Charas 3.0 Dev Journal

[Osmose]

In order to keep those interested up with how development is going, I'm starting a little Development Journal talking about what I'm doing and what's getting done and such. Sometimes you won't understand what I'm talking about, but I'll try and be as easy to understand for non-programmers as possible.

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Well, obviously the first entry is going to be a little awkward, but oh well. As for stuff I got done today...

-Spoiler tags in and functioning. I still gotta add this to the SF Code list for posting, though.
-PHP changed to CODE and changed from grey to blue for stylistic reasons.
-Anything in brackets is now SF Code. Such that QUOTE, quote, qUoTe, etc all work for quoting if they're in brackets. No more quote bug! Whee!

Of course, all of this needs to be tested a little more extensively than what I've done, but that can wait until the Beta.

[game_maniac]

Nice idea, better than leaving us in the dark for weeks/months.

-Spoiler tags in and functioning.

-Anything in brackets is now SF Code. Such that QUOTE, quote, qUoTe, etc all work for quoting if they're in brackets. No more quote bug! Whee!

Yay.

[Moosetroop11]

I think this journal thing is the right sort of idea.

We appreciate all the work you're putting into this, Osmose ^.^ Is Gary helping at the moment? I know he had stuff to do first or something.

[Osmose]

Gary's participation is in question due to reasons I don't need to reveal here. But no matter. Progress moves forward regardless!

[GaryCXJk]

Why would you change the PHP tag to CODE? The PHP tag was there specifically for PHP scripts. If you really would love a code tag, I suggest you create a seperate function for it.

[Osmose]

Because there's not that much specific to formatting PHP that doesn't apply to everything else. Such that CODE would simply make all of what is typed in between it shown so you can show HTML, Javascript, PHP, whatever.

It's still got numbered lines, and last I checked there was no color coding, so I don't know what makes it so specifically PHP-exclusive.

echo "This could be Javascript or PHP";
echo "I changed the color because, as you can see, it's pretty ugly as it is. I'm fixing that black text up top that says "PHP" too.";
echo "What? Why is this white now? Didn't notice that before. Well, the new background color fixes this anyway.";

[GaryCXJk]

You mean you didn't know about the fact that PHP started with
 <?PHP echo "Code"; ?>

[Osmose]

Hum. Well I stand corrected, although why it requires you start the PHP when you could be showing a snippet of code. So then I'll remove the need for

[Osmose]

Ugh. If I am not anything, I am not a good web site designer. At least in the design sense - I know loads of HTML and such, but making an actual design? I'm utterly useless.

However, I decided to try and tackle that today, and... failed. I set out to work on what would eventually become the global-nav-thingy that would help link the site together better than it is, and all I came up with was a very unoriginal variant of what we have now. I did compress a lot of stuff into a small space, but the only problem is that there are giant square ad that I can't figure out what to do with. I might have to ask Alex about that...

Regardless, you can see what I got done here(To my credit, I got dragged to the dentist right around when I intended to start working today). I'ma go look at the stuff mentioned in the previous post, and hopefully finish that stuff up tonight.

EDIT: Woo! Courtesy of GeSHi, we now have syntax highlighting for the following languages:

-Java
-PHP
-HTML (For some reason this is malfunctioning in testing
-Ruby (Yep, the RMXP one)
-CSS Stylesheets
-VB.Net
-C++
-Perl
-Visual Basic (I'm assuming 6, I could be wrong)
-QBasic (Just for Sai )
-ASP
-Javascript
-C
-XML
-mIRC Script

Some are unnecessary and might be taken out, but I already cut out a lot and only kept those that were the most likely to be used on Charas (As if anyone is going to be showing off their ASP mastery )

I haven't tested all of them yet, as many of them I myself don't know, but hopefully it'll be covered during the Beta.

[elementalhero76]

Ugh php is still here to stay but, anyways Html? I know some of it.

[GaryCXJk]

I've got some idea. What if you had in the tags what type of code it is. The general code tag would just put everything in Courier New, with numbering in front of it or something, but for example using code=php could just load the PHP processing thing.

It's something that needs to get some testing, since you'll need to just process the code tag, then the code tag with the working code types, then process the other code tags as normal code tags.

[Moosetroop11]

The site design looks fairly good so far, actually. That 'click here to log in' button was way too inconspicuous, I'm glad you've put in a more user friendly thing.

If you're stuck on the design, keep it simple for now and worry about the stuff you're good at. Layout can be changed at any time when you feel inspired.

[Osmose]

Originally posted by GaryCXJk
I've got some idea. What if you had in the tags what type of code it is. The general code tag would just put everything in Courier New, with numbering in front of it or something, but for example using code=php could just load the PHP processing thing.

It's something that needs to get some testing, since you'll need to just process the code tag, then the code tag with the working code types, then process the other code tags as normal code tags.

That's actually how it works right now, except that when you don't put in a code type it defaults to PHP.

For example,

Code: (perl) [Select]

I wish I knew perl formats it according to perl, and [CODE=php] does it in PHP.

How the design looks stylistically is not my issue currently, but rather how I can cram everything into the smallest space possible without looking like crap. What I'll probably end up doing for now is using the above and just having the square ad hang around until I figure out what to do with it.

[Osmose]

Hi, my name is Internet Explorer, and I'm NOT GOING TO WORK WITH ANYTHING YOU CODE. EVER.

AKA: Table compatibility, or the lack thereof in IE, is HORRIBLE.

[Razor]

lol IE