Lust factors update

AndyB · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:52 am

not sure if any of you have seen this; claims to work with any php site- I bought it when we were "dabbling" with Joomla- I may see if I can get it to work on RN (once the standalone version is available)

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AndyB · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:04 am

scrub that- people have paid for the standalone version and been waiting a year....

did find this though; not sure if I'm "polluting" this thread or not... apologies if I am...

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There's also something a little similar that is on the clan themes website (? - or phpnukedownloads?) that does a similar thing, but you need to edit the whole thing with an xml file- ideally I'd like something I can do on the back end and link to a news story... which then links to a forum post for comments by users so that it can be discussed in the forums..... (failing that, on each news story/ content/ etc. a "comment/ discuss" link takes through to a particular forum post where it can be discussed....)

jakec · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:12 pm

That would would be a nice feature, it should be quite easy to incorporate it into a center block and then grabbing the content from the News module.

They use a similar thing on this website which I've always quite liked:

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jazzfuser · Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 111

ADMINING USERS
Something like Edit Groups, or Comment Admin for dealing with user accounts i.e. delete with individual checks, or "check all" option. With all the bot activity out there this seems like a worthy endeavor - if I had the savvy I would do it.

Guardian2003 · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:10 am

jazzfuser wrote:

ADMINING USERS
Something like Edit Groups, or Comment Admin for dealing with user accounts i.e. delete with individual checks, or "check all" option. With all the bot activity out there this seems like a worthy endeavor - if I had the savvy I would do it.

There is already a Groups administration area so what is missing?
There is also a Comment administration area - whats missing?

jazzfuser · Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2006 Posts: 111

Guardian2003 wrote:

There is already a Groups administration area so what is missing?
There is also a Comment administration area - whats missing?

I guess I was not very clear, my apologies. Using those two, existing, administrative tools as templates, could a "user" administration interface be developed?

Its purpose would serve to delete large numbers of users without having to enter phpmyadmin, and allow sub admins access to such tasks without giving them access to the database directly.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

I believe fkelly is also interested in the ability to delete a large number of users.

AndyB · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:19 am

so no more lust factors since January?

get everything for style, etc. into one style sheet. Modules/ blocks still use $bgcolor1 etc. - this should be in the style sheet, so it picks up the global theme for the site, no looking how to change it in each block/ module, etc.

How about a config page on first install/ upgrade? Does a step by step install/ asks what's required, installs what's needed, doesn't install bloat, checks permissions/ database structures, then saves it all in one config file...?
Similar, I guess to how Gallery does it (version 1.x ) and loads of other stuff. (We used to do it with mobile phone software, that was xml based output- principal is the same)

AndyB · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:58 am

AndyB wrote:

so no more lust factors since January?

get everything for style, etc. into one style sheet. Modules/ blocks still use $bgcolor1 etc. - this should be in the style sheet, so it picks up the global theme for the site, no looking how to change it in each block/ module, etc.

How about a config page on first install/ upgrade? Does a step by step install/ asks what's required, installs what's needed, doesn't install bloat, checks permissions/ database structures, then saves it all in one config file...?
Similar, I guess to how Gallery does it (version 1.x ) and loads of other stuff. (We used to do it with mobile phone software, that was xml based output- principal is the same)

actually (not sure if I mentioned this elsewhere)- have you guys seen how joomla installs stuff? In the admin, you select a package you want to install (locally in a zip file), it uploads the file and installs it all for you- completely modular. You then go into admin and activate/ deactivate/ configure as required. No need to manually ftp anything, edit files, run db install scripts, etc.

jestrella · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:26 am

AndyB wrote:

so no more lust factors since January?

get everything for style, etc. into one style sheet. Modules/ blocks still use $bgcolor1 etc. - this should be in the style sheet, so it picks up the global theme for the site, no looking how to change it in each block/ module, etc.

How about a config page on first install/ upgrade? Does a step by step install/ asks what's required, installs what's needed, doesn't install bloat, checks permissions/ database structures, then saves it all in one config file...?
Similar, I guess to how Gallery does it (version 1.x ) and loads of other stuff. (We used to do it with mobile phone software, that was xml based output- principal is the same)

actually (not sure if I mentioned this elsewhere)- have you guys seen how joomla installs stuff? In the admin, you select a package you want to install (locally in a zip file), it uploads the file and installs it all for you- completely modular. You then go into admin and activate/ deactivate/ configure as required. No need to manually ftp anything, edit files, run db install scripts, etc.

