Creative Forums (forum and portal engine)

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Tnx guys :D

I'm gonna work on the admin and user panel today do some tweaks on the theme and make the forum engine a bit more user friendly :D.

Some little tweaks for now ;) :



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Worked a bit on the admin panel and this is what i have untill now,

Gonna finish up all other pages a bit then upload the hole engine on github and i hope you guys like it ;) (this will not be today - in a day or two)

every idea is welcome, every tip in extra safety for users, theme addons, idea's for a modification system and more just comment it here please :D

screenshot of admin panel:


€dit: Changed a lot today! almost all pages are working and updated for the new theme!

Thinking about the change theme and addon system though.

Todays changelog:

-Admin panel made

-Profile settings page made

-Fixed almost all errors related to the global 'sidebar.php' file (deleted the file because it wasn't used….after a little update to the system :D)

-Changed the theme a bit to have a dashboard and a table theme

-Change marge-top of all containers to 70px in place of 50px

-Removed Social icons (weren't visible anyway - where behind the top navbar)

-Lots of other tweaks to theme and scripts

Planned updates of tomorrow:

-Changing all md5 encryptions to bcrypt

-Checking all codes for safety issues

-Trying to hack my own forum(or let someone else hack it)

Known bugs:

-Admin panel not checking for admin access

-Problem with profile settings communicating to cookies

^ the bugs are discovered today and will be fixed tomorrow and probably i'll release the source then too ;)

Some more screenshots!



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Progress of yesterday:

-Made a global theme folder (this is a system where i am starting on to let people customize the theme easily)

Progress of today:

-Changed password encryption to the much safer bcrypt encryption! (it used to be md5  :huh: )

Planned process for tomorrow:

-Fix some issues with the theme system

-Adding captcha

[JohnPony]

Would you ever consider turning this into an open source, collaborative project?

What are your plans on releasing / licensing it in the future? Will it be solely used by you, or are you planning on allowing others to use it?

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>! This engine is provided 'as-is', without any express or
>! implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held
>! liable for any damages arising from the use of this engine.
>! Permission is granted to anyone to use this engine for any purpose,
>! including commercial websites, subject to the following restrictions:
>! 1\. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented;
>! you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
>! If you use this engine, an acknowledgment
>! in the website would be appreciated but
>! is not required.
>!  
>! 2\. You are not allowed to redistribute it.

Licensing will be open source, (i will put everything on github when my theme system is finished)

Users will be allowed to edit the source codes for themselves but not release their source codes to the public.

So that people can't claim my code as their own (some users won't listen i know)

Users can develop modifications as well and they can release their mods on the website(the complexity and functionality of this system will depend on my host)

Although if people edited the source without using mods they can still pm me with their changes and i'll look at it and maybe put it into the official engine if it's helpfull and usefull for the default engine and not better as a modification (for example a slideshow would be better as a mod or in a theme)

Some more information about the theme system:

So i will handle themes like smf does but with my own twist.

You will have a themes folder where you install the themes (from default just one folder/theme: Default)

Themes have a few files, css files and the header and footer (of the admin and user panel and the rest of the website)

All images for that theme are also stored in that theme (smileys aren't saved in the theme)

bootstrap is installed in the root directory so people can use it over all the themes without reinstalling in every theme.

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Progress of today:

-I've put everything on github!!! :) ([https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums](https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums))

-Trying some things out with theme system

- Captcha verification added to registration (ddos would be easy without it because bcrypt is very intense for servers)

Still looking for a webhost (for all the mods, themes,official downloads,…)

Please comment your idea's for the mod system!!!

[JohnPony]

> >! This engine is provided 'as-is', without any express or
> >! implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held
> >! liable for any damages arising from the use of this engine.
> >! Permission is granted to anyone to use this engine for any purpose,
> >! including commercial websites, subject to the following restrictions:
> >! 1\. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented;
> >! you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
> >! If you use this engine, an acknowledgment
> >! in the website would be appreciated but
> >! is not required.
> >!  
> >! 2\. You are not allowed to redistribute it.
>
>  
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> Licensing will be open source, (i will put everything on github when my theme system is finished)
>
> Users will be allowed to edit the source codes for themselves but not release their source codes to the public.
>
> So that people can't claim my code as their own (some users won't listen i know)
>
> Users can develop modifications as well and they can release their mods on the website(the complexity and functionality of this system will depend on my host)
>
> Although if people edited the source without using mods they can still pm me with their changes and i'll look at it and maybe put it into the official engine if it's helpfull and usefull for the default engine and not better as a modification (for example a slideshow would be better as a mod or in a theme)
>
>  
>
> Some more information about the theme system:
>
> So i will handle themes like smf does but with my own twist.
>
> You will have a themes folder where you install the themes (from default just one folder/theme: Default)
>
> Themes have a few files, css files and the header and footer (of the admin and user panel and the rest of the website)
>
> All images for that theme are also stored in that theme (smileys aren't saved in the theme)
>
> bootstrap is installed in the root directory so people can use it over all the themes without reinstalling in every theme.

