Search!
Find the Exponential Software extensions you want
xrowforum
| UNIX name | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|
| xrowforum | 7x | stable |
| Version | Compatible with |
|---|---|
| N/A | N/A |
Forum extension for eZ Publish
NOTE: !!!!read the install/INSTALL file for the installation and configuration of the xrowforum extension!!!!
-
- This extension is designed for eZ Publish 4.2
- and is tested for eZ Publish 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
- it may run for lower versions also
- PHP 5.x
- activated JavaScript in your browser!!
- This extension is designed for eZ Publish 4.2
2.Feature List(implemented):
(these are features which are not delivered by the normal eZPublish Forum)
1. Notification - Flag System:
- the user recieves information by a flagimage and a count about any new unread messages
- after reading the new post/thread the flag will be removed
- the user can mark all forums as read with one click (remove all flags)
- the user can remove the flags for seperate forums or topics ONLY too
- cronjob to clean the "xrowforum_notification" table after a certain duration (controlable via backend)
2. Backend Forum Adminstration Interface:
- Tab 1: Forum Statistics
*Information: Board Started, Topic Count, Post Count, Total Count
*User: User Count, Currently Online, Online In Past 24Hours, Todays Birthdays, Most User Ever Online at the same time
*other Statistics: Topics Per Day, Posts Per Day, Registrations Per Day
*TOP Ranks: latest registered User, latest Topics, latest Posts, hottest Topics (by views), hottest Topics (by replies), top activity User(by Comments),top activity User (by Logins)
- Tab 2: Moderator Permissions
* select user as moderator for seperate Forums
- Tab 3: User Ranks
*Option 1: give certain user special ranks
*Option 2: give user normal ranks (depending on the post amount of the user)
- Tab 4: Forum Settings
*here you are able to modify the xrowforum.ini via the backend
*you have to select the IDs of some nodes and classes there
*you can administrate your forum there, you have the following options:
-de/activate Rankingsystem
-de/activate WordToImage
-when does a topic become a HotTopics
-PostsPerPage
-TopicsPerPage
-PostHistoryLimit
-de/activate Signature Image
-StatisticLimit
-de/activate BB-Codes
3. advanced Permissionsystem / Moderator:
- user can be assigned to Moderator Group and can be assigned to seperate forums which they are able to administrate then
- these users will be displayed as Moderators and have more functions then other members
- moderators can move topics/posts without toolbar
- moderators can close topics and reopen them with 1 click
- permission bugs fixed in templates (edit / sticky)
- general delete/edit/move and addtonotification access options changed
4. general Templates
- general template cleanup, bugfix and improve
- all deprecated sections/default things removed and replaced by non deprecated control-/fetch structures
- fix template variables and structures changed to dynamic ones (like paginator, offsets, etc..)
- post fullview will display fullview of parent(topic)
- many bugs fixed!
5. BB-editor / BB-Tags
- phpBB editor for the frontend made of javascript
- gives a list of available BB tags controlled by xrowForum Administration Interface in the backend
- adds BB Tags to the textfield which will be automatically parsed by the bbcode2xhtml operator after publish
- available BB Tags: strike, bold, italic, underlined, code, quote, list, img, url, font color and font style
- offers a list of smilies
6. new reply module
- creates replies(posts) in the same language as the parent(topic)
- speed increase
- avoids problems with "object unavailabilty" which appeared in the past on multilingual sites
- new template (= code cleanup)
7. Private Messaging module
- Inbox
* search in inbox
* new messages special displayed
* straight reply function
* remove messages
* sorting messages
- Outbox
* search in outbox
* new messages special displayed
* straight reply function
* remove messages
* sorting messages
- Network Overview
* option do add friends and to block user
* Friendlist
* Blocklist
* Friendrequestlist
- Create PM
* full validation
* Editor
* jQuery name suggest
- View PM
- different Operators
* Private Message Count (inbox: total/new/old, outbox: total)
* Relation Check
- is user XX blocked? is user XX a friend?
- friendlist
- who of my friends is online / offline
* Requestcheck
- Friend Request "Workflow"
- add => accept => is friend => break friendship
- Block User
- block removable if you are the user whoch actually started blocking the other user
- Mail Notification
* enable/disable via .ini setting
* if enabled then each user can decide if notifications are wanted or not
- sends notification on: new PM in inbox, new Friend Request, User accepted the request, User rejected the request
- and much more..
8. other
- user have a new attribute (birthday)
- you are able to quote posts and topics (the quoted content will be posted into a new object automatically in quote tags)
- forumindex page with more functions and for a better overview
- forum full-view has one more column now: "views"(hits) for each topic
- edit templates completely rebuilt
- sort order in forum full-view of the topics is different now => 2 workflows added to prevent edited posts to jump up when using "subnode_modified" method
- new template operator added which can load many operators in a row depending on certain conditions
- cronjob for most user ever online at same time added
- overflow/width fix for forum content
- 5 different status of a topic: old, new, old-hot, new-hot, closed
- some CSS fixes (this extension does NOT deliver a proper design ;-] )
- ezhttp option "cookie" added as kernel hack (will be added to kernel from eZ in 4.4)
- complete german/english translation delivered
- proper redirects after publishing/discarding or editing
- censoring added to replace bad with good words
-
- the BBCodeParser doesnt build "www.xxxxx.xx" links correct, you can only use "http://xxxx.xx" or "http://www.xxxx.xx"
- do not use template Debug or it will destroy the BB-Tag Editor JavaScript
- CSS Bug for IE 7 on post creation page
-
- smiley Upload and administration of smilies via backend module
- Forums with password protection
- switch to tinymce editor for the frontend ( http://tinymce.moxiecode.com ) and youtube video implementation
- limited signature char length
- limited image sizes in signature and content of posts and topics
- javascript for enlarging images
- stripping quote tags from quoted quotes before publish or find another solution
-
- 08.07.2010: - released on projects.ez.no
- no changes
- 22.04.2011: - cronjob to clean the "xrowforum_notification" table added
- cronjob session renamed to "mostuser"
- 01.05.2011: - eZ 4.5 ready
- new PM Module added
- 08.07.2010: - released on projects.ez.no
I. birthday-datatype:
- by georg w. franz
- http://projects.ez.no/birthday
II. BBcode template operator:
- by Vathanan Kumarathurai
- http://ez.no/developer/contribs/template_plugins/bbcode_template_operator
- modified, adjusted and updated to php5
III. jQuery Shadowbox
mail: robert@xrow.de
skype: xrow.robert