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A couple more comment 'fixes'
Fixed a minor bug that was producing an error message for an admin if they tried to edit a blog/post comment. (Resolved by Samson.)
Made the admin control panel only list posts that are still open when an admin selected the option to close a post to futher comments and only list the posts that are already closed when an admin selected the option to re-open a closed post for further comments. (These will only really be useful for relatively recent blog posts once Samson finishes the auto-closer he's working on currently, as after that any post reopened would be auto-closed shortly after if it was already 'expired'.) (This was resolved by Devenon after he and I discussed the need for it.)
BTW, many, many thanks to Kiasyn, Samson, Devenon, and any others who may yet contribute to this. My php/sql skills are not up to fixing many of these types of things so it's great having you guys to help make real my own wish lists for this site!
More blog comment changes
I've added the ability for admins to close blog posts to further comments, in the near future this may also become an automatic feature of all blog posts over a certain age. (This was discovered/resolved by Samson.)
I also added the ability for admins to reopen blog posts for further comments.
Finally, added BBCode to blog comments! (This was resolved by Samson.)
Comment bugs fixed
Fixed a bug in which if an admin at some point decided to delete a blog entry that had comments, the comments wouldn't automatically delete with the blog entry meaning I would've had to go into the underlying database directly to purge those comments. (This was discovered/resolved by Samson.)
Also added the ability for admins to edit the comments themselves as needed. (Again, this one was discovered/resolved by Samson.)
An additional Sandbox (this site) change
I modified the code in the contacts page so the e-mail that gets sent has changed.
Here are the changes:
- From: now shows the poster's e-mail address, instead of the original site admin address
- removed Reply-to: line with posters e-mail address
- Put the poster's name and e-mail address as the first two lines in the comment (body) of the e-mail
- Name: poster name
- Email: posters e-mail address
In my usual habit of giving credit to the person who's earned it, this was an issue that Devenon resolved after I pointed out the problem to him.
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BBCode supported here
The following codes are supported here for blog posts and comments (to use these bbscode tags, ignore the . in them):
BBCode tag = Example
[quote.] [/quote] =
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers...
[code.] [/code] =
function save_settings()
{
$default_settings = array( 'db_host', 'db_user', 'db_pass', 'db_name', 'db_pre', 'db_type', 'site_modules', 'admin_modules' );
$settings = array();
foreach( $this->settings as $set => $val )
if ( !in_array( $set, $default_settings ) )
$settings[$set] = $val;
$this->db->query( "UPDATE {$this->
re}settings SET settings_value='" . $this->db->escape(serialize($settings)) . "' LIMIT 1" );
}[b.] [/b] = This is bolded
[i.] [/i] = This is italicized
[u.] [/u] = This is underlined
[s.] [/s] =
[pre.] [/pre] =
This is preformatted text
[url.=link]displayed text[/url] = Land of Legends
[img.=link]alt text[/img] =
[h1.] [/h1] =
This is headline size 1
[h2.] [/h2] =
This is headline size 2
[h3.] [/h5] =
This is headline size 3
[h4.] [/h4] =
This is headline size 4
[h5.] [/h5] =
This is headline size 5
[h6.] [/h6] =
This is headline size 6
[right.] [/right] =
[center.] [/center] =
[email.=email address]displayed text[/email] = Send us an email
[color.=color]what you want colored[/color] = This is text in red
Additionally, lists are supported in the form of [list.] [.*]list item[.*]next list item[.*]and so on[list.][.*]nested list item[.*]nested list item[/list.][/list.] =
- first list item
- second list item
- third list item
- fourth list item
- first nested list item
- second nested list item
- third nested list item
- next level in
- and so on
Eventually the site will also recognize the following:
Any links that include: http, such as http://tcdbbs.zapto.org/mud/; or https, such as https://tcdbbs.zapto.org/; or ftp, such as ftp://tcdbbs.zapto.org/
Any email addresses plainy typed such as: [email]csbsc@comcast.net[/email], as long as you use only valid characters for an email address
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Recent changes to the site
Since installing this site, to date I've "fixed" the following things:
- Massive skin changes (with help and input from Dragona.)
- Enabled the RSS feed (resolved by Kiasyn - you can subscribe at http://speedy/conner/sandbox/index.php?a=rss if you're interested.)
- Fixed an issue with bad cookies (discovered/resolved by Samson.)
- Fixed a minor white space issue in the admin panel settings module (discovered/resolved by Samson.)
- Fixed a couple of problems with being able to add additional admins (blog posters) (resolved by Kiasyn.)
- Fixed some problems with being able to upload/import images to the Gallery and files to the Downloads (resolved with Kiasyn.)
- Fixed a problem with admins getting bug messages when relogging into the admin control panel resolved by Kiasyn.)
- Added in a feature to allow Gallery and Downloads folders/files to display their full names if you hover the mouse over them (discovered/resolved by Samson.)
- Fixed/enabled the captcha checking on comments (discovered by Devenon and resolved with Samson.)
- Fixed a problem with the front page mini-calender having a conflict with PHP4 (we've since moved to PHP5) (Resolved by Kiasyn.)
- Changed the format of the date/time stamp on blog posts (discovered by and resolved with Samson.)