~~So, you're not going to allow public contributions, yet you're going to host the project on Github?~~

~~A tad bit strange, and very unconventional for the open source community, but it's your software, so whatever.~~

Edit:

It appears as though you're allowing contributions; you're just not allowing people to release the source code under their own name.

Sounds fair.

[santa-clause]

> ~~So, you're not going to allow public contributions, yet you're going to host the project on Github?~~
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> ~~A tad bit strange, and very unconventional for the open source community, but it's your software, so whatever.~~
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> Edit:
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> It appears as though you're allowing contributions; you're just not allowing people to release the source code under their own name.
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> Sounds fair.

Indeed i'm allowing contributions but they have to give credit to me or just mention the engine(if they also want to credit all the other people that may work on it in the future)

[https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/blob/master/LICENSE.md](https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/blob/master/LICENSE.md)

[JohnPony]

> Indeed i'm allowing contributions but they have to give credit to me or just mention the engine(if they also want to credit all the other people that may work on it in the future)
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>  
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> [https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/blob/master/LICENSE.md](https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/blob/master/LICENSE.md)

I believe that I see some improvements that I could do. I'll fork the repository later today.

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> I believe that I see some improvements that I could do. I'll fork the repository later today.

That would be awesome :D

Looking forward to the improvements

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Todays change:

-Added random salt

-Changed the layout of message and user panel

-Optimized some code (messages and user now all have the same 1 php file (user.php))

-Changed some dutch words found along the way into english

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Today's Changes:

-Finished up user panel

-Finished up admin panel

-Edit password not using salt and becuz of that impossible to login again FIXED

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Updated license

[JohnPony]

Good choice.

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Tnx

[Nayte]

It's come a long way already man, good job :)

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> It's come a long way already man, good job :)

Tnx

-Updated features changelog and known bugs on the main post

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Gonna work on the themes system today, i hope i'll get it finished worked on it yesterday as well.

Also gonna put the website online on a free webhost so you guys can see the engine in action, if someone wants to host this website for free please pm me, i need a better host.

[Sunku]

This is just my opinion, but I feel that if the Login portion of Logging in and Registering, links to the Registration part, they should be on two different 'pages'. This, however is just my opinion. I like the way it's turning out, keep up the good work man.

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> This is just my opinion, but I feel that if the Login portion of Logging in and Registering, links to the Registration part, they should be on two different 'pages'. This, however is just my opinion. I like the way it's turning out, keep up the good work man.

What do you exactly mean because register and login are two seperate pages and have nothing in common except that they have the same style but you can give them 2 different styles in the theme (but in the default style they're the same

[Sunku]

> What do you exactly mean because register and login are two seperate pages and have nothing in common except that they have the same style but you can give them 2 different styles in the theme (but in the default style they're the same

Oh, sorry, didn't realize they were two different pictures. Whoops. Nevermind then. Keep up the good work.

[santa-clause]

Ok np :)

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Fixed some bugs and did some changes to theme system today will commit them right away to github :)

Now you can type a ' without having nasty mysql errors because php reads them as a symbol and not as a string fixed it by adding a replacer ' => \'

[https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/commit/a13334ec12b5d6b9d50560d4db5d293ba50b5c8f](https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/commit/a13334ec12b5d6b9d50560d4db5d293ba50b5c8f)

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Themes system finally finished!!!!!!!! :D

If you find anything i could add to the theme system please tell me i'm always interested in improvements :D

also moved the tiny_mce editor to a seperate file so if i change the editor into my own or anything i don't need to edit every single file.

[https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/commit/1ca1d3a28823e684cb8eb2dfae449f07396576b1](https://github.com/MrDamaru/CreativeForums/commit/1ca1d3a28823e684cb8eb2dfae449f07396576b1)

Please can someone look into the code and debug and test everything, i do it as well myself but i also develop the way i go so maybe i missed a bug or anything so please everyone go test it! i beg you :(

[JohnPony]

I'll mess around with it a bit later today.