Website redesign (second thread).

[DChiuch 5,773]

I'm in the middle of developing the third iteration of KH13, for those who are unaware. I'm going to use this thread to sometimes offer my progress, so feel free to give feedback and offer suggestions.

 

To summarise what I'm doing with the redesign, I'm remaking and recoding everything on the website. At the end of it, it will look different, and it will be a lot easier for me/contributors to add content. However, don't worry, every post and everything will still be here.

 

Updates, feel free to comment:

[Sora96 17,256]

Sounds good, so kinda like how Wiki is done? That seems a lot easier to me then uploading the pages.

[DChiuch 5,773]

The header and general design are set up. The "design elements" that remain at this point are the footer, and a better username dropdown menu. And of course, the content will have to be styled.

 

I've installed the forum, however this still has to be redesigned quite a bit.

 

Videos is going well, here's videos.php:

<?php

//connect to ipb
chdir('forum');
define( 'IPB_THIS_SCRIPT', 'public' );
require_once( './initdata.php' );
require_once( IPS_ROOT_PATH . 'sources/base/ipsRegistry.php' );
require_once( IPS_ROOT_PATH . 'sources/base/ipsController.php' );
$reg = ipsRegistry::instance();
$reg->init();
$output = $reg->getClass('output');

//get variables from link
$game = $_GET['game'];
$form = $_GET['form'];
$video = $_GET['video'];

//connect to video database
mysql_connect('localhost', 'dchiuch_videos', 'videospass');
mysql_select_db('dchiuch_videos');

//get long game
$gamequery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM "."abbreviations WHERE short="."'$game'");
$gamearray = mysql_fetch_array($gamequery);
$gamelong = $gamearray['long'];

//get long form
if (!empty($form)) {
	$formexplode = explode("-", $form);
	foreach ($formexplode as &$value) {
	$formquery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM "."abbreviations WHERE short="."'$value'");
	$formarray = mysql_fetch_array($formquery);
	$value = $formarray['long'];
	}
	$formlong = implode(" ", $formexplode);
}

//define page title
if (empty($video)) {
	if (empty($form)) {
		$pagetitle = $gamelong;
	}
	else {
		$pagetitle = $gamelong.", ".$formlong;
	}
}
else {
	//get video name
	$formclean = str_replace('-', '', $form);
	$table = $game.$formclean;
	$videoquery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM "."$table WHERE ID="."$video");
	$videoarray = mysql_fetch_array($videoquery);
	$videoname = $videoarray['Name'];
	$pagetitle = $videoname;
}
$output->setTitle($pagetitle);

//define navigation
$output->addNavigation(Videos, '/../videos/');
$output->addNavigation($gamelong, '/../videos/'.$game.'/');
if (!empty($form)) {
$output->addNavigation($formlong, '/../videos/'.$game.'/'.$form.'/');
}

//define content
if (empty($video)) {
	if (empty($form)) {
		//page for video
	}
	else {
		//page for form
	}
}
else {
	//page for game
}

//send shit to ipb
mysql_close();
$output->sendOutput();

?>

It returns the title and navigation, only the content remains..

 

Games and Media are both generated by information.php, which is almost done. Here:

<?php

//get variables
$category = $_GET['category'];
$page = $_GET['page'];
if (empty($page)) {
	$page = $category;
}
if ($category != games) {
$app = 'media';
}
else {
$app = 'games';
}
define('IPS_DEFAULT_PUBLIC_APP', $app);

//required shit to connect to ipb
chdir('forum');
define('IPB_THIS_SCRIPT', 'public');
require_once('./initdata.php');
require_once(IPS_ROOT_PATH.'sources/base/ipsRegistry.php');
require_once(IPS_ROOT_PATH.'sources/base/ipsController.php');
require_once('../wordpress/wp-load.php');
$reg = ipsRegistry::instance();
$reg->init();
$output = $reg->getClass('output');

//define page title
if ($category != $page) {
	$wppage = get_page_by_path($category.'/'.$page);
}
else {
	$wppage = get_page_by_path($category);
}
$pagetitle = $wppage->post_title;
$output->setTitle($pagetitle);

//define navigation
if ($category != games) {
	$output->addNavigation(Media, '/../media/');
}
$wpcategory = get_page_by_path($category);
$categorytitle = $wpcategory->post_title;
if ($category != $page) {
$categorylink = '/../media/'.$category.'/';
}
$output->addNavigation($categorytitle, $categorylink);
if ($category != $page) {
    $output->addNavigation($pagetitle);
}

//define content
$content = $wppage->post_content;
$output->addContent('<div id="main"><h3 class="maintitle">'.$pagetitle.'</h3>
<div class="module">'.$content.'</div></div>
<div class="clearer"> </div>');

//send shit to ipb
$output->sendOutput();

?>

After I finish both of those, I have to do News and Gallery. Then pretty much done.

