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Postifying bio's? by KeyStorm on 01-13-2005 at 06:41 PM
WDZ, could we have the bio's postified? Sometimes one may add links or whatever formatting and it looks bad unformatted.
I'm not sure if there's a risk in allowing it, but I don't think so.
Is it possible? 
RE: Postifying bio's? by Eljay on 01-13-2005 at 06:50 PM
its easily possible
its just WDZ is probably too lazy to do it
all he has to do afaik is postify the bio variable before its outputted... im probably wrong but........ blah
RE: Postifying bio's? by saralk on 01-13-2005 at 07:06 PM
I dont think WDZ is too lazy to do it, the suggestion has probably not been posted before and so he doesnt know that it needs to be fixed. Remember that WDZ didnt make the forum, and the version he has is quite an old version, considering this is RC2 and the latest version is RC4.
RE: Postifying bio's? by KeyStorm on 01-13-2005 at 09:26 PM
Who's talking about... versions... This can't be called myBB anymore, so to say. 
However, I know it's *technically* possible to do it (function 'postify', etc), but I was wondering if it could be possible to have it done 
So, hope there's no problem. (I'd like to put some links to my projects and such stuff )
RE: Postifying bio's? by saralk on 01-13-2005 at 09:40 PM
quote:
Originally posted by KeyStorm
This can't be called myBB anymore, so to say
yes it can, most of the core code is still myBB stuff, i.e. user sessions, topic posting, permissions etc... all the stuff that make it a forum. WDZ has just added hacks to the forum to make it even cooler.
but back to the point: having bbcode in the bio would be cool
RE: Postifying bio's? by KeyStorm on 01-13-2005 at 10:01 PM
When it makes no sense to update because of the number of modifications (ie, when it's better that you yourself fix the bugs and add all new things) the one can say it's actually myBB WDZ-mod and so it will stay. I was exaggerating in saying 'no myBB anymore', but I'm not completely wrong in the end, in fact myBB can be upgraded without many porting problems. This version actually can't really without some weeks of work to re mod everything...
RE: Postifying bio's? by WDZ on 01-14-2005 at 04:13 AM
There are some things that should simply be plain text, and the bio is one of them. You say it "looks bad unformatted" but the opposite could be true if colors, fonts, big images, etc. were allowed. Remember that we're talking about a very small text field, like half the size of a signature.
It's kinda the same issue as the reputation comments. In that case, I decided to allow only certain smilies.
quote:
Originally posted by saralk
I dont think WDZ is too lazy to do it, the suggestion has probably not been posted before and so he doesnt know that it needs to be fixed. Remember that WDZ didnt make the forum, and the version he has is quite an old version, considering this is RC2 and the latest version is RC4.
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quote:Yes it can.
Originally posted by KeyStorm
This can't be called myBB anymore
quote:Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that...
This version actually can't really without some weeks of work to re mod everything...
RE: Postifying bio's? by John Anderton on 01-14-2005 at 12:13 PM
Which version of mbb is this site using ??
Isn't Mbb Rc 4 Gold the latest ??
Does this forum use that ?? (I think it uses 1.00 thats what it sayz below 
)
Whats the difference then ? Only security measures ??
RE: Postifying bio's? by KeyStorm on 01-14-2005 at 12:33 PM
This is RC2, as you might have known if you had read the freaking thread. Other than that, there's no 'gold' in the preior versions. Gold is the upcoming final upgrade (some might call it 1.0 final).
And the differences are features and security measures. http://www.mybboard.com
RE: Postifying bio's? by Anubis on 01-14-2005 at 03:14 PM
quote:For infomation like that, try looking at the bottom of every page
Originally posted by John Anderton
Which version of mbb is this site using ??
As for the fact that this forum isn't MyBB anymore, well I can really understand that. Stand alone MyBB is no where as near as good as here, you really notice the difference...
RE: Postifying bio's? by KeyStorm on 01-14-2005 at 05:26 PM
MyBB and this board go in different paths. Although the core was once the same. Many things that WDZ added here were added later to MyBB (see overhead report notices).
MyBB is for general purpose, while this, close-coded and undistributed, serves other purposes. Don't forget WDZ was part of MyBB dev once, iirc.