Invision Board 3.0 Discussion

[Vince G.]

I am constantly amazed at how far Invision software is progressing. It has far surpassed all other community based software in my honest opinion. It has been a pleasure to recommend this software to my clients on both of my designing sites. I have never been disappointed and I'm sure I will be just as pleased with 3.0 as we have all anxiously awaited it's arrival for quite some time now. As a designer, of course I have to comment on how pleased I am to know there will be a new skin with 3.0. A little clich

[tommy79]

Hi,

Any chance that the administration panel will be included in the language files so it would be translatable?

Thanks

[Rod.]

I have my own VPS with about 20 clients on it, plus my forum. If I upgrade to PHP 5, is that backwards compatible with the general scrips out there, plus Invision Board 2?

[.om]

I have my own VPS with about 20 clients on it, plus my forum. If I upgrade to PHP 5, is that backwards compatible with the general scrips out there, plus Invision Board 2?

You have to check with those other script authors fir php 5.x compatability...though nowadays...majority of the commercial scripts have php 5.x support.

[Brett B]

Is there an "official" way to make a feature/addition request for IPB 3?

[Josh]

Is there an "official" way to make a feature/addition request for IPB 3?

You only need to post your ideas in the IPB suggestion forum, we read them all :)

[bfarber]

I just wish there will be some attempt at providing documentation to help understand the new set up. I'm sure the programmers who have been using IPB for a long time will quite easily figure it out, but me personally... since I am just starting to learn even the current setup and don't exactly understand what is going on in the current IPB functions, I probably will be very confused.

Just would be helpful if it is explained somewhat in the future, even though obviously it's not something "promised" to customers. Although I thought it was said that components would keep working even with 3.0. Maybe I misunderstood. It's been a while, but I sure thought that was said.

We do plan on providing some help for users. We may not be able to document every change for obvious reasons, but for instance in most files (as of this moment) instead of $this->ipsclass->DB-> you simply use $this->DB-> (not much of a change if you look at it). This may change before final as the code is constantly being refactored at this stage.

We are also working on using phpdoc style comments so we can hopefully pull some documentation straight from the source files.

@vadim - we are using public, private and protected, yes. Will there be some files that don't get fully updated? Possibly, but the files we are refactoring we are doing completely.

Hi,

Any chance that the administration panel will be included in the language files so it would be translatable?

Thanks

It is certainly a goal.

[MrEdd]

Great news on the updates.

Things I would like to see:

Something similar to IPBSDK, or at least the login authentication features to allow easy integration of web pages with the IPB member database.

I saw this suggested elsewhere but I'd like to reiterate it here, keyword subscription. i.e. get email notifications of new topic containing chosen phrases. This would be such a great feature and unique too.

Please add text preview of topics when mousing over the topic title in forum view. This is a feature of vb that I love and improves usability greatly.

I would also find topic prefixes as on vb very useful if such a thing where implemented on IPB.

[Vince G.]

Please add text preview of topics when mousing over the topic title in forum view. This is a feature of vb that I love and improves usability greatly.

I would also find topic prefixes as on vb very useful if such a thing where implemented on IPB.

Why they won't just replicate the entire vb software and that's it.

[TestingSomething]

I am constantly amazed at how far Invision software is progressing. It has far surpassed all other community based software in my honest opinion. It has been a pleasure to recommend this software to my clients on both of my designing sites. I have never been disappointed and I'm sure I will be just as pleased with 3.0 as we have all anxiously awaited it's arrival for quite some time now. As a designer, of course I have to comment on how pleased I am to know there will be a new skin with 3.0. A little clich

[WebbyB]

Subscriptions Manager.... Just to clarify...

You say there won't be further developments.... On my forum, I accecpt paypal as my form of payment. So if there are not going to be any more developments does that mean i'll be fine for future versions of IPB with the subscriptions manager? As i'm happy with what it currently does and do not need anything else... So keeping it as it is and not developing it further won't be an issue?

Or will it be dropped altogether after 3.0? So no one will be able to take payments through the board? Can you please explain a bit more.

Many thanks.

[Vince G.]

The subscriptions manager will be updated to work on v3.0 as stated at the official topic but there will be no new features added to it. So you are in the clear.

[marklcfc]

Can we have more stats as seen on an SMF forum? http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

Or at least have them available in admin CP, stats are good.

[Lindsey_]

Can we have more stats as seen on an SMF forum?

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

Or at least have them available in admin CP, stats are good.

+2 lol

[Brett B]

Can we have more stats as seen on an SMF forum?

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

Or at least have them available in admin CP, stats are good.

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=272280

[WebbyB]

Just been looking through polls on my forum and it would be IDEAL if the topic creator could specify if they want the voting public or private, with permissions in the admin area saying what groups can or can't have this option. :)

Have you done much work with polls in v.3.0 ?

