Scratch

sparks wrote:

Oh. I should have thought of that... well... maybe we should ask the ST more directly what their plans are for the fora, it may be that they will be discarding this one soon anyway.

Chances are, if they are disposing of the old forum system, they haven't started work on it, so possibly they may allow us to make the official one.

meowmeow55 wrote:

Keep in mind, though, that you probably will need a converter to migrate all the posts from the old forum system (FluxBB 1.2.14) to this new one you're going to write.

there are two options:
1. what you said (most likely).
2. keep exactly the same database structure.

Out of curiosity, what language will this be in?

rookwood101 wrote:

Magnie wrote:

Out of curiosity, what language will this be in?

PHP is the language of choice for most forum software, so I would recommend that. Other languages would be used as and when we need them.

...as well as quite a bit of CSS & HTML, and hopefully some JS for interactivity.

Magnie wrote:

nXIII wrote:

rookwood101 wrote:

PHP is the language of choice for most forum software, so I would recommend that. Other languages would be used as and when we need them.

...as well as quite a bit of CSS & HTML, and hopefully some JS for interactivity.

Well, I mostly mean server-side. I'm thinking of learning Django ( Python ) and I might be interested in this. 

Seems slightly obscure, but we'll see 

TRocket wrote:

what would we call this fora system - scratchBB?

yeah

Magnie wrote:

nXIII wrote:

rookwood101 wrote:

PHP is the language of choice for most forum software, so I would recommend that. Other languages would be used as and when we need them.

...as well as quite a bit of CSS & HTML, and hopefully some JS for interactivity.

Well, I mostly mean server-side. I'm thinking of learning Django ( Python ) and I might be interested in this. 

Django is lovely. It takes out all the mundane stuff so you can concentrate on the fun stuff    Once you've tried it, you never want to use anything else! Have a play with the tutorial, and you should pick it up pretty quickly 

I think there are similar frameworks for PHP, too; maybe something like CakePHP.

TRocket wrote:

blob8108 wrote:

Magnie wrote:

Well, I mostly mean server-side. I'm thinking of learning Django ( Python ) and I might be interested in this. 

Django is lovely. It takes out all the mundane stuff so you can concentrate on the fun stuff    Once you've tried it, you never want to use anything else! Have a play with the tutorial, and you should pick it up pretty quickly 

I think there are similar frameworks for PHP, too; maybe something like CakePHP.

maybe but I think most of the ATers know PHP very well already
Django sounds to me like a simpler, python version of JBOSS?

Yep, we ATters know PHP WAY, WAY better. 
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I'm typing this on Pocket Internet Explorer in Windows CE 5.0 in some Microsoft emulator in Windows Vista. 

WindowsExplorer wrote:

Cool! I'd like to help, but I'm not sure how. 

we haven't started yet!    we are waiting for the ST to "commission" us

blob8108 wrote:

cocolover76 wrote:

TRocket wrote:

maybe but I think most of the ATers know PHP very well already
Django sounds to me like a simpler, python version of JBOSS?

Yep, we ATters know PHP WAY, WAY better. 

Really? That's a shame -- I've done quite a bit of both, and I find Python code much cleaner and more readable. PHP is just a little more convenient to set up. 

Also, I'm sure gbear would be willing to let us create and test the project on escratch.org 

Last edited by Magnie (2011-12-30 18:20:30)

I think it would be good for us all to learn a new language and for those of us that already know Python would learn about web-design with Python.

So it's a learn-learn ( win-win    ) for us all and I think it would be fun to create a site with Python, especially a forum since there are so few Python forums out there.

I'd love to help. I'm good at PHP.

About the hashing method...
I believe FluxBB uses MD5.

TRocket wrote:

fg123 wrote:

I'd love to help. I'm good at PHP.

About the hashing method...
I believe FluxBB uses MD5.

the hashing shouldn't be a problem since we could use MD5 too 

I think we should move on to sha512 or higher.