gwBBCode - Add some style to your forums

liu pi · Feb 20, 2006 at 6:33 PM

Ever felt the need to have a synthetized view of a teambuild to interact with your allies, or lead it better?
Ever felt annoyed having to go to a fansite every time you want to know the exact description of a skill mentioned in a discussion?

Then maybe would you be interested in gwBBCode; have a look:

Wanna see how it works? Checkout this teambuild demo or that syntax presentation

gwBBCode is a forum extension hosted at gwShack, a place to host teambuilds and ease their editing.

So far 700 forums use it. phpBB is fully supported while vBulletin and punBB are still in beta.
Latest version 1.7.0 includes all Nightfall skills.

So! if you want to install it, all you need to do is download it here then place it in your forum directory and go to forum_dir/gwbbcode/install.php with your browser. Its license, GPL, makes it open source and free, so you can modify and spread it all you want!

Simon · Feb 22, 2006 at 4:24 AM

Well my forums run vb 3.5.3 (Soon to be 3.5.4)

So I'm intrested in it.

phpbb2 isnt very good forum software anyway

Sniperz53 · Feb 23, 2006 at 5:37 AM

Actually I prefer Phpbb to VB anyday.

As for the bbcode, I am currently running phpnuke and am wondering if there has been a port for this as well?

If not I can always modify things myself to get it to work

devilru · Feb 23, 2006 at 9:31 AM

Website is down at the moment

Admins at my Guild forum wouldn't mind trying it out, so I hope you can get it back up again

Kuma · Feb 23, 2006 at 5:22 PM

Kudos for this code Liu Pi, it looks great and works fine

Kuma

Sniperz53 · Feb 23, 2006 at 9:40 PM

I have been working on porting this to phpnuke, if I succeed I will post it here for everyone.... if thats alright with the developpers of course.

liu pi · Mar 6, 2006 at 10:31 PM

Latest version 1.5.4 takes into account March 2 skill update.
Sorry it took me so long to release it, but I took screenshots of all skill icons and rewrote all skill descriptions (10+ hours).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simon

Well my forums run vb 3.5.3 (Soon to be 3.5.4)

Version 1.5.4 also includes a working installation/uninstallation for vBulletin but I wouldn't rely on it as it works just like other BBCodes from vBulletin: activating/deactivating them only affects posts at the time they are posted, not after when they are viewed. So uninstalling gwBBCode wouldn't remove its use from already existing posts, a behavior I certainly don't want. If you know a way to reparse posts using new BBCode configurations, it'd resolve that matter.

Quote:

Originally Posted by devilru

Website is down at the moment

Website was down for 1-2 days but is back, host's fault

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kuma

Kudos for this code Liu Pi, it looks great and works fine

I'm glad it does, thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sniperz53

I have been working on porting this to phpnuke, if I succeed I will post it here for everyone.... if thats alright with the developpers of course.

That'd be great! All you have to do to port gwBBCode is

to include header.php before </head>,
to include body.php right after <body>,
to assign $gwbbcode_root_path to the location of gwBBCode's path,
to include gwbbcode.inc.php,
and to parse text possibly including gwBBCode tags using the parse_gwbbcode function, e.g $text=parse_gwbbcode($text);

I don't really understand where in phpNuke you'd like to use gwBBCode, otherwise I'd be able to help.

Sniperz53 · Mar 7, 2006 at 12:36 AM

Thanks for the tips there

I have almost complteted it now but am working on a nother project so its getting put on the back burner for now.

As well I want to use it in the phpbb portion or the forum portion of the site that ships with phpbb, the only problem is that the code is changed from phpbb to phpbb.

It shouldnt be a problem though, as soon as I get things up and running I will post here for everyone to see

MadOnion · Mar 8, 2006 at 11:12 PM

Wow, that is excellent work, I'm very impressed! I will ask our website manager to look into this, thanks!

djfatben · Apr 2, 2006 at 4:19 PM

This is incredible. I just installed it on my VB forum. Great job, I wonder why Guru doesn't have this installed, and why in the world it's not more popular.

Queto · Apr 2, 2006 at 7:25 PM

<3 Liu Pi

jinxtwitchyboo · Apr 4, 2006 at 2:13 AM

I am totally going to try adding this to my guild's forum.

Thank you SOOOO much for taking the time to develop something like this.

jinxtwitchyboo · Apr 4, 2006 at 4:48 AM

I absolutely LOVE this. Was VERY easy to get working in phpBB2.

I just had one question... where do I go to change the appearance of the skill info popup? it looks like the text is not lining up over the transparent background like it should be. Maybe it is just me or something up with my forum but any help would be appreciated.

This is what I am talking about

http://www.sumthingstoopid.com/phpBB...opic.php?t=107

liu pi · Apr 4, 2006 at 3:07 PM

Problem solved, his forum style was doing processing no style should do.

jinxtwitchyboo · Apr 8, 2006 at 1:56 AM

Yes, Liu was a HUGE help and when he figured out the problem, sent me an updated version which works flawlessly.

Note to others... PhpBB + Aphrodite Theme + gwBBcode = nono.

Makes me wonder if other styles use the same kind of coding, and if it would be possible to offer people a choice to download the version that works with Aphrodite and all it's family of colors.

xiv · Apr 8, 2006 at 3:36 AM

are invisionfree websited phpbb formatted? im really interested in it but yeah i don't know if its the rite format.
btw if it works on invisionfree websites ide be interested in more humane installation directions lol these r like greek.

hmm i did some searching and i think i konw what u mean by phpbb its a type of forum creater. ide like some coding to use it on invisionfree.com which is the creater i use it uses css formatting so yeah i believe it will be like the same coding if i am thinkn correctly.

liu pi · Apr 12, 2006 at 8:45 PM

You need to be able to modify your forum files to install gwBBCode (need to include some javascript), but you can't do that on invisionfree's forums

You'll either have to host your own forum (i.e download a forum software and install it) or use gwShack.

xiv · Apr 13, 2006 at 12:21 PM

is it possible to put this into java script? because i tried doing it on our webby and you can add things using java script i just don't know enuff about java script to do it. i nvr took the time to learn the tutorial lol. if this could be rewritten in java script ide gladly pay gw money or even take them out and get them some fame farming if they needed it. or even powerlvl a char or even run them whereever lol. neways if u catch my drift im dying to put this on my forums i just need some way of converting it to java script. hmm lemme see here i added a spell check to the forums and i just read the script. it uses active x and it is written in java script. hmm lemme think. what it does is goes into the microsoft word and uses there spell check. ok i jst confused my self. neways if someone could put this into java script ide gladly repay em

Zyo · Apr 23, 2006 at 10:54 PM

GWFreaks now support export in gwBBCode.

Jas D · Apr 24, 2006 at 12:13 AM

Ohhhh.... niiiceee.. thanks.