Well, first of all welcome to the shiny new PunBB Development blog. Here is where we hope to keep everyone up to date with what us developers are up to, and possibly some sneak previews into what is coming up in the future.
That aside what I want to do is get straight into what you’re here for, what I’ve been doing for 1.3… but first I just want to point people in the direction of some useful pages you may not have been aware of. Firstly, dev.punbb.org this contains every change we make to PunBB and allows you to download a snapshot of its current state. It also contains a list of tickets that we are currently working on. The page you are probably going to be most interested in is the timeline. docs.punbb.org this page contains the latest documentation included in PunBB packages, and in the future will probably be extended to contain alot more information, including screenshots and more development stuff, but i’ll leave it to Bert to explain more about that.
So, I’ve been working on a few features for 1.3 and I’ll probably make posts about all of them over time, but for today I’m just going to talk about the post moderation queue. This feature allows posts to be “pre-moderated” based on the specific forum and usergroup of the user. This means you can make it so certain usergroups posts have to be approved by a moderator before they appear to standard forum users. Examples of uses of this might be a company forum, where it is important that posts are reasonable at all times, or to allow any user to post articles to a particular section of the forum, but only once you have approved them.
Now you know what I’m talking about, time for what everyone likes best, pictures.
Admin settings:
- Forum setup
- Usergroup options
Unapproved posts (the styling of this is likely to change, the colouring is added simply to demonstrate what can be done, not as a final design):
- Forum view
- Topic view
As you can see, posts are approved in the standard forum view, I think this is the more efficient way to do it. There is also a planned quick search to give a list of all outstanding unapproved posts which will give moderators a list to go through if they prefer that layout.
I think thats quite enough for one blog post, hopefully me and the other developers will post again soon with some more teasers, and thoughts on what we are working on.
Connor.
[...] interested in the development of PunBB. To get thing started, Connor Dunn posted a bit on the new post moderation queue feature in PunBB 1.3. I joined in and talked about making the switch to [...]
February 12th, 2007, at 2:07 pm #Looks rather nice. I’m sure that will come in useful for many forums for many different purposes. I hope the implementation didn’t add too much overhead, but then again, you’ve all got the punbb code off to a fine art :)
February 12th, 2007, at 3:29 pm #Well, the overhead is a extra where clause in search statements, and apart from that only forums and topics in forums with the queue turned on are affected.
February 12th, 2007, at 5:37 pm #Looking good, keep up the good work :)
February 12th, 2007, at 5:46 pm #Wow looks great I can’t wait till it’s released !!
February 13th, 2007, at 6:46 am #