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Still working on dice bbcode addon. Xenforo has very different data structures and classes to vbulletin. Learning as I go

 

Still working on dice bbcode addon. Xenforo has very different data structures and classes to vbulletin. Learning as I go

use python

import dice

 

Going to work on bbcode addon for the rest of the day. Taking the weekend off then back at it monday.

 

trying to pass the postid and threadid down to the Formater_Base class


Under the hood xenforo is overly complicated if I might put it mildly

 

the xenforo devs have actually coded some support for passing information down to the bbcode formatter in their $extraStates parameter

I believe I have to override this now in ViewPublic_Helper_Message to insert the postid and threadid into this extraStates parameter

public static function bbCodeWrapMessages(array &$messages, XenForo_BbCode_Parser $parser, array $options = array())
{
$options += array(
'showSignature' => XenForo_Visitor::getInstance()->get('content_show_signature'),
'states' => array()
);

foreach ($messages AS &$message)
{
$message['messageHtml'] = XenForo_ViewPublic_Helper_Message::getBbCodeWrapper($message, $parser, $options);
}
}

 

[Grave]

notify me when you encode the memes

 

Annnnnd predictably they won't let me extend that class in an addon.

 

Unfortunatley I was forced to do a three line patch to XenForo_ViewPublic_Helper_Message to get dice working. Essentially there is no other way to pass post_id, post_datetime, etc. down into the bbcode parser. The xenforo addon system does not let you extend this class. (Their addon system is almost completely useless in my experience.)

Since I have two direct code patches now (i.e. one for libmemcached as well) I'm guessing there will be more. I will write a targeted patcher to reapply these patches to updated versions on monday so we don't fall behind on official updates.

The dice is working except for a few (unrelated) import disparities which I will also look at fixing monday. Haven't done cards yet. Since they are not as popular I might leave them out for now.

 

[Loyal 2 da game]

What's the current ETA on this? Any rough estimate/date in your mind or is it just one of those "when it's done you'll know" type things?

 

What's the current ETA on this? Any rough estimate/date in your mind or is it just one of those "when it's done you'll know" type things?

Hoping to have CDT in there next week to test. We'll see. It's just me and Matt working on it and Matt is doing user center only at the moment. We have a lot of custom shit on vb3 that we all take for granted and I only ever remember about at the last minute. I haven't even considered doing the IP audit system yet. I'm actually thinking about leaving it out for initial release and developing it after. I don't know how mods and users feel about that however.

I appreciate that everyone is impatient for the release. However the security issues with vb3 have been cleared up (for now at least). So that gives a little breathing room to get xen right before the switchover. If we switch over to a broken site it will be a total disaster.

That said I do want it to be completely finished before the end of January. (I'm paying for two full sets of servers at the moment so I'd rather it get finished as soon as possible.)

 

[Brendan]

Hoping to have CDT in there next week to test. We'll see. It's just me and Matt working on it and Matt is doing user center only at the moment. We have a lot of custom shit on vb3 that we all take for granted and I only ever remember about at the last minute. I haven't even considered doing the IP audit system yet. I'm actually thinking about leaving it out for initial release and developing it after. I don't know how mods and users feel about that however.

While very helpful, I don't find it essential to the site. It's normally not enough to work on IPs alone anyway when banning people, it just sorta gives you something to work off or the final nail in the coffin.

I'm sure the site would last a short while without it very easily.

 

I know this is a shit ton of work, but I'm glad we're switching.

VB was dead long ago, will be nice building on a modern platform.

 

Back from Amsterdam, hit me up if you still want me to take a look over the style

 

Back from Amsterdam, hit me up if you still want me to take a look over the style

Facebook me your IP and I'll let you loose

 

#vertsonthewarpath

 

[LoLAccounts]

#vertsonthewarpath

you heard it here first boys

 

[Add My Msn]

Go Verts U Can Do It

 

Hoping to have CDT in there next week to test. We'll see. It's just me and Matt working on it and Matt is doing user center only at the moment. We have a lot of custom shit on vb3 that we all take for granted and I only ever remember about at the last minute. I haven't even considered doing the IP audit system yet. I'm actually thinking about leaving it out for initial release and developing it after. I don't know how mods and users feel about that however.

I appreciate that everyone is impatient for the release. However the security issues with vb3 have been cleared up (for now at least). So that gives a little breathing room to get xen right before the switchover. If we switch over to a broken site it will be a total disaster.

That said I do want it to be completely finished before the end of January. (I'm paying for two full sets of servers at the moment so I'd rather it get finished as soon as possible.)

IP Audit first before official release

 

[n4n0]

IP Audit first before official release

This. Also no more rounded edges? Pleaseeee?

 

Hoping to have CDT in there next week to test. We'll see. It's just me and Matt working on it and Matt is doing user center only at the moment. We have a lot of custom shit on vb3 that we all take for granted and I only ever remember about at the last minute. I haven't even considered doing the IP audit system yet. I'm actually thinking about leaving it out for initial release and developing it after. I don't know how mods and users feel about that however.

I don't think the absence of the ip audit system will be a big deal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but mods should still be able to look up ip addresses if nessesary. If so, I don't think having the ip audit is a must have.