Invision Power Services have announced the development of Invision Power Board 3.0. They promise a new
Features Include
- Template engine
- Search engine friendly URLS (I presume /forumname/topicname rather than ?fid=493&tid=98 )
- New BB Code system
- More Administrator controls (Picky options i’d image – turning signatures off in specific forums etc..)
- Reputation System (Finally catching up with vBulletin
)
- Enhanced permission and moderator systems.
They say they are adding more integration tools, so you can integrate it with your existing website, or adleast provide some easier integration tools; it will also have tighter integration with other IPS products such as the blog, gallery.
Its interesting to see that they are dropping support for Oracle. They boast about having so many big business clients, i’d presume they all run Oracle, and yet are dropping support for it. Mayby they are turning back into a community board rather than a business board?
I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on that.
Im a big Fan of PHP and one day i wanted to make a desktop application that could pull down posts and private messages from one of my forums. I didn’t want to learn a whole new language, just code the small application so i dismissed C, and looked at Python. I saw there was PyGTK, saw i wondered if there were PHP-GTK, which indeed there is.
I bought Scott Mattock’s PHP-GTK 2 book (Only to learn later that it was based on one of the early alphas) and dove straight in. Installation wasn’t hard, and i could get started straight away. I learned the hello world example first, and here it is..
So far you should have read/watched:
So you know the very basics of jQuery, and multiple ways to select the HTML element that you want to manipulate. In this tutorial i’ll show you how to manipulate that element after you have selected it; changing the contents, changing the HTML and getting values. I won’t be showing you slides/effects , that’ll be in a tutorial coming up.
I will be using the HTML example from the selectors tutorial, and ill only be calling on cells by using their id – im focusing on the manipulation rather than the selecting. Anywho, lets get into it. First the HTML code we’ll be manipulating.
Ok, say we want to change the text value of a column. We can do this using text() . Take note that text does not parse HTML, it keeps it as plain text.
$("#3").text("wowow");
This changes the value of the #3 td to wowow
What if we wanted to put some HTML in…
Dropbox is the next big thing. Its an application that lets you sync multiple computers. For example if you have a laptop and a Desktop and want to keep some files across the two machines synchronized then this is the tool for you. The great thing is that its multiple Operating System compatible. There are currently clients for Windows and Mac and a linux client is in Alpha (They promise to release it). Ill leave the rest of the explaining to the video below…
When they do a full release there will be two types of accounts, premium and free. The free accounts will get 1gb of space each, premium is as of yet undecided. At the moment they are beta testing. Beta accounts get 2gb of space and will be kept free forever.
You can sign up on the getdropbox.com website to try and get a beta account but they take along time and sometimes you aren’t accepted. Im offering dropbox invites.. for free. Once i sent the invite email your account will get activated straight away! Thats a 2gb account for ever!
*Beta accounts used to be 5gb, but are now 2gb. If your 2gb is getting…
The popular discussion board phpbb2 is being pulled/development dropped. Security patches and support will be given until January 2009 and you will be able to download the software from the website until the 1st of Ocbober 2008 . phpBB2 has been plagued by a large number of vulnerabilities, a significant number of them were through user submitted modifications.
phpBB 3 started strong and is continuing to do so. With more database types being support, and a massive new set of administrator controls, it’s set up to compete with the likes of MyBB and Simple Machine Forums. People often look back at this thread, posted when phpBB 1 was undergoing testing.
In this tutorial i’ll go over some of the frequently used Selectors and show you how to use them. Most of jQuery’s manipulations revolve around selectors, so it’s a vital skill to know.
So.. we want to select the first td. We do this by first selecting all the td tags and then use :first to select the first td. Using jQuery’s great chaining ability, we change the text.
$("td:first").text("This is the altered first box");
jQuery also has 
dd and :even selectors. This will select the odd or even id’s. In this next example. We are selecting all of the odd td‘s , and then select the first one of them. Again , we use jQuery’s chainability.
$("td:odd:first").text("We changed this using odd and first");
You need to be aware that selecting the odds/evens does not use the element ids. It just counts them. It starts from 0 and starts counting, not from 1. This is why it changes the second cell using the method above.
Now, lets match the…
The 8th version of Ubuntu has now been released! Notable inclusions are..
- Linux Kernel 2.6.24
- Xorg 7.3 (Latest)
- GNOME 2.22
- Firefox 3 Beta 5
Its interesting to see that they’ve given some
of their older applications an overhaul. It now includes the Brasero CD burning utility which replaces Serpentine. They’ve also included the GTK front-end bit-torrent client Transmission and added a new VNC viewer called Vinagre. If you put the burnt ISO disk into a Windows machine, you can install Ubuntu via Windows! I thought this was a cool little feature.
Ive been following Ubuntu for a few years now, i started Using Hoary right through to Fiesty. After that Ubuntu wasn’t right for me. It felt pretty bloated, trying to do things for you, and now im happily running Zenwalk 5.0 which is based off Slackware. I’m interested to here what you think, of Ubuntu and the new release.
Heres a quick tutorial on how to stream internet radio, in particular shoutcast, through VLC media player. Most people stream through Windows Media Player or Winamp, but if you like Open Source applications like me, heres how you do it.
File -> Open Network Stream
Select the HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS box and in the form, enter the URL of the shoutcast server, with the port. In my case its enaxi.com:8000 . Then click OK.
And tadah.. It works!
In nearly all of my PHP tutorials you’ll see me using the secure function to sanitise incoming user data from things like forms, and $_GETs . Its a small function, which no doubt alot of you already have, but here it is anyway.
function secure($string) {
$string = strip_tags($string);
$string = htmlspecialchars($string);
$string = trim($string);
$string = stripslashes($string);
$string = mysql_real_escape_string($string);
return $string;
}
As you can see, it basically sanitises the heck out of everything. Some people say its an overkill but you can use it in almost every situation when user data is incoming.
There are alot of remotely hosted systems out nowadays, Zetaboards, SMF for Free and the series of IPB 1.3.1s. If you want to edit the looks of your board you need to use Javascript since you can’t access the source PHP files. You can work your way around using getElementById and the likes, or you can use jQuery. Here are some hints on how to use it.
Say you have a menu and you want to add some extra items to it. The menu code is something like..
We want to add another
beneath the element
So, in normal javascript you would need to find the unordered list with an id of navlist, then add innerHTML or a childnode of the ordered list. However in jQuery we can do this with one easy line.
$("#navlist").append("
");
That would add it to the start of the list, if we wanted it at the end we would use the prepend function.
$("#navlist").prepend("
");
What if there were a…
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