- Added captcha checking to the contact page (discovered/resolved by Samson.)
- Added additional BBCode support (see next blog entry for examples of each type of bbcode tag supported - these should all work in comments as well as blog posts) (discovered/resolved by Samson/Devenon.)
- Made the captcha checking much friendlier
- Created pages for each of my immediate family members (most of these are far from ready at this point and may yet end up being done with frames instead)
- Created a Projects page (with significant help from Dragona.)
- Created a Links page (this was mostly Dragona.'s doing, though I've had a hand in it too)
Watch for additional fixes yet to come, Samson, Devenon, and I have submitted quite a few feature requests to Kiasyn and we've been told that most of them are going to be in the next release of the Sandbox code, along with most of the above "fixes".
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Doctors...
Well, we spent the entire day Wednesday traveling up to University of Virginia (roughly 250 miles away) and back for a doctor's appointment. The ambulance driver who drove us there and back was very friendly and quite talkative. Once we arrived (nearly an hour early) we were seen by an intake nurse nearly immediately who offered to let us sit in a patient room or go back to the waiting room (which had a TV for Clayton to be entertained with) while we waiting the hour until the doctor could see us, we opted for the waiting room. When we did finally get taken back to the patient room, we got to wait again only to have Dragona examined by a medical student. The student doctor had a very nice bedside manner and seemed to really make an effort to be thorough, but then he had to consult with the actual doctor who reconducted the exam and then decided to consult with his superior who also reconducted the exam. In the end, after spending nearly two hours with the three doctors, they determined that we need to come back in eight months when Dragona's no longer pregnant. (Bloody brilliant considering we told them when we got there that most of her symptoms go away or recede drastically while she's pregnant.)
Today, we saw the OB who kept us waiting half an hour beyond our scheduled appointment time while the nurses completed paperwork only to be taken back to the patient room and be drilled by the nurse completing the paperwork for another half hour. The nurse let us hear the fetal heartbeat solely because Clayton begged her to. This is the same doctor we had for Aaron, so we already know that we like her, but we don't care for the way we enivitibly spend an hour waiting around at her office. Overall the appointment went well
I don't understand why doctors always do that. If you're more than 10-15 minutes late for your appointment, most doctors will make you reschedule and bill you for the cancelled appointment, but even when you're on-time or early, they still make you wait on them forever. Maybe medical school should be required to teach them to schedule patients that they can see at he times that they will be able to see them. Or maybe people in general need to start billing the doctors for their time wasted while waiting to be seen.
We're scheduled for another ultrasound on February 16th, so we should have a nwe 'baby picture' on here shortly after that appointment. At today's the baby's heartrate was measured at 153 beats per minute and it's been tenatively declared (until the next ultrasound narrows it down further) that we're at 13 3/7 weeks today.
Five days ago Aaron hit 9 months old. He's already walking with help (holding on to things or people's hands) and very social and always very alert. I believe we have some new pictures that will be added to Clayton's and Aaron's pages respectively very soon too.
Good Job!
Conner has done a great job so far with our new family page! It looks great, keep up the good work Love. 
Site in progress...
Ok, with a little help from Kiasyn (you can see his picture if you want to in our gallery here at gallery->Friends->Kiasyn), I've now got the RSS feed working properly, and I have added Dragona as a admin so she can upload stuff and post blogs too now.
I figured out how to fix the uploading so I've now got my first three pics uploaded (one of Kiasyn, one of Lace, and one of myself.. just the first three I tried for testing purposes), and I managed to change the picture next to the blogs section. I've also successfully tested the contact page on here.
So, now that most of this seems to be working right, the next step is going to be to fix this nasty default skin to something more our style and decide if the site should really be named Conner & Family, or The Destron Family, or whatever.. and after that, I guess we just kind of see where else we can go with it.
Well, I'm trying this Sandbox thing out...
If it proves to be nice enough and can be modified to look/feel the way I'd like, this may well become the 'portal' site for our family pages that Dragona's been working on.
My intention is to make the Blog section (what you're currently reading) be a place where Dragona and I can post blog style comments, and have tabs for each of the members of our family (probably instead of the gallery section). I'll be leaving the contact page, but I haven't decided yet about the gallery and downloads pages. Also I kind of wanted to have sections for other stuff too, like a Conner, Dragona, Zachary, Isaiah, Clayton, Aaron, and the new baby.. plus one for the pets and maybe one for extended family (they certainly don't need a whole site for themselves, more like a gallery section).. so that's 10 'sites', or if the family 'site' was really just a special home & gallery sections that served as the 'main home' for the rest, and the extended family and pets were contained within just a gallery section each off the family page, then I could get away with only seven and a half 'sites'.
Of course, maintaining the admin control panels for each of even just seven and a half of these would be a mild pain, but if it can be done the way I envision it.. maybe it wouldn't be too bad. Guess I'll have to try to talk to Kiasyn and see if he can make it so that sandbox supports sub-sandbox sites.
Of course, however I do it, I need to find out if I can have multiple blog posters because it wouldn't be right to have Dragona post stuff, or one of the kids, and it still say that I was the one who posted it because we all used the same admin account (which I'd rather not do anyway as I don't really care to share my password.)
