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Hello Ao'ers,
well i was just a little confused, as much as im interested.
How did JP code his forums ? they are a similiar to phpBB, but i cant say he started with that and then tweaked to what he has now.
I'm very intrigued with the coding and the AP system and the overall quality.
The question is, how did he make it man ? Started with what ?
I dont think im asking for too much, like er0k, says, just 3000 lines of code :p
I know this is based on vBulletin. As for the other code, I think JP developed it himself.
My guess would be that this is a heavily modified vbulletin portal (http://www.vbulletin.com). It very well my not be but from the way everything it set up and layed out, i would have to guess that.
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heh. figured it was vbulletin from the way some of the images looked.
I remember seeing something on the forums, that says JP uses Vbulletin. And he porbably does develop some of his stuff, and he probablt gets some of it from Vb Mod sites. (Not taking anything away for you JP, I'm sure you modded the mods to become super mods. :)) As far as the main page, I'm not sure. Becasue vBul dosn't use a main page like that, it uses a main page similar to phpBB's. Anyways, Good question.
erm...what about AP's ?
The AP's were probably JP's code.
i think the whole thing has been at least tweaked or totally written by JP and his crew. When you consider the complicated coding between all the different rooms, the alerts, the visitor tracking, your access levels, the clean pages.... man, i can't find another website on the whole net as complicated, and running as smooth, as JP's Antionline! "And that's a fack, Jack!" :D
Yea thats something i think people dont give JP enough credit for, he runs a complicated and greatly designed website and managed to find a way to have a sort of "democracy" in it, people that are loved and have good info get green votes, andd then of course a few people are voted off the island lol. but yea good job on pointing this stuff out.
APs were jps code, i remember him saying they were 750+ lines by themself. and thats not including the graphics made for the gradient bars and green dots/red dots.
Alot of work has gone into this site since it started with www.anticode.com, WAY back in the day....it's REALLY evolved and grown beyond what you would expect such a small crew to handel, and for that JP should get credit, it can't be easy to run this site.... I couldn't do it.
As for the coding, I think he started off with something simple, and then it evolved beyond recognition.....it's pretty neat...though the LA Lakers theme still burns my eyes...lol....
well, nothing's perfect :P
- Noia
My guess would be vBulletin and vbPortal everything heavily modified to suite JPs and AOs needs :).Quote:
Originally posted here by underlost
My guess would be that this is a heavily modified vbulletin portal (http://www.vbulletin.com). It very well my not be but from the way everything it set up and layed out, i would have to guess that.
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heh. figured it was vbulletin from the way some of the images looked.
vBulletin
vbPortal
dev vbPortal
Example of a site running vbPortal: India Travel Forum
- Mantra
Alright, what if i want to make a website, not on security, but on something else, but with the same features, maybe a different design, a lot of coding that'd need man.
Are VB tweaks that easy to find on the internet or what ?
If you're interested in starting your own site, how about you start with a simple vBulletin site. As you become more experienced in coding and need new features, slowly work on upgrading your site. You have to realize, even if you get someone else's codes to add certain features, they may not work simply by adding them to your own site. Troubleshooting such tweaks and upgrades is a lot of work. I would honestly do it, piece by piece, after you spend a lot of time learning about vBulletin and how to add new features by manually coding things into it.
AJ
vBulletin is not free since they discontinued the lite version. A better solution would be to start with LAMP (Linux , Apache , Mysql , PHP ) and one of the CMS systems below, they all are prepared to run with forums like phpBB or already have a built in forum, they are all quite easy to setup and there are lots of tweaks and help available for them.
Postnuke, PHPNuke, E-xoops, Xoops
(you can also use the above setup -'Linux' on a windows machine if you prefer that, 'wamp').
~micael
This site is obviously a modified version of UltimateBB, and I seem to remember JP mentioning this in irc a long time ago.
AntiOnline definatly runs on vBulletin. If you take a close look at the content of this page: http://www.antionline.com/misc.php?s=&action=bbcode then you'll see that it still contains some refrences to vBulletin.
As for the modding. It's not really that difficult. I did similar editing or "portalizing" of forums, and if you know PHP and MySQL, then you won't have a single problem adjusting vBulletin or phpBB to your own needs. Almost all data of this site (or any other portal/forum) is saved in a database. That data is very easily recalled and saved.
(Please note, that freakin AP system is the ****, and i am not saying that the custom coding on this site is just a click or 2)
As for creating a site like this, (or something like this) i would recommend starting with phpBB and not some pre-made CMS. PhpBB is very secure, and also looks very good. The coding used in phpBB is uniform, in order, and very neatly done. Its a good base to start off with. I created some very nice mods for phpBB, and did a lot of editing of it on my own site. (SickDwarf.com) I also tried phpNuke, postNuke, vBulletin, and some others. But I still think that phpBB is the best one to edit. Those pre-made CMS systems are too pre-made. They dont offer you any room to move.
Anyway, I really enjoyed creating www.sickdwarf.com out of phpBB, and i think that I have some experience in doing this kinda stuff. I would be happy to help anyone out on this subject.
Greetz & Respect
Thanks Sick-Dwarf, preacher,micael,adven and guys.
I know where to come for help.
And i like everything about SickDwarf.com, just that it loads very,very slowly.
You might want to compare it with the speeds of AO or bytekill.net for example, even though AO has such huge coding.
emm..third part of my question : how must he have secured his site from hackers ?
im sure there are many attempts.
i cant remember which part of the mail bag its in but he says "im not worried about my site, nothing a hundred thousand dollars in hardware and 60 thousand in software cant handle" its somethin along those lines, i read it about 2 days ago. check out the mailbag section.
The graphics come from Terr, as seen here .
I have played about with yabbse in the past www.yabbse.info and I find it to be a pretty good system, although I haven't really tryed to mod it and change it around yet, I will do in the future in order to learn more about php and mysql. I think to start off with you just need to get a bullten system and play about with it, after that start modding it.
Either way I wish you luck with your project, let us know how you get on!
I have to disagree with that a bit :s. If you really want to build a good "security" site, you could start with phpBB, but it surely isn't very secure. I have enough experience with phpBB to say that, even version 2.0.3.Quote:
Damn, i never expected HIM to show up on this thread. well, im out I guess....Quote:
Originally posted here by neel
I have to disafree with that a bit :s. If you really want to build a good "security" site, you could start with phpBB, but it surely in't very secure. I have many experience with phpBB to say that, even version 2.0.3.
mumble mumble crazy dutchies mumble mumble
I want to thank Sick Dwarf for showing my SPELLING MISTAKES... It was a nice adventure to edit my post because all button pictures weren't willing to show up... Well I guess he's out...
mumble mumble who's the most crazy dutchies mumble mumble
What do you recommend, if not phpbb ?