Reminder: this blog covers the technical details of 4.0's programming. For details on 4.0's features, follow our main blog. Introduction
For almost all applications in the IPS Social Suite (IP.Chat being the notable exception), there are three components:
Each of these different types of items share many common features. For example, in all applications you can "follow" nodes and Content Items…
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Our conversion scripts make it very easy to convert your existing community to the IPS Community Suite. The process is very simple: just install IPS, upload the converter…
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In IP.Board 3.x, we have a setting group where you can specify some global advertisement HTML. You can enable and disable advertisements, and you can specify code to insert into the header and footer of the page. For the forum index, forum listings and topic view pages, you can override these header and footer ad codes, and you can specify advertisement code to insert into a couple of other area…
The following applications are available for beta testing: IP.Board 3.4.6
IP.Nexus 1.5.9
This round of maintenance updates includes bug fixes for the listed applications. We would like to encourage all interested users to perform as much testing of these apps as possible.
As of the date of this post our company forums have been upgraded to these releases.
Please report any bugs you find …
Last week I attended ZendCon 2013, a prominent PHP developer-oriented conference designed to give industry professionals information on tools, practices and trends which will help them deliver enterprise-class software to customers. During the conference, many sponsors set up booths in order to demonstrate new products and services, and many industry professionals hold tutorials and sessions that…
In a recent blog entry, we talked about theming in IPS Social Suite 4. More often than not, you'll want to upload a new logo, tweak a few colours, add some custom HTML or work on the global template to incorporate your existing site wrapper.
For this blog entry, I want to talk about the tools we have for more in-depth theming that professional themers will want to use to create downloadable the…
Introduction
The IPS Social Suite needs to store lots of different files - there's attachments and profile photos uploaded by members, CSS and JavaScript files, emoticons, etc.
In IP.Board 3.x, various images got stored in different places:
Files uploaded by users get put in the /uploads directory. If you have a complicated setup, it's difficult to handle these. If you have a load-balanced cl…
Building off of our previous blog entry regarding the developer center, application management and distribution has been fleshed out to a point where we are ready to reveal the changes coming with the 4.0 Social Suite. Please keep in mind that while we are discussing some specific changes (and showing screenshots!) of changes you can expect to see in 4.0, everything in this blog entry is subject …
IPS Social Suite 4 is a modernization of our software line and rather than just refactor existing work, we are rewriting the code from scratch which gives us a chance to really evaluate the interface elements and labels. We felt that "themes" was a much more modern and better understood term than "skins". Of course, the name is just the start, here are some of the other improvements: Managing The…
We refer to the icons you can use to post to third party services such as Facebook, Twitter and Digg as "Sharelinks" in our software suite, and we consider these an important tool both for community promotion and for search engine optimization. Not only can you get links to your community out there on other large, popular sites on the internet where you might be able to drive back more traffic to…
In 3.x, we support HTML emails being sent by the software. However, due to constraints we had at the time, HTML emails use pretty much the same content as plain text emails, but wrapped in a simple HTML wrapper. Additionally, users had to explicitly decide whether they wanted to receive HTML or plain text emails via a preference setting - quite an anachronism. All in all, not a very satisfactory u…
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