Here you can keep track on the progress of 6.4 that is currently under development.
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- <font size="" face="">Added in an option to save database queries that are used frequently from the admin section.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added in an option to delete a group that is no longer needed.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Reworked the entire poll system to the style of UBB.classic, this supports multiple questions within a single poll, options for users to vote for more than 1 option, start/stop time and a few other options.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a calendar system that can be used for showing public/private events and birthdays.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a config option so admins can choose who can add public events to the calendar.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new profile option for birthday along with a setting to have this displayed in the user's profile and in the calendar.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a user display preference that allows them to choose what format they want their times displayed in.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added JoshPet's modification to only show a homepage icon on the member list to prevent long url's from stretching the tables.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a column to display the user's avatars on the member list.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added an option to show the user's age when displaying birthdays.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added an option to show today's birthdays on the main forum listing.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Modified the online table to store things a bit differently. This allows for showing the number of users viewing each forum on the main ubbthreads page without adding any extra queries.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added in an option when viewing a user's profile to ignore a user. Posts from ignored users will still be shown to preserve the flow of a conversation, however the body of ignored user's posts will be set to "You are ignoring this user."</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new option to allow users to select from a predefined set of avatars for their picture.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added an option when creating/editing a forum to select an image to be displayed next to the forum on the main page.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a birthday image next to the user's username on showflat/showthreaded when it is their birthday.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new option when creating a main topic that creates a calendar event for a specified day for that topic. Events will not be displayed on the calendar if the topic is in a forum that a user doesn't have read access to.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Reworked the search engine. New options include searching only subjects or subjects and body. Searching for keywords by a particular user. Searching between a date range, older than a certain date, newer than a certain date. Showing a preview of the post body with the results. More complex searches using + (required word) and - (posts that don't contain a word).</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Cut 2 queries out of postlist.php</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Cut 1 query out of showflat.php.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Cut 1 query out of showthreaded.php</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Cut another query out of showflat.php if there are no unread posts in the thread.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Made some modifications to the indexes on the Posts table. This will substantially reduce the number of rows needing to be searched on the postlist/showflat/showthreaded screens.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added option to make a post sticky when creating it by selecting a checkbox.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Moved all thread management tools, move thread, stick/unstick thread, delete thread, (un)lock thread and (un)keep thread out of the edit post screen and down to the bottom of showflat/showthreaded. This will make managing threads a bit quicker and easier for admins/moderators.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added an option for users to choose if they want their signature attached to a post when creating it or editing it.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added in a config option so admins can specify how long users are displayed in "Who's Online" after they have been inactive.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Modified movepost/movethread so it returns you to the original forum instead of the forum you moved the post/thread to.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Reworked the forum listing under the subscriptions portion of the user profile so it lists what category each forum belongs to. Useful if you have forums with the same name under multiple categories.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Created a new send_mail function for sending out emails. Modifed each script that sends out email to call the function instead of mail() directly. This will give a central place for any future mail modifications instead of needing to edit multiple scripts.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Created a ubbt_setcookie function that all cookies are now set with. This gives a central location for any special cookie modifications.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Made some changes so posts with polls in them can be edited. The poll itself is not editable, but any text within the post will be.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a maintenance section into the "My Home" area. Added a link to the "My Cookies" utility and move the "Mark all Read" from the navigation bar into this section.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Reworked the navigation menu. Added a welcome username line and made the nav links into 2 lines to prevent stretching on lower resolutions.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Made it possible to make a post without a post icon.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added new config options to designate the total # of views or replies for a hot topic.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new table cell on the postlist page to display the hot topic icons, sticky posts, posts with polls, closed topics, or posts with attachments.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new icon on the postlist screen in the new table cell that helps designate topics that are attached to a calendar event. Thanks to Joshpet for the image.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a configurable caching system to cache some things that don't change that often. At this point, that includes total # of users, newest user and today's birthdays. This cuts off 3 queries from the main page when used.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added the configuration for the cache settings into the admin -> editconfig area.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Using the new caching table, added a stat to the main page that shows the max # of users that were ever online.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new option into the admin section to add/remove from the list of availalbe avatars users can choose from.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new option into the admin section to add/remove from the list of forum images that can be selected when creating/editing a forum.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added the name of the person who created the calendar event when viewing events for a particular day.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a pagination routine for jumping around between pages within a forum. This is basically a change in the display to something like 1 2 3 4 ... 48 49 51.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a new icon that designates a moved thread. (Thanks to Joshpet fot the image)</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Changed the red sticky icon to a yellow one to match the color of the stock icons. (Thanks to Joshpet for the image)</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Made some changes so an admin user can change their display name without going into the display name change que.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Made some changes so admin users can have special characters in their display names even if they are turned off for normal users.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Made changes so the first user (main administrator) to register can have any special characters they want in their display name even if it's turned off in the config file.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added an admin config option to enable/disable the display of birthdays on the calendar.</font></li>
- <font size="" face="">Added a display length limit for the location field on showflat/showthreaded to keep people from scewing the display width. Thanks to JustDave for the fix.</font></li>
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Rick Baker
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