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I installed drake today cause i needed a
fast forum... but i was surprised to see that 1) there's no
way to filter messages (that is have like a mess queue and allow
or disallow messages to be displayed to the public) or access
messages from the forum (in the backend that is)... once added,
only by means of mysql can i delete/unpublish certain posts?
2) the forum post editor is a bit simplistic... isn't
there a way to use maybe tiny_mce instead?
thanks in
advance...
Catalin
trex1512
Re : Forum component
14 May 2007 10:36
Anonymous
The inbuilt forum has been left as simple as possible and with
enough functionality to still be useful and importantly
secure.
If you want to run a full featured forum it
would be better to run something like phpBB as an external item
or in a wrapper...Somewhere in the future there may be
significant improvements, post a feature request at SourceForge if you like.
Getting everything stable for the first release is the
prioroty at the moment, then work on components and addons will
come...
Thanks for your input....
legolas558
Re : Forum component
16 May 2007 00:02
Anonymous
Quote:
Hello all
I installed drake today cause i needed a fast forum...
but i was surprised to see that 1) there's no way to filter
messages (that is have like a mess queue and allow or disallow
messages to be displayed to the public) or access messages from
the forum (in the backend that is)... once added, only by means
of mysql can i delete/unpublish certain posts?
No they can be deleted from the frontend when accessing
as a moderator or as an user with an enough high access group
(admins can edit everything, for example).
More
features are planned in future development to allow thread moving
and filtering, but nothing too much big.
Quote:
2) the forum
post editor is a bit simplistic... isn't there a way to use maybe
tiny_mce instead?
The forum currently uses BB
code internally, I dont know about WYSIWYG BB editors (even if I
agree that the current editor should be improved for each
browser's selection API and other UI improvements) and I haven't
yet eveluated the possibility of allowing HTML in our forum posts
- but I am generally against (too many issues might arise)
Quote:
thanks in
advance...
Catalin
Many thanks
to you for helping at improving Drake CMS with your requests (we
never let them fall apart and always consider users' feedback), I
hope you will continue to give us your feedback.
Regards
siedlerchr
Re : Forum component
26 May 2007 18:10
Anonymous
It would be a great invention to see, who is onlnie in the
forum. e.g. I look at this forum here and see that the admin
is online and that he might post a reply...
And there is another thing that me confused a bit: When I
look in my mailbox, I see that there are replys, but why are
there different senders?
Regards, Siedlerchr
phpmaster
Re : Forum component
26 May 2007 21:49
Anonymous
Quote:
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i was surprised to see that 1) there's no way to filter messages (that is have like a mess
queue and allow or disallow messages to be displayed to the
public) or access messages from the forum (in the backend that
is)... once added, only by means of mysql can i delete/unpublish
certain posts?
2) the forum post editor is a bit
simplistic... isn't there a way to use maybe tiny_mce instead?
A forum software that does not recognize http://punbb.org/ as
being a link URL is not what users want ( users expect
a cetain standard - what they are used to = User Friendly
softwares )
generally, to use BETA versions
of anything at official support websites is not, in my
opinion, what you should do!
It is =
bad advertising for your code.
Until
your own CMS / forum is MATURE you should use other good
software at a site like this.
Good examples is: -
Use MediaWiki for development issues - Use very fast
punBB forum ( or if you want fully featured: use
SMF Simple Machines forum ) - Use Mambo or any other nice
CMS Portal ... but for DEMO of your own CMS, use a simple
Link in Menu
Good thing with SMF forum is that is
supports the bbcode 'php code tag' with colored
highlighting!
for example: See my own older
versions SMF forum here ( at my personal webserver ):
Regards phpMaster
- knows a bit of what he is talking about - by many years
experience of PHP
PS. If you would need a
tutorial how to make your own custom BBcode tags - check out
this tutorial: Create_Your_Own_BBCode.htm Very good!
Another issue, regarding Web Standard, forums or not:
please learn howto UNDERLINE links It is
plain stupid, not to do this ....
legolas558
Re : Forum component
27 May 2007 00:22
Anonymous
Quote:
generally, to use BETA versions of anything at official support
websites is not, in my opinion, what you should do!
It is = bad advertising for your
code.
Until your own CMS / forum is MATURE you should use other good software at a site like this.
We have had major troubles with the previous
official websites which lead us to this new official website;
it's not the final solution, but it is a solution... Quote:
Good examples
is: - Use MediaWiki for development issues - Use very
fast punBB forum ( or if you want fully
featured: use SMF Simple Machines forum ) - Use Mambo or any
other nice CMS Portal ... but for DEMO of your own CMS, use
a simple Link in Menu
Eheh, I would also have
done that way, but I am not the only one which makes choices in
this project! We (project admins) agreed that Drake CMS could
bear a real users community. It has shown weaknesses,
but we are working hard at improving it examining the users'
feedback; telling us to shut it down and replace it with another
CMS won't help the CMS development - yes, I know this is not a
good policy and that it will annoy our own users, maybe we will
have to rethink some choices.
Quote:
Good thing with
SMF forum is that is supports the bbcode 'php code tag' with colored highlighting!
Our forums will
also have pluggable syntax highlighting for the code tag.
Quote:
Another
issue, regarding Web Standard, forums or not:
please learn howto UNDERLINE links It is
plain stupid, not to do this ....
That's due to
an issue with the templates' CSS (and with browser
cross-compatibility too): reading our roadmap you can see that we
are working on the CSS for v0.4.3. We can't simply underline all
the links because - we tried - and the menu look bad.
legolas558
Re : Forum component
27 May 2007 17:04
Anonymous
Quote:
It would be a
great invention to see, who is onlnie in the forum. e.g. I
look at this forum here and see that the admin is online and that
he might post a reply...
Since the PHP mail() function is disabled on the SF.net
hosts, I have instead created a mailing queue system that is
polled by a periodical script run from the server (not through
users' page visits requests).
We cannot allow one
single user impersonation to send all the emails traffic, it
would break SF.net rules.
So this issue most probably
won't fix...
siedlerchr
Re : Forum component
29 May 2007 17:59
Anonymous
Ah, ok, I understand, I was just a bit confused, when I saw
different senders...
That is no problem for me...
Ok, I will post a feature request..
websith
Re : Forum component
30 May 2007 17:48
Anonymous
Hello catasoft
I think we have to remember that the
general Drake genre is perhaps aimed at the the "Fast and
Lite" type of cms system. To add some of extra features that
we all enjoy from the larger Forum systems may be too much to
ask.
I think the forums just fine as it is, fast,
furious and lite. I am testing Drake here. if you want to take
look. Testing Drake Click here
for a look.
Forum component 
