Site UPDATE soon!

[Dave C]

Hi Folks,

Will be doing an update soon. gotta get the PHP to 8.2 which means i have to update the forum to 3.3.11

Sometime... dont know when, should be in the next 2 weeks or so.  ill do the update, which will not take too long but since we have ALOT of customizations getting things back to "normal" will take some time as i have to slowly update extensions and make any other modifications to the software to make things look the same again.

So dont fret if things look strange. they will get back to normal soon.

I will post here as i make progress

Thanks, your friendly forum guru 

[Tom Scott]

Great!!  Thanks Dave, we appreciate the effort!

[BigMike]

Thank you Dave!
BTW we are used to strange things around here……
Dag comes to mind.

[davis2]

Thank you Dave!
BTW we are used to strange things around here……
Dag comes to mind.

We're all strange in our own ways, some are stranger than most... Not gonna mention names, tho.

[davis2]

Hi Folks,

Will be doing an update soon. gotta get the PHP to 8.2 which means i have to update the forum to 3.3.11

Sometime... dont know when, should be in the next 2 weeks or so.  ill do the update, which will not take too long but since we have ALOT of customizations getting things back to "normal" will take some time as i have to slowly update extensions and make any other modifications to the software to make things look the same again.

So dont fret if things look strange. they will get back to normal soon.

I will post here as i make progress

Thanks, your friendly forum guru 

No, Thank YOU, Dave! We appreciate your hard work here!  Gotta keep DAG and Big Mike's playpen or catbox going...

[Dave C]

Ok,
The major step to update has been done. now to get things looking normal again.
be patient
dave

[Tom Scott]

Thanks Dave. We'll get by until you get it all sorted again!

[dag1450]

Thanks. I don't even notice things don't look right but I'll take your word for it.

[Dave C]

dag must be colorblind!

[SWilliams]

Only thing I've noticed might be my imagination but the fonts and entire page looks smaller than it was? If I bump my browser up to 110% it looks "normal"

[Tom Scott]

Steve - Yes, I think the page width is temporarily reduced. I expect Dave will correct all the formatting and colors at the same time.

Dave is steady working in the background. We had to turn off new registrations for a day while he updated the anti-spam, but that is complete and new members can again join.
Post up some good stuff folks, make this worth our while!

[Dave C]

Making good progress!

Donation extension is back up!

Just gotta figure out where Da F**K i made the change to Yellow background

Reinstall the simple form editor and the anti spam conact-us page...

But i logged into the ACP today and there is a new version out!

[Tom Scott]

Oof. They're making you work for this one! Keep slugging away, you're getting there.

Too bad they didn't leave a way to retain all the previous settings before updating.

[Tom Scott]

Hey, I'm seeing YELLOW again! Looking good, Dave's getting there!

[Dave C]

You "could" leave all the extra programming during an update. But you risk the chance of something not playing well with others and crashing the forum. Add the fact that the forum was out of date, along with the PHP version "thats the engine that runs the show" and all the extra programming "extensions" were out of date.
So the risk of injury was higer.

Some of the changes are hard coded, like the Yellow background. Which go away during an update as the file is replaced with an updated one.
If i was smart i would make some notes where these changes are so in 2 years i could replicate them.... again "if i was smart"

I could also use an "automatic" update which attempts to find custom changes and merge them. again this could be risky.

[Dave C]

A example of how i change the color to yellow.
Standard white is hex code "FFFFFF" and the yellow we use is "FFCC00"

Code: Select all

--------------------------------------------------------------
Colours and backgrounds for common.css
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

html, body {
	color: #536482;
	background-color: #FFCC00;
}

h1 {
	color: #FFCC00;
}

h2 {
	color: #28313F;
}

h3 {
	border-bottom-color: #CCCCCC;
	color: #115098;
}

hr {
	border-color: #FFFFFF;
	border-top-color: #CCCCCC;
}

[dag1450]

Looks like Little Mike's report card back in the day

[Tom Scott]

Yeah, I get the "playing it safe", better than a giant jumbled mess to sort out! Start back with the simple stock format and add features back in makes sense. And the beer smiley works properly again!!

[davis2]

Looks like Little Mike's report card back in the day

Dag, are you a little brother? I am, and that's where my smart aleck comes from.

[dag1450]

Yep. It was rough growing up with older brothers

[Dave C]

Ok. now were updated to 3.3.12!

back to what i was doing! gotta get our logo back and the random images. etc.

chuga chuga chuga choo choo!

[davis2]

Yep. It was rough growing up with older brothers

Now we can kick their butts!

[Dave C]

Simple form editor back online!
 
not sure who is beating up who. but thats off topic!

[Tom Scott]

Dave, great headway on the update.  Regarding dag, he seems to get beat up in every thread. so it's kind of on topic!

[Tom Scott]

Hey, Dave got our marquee back!!

I'd forgotten how good the site looks when everything is up to snuff, looks great!

[Dave C]

Yep,
Only about 3 more items to go.!

Do you remember if we still had the Rotating Pictures of Cubs and People in the upper right hand corner still?

I cant seem to find the code in the old Files.????

Dave

[Tom Scott]

No, I think the rotating pics was a temporary thing we did for a while.  I'd not worry about it.

[Tom Scott]

Well, we certainly have YELLOW now!  Looks good!  Are you about done, all back to normal?

[Klapatta]

Many thanks Dave for all that you do for the group!

[Dave C]

Yea,
I think were about 95% done, there is one more extension that i am awaiting an update on. but its nothing major.

I think i got everything back to something that looks normal again!

I am trying to get an SSL certificate on the site also, so we dont get an "not secure" message anymore. 
its still in the works

dave