By handelaar on

Announcing:

http://mbr.org, now successfully converted to Drupal, along with 50,000+ forum posts vacuumed up from ezboard.com. Player profiles and events made with flexinode.module, theme is xtemplate-based with sIFR replacement taxt in headline tags.

Comments welcome...

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kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented

Nice theme. Hard to tell it is Drupal underneath from looks alone.
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Gunny-1’s picture

Gunny-1 commented

Is it a customised theme from one of the drupal contributed themes?

carl ditzler’s picture

carl ditzler commented

Good example of flexinode use.

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

Does anyone know how direct links to flexinode based searches can be created like this:
http://www.mbr.org/flexinode/search/1?edit[flexinode_14]=1&edit[flexinod...

See more links here http://www.mbr.org/players/

I am trying to copy the same feature on my Flexinode, but the search keeps POSTING the variables insead of using GET.

Any ideas ?
Thanks

venkat-rk’s picture

venkat-rk commented

Very nice indeed. But, PHP session id's all over the site. I am sure cleaner urls will improve your site ranking on search engines.

handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

It'll get fixed when 4.6 starts honouring the directive to exclude them. SEO issues have utterly failed to materialize - semantic themeing outweighs it a hundred times over

Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Session IDs in URLs have nothing to do with Drupal at all: they are added by PHP. Look there if you want it fixed.

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handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

The Drupal 4.6 setting to remove them is in the new site config file, and it doesn't work. The bug is in the tracker. Additionally, the older (pre-4.6) posted method to remove them with .htaccess no longer works - this we've seen because it wasn't broken before the upgrade.

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OK Computer commented

I've been able to create teams and players with the flexinode module but how do you create fixtures tables like that in the "events" section on MBR.org?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

carl ditzler’s picture

carl ditzler commented

Are you wanting the events section? If so, see the events module.

Or are you wanting to duplicate such functionality? Maybe the events module could help?

handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

In this case I made an event type with flexinode. Events.module does something different (and possibly in your case, better).

Mahatma’s picture

Mahatma commented

It hardly looks like Drupal at all. Good color scheme!

Is there a reason the width is fixed? Like your users have 20 year old monitors? Just curious, because the fix is, as you know, only setting width params for the columns, and adding a fixed width 'spacer' at the top of each side column...:..:..:::.:...:

handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

1. It's only a fix if you consider a fixed-width layout to be a bug (we don't).
2. Nearly 40% of this non-tech audience is still on 800x600 screens
3. And I'd consider any "fix" which used spacer GIFs to be a capital offence, btw

;-)

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

wow,

I was looking at the forums and wondering, wow did your forums grow so large ?

Did you import your forum from VB, phpbb or something else ? Or did they grow so large while using Drupal ? After Drupal.org I've never seen a well populated Drupal forum.

Any comments ?

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handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

...and the sooner I can forget about how long it took, and how annoying it was, to drag it all out of a hosted service, the happier I'll be.

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

Sorry about the reminder :)

I am visiting your forum every few weeks to see how your members progress and how active it is.

I've tried out PHPBB an was really tempted by VB, but in the end I've decided to create Forums with Drupal.

I like the activity I see in your forum.

Have you experienced any hurdles with the present forum ? Are the members happy with this forum ?

Thanks for telling us about your site.

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handelaar’s picture

handelaar commented

Not actually my site, just a site I built.

The forums took a bit of a spanking initially because nobody likes change. Now, though, they've picked up again very nicely. We've tweaked it post-launch to add things like "who's online" which people like to see on a busy forum site.

Overall, I'd say go for it. Drupal is certainly up to the job.

pamphile’s picture

pamphile commented

Thanks for the "who's online" tip !

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