Forum software version 2.0

[Sir Edward]

Version 2.0 of the SMF forum software has been released, so I'm considering upgrading to it in the near future. One downside is that the theme we're using probably won't work with it, so we may be stuck with a generic theme or I may have to quickly pick out a new one. I didn't build the theme myself, I took one from the SMF site and modified it a little.

I'm currently investigating how the upgrade process works. Supposedly I just upload the files and run a script, and it converts the forum data and code.

[Sir Wolf]

WOW thats a huge difference in forum software

[Sir Edward]

I'm still working on it. The theme is one I downloaded. It started out based around red, so I'm shifting it back to blue, etc. Some features may not be working yet either. I need to re-add the dictionary, for instance.

[Sir Edward]

The Knight Pages broke with the upgrade as well. I have it working again, as far as displaying is concerned. However the SSO stuff is still broken, so you can't make updates until I get that straightened out.

Also, if you guys have any recommendations, let me know. I'm still messing with the overall look, making sure things work, etc.

[Sir Edward]

Embedded youtube videos are still broken too. Lots to fix.

[Joshua Santana]

The new software format is amazing!  You did a fine job Sir Edward!

[Sir Edward]

Embedded youtube videos are still broken too. Lots to fix.

OK, embedding youtube works, but only with a raw URL. All the stuff we already posted with youtube tags aren't embedding.

[Sir Edward]

Wow, we had like half a dozen spammers try to sign up while I've been working on this stuff. I got the verification questions and CAPTCHAs reconfigured now.

[Sir Edward]

Still on the to-do list:

• Do something about the youtube-tagged links in existing messages, so they can embed again, hopefully. If not, then we'll fix some by hand here and there.
• Get the mouse-hover dictionary working.
• Fix the Knight Pages SSO, so people can update again.
• Re-add all the links we used to have to the links page, Knight Pages, etc.
• Move the search box so it doesn't overlap your photo.

As an aside, the new video embedding will work with more than just youtube. All you need to do is paste the URL. It's automatic.

Anything else you've noticed that's broken, missing, or out of place?

[Sir James A]

I like this *so* much better, and it works in Chrome, too. Well done, Sir Edward!

My PHP/MySQL is piff, but I can probably come up with some update statements to update the old posts to fix the {youtube} embed code.

My CSS and HTML are pretty strong. I can give a go at the search box and adding the links page content back in (if you give me the old content), shouldn't be too tough.

[Sir Edward]

Actually the video embedding mod came with a script to auto-update the content, but I'm not sure I trust it. I'm nervous about sweeping changes across the content. I can always code something myself. I do perl/mysql coding every day.

I may tweak some of the images that the forum uses. Some parts are darker in color than I intended. Otherwise it looks pretty good.

Anyway, the CSS/HTML is very much a trial-and-error thing for me.

I'm thinking a separate nav-bar for the older links would look good. The problem with how I had it before was that I really couldn't add much before all the buttons would collide if you had a smaller browser window.

These are the links:

The Code:  /code.html
Links:    /links.html
Knight Info:   /introduction.html
Knight Pages:   /knights
The Order:  http://orderofthemarshal.org/
Store:   http://www.cafepress.com/modernchivalry

[Sir Edward]

• Fix the Knight Pages SSO, so people can update again.

Knight pages should be working now. They changed the names of all the variables in the forum database. Hopefully I caught them all in my script.

http://modernchivalry.org/knights

[Thorsteinn]

Who turned out the lights?!

[Sir Edward]

Do something about the youtube-tagged links in existing messages, so they can embed again, hopefully. If not, then we'll fix some by hand here and there.

OK, this one is actually fixed now too. I had to resolve a conflict, but got both mods working. So the youtube tags work, and so do raw URLs.

[Sir Edward]

Get the mouse-hover dictionary working.

OK, this is working now too. The mod that's available is for one of the earlier release candidates for SMF 2.0, so it didn't apply cleanly. The installer also didn't add the database table-name prefix that the forum uses. But I've manually fixed these things, and wrote a script to copy all of the old definitions I added into the database.