[pmwiki-users] Updates for Fox, FoxForum and ForumX

Hans design5 at softflow.co.uk
Fri Apr 13 14:41:23 CDT 2007


I uploaded a new foxforum.zip, in which is bundled a ready built
FoxForum, similar to ForumX, but which keeps all posts to one topic on
the same topic page.
For download see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FoxForum

ForumX and FoxForum share most of the extension functions, so I
bundled ForumX into the same zip. One different function is the
breakpage markup & function, as ForumX displays a pagelist of
topic-post pages, and the breakpage function breaks the pagelist into
chunks, whereas for FoxForum breakpage breaks the page into chunks.

In the course of developing these, I thought it might be a good time
to remove the breakpage support built into the fox.php code. I also
removed the automatic insertion of id anchors, as this can be done
better from within a Fox template page. And I went ahead and removed
the automatic FoxCount variable, which was written straight into the
page attributes, as an easy way to have an incrementing counter. This
can be done with manipulating a FoxCount page text variable. So this
amounts to some perhaps drastic pruning of fox.php, to be substituted
by filter extensions.
See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Fox

Here once more the forum features, now for ForumX and FoxForum:

Features:
* Ready setup with prebuild system pages.
* Easy copy of system pages to a different forum group.
* Guibuttons including smileys.
* Post count, topic count.
* Easy deletion of posts and topics by admin with foxdelete links
  and delete pattern set to delete empty pages.
* Warning error message if topic exists already.
* Preserving input text when errors occur.
* breakpage to display 20 posts per page (configurable with variable),
  with link navigation.
* Styling with style classes from pub/fox/fox.css, with colour schemes
  supported by Triad, Gemini and Fixflow skins built-in.
* Access code to prevent robot spamming.
* Honouring line breaks for friendlier posting.
* Directive posting disabled (default Fox feature), but enabled if
  logged in.
* Support of >>..<< divs in posts, a swell as all normal wiki styles
  etc.
FoxForum:
* All posts to one topic stored on same topic page.
ForumX:
* Each post is stored on a separate page, sharing the same name as the
  topic name plus a suffix number.

Please note that all this is still in beta development.

As always please send your comments and suggestions! Thank you.


  ~Hans   




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