How’re the forums coming?

Blogged on July 13th, 2007 at 5:11pm

Swimmingly. Check out http://new.avengex.com/forums/view/1/ for some kickass coding. What have I done so far to make this the best thing I’ve ever done?

  1. A nice, big, wide forum layout.
  2. Forum buttons. No forum is complete without them.
  3. Inline post editing. As in, being able to edit your post without going anywhere. As in, sexy.
  4. Inline post previewing. See above.
  5. “Dynamic” quoting, a bit like vBulletin’s feature which includes timestamps. It took me ages to get this working, but thanks to Ed’s pointer to the preg_match_all() function, it was made possible. Once a post has been quoted, the button fades.
  6. Thread-specific polls. I think this feature would be improved in the future, as I don’t like the spacing and how it takes up too much room.

However, I’ve got to do pagination next so stay tuned…

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