Also taking on from the post above...could their be an option for member stats i.e. if I wanted to find out how many posts a certain member can made by entering their username or ID...could you do that? :)

[Twisted Gamer]

I have my own VPS with about 20 clients on it, plus my forum. If I upgrade to PHP 5, is that backwards compatible with the general scrips out there, plus Invision Board 2?

If done correctly you can run PHP4 and PHP5 side by side. My current host offers PHP4 as default and via .htaccess call I switched my site to PHP5 so you don't have to totally migrate the other scripts if you go that route.

[MrEdd]

Don't dismiss good ideas just because someone else did it first. Do you live in a cave?

Or are you just trying to discredit the suggestion of any additional features? Personally I want to see new features that have the option of being disabled rather than the complete minimalization you seem to favour which imo leaves us with too much reliance on an unreliable and often insecure modding community not to mention leaving IPB sliding far behind the competition out of the box.

Why they won't just replicate the entire vb software and that's it.

[awaisuk]

Hey.

I can wait for this new version.

Try to release new features in the 3.0 that others dont have yet!

I have some suggestions that might help IPB:

• When FAST REPLYING to a topic, the page should not reload after we press "Add Reply" It should be done through ajax, or something similar to VB. It is faster and safes time.
• "Thanks" button will be good if included in the topics
• What about a built in Donation system? With a tracker? There are tons of people wanting this "mod" and will be very good if its included
  

[henke37]

• "Thanks" button will be good if included in the topics
  

No, it would not be a good idea.

[markymids]

I used the reputation system on my site for a while and it caused an absolute outrage - I had members colluding with one another to negative rep people they didn't like and it caused a lot of problems with people leaving and in the end I just had to disable it :lol:

But as long as you can turn it off in v3.0 I'm fine with it.

I'd like to reiterate what someone else said with the vbulletin style of topic previews when you hover over the topic title (just the alt tag popup) - this is such a nice feature and one that I have found incredibly useful in the past. To get this working on invision i've had to install a mod which I have found very database intensive, so it would be nice to get this programmed by the experts and included as standard :P

[Graeme S.]

I have to agree that a topic preview system would be very nice.

I would like to suggest a modification for signatures. Signatures on forums are often quite "heavy" and I have installed a mod that only displays a person's signature on the first post they write on any given page. It means that topics are less flooded with signatures and focus more on the content. It's a small tweak but it makes a huge difference if users have graphic heavy signatures.

Secondly, although I am sure this is much more difficult, is the ability for users to see where and when they have been quoted. On a large forum this is an incredibly useful ability. A forum I used to frequent did this by letting a user know he or she had been quoted everytime someone clicked the "reply" button on their post. I honestly believe this is one of the most needed features on any forum as it saves so much time for everyone, and makes it much easier for people to get things answered.

Any ideas?

[Mark]

I used the reputation system on my site for a while and it caused an absolute outrage - I had members colluding with one another to negative rep people they didn't like and it caused a lot of problems with people leaving and in the end I just had to disable it :lol:

But as long as you can turn it off in v3.0 I'm fine with it.

I'd like to reiterate what someone else said with the vbulletin style of topic previews when you hover over the topic title (just the alt tag popup) - this is such a nice feature and one that I have found incredibly useful in the past. To get this working on invision i've had to install a mod which I have found very database intensive, so it would be nice to get this programmed by the experts and included as standard :P

What makes you think just because someone at IPS codes it it will work any differently?

I assume that at the moment your mod pulls the first post of each topic in forum view, for it to not do that (and ergo be less database intensive) a new column would have to be added to the topics table with the content of the first post. This could cause problems when editing the first post, merging topics, splitting topics, etc. While those problems could be solved by editing the respective functions, having an additional column would still mean that all topics posted before this feature was added would not have the functionality.

[IBTheme]

Well I agree with a lot of that. I personally hope a reviews system is not in it becuase I have such an in-depth one already. Although I guess I shouldn't care since the features I came up with would be more work than I think they would want to put in for that type of addon since most sites probably won't use that anyway. With mine I just am trying to still make decisions and clean up the look. (which actually now that I mention it, [b][u]I wonder if you do custom work as far as helping skinning custom components like that[/u][/b])

Absolutely! :thumbsup:
I'm anxiously awaiting the first beta release of 3.0 so I can get a jump start on skinning that as well.

(sorry for the off topic posts! :blush: )

[markymids]

What makes you think just because someone at IPS codes it it will work any differently?

I assume that at the moment your mod pulls the first post of each topic in forum view, for it to not do that (and ergo be less database intensive) a new column would have to be added to the topics table with the content of the first post. This could cause problems when editing the first post, merging topics, splitting topics, etc. While those problems could be solved by editing the respective functions, having an additional column would still mean that all topics posted before this feature was added would not have the functionality.

Well I had to tweak the code myself to get it to work in an alt tag popup and I'm only a novice programmer so it would just put my mind at rest if it was coded by someone very experienced, I didn't mean any disrespect to mod makers.