Aperture.ca - Canadian photography forums

future assassin - March 17, 2008 - 00:26

I've updated my site http://www.aperture.ca to full Drupal from SMF. Although the site is live I have several more ideas to implement in the next few weeks. I usually keep my personal site designs pretty simple so you won't see any dazzling graphics on this site.

It took some time to convert the SMF forums db to Drupal. I had to do the following

Convert SMF to PHPBB2
Convert PHPBB2 to Drupal 4.7
Convert Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5.7

This was the least problematic (but longer) way as converting from PHPBB2 to Drupal 5.7 wouldn't convert properly.

I have the following Modules installed

CCK
Event
Location
Private Message (From Drupal.org)
Date API
Global Redirect
Meta Tags
Pathauto
Taxonomy breadcrumb
Taxonomy context
Taxonomy introduction
Token
Views
Fivestar

Thanks
Arek

Nice looking site

superjacent - March 17, 2008 - 00:40

Nice looking site.

FYI. I was clicking between various screens, returning to the main forum screen and noticed this error message
warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/aperture/domains/aperture.ca/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 400.
At the top of the page.

I also noticed reading a few of the forum posts that users had used the 'quote' tag, obviously ex - SMF, are you going to deal with these or just let them be. Just curious.

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Hi Strange I can't reproduce

future assassin - March 17, 2008 - 05:05

Hi

Strange I can't reproduce the error on either FF/IE7/Opera. I'll have to check the logs to see if anything shows up.

As for the quotes I'm just gonna leave it as it is for now.

Thanks for the feedback.

Seems its was the RSS Feed

future assassin - March 17, 2008 - 06:09

Seems its was the RSS Feed icon url causing issues with the Event module. I disabled it for now.

Nice

Michelle - March 17, 2008 - 01:55

I'm into photography down here in the US. Curious... Your URL is apEture but the logo is apArture. Is that intentional?

If your users are used to SMF, you may want to have a look at advanced forum. It's still in alpha so still has issues now and then but it's fairly stable and will make your forums look a lot more like what people are used to.

Michelle

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LOL! Heh not sure what to

future assassin - March 17, 2008 - 05:06

LOL! Heh not sure what to say here except woops.

>Private Message (From

future assassin - March 17, 2008 - 05:31

>Private Message (From Drupal.org)

Should have been Ubercart.org http://www.ubercart.org/forum/announcements/163/private_messaging_and_si...

Congrats on all the work. I

steve-psngs - March 19, 2008 - 15:12

Congrats on all the work.
I noticed a 'page not found' when clicking on the breadcrumbs of this page :
http://www.aperture.ca/node/158
(clicking on » Architectual and City Scape leads to 'not found')
but the other links work.

Couldn't see the pictures as they are in BBCode.

There is a BBcode module : http://drupal.org/project/bbcode
+ an wysiwyg editor that accepts BBcode : BUEditor : http://drupal.org/project/bueditor
(another I just found is BBCode Formatting Bar : http://drupal.org/project/bbcode_wysiwyg)

These could help your users who are used to the smf bbcode way.

 
 

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