Here's an example page: http://kh13.com/information.php?category=characters&page=sora

[DChiuch 5,773]

Sounds good, so kinda like how Wiki is done? That seems a lot easier to me then uploading the pages.

 

Yes, contributors will be able to login into software called "Wordpress" and edit the games/media pages.

[Sora96 17,256]

Cool. The page is looking good.

I also like those bold words.

"EHH WTF"

and

"NOT YET COMPLETE? WTF ITS 8000 words."

 

I'm liking the forums.

[Tom 437]

DeathSkull3000 approves of this

[Sora96 17,256]

A community calendar? Sounds good.

[DChiuch 5,773]

Calendars are stupid, it'll most likely be removed. Not asking for feedback on the forum btw, just the page I linked to.

http://kh13.com/information.php?category=characters&page=sora

[Sora96 17,256]

In case I believe it needs spaces.

Like the Game titles seem a bit odd, they should be like a space or two to the left.

And maybe a blank line or two in the middle of each game.

 

Also I am well aware of my mistakes in Kingdom Hearts.

I had planed on re writing it, but couldn't be stuffed.

[ObsidianEagle 103]

Calendars are stupid, it'll most likely be removed. Not asking for feedback on the forum btw, just the page I linked to.

http://kh13.com/information.php?category=characters&page=sora

 

tbh i prefer it how it is now, but a little change never hurts

[DChiuch 5,773]

Alright, learnt how to use mod_rewrite, which lets me set the URLs. Pretty tricky. Anyway here:

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^games/([^/.]+)/?$ information.php?category=games&page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^media/([^/.]+)/?$ information.php?category=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^media/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ information.php?category=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^videos/([^/.]+)/?$ videos.php?game=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^videos/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ videos.php?game=$1&form=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^videos/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/([^/.]+)/?$ /videos.php?game=$1&form=$2&video=$3 [L]

Examples:

http://kh13.com/games/birth-by-sleep/

http://kh13.com/videos/bbs/

http://kh13.com/videos/bbs/eng-cut/

http://kh13.com/videos/bbs/eng-cut/287/

http://kh13.com/media/trading-card-game/

http://kh13.com/media/characters/sora/

 

Obviously some of those arent finished yet, I've just got the URLs going.

[Sora96 17,256]

The forum is a bit funny. Since its like the state the forum was sometime ago.

[RoxasStalker 11]

It's gonna take some getting used to but it looks very good so far.

[Space Cowboy 1,392]

Good job DC. What forum software is used for the new KH13?

[DChiuch 5,773]

IP.Board

[Sora96 17,256]

For the Calendar it could be used for release dates of games and other stuff like Novels and updates.

Or you could just have another thing for it.

[DChiuch 5,773]

Alright I'll consider using the calendar.

[Hige Unari 5]

what about a friends list? just to keep everything organized/simple?

[Sora96 17,256]

what about a friends list? just to keep everything organized/simple?

 

We had one, its pointless.

But I think the new forum already comes with one. So DChiuch would decide to keep it or not.

[DChiuch 5,773]

Definitely gonna have a "friends list", the new forum is a lot more social.

[Hige Unari 5]

yes! thank you!! oh and when are you thinking you will apply the changes?

[MasterXemnas 2,285]

I didn't see a rercent discussion. Is that gone?

[Lightning 0]

Looking good DChiuch. But I also think we should use the calendar.

[RoxAs Is Wise 7]

Definitely gonna have a "friends list", the new forum is a lot more social.

 

Just my opinion, I don't think we need one (>.< I'm just kind of person who don't want to see people seemingly unequal by listing them) well, those who want it already have it at their profile, I think that's kinda sufficient already.

 

And calendar is nice, I think.

[Think Pink 1,967]

If you guys did include the calendar feature, it'd be nice if it had things like dates for competitions, birthdays, ect. posted.