Ok so I am a day late, sue me.
The first goal for me and the project is to complete the content ability. This will give you the power to add custom pages to the site (ie content).
Completion due date Sept-26-2008
– Technocrat
Goal #1 – Content
September 16th, 2008Goals to finish
September 12th, 2008I am going to start setting goals not only for myself but for the team as well. The purpose of these goals will be to help motivate us as well as to keep you guys on top of what’s happening and where we are. The first of these goals will be posted on Monday.
But the overall goal I am setting for us is to have an Alpha of phpbb-evolution ready by Nov. 1st. That’s the target I am setting for us.
- Technocrat
New Blocks
August 27th, 2008Two new blocks were recently added to the svn. The first was wolfgrafix’s Total Hits Block which keeps track of how many hits your site has, and the second one is my Top Five Posters block which lists the top five forum posters on your board (with help from technocrat). Im hoping that come Alpha 1 that we will have a wide selection of blocks to choose from.
Also, as a side note, Ive been continuing to work on the weblinks module, and its slowly starting to take shape.
~Ceaser
Why phpBB 3?
August 26th, 2008I get asked this alot. Why are you turning your back on phpBB v2 when it has many of the features that phpBB v3 has, but it also has all these mods that I will lose? Why not stick with phpBB v2? Why ask Why
Well I am not going to get into a big long post about the different features that v3 has that v2 doesn’t. But there are some significant changes. You can look at http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/ and see. Notice how there is only 1 thing in v2 that is not in v3. Then notice all the things in v3 that are not in v2. You can see for yourself by simply installing a v3 site some where. It’s a very big improvement over v2.
Almost every major mod for v2 is either ported or in the process of being ported. Don’t believe me check out MODs in Development if the mod is not in the MOD Database Releases. You will probably find the mod you are looking for either in alpha/beta or being worked on. Sure maybe the mod you want isn’t done yet but think about how long v2 has been around vs v3. So you might need to wait awhile but it will happen.
Now for the most important reason in my opinion. Dec 2008 is on the calendar as the date for the last official release from the phpBB team for v2. In Jan 2009 the support forums will closed. In Feb 2009 phpBB will no long be supporting the product at all. They will be shutting it down. No more fixes. So that’s a good reason to move on. They have already shut the ability to release new mods. It’s ending people you need to face that facts.
Those are the reasons I started this project. I can see the writing on the wall. Plus there are the Nuke issues but I have already discussed those before and I might repost them at some time in the future. It’s a natural progression for us to move onwards and upwards.
I know lots of people are scared but it will be ok. We will get through this together 
– Technocrat
Podcast #1
August 25th, 2008Our first podcast. Enjoy!
Podcast Reminder
August 15th, 2008I have retuned from my vacation (wish I could say well relaxed but that’s something for my blog) and would like to remind everyone that I plan to do a Podcast next Friday or Saturday. So again if you have any questions on the project, the Nuke-Evolution project, myself, or anything within reason I will be happy to answer them. You can post your questions here or PM them to me on either site.
Also we have setup the blog on feedburner at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Phpbb-evolutionBlog so you can use that as well to keep up to date on everything that is going on.
– Technocrat
CMS Quality and Compliance
August 5th, 2008With the other member’s of the Team letting you all know what has been included in the CMS so-far,I thought i would inform everyone that along with everything you have come to expect from an Evo cms ( and Tech ),We are, as the title states going to have a CMS that passes the W3C validation for both the XHTML and CSS.
By complying with W3C you can then see that at every stage of the development of Phpbb-Evolution we have fully checked and tested all aspects of the coding contained within the cms.
As the development SVN is public and you can follow our progress any of you that may wish to develope a mod etc and submit it for possible inclusion within the cms or as an add-on,please make sure it passes the W3C validation that we are working to.
Cheer’s
Wolfgrafix
phpBB-Evolution Podcast
August 2nd, 2008I am going to do a podcast in a few weeks once I am back from holiday vacation. So if you have any questions of me, the project, or even Nuke-Evolution feel free to either post those questions as comments here, or PM me with them. I will try to answer those and any other FAQs I can think of.
– Technocrat
The first phpBB-Evolution Development Video
August 2nd, 2008This is the first development video on the project. It will cover the CMS admin tab for those that haven’t seen it yet.
After about 4 hours of tinkering I have finally managed to put together a video that looks pretty good. I posted it on vimeo because their video service allows MUCH higher quality videos. I tried my best to give you the best video possible but the quality is still not so hot unless you click to view the video on their site and enter HD mode. Then it looks ok. I will try to improve the next one more. But it’s not bad I think for my first video.
Enjoy:
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/1453521[/vimeo]
– Technocrat
Project Update 7/31/08
July 31st, 2008Hello All,
As my first post, I figured I would update you all to the status of the development of phpBB-Evolution.
We currently have 7 blocks available,
- Info Block — displays some useful information about the CMS.
- Link Us Block — displays an image and code visiters can use to add a link to their site pointing to yours.
- Menu Block — displays a module specific menu to make it easier to navigate through such module.
- Navigation Block — displays a navigation menu, that in the future admins will be able to customise through the ACP.
- Statistics Block — displays basic info about the cms and forums. Will be updated in the future to contain info from different modules.
- User Info Block — displays a login form for unregistered users, and basic options/info for logged-in members, such as their avatar, logout link, # of new PMs, link to UCP, and for admins, link to the ACP.
- Whos Online Block — displays a list of users who are on the site. Also shows the number of unregistered users on the site. In the future, will display where in the site a member is.
We currently have 2 modules available,
- Forums — an obvious one to be listed first. The forums module uses phpbb3 that is highly modified. We’ve made tweaks to the system ourselves as well as implemented certain mods released by modders at phpbb’s website.
- News — displays active news articles on the module’s main page. Also has an archives section that contains older articles. Another component of the news module is the ability to submit new articles. Features of news articles are categories, how times its been read, its rating by users, the ability to print, email, or view a pdf version of the article, and the ability to have users comment on the article. Right now, in the works is to have the ability to tie the comments to forum posts. In the ACP, the News Admin is split into four sections, the New News, News Config, Current News, and Submitted News. the New News is where you can create new news articles, the News Config is were you can configure the news module, the Current News is where you can edit/delete news articles from the db, and the Submitted News section is where you can approve/deny submitted articles from users.
~Ceaser