I went to view the newest posts and when I clicked on the little blue icon next to the topic name, it took me to winboards.net instead of www.winboards.net and I wasn't logged in because I didn't have any cookie for winboards.net
It was previously set to use www. in the forum settings. I changed it because www isn't used with our Google services or the links on WinWorld. Shorter is usually better when it comes to URLs anyway.
I do believe there is a config param in phpBB that allows a user to login from either the www subdomain or base domain but once you are authenticated it takes you over to the domain sintax as defined in the cookie settings. Combine that with a CNAME record and you should be good.
<meta name="keywords" content="winworld, winboards, abandonware, software, windows, downloads, windows 3.1, windows 95, windows 98, freeware, applications, $
<meta name="description" content="Home to one of the largest FREE repositories of abandonware operating systems and applications on the web, as well as a sm$
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<title>WinBoards :: Post a new topic</title>
Page Footer
Second, this is really trivial, but the bottom page gen info is outside of the </html> tag and doesn't fit with the rest of the footer.
The thing about the footer is why I don't put page generation times on Hypnos.
I'm not sure there's any way to put it somewhere else without throwing off the times.
I had thought about a system that would store it in a table and you could go back and view the last 10 rendering times or something. But then I decided it wasn't worth it and again that means those times are technically invalid because there's additional time to reconnect to the DB and store it.
Could maybe store the time in a cookie and have some javascript load the result?
Wouldn't even have to do that... just do something like a div with an ID, then do a document.write with JQuery into that div after the time is evaluated.
The HTML template is generated before the time is evaluated. So the issue is being able to display the time within the body of the HTML.
If you did some javascript to write to a div, the javascript would be outside the HTML tags and I'm pretty sure that doesn't validate and that's the only problem with how it's done now.
So I'm thinking have it stored in a cookie and then have javascript retrieve the time from the cookie and display it somewhere.
The HTML template is generated before the time is evaluated. So the issue is being able to display the time within the body of the HTML.
If you did some javascript to write to a div, the javascript would be outside the HTML tags and I'm pretty sure that doesn't validate and that's the only problem with how it's done now.
So I'm thinking have it stored in a cookie and then have javascript retrieve the time from the cookie and display it somewhere.
JQuery is too new for our circa-2002 forums that have only been updated with minor patches written by me while on acid......
If you did some javascript to write to a div, the javascript would be outside the HTML tags and I'm pretty sure that doesn't validate and that's the only problem with how it's done now.
Oh, good point. I've never been too concerned with validation so that didn't really occur to me.
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/me tinkers
Edit: Can't update the css file, or anything, the permissions are absolutely broken. Needs fixing.
Edit2:
[04:19] <stitch> Man I haven't finished yet
[04:19] <stitch> So if its a problem don't use it
I'll leave him to it, looking promising so far
Other than that, it's pretty impressive
I went to view the newest posts and when I clicked on the little blue icon next to the topic name, it took me to winboards.net instead of www.winboards.net and I wasn't logged in because I didn't have any cookie for winboards.net
It was previously set to use www. in the forum settings. I changed it because www isn't used with our Google services or the links on WinWorld. Shorter is usually better when it comes to URLs anyway.
tl;dr, everyone should stop using www.
Consistency eh
Also incase it's not been noticed, login form is yellow on white.
As far as the login form goes, I thought that was just chrome colouring it up, I'll change that in a bit.
This would just be for the sake of consistency.
Doable. Whether it's done is another thing.
Example, someone goes to http://www.winboards.net/viewtopic.php?t=5425. The server takes the request, and sends the user to http://winboards.net/viewtopic.php?t=5425, instead of just redirecting them to http://winboards.net. I prefer this method because a lot of search engine results still include either the www, :81 or both.
IIRC, Apache is capable of doing it with mod_rewrite, not sure about Cherokee.
I do believe there is a config param in phpBB that allows a user to login from either the www subdomain or base domain but once you are authenticated it takes you over to the domain sintax as defined in the cookie settings. Combine that with a CNAME record and you should be good.
It's been a while but I have done it.
But the meta keywords and description are cut off... They just end with a $
I'm not sure there's any way to put it somewhere else without throwing off the times.
I had thought about a system that would store it in a table and you could go back and view the last 10 rendering times or something. But then I decided it wasn't worth it and again that means those times are technically invalid because there's additional time to reconnect to the DB and store it.
You could probably put it at the end of the script, but have JQuery go back and fill out an HTML field somewhere else on the page.
The HTML template is generated before the time is evaluated. So the issue is being able to display the time within the body of the HTML.
If you did some javascript to write to a div, the javascript would be outside the HTML tags and I'm pretty sure that doesn't validate and that's the only problem with how it's done now.
So I'm thinking have it stored in a cookie and then have javascript retrieve the time from the cookie and display it somewhere.
JQuery is too new for our circa-2002 forums that have only been updated with minor patches written by me while on acid......
Oh, good point. I've never been too concerned with validation so that didn't really occur to me.