E-Blah is nothing short of being chock-full of all sorts of fantastic features. However, to promote the modding community I establish this thread to see what you, the E-Blah users would like to see made by the modding community (or even implimented into E-Blah.) This would help for many people who aspire to become savvy with Perl and gives those who wish to mod some innovative ideas to get things going.

So, please give some ideas, and keep them realistic. But any idea is a good idea!


Thanks,
Nick

I would very much like to change certain features of eblah (like red text for PM alert) but I do not have sufficient Perl knowledge. I understand that Justin or you may not have time to do it for us.

Requested It may not be choosen to be a part of eblah standard features. But surely we have the choice to modify our forum to our liking right?

Since there is an encouragement in Modding, may I suggest that every week or month we have a chat session on how to hack certain features? Users may send in their request. Every week/month a request is selected and someone proficient in Perl may volunteer to guide us to hack eblah step by step.

Is this realistic?

You could just edit the board template for that.

Code <center><blah v="$displayuser"><br><blah v="$date_time"><br>

Code <center><font color="red"><blah v="$displayuser"></font><br><blah v="$date_time"><br>

That should work efficiently.

Actually, I am looking into the text changing color to red when we have new PM. That will require Perl knwledge right?

You could either use Javascript (through the template) or Perl. Either way is pretty easy. I'll see about making that mod for you.

Thanks Jedi!

I have alot to learn from you!

There are really only 2 major things I'd like to see... One is a popup window informing someone that a PM has arrived...

The other I posted awhile back... http://www.eblah.com/cgi-bin/bb/Blah.pl?,v=display,b=features,m=1065805737 ... which was to display a Random Quote at the top of the page... There would ideally be a section in the Admin panel to add/edit/delete quotes from the list...

Another minor issue is related to polls... it would be nice to be ablt to increase the number of poll options... 7 isn't always enough... for instance, say you want to have a poll for what the best song on an album is, but it has 10 songs and you only get 7 poll choices... that creates a problem.

Another poll feature that could be nice is the ability to make the pull a 'multi-choice' poll... ie. one where you could select more than 1 option, up to a limit set by the creator of the poll.

These would definitely increase my enjoyment of Eblah... but I am already pretty happy with it.

Both of those features are already in E-Blah (polling related).  Get the newest version from the downloads page for it to work. 



- Justin

Quoted from thewickedchild, posted November 25, 2003, 1:10am at here

The other I posted awhile back... http://www.eblah.com/cgi-bin/bb/Blah.pl?,v=display,b=features,m=1065805737 ... which was to display a Random Quote at the top of the page... There would ideally be a section in the Admin panel to add/edit/delete quotes from the list...

That could more than simply be done with Javascript.

hummm... I could uptake the writing of the random quote Mod.

On my list for E-Blah:

1. Christmas Theme (Working on it)
2. Resize Text MOD (Pending release)
3. Chinese Language Pack (on hold)

I see if I can put it on my list

Resize text mod?
By the way, Dan, I'm working on that PM mod as we speak.

Thank Jedi,

I tested the resize text mod

Doesn't seems looks good.

http://forums.danielck.per.sg

Here's your mod, Dan! Enjoy.

Keep in mind you may need to make changes to your template to get it to actually work. In the Colors Settings there should be 2 new values to change, and a checkbox option to allow you to make the text bold when a PM is recieved. The text is made size=1 by default, this can be edited at the first action on Routines.pl, where you can find size=\"1\" twice. The numbers can be changed to higher values to your liking.

Well Justin asked me to put these on the board so i figured i will put them in here.

1> we have a little RP community and they wish to have money/points to spend at some of the shops on the forum so when they go into the shop there can buy stuff eg they have 50 points and wish to get somthing that costs 10 points, 10 point are taken from theirs and put in the shops points that only the mods of that board can see, now im not a programmer but have been trying to figure out how to do this i know it would prob have somthing to be with cookies and an option put in the admin panel to activate it.

2> Also i have created small mods to personilise the forum eg changing the topten to top20, changing the welcome email that gets sent out and one that adds extra buttons to the menu bar if u want more than one button u just need to edit the mod and not the files.

3> Have been trying to change the highlight mod so it will work with themes and u just change the colour from the template like i have done with the mod i created for changing the board and cat headings, Daniel do u know how this can be done i know u updated the highlight one. the only thing i can think of is CSS but i not know of a code for td hove (dont thing one exsists)

4> One other thing is that i wish to have theme creators but not give them rights to the admin panel so have been looking into creating a mod for that i think i need to edit something to the group permissions, also editing the routines and menu bar and stuff, but like i said im not a programer so it will take a bit for me to work out.

5> this one i see justin has already done in the new version yet to be relised so am looking forward to when it cons out. (hide individual boards within a category instead of the whole category.)

6> Not use if this is included in the above but the board is sometimes slow to load so as well as the individual board hidden i was thinking of in the member center  an option to only show the cat headings on the inidex page and the boards when they click on the headings.I have a lot of users with slow computers and connections.

7> Another thing is Banning subnets as well as ips but being allow to exclued an ip within the subnet if need be.

8> a mod to lock just the poll and not the whole thread

Quoted from JediWannaB, posted November 26, 2003, 1:41pm at here

Here's your mod, Dan! Enjoy.

Keep in mind you may need to make changes to your template to get it to actually work. In the Colors Settings there should be 2 new values to change, and a checkbox option to allow you to make the text bold when a PM is recieved. The text is made size=1 by default, this can be edited at the first action on Routines.pl, where you can find size=\"1\" twice. The numbers can be changed to higher values to your liking.

Thanks Jedi!

How can I thank You?