TackleUnderground

Although your article don't help true ordering in the nav or solve enkidu's issue (being done in the skin vs. ACP), it does allow for local or external links in the nav. Big +1 for you.
Thanks for the link to the article and extra thanks for your skinning guide........ a HUGE timesaver :thumbsup:

File Name: IP.Content 1.1.1 Database Feed
File Submitter: wixerle
File Submitted: 10 Nov 2009
File Category: CCS Modifications

This is the very first 'alpha' version of this tool. It is currently working and lightly tested. Unfortunately I don't have a demo site since my site is not live yet and still in development.

This has only been tested with IP.Content 1.1.1. Current version of file: 1.

The following features are implemented. More features to come if more features are requested, but that is all I needed at the moment:

Select database Sort by comments, rating, submission date, updated date or any field of your database, ascending or descending. Limit number of records and skip number of records Attachment parsing BB-code parsing
The fields are specified just like in the database templates.

This is an example block code:

<div class='general_box'> <h3>{$title}</h3> <ul class='hfeed'> <if test="is_array( $records ) && count( $records )"> {parse striping="feed_striping" classes="row1,row2 altrow"} <foreach loop="$records as $r"> <li class='hentry {parse striping="feed_striping"}'> <a href='{parse block="board_url"}/index.php/?/page/database?record={$r['primary_id_field']}' rel='bookmark' title='{$r['field_1_value']}'>{$r['field_1_value']}</a> <span class='date'><abbr class="published" title="{parse expression="date( 'c', $r['date'] )"}">{parse date="$r['field_2']" format="short"}</abbr></span> <span class='desctext'>{IPSText::truncate( strip_tags($r['field_3_value']), 100 )}</span> </li> </foreach> </if> </ul> </div>

replace the /page/"database" with your actual database name for this feed.

Installation:

Step 1: Drop in admin/application_addons/ips/ccs/sources/blocks/feed/data_sources

Step 2: Nothing. Thanks to IPB's plugin systems, it is that easy to install!



Click here to download this file

One of the few things I enjoy about Craigslist is the community "flagging" feature used there. (most either love it or hate it)

For example on IPB, permitted usergroups can "flag" a topic or post,
after X amount of flags the topic/post is automatically set into moderation que and report issued to all applicable mods.
An extra setting to control amount of flags issued per group, similar to rep system would be even better.

Doesn't seem to be a huge implementation, seems it would bolt nicely to the IPB moderation logic.

I have 2 mods that handle a relatively well behaved community of 11,000, but when a spammer gets on board, we usually recieve multiple reports before a mod can act.
a community moderation feature like above would be very effective in this scenario.

comments?

Thanks.

Ah crap. For those people out there that may have the same problem in the future...
Make sure you check ownership permission stuff!

Sorry about the stupid topic. Hopefully my idiocy helps someone in the future. :whistle:

I am aware of MySQL full text searching restrictions.

I would just suggest 3 things that will make the search feature in this board more usable:

1. Turn off flood control or reduce it significantly for registered customers. They are your potential friends and not enimies :)
2. Makin boolean searching "this +that" by default, as there is no practical approach in searching "apples OR pines". And it is more intuitive as this is default in the major search engines throught the world.
3. Display only topics, not posts by default.

By the way, there is no such option in 'advanced' search form:
"Search titles only" - does not search in the posts body
"Search posts only" - is opposite to what I have suggested.

I wouldn't be against adding a setting to report manager that if something is flagged x times it goes into mod queue. I wouldn't want it at 1 (some people could report something for no reason, or just because they dislike the member, or don't know what they are doing), but maybe 2 or 3 (admin-configurable is best option).

Take a look here: http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/index.php?showtopic=37976
Last paragraph.

on the contrary, from SEO point of view, the more back-links you have to a page , the better its ranking will be. So instead of having let's say:

1- 100 links to example.com/index
2- 50 links to example.com/index.php?lindex
3- 130 links to example.com/

when you use canonical tag, the search engine would treat all these link as if they are pointing to same page thus increasing your back link to 280.