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I had to do this to prove I was still alive. And besides, it's more than time that PHPDN recieved a face lift. So, I will be working on not only making the site easier to use, but also trying to make it lighter, as well as change the design around a bit.

Anyone with any suggestions, let me know.
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Post by phice »

How about holding a few contests for phpBB modifications for our forums?
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Post by jason »

I was thinking of something like that: Themes contest! Suggest your favorite themes, and then we vote!

Sort of like the Mozilla Firebird browser name change, without all the drama.
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Post by ILoveJackDaniels »

Just an idea for a feature...

It might be good if you could mirror the manual here. Whether or not that is an option, a function search on the front page would be pretty cool, and you could have each function linked to a thread about it, sort of as an extension to the comments system currently in the manual...
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Post by John Cartwright »

hmmm, been over a year? And this sounds like a good idea, why don't we revive this thread?
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Post by phice »

Indeed, I'd love to see DevNetwork go where it was planned to go before it got big. ^_^
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Post by evilmonkey »

Where is that?
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Code Review system, dynamic php news, etc.
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Post by Roja »

phice wrote:Code Review system, dynamic php news, etc.
I'd *love* a code review system, and would contribute often to it.. perhaps a seperate forum section where people can post phps links (or even download links), and people can discuss, dissect, and so on.
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Post by McGruff »

We had made a start on this earlier in the year but the usual pressures of work forced us to put it aside. However, Phice is keen to get the ball moving again so hopefully we'll have some movement on this.

One of the things we discussed was whether to select a team of reviewers or leave it open for anyone. I can't remember what we decided and in any case nothing has been cast in stone.

Another development is to slowly refactor the forum phpBB code into OOP (probably php5) with unit tests. The emphasis is on slowly: it'll take a while. I'm particularly keen on tests for all sorts of reasons. With several people possibly maintaining the code, it helps enormously if there are some tests to run before deploying new mods. Tests also provide a good source of documentation. Apart from anything else, it just makes writing classes much, much easier and improves the quality of the code.

Shortly, we'll have the site code available on anonymous CVS at sourceforge. If other people want to contribute, we might look at adding new members to the development team. Early days - will post again once we've worked out a proper plan and got the thing off the ground.
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Yeah, a code review system would be great. Would that be like an automatic, debugger type thing?
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Post by patrikG »

evilmonkey wrote:Yeah, a code review system would be great. Would that be like an automatic, debugger type thing?
Well, to my understanding, it would be more of a moderated Wiki - but there were some discussions among the mods about what the best way forward would be.

An automatic debugger would be fantastic: even Rasmus Lerdorf and his PHP-crew haven't been able to implement it, yet... we could go commercial, sell it, improve on it so the code would write itself and eventually retire after getting the computer to automatically write killer app after killer app...

Any volunteers? ;)
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Post by feyd »

I think it's more like, hands on-ish "the logic seems fishy here and here" kinda workings. Maybe security checks and junk.. Sanity checking ;) .. not sure, Phice is heading that effort, so he'll be able to comment more accurately.
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But human checks as oppossed to machine checks, right? As for going commericial, I think Zend already has that covered. I'm really aching for a free IDE with debugging capabilities.
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Post by feyd »

yes, human checking.. I expect things like "I have a class, is it kosher?" kinda things..
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