I'm considering installing Drupal. It's supposed to be very powerful and extremely modular. Even big commercial entities use it: like Disney, Sony, BBC, etc. However, it's also supposed to be very complex.
With the last modification of the frontpage news, I think PHP-Nuke has started to show some of it's limitations. There's several things I prefered with the original News module that the Forums module simply does not do, or does very inefficiently. Posting images, html previewing, and various html codes, just to name the few that comes to mind. There's also somethings that both will not do. Automatic image resizing would be top of my list.
However, I've gotten very used to PHP-Nuke. I know exactly how to create a new theme. I know pretty much how the module and block system works. It does pretty much everything I want already. I don't exactly want everyone to be able to post html in the forums, so I guess I could add a feature that only allows administrators to post unfiltered. Image posting isn't really a big hassle, and I can add the resize option to the uploading module. More things to mod. I still haven't finished the frontpage mod lol...
Posted by Kirby on December 22, 2009, 9:48 am
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So after much work, I've gotten the frontpage to link to the forums data tables. Now all posts will be in the forums.
There's a LOT of data that was inadvertently dropped on longer posts while I was doing this. So many older forums posts and comments will get cut off in mid sentence for no reason. I'm afraid that will just be left like that. It would take a tremendous amount of time to go in and fix them. They aren't exactly important either.
There's also some minor superficial things I also need to fix on the main page, but I'm happy with how it's working at least (mostly).
If anyone notices any errors or something not working right (or at all) please tell me.
Posted by Kirby on November 27, 2009, 2:34 am
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So after much deliberation, I've decided to drop the project of moving the posting to the forums. It just seems like it will take too much effort and alterations. Now I don't know if I should delete the moved data or not...
*Edit* Or am I?
Posted by Kirby on September 10, 2009, 10:16 am
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I still haven't finished the coding for the script that would call up the posts from the forums and there's some other technicalities that I ran into. On one hand I could probably take a shortcut and have it done relatively quickly, but the code would be really lame basic, and maybe a security risk. On the other hand I could modify the existing News module and use the code from there, but it would be hella time consuming. I'm probably doing the easy way out though... lol
So I found this site: http://www.proxify.com
It lets you surf both anonymously and removes ads/scripts/images from the site should you wish. Now I know some people are like, "why would I need that? I have addons that do that shit for me." Well, this would be much more useful for places where you can't do that. Like at work, the library, or on someone elses computer. I use it to read articles at work. I checkbox everything so there's no ads or even pictures, and select no formating in IE. After that most webpages look just like some text document. Pretty useful.
On another note, I'm going to China this Saturday. It's like a 6AM flight o_o... but at least I'll arrive there while it's still bright out. I'll be there for 2 weeks. Burning all my vacation lol. It's also part of the reason why I think I'll just take the easy route for the coding. If I do it the hard way, and not finish before going on vacation, then I will forget everything by the time I get back. Maybe I'll do it the easy way, printout some code and modify it on paper during the 16hr flight. Haha coding on paper. I better use a pencil. =D
Making a major change, but it won't be notable much superficially. I'm moving all posts to the forums and I'm going to have the frontpage pull the news from the forums database. There's a bunch of difference between the two data tables so I have to do a lot of data shuffling. In the end, the frontpage will look the same, but post comments will all go there. Don't know if I'm doing that for LUC, there's so much more data to shuffle there...
In the meantime, forums will be closed down.
Ok, I got the data moved. Damn that took more effort than I expected... Anyways, I just need to make a script to pull the info now.
