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TL;DR INCLUDED BELOW!
Hey all,
Over the past couple of days I've been working on a pretty exciting project: mobile forums. I feel they've gotten to the point where I can release it to the public as an alpha. Currently, you can browse threads and forums relatively well.
Please note that this is extreme alpha and should be treated as one. Not all features are included (you can't post yet) but they will be added in eventually. Also, as comes with all alphas, there will be bugs that I need to be reported - just post them in this thread.
Merry Christmas, and enjoy my present to you all!:
http://t.co/FTfCj9wE
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RULES FOR SUGGESTIONS:
Don't expect a reply if your suggestion doesn't follow these rules.
The following are slated for development, so don't waste space asking for them:
- Posting abilities
- Showing primary groups
- Fixing mod info
- Signature support
- Footer
Anything else is fair ground and will be treated as such. Thank you!
TL;DR: http://t.co/FTfCj9wE
- Techboy6601
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RiderjJoin Date: 2011-08-15
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That looks better than the ROBLOX forums for the computer. If you add posting I'll probably use that more than I use the ROBLOX Forums. |
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LPGhatguyForum ModeratorJoin Date: 2008-06-27
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Themes would be a nice fluff feature. |
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Themes sound good.
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"Differences are good. If two people agree, one of them is redundant" - Brian White |
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chtr0192Join Date: 2008-08-19
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Nice job, almost beats regular forums.
~If only people with closed minds came with closed mouths ~ |
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New update coming soon to fix some glitches and add new functionality.
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UseringJoin Date: 2012-08-18
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Awesome, the headers should be the deep blue like the normal site. |
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VladTheFirstForum ModeratorJoin Date: 2012-02-01
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This is awesome! How did you do it? |
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Thanks!
Well, to start off, the forums use the same mobile framework as m.roblox.com does (jQuery Mobile). I chose this to keep continuity and because this makes it really easy for me to focus on the back end.
The entire back end is coded in PHP. Most of it uses the DOMDocument class to navigate through the site's hierarchy and get relevant information.
As for displaying that information, ListViews comprise of pretty much the entire thing. Most of the information in all of the pages is contained in [li] elements.
Oh yeah - and the main page isn't manually typed. I actually built a parser for that as well which should (hopefully!) be cron job'ed to run every week. This should make it future proof (in case a new forum is added, the order is switched up, etc.)
Thanks again for showing an interest. 0.2 should hopefully be out tomorrow.
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"Differences are good. If two people agree, one of them is redundant" - Brian White |
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The mods should make you a mod for this. |
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WarMonk3yJoin Date: 2013-10-23
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Fantastic! You've got good ideas, you should try submit an application to work at ROBLOX when you're older, that's if your under 16 or 18! Good luck with this, awesome page! |
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UseringJoin Date: 2012-08-18
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I find it funny that a User can make something faster than the company they're making it for. |
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I keep getting this error
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/andi/public_html/projects/demos/mobileforums/parsers/threadListParser.php on line 18 |
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I wasn't able to replicate your error. What exactly did you do?
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The problem with making computers complete idiots can use is you have complete idiots using computers. |
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I believe the site was down when I got the error. So yeah it wasn't your fault :p |
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Hmm, it still shouldn't error.
That's weird. I suppose I'll have to wait for the site to go down again to fix it :P
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The problem with making computers complete idiots can use is you have complete idiots using computers. |
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TobotRobotForum ModeratorJoin Date: 2011-09-11
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Hey Techboy, nice work.
A few critiques:
I'd probably make the user stats hidden by default. They take up a lot of space for short messages (and are often repeated in long threads).
The back button at the top returns you to the root, not the forum and page you were on.
No way to get to the next page of forum posts?
I had hoped to do something similar this week. I guess you beat me to it! I'm interested to see where you go from here. |
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Thanks, Robot!
In response to your critiques:
Hiding user stats wasn't actually something I had thought of until you mentioned it, but i believe it's a good idea and I'll start implementing it as a collapsible list group.
The back button is in essence a link that points to the following a single line of JavaScript, history.go(-1).
In theory this should take you back to the last page in your browser's history, so if the root page was the last thing you visited then yes, being taken back there is intended. I might change this in the future but for the most part it seems to be working just fine now.
Proper pagination is planned for the next update (which I am in fact working on right now) as well as a slew of other features.
Thanks for the interest! |
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Missed the T and hit R. Ah well, close enough. |
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chicka123Join Date: 2008-07-05
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What if you made a thing where if you slide your finger from the side of the screen, it opens a way to quickly access topics. (similar to surface) |
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TobotRobotForum ModeratorJoin Date: 2011-09-11
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@Techboy, hmm, back button seems to work for me now. Weird.
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@chicka123
I was thinking of doing something like this, except in the form of a sliding menu. Thanks for the feedback.
@Tobot
Weird indeed. Glad to hear it works. |
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GarnishedJoin Date: 2012-04-09
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Bump. |
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VERSION 0.3 IS OUT!
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=86926019
ENJOY!
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"Differences are good. If two people agree, one of them is redundant" - Brian White |
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