Topic: Professional Customization
Is anyone available for "paid customization" of a PunBB forum which I setup for a business client of mine?
Please email toby@enhanced-designs.com.
Will pay via paypal.
Thanks,
Toby.
Re: Professional Customization
It depends on how large a customization we're talking about.
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
Re: Professional Customization
Nothing too large I expect.
First, the client would like to add iconic graphics next to categories (like next to Bug Reports on the PunBB board).
I can try to develop a list of items w/client first if someone's interested.
Thanks,
Toby.
Re: Professional Customization
That would probably help yes.
Re: Professional Customization
Here are the customizations I'll hire someone to do for my client's PunBB, located at:
http://www.homesteadhelpers.com/forums/
-Change every instance of "Topics" to "Recipes"
-Change "Message" to "Ingredients & Directions"
-If possible, break this message area into two side-by-side sections: an Ingredients section and a
Directions section.
-Change "Announcement" to "Granny's Recipe Box"
-Bold font for everything in the announcement box and make each sentence
a separate line centered in the announcement box
Please send cost/requirements to toby@enhanced-designs.com
Thanks,
Toby.
- Connorhd
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Re: Professional Customization
all except If possible, break this message area into two side-by-side sections: an Ingredients section and a
Directions section. are easy
the word changes are all in the language files
the accouncement press the enter key to have a new line 
use [b] to make it bold and to centre it would need some code editing i think but only very small
Re: Professional Customization
Items 1, 2, 4 and 5 would take about 5 minutes to do.
Item 3 is more difficult. The easiest way to do it is bbcode which parses the message into a two column table and then returns it complete with the table code. Something like side by side quote boxes.
Re: Professional Customization
Connorhd wrote:
the word changes are all in the language files
I'm searching for the language files.
No clues from a search.
And I don't think you mean the "lang" folder
- hcgtv
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Re: Professional Customization
tobyb wrote:
And I don't think you mean the "lang" folder
Yes, ie. /lang/en/en_common.php:
// Miscellaneous (used in many scripts)
'Announcement' => 'Announcement',
'Options' => 'Options',
Re: Professional Customization
That works! Thanks.
Now, a quote please from someone to do item #3:
Use bbcode... "which parses the message into a two column table and then returns it complete with the table code. Something like side by side quote boxes."
Regards.
- Connorhd
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Re: Professional Customization
working on it 
- Connorhd
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Re: Professional Customization
ok i've done is as a dual-columned quote with one called ingredients and one directions (you can easily edit the html to anything you want)
around like 200 in parser.php in includes folder replace the 2 arrays with
$pattern = array('#\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]#s',
'#\[i\](.*?)\[/i\]#s',
'#\[u\](.*?)\[/u\]#s',
'#\[url\](.*?)\[/url\]#e',
'#\[url=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/url\]#e',
'#\[email\](.*?)\[/email\]#',
'#\[email=(.*?)\](.*?)\[/email\]#',
'#\[color=([a-zA-Z]*|\#?[0-9a-fA-F]{6})](.*?)\[/color\]#s',
'#\[ingredients\](.*?)\[directions\](.*?)\[/recipe\]#s');
$replace = array('<strong>$1</strong>',
'<em>$1</em>',
'<u>$1</u>',
'truncate_url(\'$1\')',
'truncate_url(\'$1\', \'$2\')',
'<a href="mailto:$1">$1</a>',
'<a href="mailto:$1">$2</a>',
'<span style="color: $1">$2</span>',
'<table style="width: 95%" align="top" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="6"><tr><td style="width: 50%" class="punquote"><span class="puntext"><b>Ingredients</b><br>$1</span></td><td style="width: 50%" class="punquote"><span class="puntext"><b>Directions</b><br>$2</span></td><tr></table>');then to add a recipe (and you can have text above an below type
[ingredients]blah blah blah[directions]blah blah blah blah[/recipe]
you can even use other bbcode in the recipe and of course smilies 
have a look at http://66.98.138.31/~connorhd/puntest/v … ?pid=36#36
- hcgtv
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Re: Professional Customization
Connor, that is indeed very nice.
I fired up UltraEdit and copied your code snippet, might come in handy one day.
- Connorhd
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Re: Professional Customization
i was suprised it worked usually whenever i go near regular expressions everything starts to break,
oh btw tobyb the last line is the html the $1 is the ingredients and the $2 is the recipe so you can pretty much have any html there you like as far as i understand
15 2004-10-07 15:20 (edited by tobyb 2004-10-07 15:21)
Re: Professional Customization
I replaced the parser.php section which begins and ends as follows with the php from your post but it had no effect:
$pattern = array('#\[b\](.*?)\[/b\]#s',
<snippage of middle part>
'<span style="color: $1">$2</span>');
I simply switched out the script section and uploaded the revised parser.php file to the appropriate "include" folder.
Here's the test post,
http://www.homesteadhelpers.com/forums/ … ?pid=13#13
Thanks,
TB.
- Connorhd
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Re: Professional Customization
read my post after the code and look on your site again
Re: Professional Customization
Works!
But how do I convince visitors to use this pattern?
[ingredients]blah blah blah[directions]blah blah blah blah[/recipe]
Toby
- Connorhd
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Re: Professional Customization
well you could put it in the announcement, and also if users post it wrong you can edit it afterwards, it would be alot more work to do it a different way