Somehow I forgot to save the database entries for the "Morph Guide" page. Since I didn't play the game, I didn't feel like updating them. Well with me poking around on the private server I'm somewhat interested again. So I'm making a new one. It'll include the new morphs like higher level DK morphs and stuff. It should be in a similar format as the last one. I'm estimating that I'm 30% done right now. I plan to have it finished by this weekend, unless I get some unseen errors. Here's the list of morphs I need to input into the database:
Cerberus
Scorpion
Ogre
Troll
Elder
King Bugbear
Orc Scout
Minotaur
Giant
Yeti
Cyclops
Griffon
Cockatrice
Ettin
Dark Elder
Merkyor
Sema
Baltuza
Caspa
Assassin
Darkelf Carrier
Baphomet
Beleth
Demon
Death Knight (52)
Dark Elf (52)
Gelatinous Cube
Middle Oum
Succubus
Bandit Bow
Undead Elmor Soldier
Lesser Demon
Darkelf Ranger
Elmor General
Great Minotaur
Darkelf Guard (Bow)
Guardian Armor
Darkelf Guard (Spear)
Darkelf Wizard
Kurtz
Black Knight
Fire Archer
Varlok (52)
Dark Elf General (52)
Assassin Master (52)
Dark Knight
Dark Majister
Dark Ranger
Dark Shadow
Death Knight (55)
Dark Elf (55)
Varlok (55)
Dark Elf General (55)
Assassin Master (55)
Silver Knight
Silver Majister
Silver Ranger
Silver Shadow
Death Knight (60)
Dark Elf (60)
Varlok (60)
Dark Elf General (60)
Assassin Master (60)
Sword Master
Wizardry Master
Arrow Master
Shadown Master
Death Knight (65)
Dark Elf (65)
Varlok (65)
Dark Elf General (65)
Assassin Master (65)
Orc Knight
Orc Wizard
Orc Scouter
Orc Shadow
Death Knight (70)
Dark Elf (70)
Varlok (70)
Dark Elf General (70)
Assassin Master (70)
Jack-O-Lantern
Yea... That's a lot. So don't be surprised if I'm not done by this weekend. Like I said, if nothing goes wrong...
*Update* Hmm, this might take longer than previously anticipated. It seems most of the morphs have multiple speeds for different weapons (dagger, claw, edo, etc). I might have to separate them out. Maybe have a checkbox for which weapons you want to see. If I do everything on one page, then it's going to be one big ass page.
*Update 2* The page is up. It's not fully functional yet. It has most of the information on it, but it doesn't sort by any of the speeds. However, the comparison does work. I have yet to add the check box, but that's for later as well.
Just a small disclaimer: This data all comes from the private server, so the accuracy of it verses the live servers is questionable. I have a feeling it's not 100% accurate, since I remember at one point DK with edo/claw was nerfed, but in this chart it's not. They could have unnerfed it but who knows (not me). Also, lvl55 mage morph swinging as fast as lvl55 knight morph is weird too, but then again I haven't been playing for a long, long time. So, it's possible that's also been changed.
Making some alterations to the site. This is somewhat big update since I haven't done it for so long. I probably won't be doing it for LUC though, since no one seems to visit it, plus the updating to make all the old stuff work is a pain. But here's what I have done so far.
Upgrade to RavenNuke[tm] Version 2.30.00 - Done
Port Graffytt Theme - Done
Move articles database - Done
Move articles comments - Done
Move forums database - Done, I think
Update image/video/sound/misc. files - Pretty sure I got them all, but might have missed some here and there
Import Custom Modules & Blocks
Import Links - Pending
Quote Feed - Pending
Morphlist - Pending
Custom comments layout - Done
Widen read more page - Done
Customized Forum Block - Done
Minor layout weird stuff
Shoutblock doesn't fit like the old layout and some other things like stuff always centering - Fixed
I don't like how the default layout of somethings are either. Like the expanded article layout, the page thingy, etc. So, I'll need to change those.
Don't know when I'll be done with this, but RavenNuke is pretty nice. Now if I can only figure out why some of the layout is getting messed up. Any new posts may get deleted as I update stuff (posts by people other than me of course).
*EDIT* Found out what was causing the layout weird stuff, stupid mimetype settings... This post is more like a note for myself on what needs to be done, so I'm also adding stuff as I notice them.
Posted by Kirby on November 10, 2008, 9:38 pm
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I updated the layout of the site a bit.
- Added some ads. Maybe it'll cover some of the costs. I pay like $60 a year for the site. Not a big chunk of money, but still enough to buy something nice.
- Changed the top header part of the site. It doesn't take as much room now, but looks pretty much the same.
- Changed the flashplayer. Now using "JW_FLV_Player"
- Added a music thingie above at the very top of the page. It's not set to autoplay 'cause autoplay is gay.
That should be it.
Posted by Kirby on September 8, 2008, 7:34 pm
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I might be updating the site backend software over the Thanksgiving holiday. So if the site goes down for a few hours that's why. There should be little to no cosmetic changes.
If the site stays down longer than a few hours then I screwed something up
Posted by Kirby on November 18, 2005, 2:58 am
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