Silkroad Online Forums

From scratch, minus the basic forum frame.

As complex as the code gets, the logic driving is quite simple.

Get users who qualify
Parse the year, months of those users
If have an avatar, bring it in using the GD functions
Make some X, Y calculations and resize it with GD functs, then
Add it to the current image strip
Add the user name and info to the text strings
New month? New year? Exceeded the strip? Save it, write the HTML and begin a new strip.

The rest, formatting , CSS and error handling.

Usually when creating something new, I jot down the logic on a notepad, and start breaking it into segments, functions and then finally real code. Followed by debugging, details and formatting. It took a couple evenings, I pulled a 4am-er the first night - the old "just one more thing" syndrome

Idd 5 years and counting baby.

Thank you, I was wondering why secondary rows always seem to have one more user in the tooltip than the number of avatars. At first I thought there was a lot of missing ava's creating holes, but now that you've pointed out its actually repeat, I can see the pattern I wasn't seeing before. I was stumped on this because if an avatar is missing, corrupt or broken its not supposed to include the user alltogether. Its likely that $user_string[] or $imgcount isn't being reset properly when a row is finished.

May 2007....

**** me that's long.

And still here.

I cry when I think about all the regulars banned

Kinda funny when I only have 1k+ posts in 5 years.

But you made a nice Wizard / Bard guide

Same here

I found BlackFox

No comment =x

Comment : Kinda funny when I have 1k+ posts in only 5 months .

Hey, what about refreshing page every 5 minutes? lol
I always SRF on my browser, that script would come in handy, at least for me lol

very nice!

you should show us the algorithm for how people qualify not to be listed (of course not the code)

yes but through your constant reinventions of yourself into multiple gay persona's you always seem like a newcomer to me

lmao!

It's funny because it's true.

This is pretty cool, can't believe how fast time flew.

I'm the only one in my month :3

Originally it was

// $sql = "SELECT username, user_id, user_regdate, user_avatar, user_avatar_type, user_avatar_width, user_avatar_height,user_posts FROM users WHERE user_posts > 600 AND user_avatar <> '' AND user_id NOT IN (SELECT ban_userid FROM banlist) ORDER BY user_regdate ASC";

But after some thought, I decided it wasn't really proper to "pretend" banned people never existed or contributed to SRF at some point.

looks more simple than C.

@ K.K. So people say.

I can read C/C++ faster than any other language I see.

**** knows why, I just can.

It is. It's just php/mysql which is pretty easy stuff compared to C/C++. I learned this just by looking at pre-written code for a website template I was using.

4 Years! When do I get to graduate?

Avatar didn't update good sir. I mad .

Been here 3 and a half years....decent effort.

No worries, that's not a biggie and can be easily fixed.. xD
Well, I think so anyway! lulz

Wow I was I was 14 when I joined, now i'm 17....
I hope this forum never closes.

+1
Found myself on the list - yay

But seriously, if the forum ever gets in to problems with the server renting etc. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would donate to keep it up

Wow it's been 5 years already.

Even if most of us don't play Silkroad anymore, changing the name of the forums would feel wrong. SRF just sounds... nice?

Na'mean?

didn't we all come here for SRO help in the first place?