TD>
  if LTR display
       icon goes here
  else
      last post goes here
</TD>

Ah! My brain has just started working. The problem is that each user can select their own language in PunBB 1.2. What if one user picks Swedish and another Hebrew. You need to switch stylesheets depending on the direction of the chosen language. Not difficult. The answer is to put all style information which is directional in a small seperate styelsheet. Make two versions of that styelsheet and switch them automatically depending on which language is selected. The only code change required would be a small addition to header.php. Whether the boss man wants that to be a standard feature is another matter .

No. With two stylesheets only the structural stylesheet would be duplicated. There is no need to duplicate the stylesheet which sets up the colour scheme etc. With three stylesheets you could seperate out the directional stuff into it's own small stylesheet and just duplicate that. It would mean putting all the stylesheets into the header though rather than using import in one of the stylesheets, not that it actually makes any difference.

I can't think of an alternative though. Once user selectable languages are on offer the situation is bound to arise sometime where both ltr and rtl languages are on offer. Something that didn't occur to me until I saw zaher's post.

i updated my testing forums for anyone whos insterested in looking but too lazy to install http://66.98.138.31/~connorhd/pundev/

i like the post errors box thing, would it be possible that all redirect pages appear as a box at the top instead of refreshing to the next page?

Not that i want to rush you but do you have any idea when 1.2 will be out? or is it just as long as it takes to finish...