That will be amazing!!! I think I have some ideas on this approach. Anyways we'll need a FTP class to manage files (because nobody wants all folders CHMOD'ed 0777)... Right?

KennyW · Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 36

I know that SPCdata have a complete blog system with friend system and guest book,but I'm not shure if he is around anymoore I do have a early beta on that system.

And for photogalleri you have already one that TrickedOut news have been fixing a bit on,and with some more tweaking in that baby it will be a killer

KennyW · Hangin' Around Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 36

And there is a new Video module on its way he has some videos up for it looking good

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Guardian2003 · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:38 pm

Would be really nice to expand on the user (not forum) profile data so people can add their Picassa, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, ping.fm etc usernames if they wanted to. Or even better, a new 'social' table keyed from the users username.......
How about a schema along the lines of;
type - friend/network such as MyFace, Twitter / blog
accountname - could be your friends username or a networks site username
url - handy for link building so you can do $url$accountname for those site that let you do things like

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NeapolitanWorld · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:34 pm

Guardian2003

Exclamation

oh that would be niceeeeeeeeeeeee Very Happy

jc

fkelly · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:33 pm

I know it's not a total solution, but RNYA already makes it possible to add fields to the users table (actually I think they are in a different table but for all intents and purposes you are adding them to users). I also believe you can require an entry in them.

AndyB · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:42 am

why limit it? why not make it so you can create any sort of user data (ie. doesn't matter what the field is for) and then make it so it can be added/ upgraded/ mandatory/ locked/ etc.

Some people will want twitter. Some will want picassa. Some will want yourube. Facebook. Myspace. E Bay. The list is endless- instead of trying to add all of them, just make it so admin can create a field, give the field a title, describe how the field "acts" (some may want a field for DOB, or postcode, etc.) and who can change it, who can see it, and then let the system handle it...
Does that make any sense? (I'm thinking of something like Community Builder that's for Joomla)

Guardian2003 · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:02 am

That was why I used a field called 'type' so you could use that as a basis to determine the type of data; a social networking site, a news feed, an album site like Flickr, Picassa.
There has to be some sort of key->value representation otherwise the logic required to handle the data stored in the table would quickly become a behemoth of code.

Raven · Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:12 pm

A few of our main developers have had to bow out for working on RN v3.0. As a result we have had to scale back what (focus of)/functionality/applications v3.0 will initially take on. Also keep in mind that there is no sponsorship for RavenNuke(tm). If there were then spending the kind of time it takes for all these things might be more realistic. But until that time it will be more slow going.

AndyB · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 3:51 pm

combined search: when a user uses the search function on the main site, it also returns results from the forums....

Guardian2003 · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:25 am

AndyB wrote:

combined search: when a user uses the search function on the main site, it also returns results from the forums....

Why not just use Google site search?
within the 'default' case clause, just before the call to header.php add

Code:

addJSToHead('http://www.google.com/jsapi?key=ABQIAAAAUaVOe3A71rtW9Gk-NWmOmhQe_tQaynN9dj8d6Lvlhfm2E4AhnRQxyf2hMaG9Xy-EAw3yyBIZntT0kw', 'file');

$inlineJS = '<script type="text/javascript">'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'google.load(\'search\', \'1\');'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'google.setOnLoadCallback(function(){'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'var customSearchControl = new google.search.CustomSearchControl(\'010863945561170489227:lzlankujiog\');'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'customSearchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.LARGE_RESULTSET);'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'var options = new google.search.DrawOptions();'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'options.setSearchFormRoot(\'cse-search-form\');'."\n";

$inlineJS .= 'customSearchControl.draw(\'cse\', options);'."\n";

$inlineJS .= '}, true);'."\n";

$inlineJS .= '</script>'."\n\n";

addJSToHead($inlineJS, 'inline');

You'll need to change the API key to your own of course.
This is what it looks like. I have opted to keep the original search as well.

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AndyB · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:12 am

was thinking it would help if "integrated" into the system, instead of using a "third party"...

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

mSearch provides this. It's old, but it works. Have you tried it?

AndyB · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:47 am

no. Do you have a link please?

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

The download is available on my site:

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in the downloads section.