Upgraded Forums

[Marcus Tettmar]

Hello everyone,

Frequent visitors to these forums may notice a change this morning.

After many years we have finally taken the slightly painful step of upgrading the macro scheduler forums to the most up to date phpBB release.

This wasn't a decision that was made lightly. We were stuck on a rather old and unsupported phpBB release and in the interests of security and of being able to ensure we can maintain the forums into the future it was decided we needed to take this step.

Hopefully everything is working fine. We've set up redirects and tested as much as possible and it looks like old links still go to the right places. Your logins should continue to work as normal, but drop us a line if you have problems accessing your account.

One thing I have noticed is that some of you with HTML or BBCode in your signatures may need to edit those to make them work properly. Simply edit and re-save and the links/bbcode should return.

Other than that things should be ok. But if you do find any problems please let me know.

[bnc1]

RSS feed is no longer available with the new forum?

[Marcus Tettmar]

The RSS feed URL is:

http://www.mjtnet.com/forum/syndication.php

We'll add a link to it on the forum header soon.

[Marcus Tettmar]

How to customise the feed:

Valid parameters are:

chars=[number] - number of characters per post, HTML and BBCode tags get stripped: syndication.php?chars=200
count=[number] - number of most recent posts: syndication.php?count=3
fid=[number,numberX] - forum id, multiple id's separated by a comma: syndication.php?fid=32,50
t=first - first post of topics only: syndication.php?t=first
t=last - last post of topics only: syndication.php?t=last
t=title - topic titles only: syndication.php?t=title
type=atom - Atom format: syndication.php?type=atom
uid=[number,numberX] - user id, multiple id's separated by a comma: syndication.php?uid=3,5

[CyberCitizen]

Guessing The Code Snippet Part Is Gone Now?

Also In Firefox The Page Titles Don't Look Very Friendly (Eg Used To Display The Forum Topic Title, Now I Am Getting The URL Only).

[Marcus Tettmar]

Code snippets still exist but we haven't added the embed code yet. Working on it.

However, this new version of phpBB probably makes it less necessary as the built in [code] ... [/code] tags now actually work properly. In the old days they still mangled code and so we built our own system but html and smilies could still mangle code. This isn't an issue now and you can simply use the built in code tags and it preserves the code and looks nice. So snippets probably not really needed now.

For very large code snippets you may find they are too large for the code block but you can now also add attachments. So I suggest for large code examples you upload them as .scp file attachments.

Regarding the page titles, we should be able to improve that. We still have the default template setup but should be able to replace the page title with the more descriptive topic titles.


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[Marcus Tettmar]

• Page titles should now be more sensible and now match the old forum format.
• BBCodes in Signatures have now been fixed.
• .scp files can now be uploaded - recommended for large script examples which won't fit inside code blocks. An example is here.
• Tapatalk has been installed. Very useful if you want to follow the forums via your mobile device.

Dialogs - Calculator.scp

[Marcus Tettmar]

Also now added Code Snippets back. There's now a "Make Code Snippet" link to the right of the posting box and a snippet button above.

Example:
Dialog>Dialog1
object Dialog1: TForm
Left = 576
Top = 266
HelpContext = 5000
BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]
Caption = 'Progress Bar Example'
ClientHeight = 116
ClientWidth = 439
Color = clBtnFace
Font.Charset = DEFAULT_CHARSET
Font.Color = clWindowText
Font.Height = -11
Font.Name = 'MS Sans Serif'
Font.Style = []
OldCreateOrder = True
ShowHint = True
OnTaskBar = False
PixelsPerInch = 96
TextHeight = 13
object ProgressBar1: TProgressBar
Left = 18
Top = 17
Width = 399
Height = 17
TabOrder = 8
end
object btnStart: tMSButton
Left = 24
Top = 56
Width = 75
Height = 25
Caption = 'Start'
DoubleBuffered = True
ParentDoubleBuffered = False
TabOrder = 9
DoBrowse = False
BrowseStyle = fbOpen
end
object btnStop: tMSButton
Left = 128
Top = 56
Width = 75
Height = 25
Caption = 'Stop'
DoubleBuffered = True
ParentDoubleBuffered = False
TabOrder = 10
DoBrowse = False
BrowseStyle = fbOpen
end
object btnReset: tMSButton
Left = 232
Top = 56
Width = 75
Height = 25
Caption = 'Reset'
DoubleBuffered = True
ParentDoubleBuffered = False
TabOrder = 11
DoBrowse = False
BrowseStyle = fbOpen
end
object btnClose: tMSButton
Left = 344
Top = 56
Width = 75
Height = 25
Caption = 'Close'
DoubleBuffered = True
ModalResult = 2
ParentDoubleBuffered = False
TabOrder = 12
DoBrowse = False
BrowseStyle = fbOpen
end
end
EndDialog>Dialog1

AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,btnStart,OnClick,DoProgress
AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,btnStop,OnClick,DoStop
AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,btnReset,OnClick,DoReset
AddDialogHandler>Dialog1,btnClose,OnClick,DoClose

GetDialogProperty>Dialog1,ProgressBar1,Min,intMin
GetDialogProperty>Dialog1,ProgressBar1,Max,intMax
Let>kk=intMin
Let>ProgressFlag=0

Show>Dialog1,res1


SRT>DoProgress
SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,btnStart,Enabled,False
If>ProgressFlag=0
Let>kk=intMin
EndIf
Repeat>kk
Let>kk=kk+1
SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,ProgressBar1,Position,kk
If>ProgressFlag>1
Goto>EndProgress
EndIf
Wait>0.05
Until>kk=intMax
Label>EndProgress
SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,btnStart,Enabled,True
Let>ProgressFlag=1
END>DoProgress

SRT>DoReset
Let>kk=intMin
SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,ProgressBar1,Position,kk
END>DoReset

SRT>DoStop
Let>ProgressFlag=2
SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,ProgressBar1,Position,kk
END>DoStop

SRT>DoClose
Let>kk=intMax
END>DoClose
  View Snippet Page

[Marcus Tettmar]

To be honest I'm not sure snippets are ideal. Their major downfall is that they won't be as easily searchable because their content isn't included in the forum database - they wrap an iframe. The site search should find them, but the forum search would not.

They are more useful when wanting to send code by email - send a snippet link instead. But because of the search indexing issue, the jury is out for me on whether they should be used on the forum.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Ok forget my last reply. A novel solution has been found. Required a slight change to the snippet code format so that it includes the script code itself which is then stored in the post but is hidden via CSS. So the content of the snippet is now stored in the forum database and will be found in a search.

[Dorian (MJT support)]

Marcus, you amaze me.

3.49am : We might have a problem with snippets.

4.35am : Oh, I thought of a solution and have already implemented it.

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[jpuziano]

Hi Marcus,

Where are the Next and Previous buttons/links?

Previously I would check the forums, see which topics had unread posts, click into a topic... then click the first unread post, read it.. then click "Next".

Where did "Next" go? Now I have to click the back button, wait, then click the next unread-post, wait, then read it.

Hmm... Let me guess... Maybe this is good old IE8 (our corporate standard browser) tripping me up again... I'll have to try this in Firefox and see if Next and Previous appear...

[jpuziano]

Hi again Marcus,

Nope... not IE's fault... Firefox and chrome both don't display Next or Prev buttons/links for msg reading.

- Is that an option that was just not turned on in this new version of phpBB?
- If so, can we get it turned on for easier msg reading? Or if someone can tell me where to click, that would be great

- Bigger issue - I tried to EDIT my previous post above but that ability does not seem to exist either. Was that turned off for some reason? Can we get that back as well?

- Sorry to sound like a complainer... but I'm in these forums a lot and have gotten used to certain features... I can't imagine they actually disappeared so perhaps this is just a setup thing?

Thanks for listening Marcus and take care

Spoke too soon --> the "EDIT" button appears in Chrome but Next and Prev are still missing though

More info --> The "EDIT" button appears in IE8 and Chrome but is missing in Firefox (Firefox ESR 24.2.0)

[Marcus Tettmar]

Thanks for noticing there were no next/prev topic links. I hadn't noticed. Turns out they just aren't in the default template by default. I've added them in. So you should now see them top right.

Will check out the Firefox issue in a mo.

[jpuziano]

Yes... the "Previous topic" • "Next topic" links are now back - thank you