Forum Features Wishlist, for Coomer Options

[azian_advanced]

Now that you're more active on the site, i'd just like to post some features that maybe you can add to improve the forum.

first, can you activate the forum to tapatalk? it's free. http://www.tapatalk.com/. it'll make reading fast and easy on the droid.

second, some forums are able to post embedded youtube videos and lets you watch from within the post without having to open a new window.

third, can you add a filter to the search page that will only result to posts with posted pictures. it'll make searching a specific picture or diagram a lot easier. this should be an easy mod.

fourth, this might be a big wish to ask for but maybe the buy and sell can use a facelift. what i had in mind was to have the BS forum set up with ebay-like styling.
kinda like this: <thumbnail pic> | TRD Front Bumper (Blue) For Sale | $400 | <username & seller rating> | <available or sold icon>
clicking on the title will lead to another page with more details, pics, comments etc just like any other thread. this mod will of course need everyone's approval first but i think it's a great idea. some forums have this and works great.

[Espo]

second, some forums are able to post embedded youtube videos and lets you watch from within the post without having to open a new window.

I'll see what I can do here. I agree that would be nice.

Coomer - I did this on a forum I used to run running this same version of IPBoard. It's quite simple - you can setup a custom BBCode for it (i.e.

CODE

[yt]video url or embed code[/yt]

) - that tag would then just auto-parse the HTML into the post. It's been a couple years since I actually setup the feature, and darkangels-rs.com is no longer running, so I'm not sure of the specifics, but I could find a way to try it if you're interested in having some help.

third, can you add a filter to the search page that will only result to posts with posted pictures. it'll make searching a specific picture or diagram a lot easier. this should be an easy mod.

Negative, this is unfortunately not an easy mod. That said, it would be nice and I'll look into it.

I believe this can be done by adding a simple PHP string that would query whether the post has pictures or not. The forum already recognizes when a thread has images (not sure if this is your work or somebody else's modification taken from another site - say InvisionMod), so adding a checkbox or a radio button to the advanced search page that would then trigger the server to only look for threads with > 1 image, or null threads with 0 images. Not sure which version of IPBoard exactly you're running, but it looks like 2.2.x, and I'm not sure how your showthread tables are setup or named, but the code may look similar to this:

CODE

<?php
// MySQL Connection
mysql_connect("6gc", "coomer", "coOomer") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("showthread") or die(mysql_error());

// Query if images
$results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM img_count")
if $img_count > "0";
echo $results;
or die(mysql_error());  

?>

It's been a while since I worked with PHP, so that's likely incorrect somewhere. You'd likely know better than I do.

P.S. Yay for made up user/password variables!

fourth, this might be a big wish to ask for but maybe the buy and sell can use a facelift. what i had in mind was to have the BS forum set up with ebay-like styling.
kinda like this: <thumbnail pic> | TRD Front Bumper (Blue) For Sale | $400 | <username & seller rating> | <available or sold icon>
clicking on the title will lead to another page with more details, pics, comments etc just like any other thread. this mod will of course need everyone's approval first but i think it's a great idea. some forums have this and works great.

I'll see, but likely to do something like this I'd want to move the buying/selling out of the forums and into the rest of the site, which will be a codebase that's easy to modify. The current forum software is huge, is written in PHP, and is a nightmare to modify. Parts of the site built going forward will be done in Rails, which is way more fun and faster for me to develop stuff in.

I can tell you right now this would be a nightmare, especially to only make it apply to the buying/selling forum.

I'm pretty sure we've discussed this before, but more info on the left under your name such as Chassis (due to GT applies to the USA GT ST204 and european GT ST202) and engine (for people with +T and swap). Though since that info is also used in the members rides for searching etc, I presume it'll take a lot of work? If thats the case it could be added under the "Enthusast" part? Maybe add the Curren models and the NZ celica 'GS' to the list of models.

This can be done by modifying the main site's drop-down box, or allowing text to be entered.

another idea Ive had, is expanding the meet section, so you have USA sections, Europe, aussie and new zealand (doesn't have to be set out like that was just an example)
hopefully boost more users, since NZ dont have a main celica forum.




coomer's going to be busy with all this

Sub-Forums within the meet section come to mind.

Update the Parts Database List. There are so many parts that are discontinued its not even funny!! Mainly the Performance and Suspension Parts

Agreed.

how about a different color scheme for the whole site?? like more TRDish red and stuff

I'd be game to design the layout. I would however want permission to change the colors of the current logo to fit the skin.

Coomer - some stuff I've done, if you're interested in having a new skin but not having to do it yourself:

IPBoard 1.3.x - Images and the rest done in CSS (a black/red theme - the head banner could've been a bit better though): http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/Tys...Premium%20Skin/

Icons built when I worked for Invisionplus.net for a customer: http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/Tys...20Tech%20Icons/

MKPortal sketch for Darkangels-rs when it was still running: http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/Tys...nt=mkportal.png

Little Photoshop showoff:





Work would be done for free in the interest of the community, by the way.