Forum Presentation
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The document discusses the Diamond community forums that were created using Drupal to serve the Business Objects developer community. It provides an overview of the forums and improvements made over time, including moving the forums to the new SAP Developer Network. Template and code snippets are included that show how forums, categories, comments, users and other elements were structured in Drupal.
![Search table <form action="/search/node" method="post" id="search-form" class="search-form"> <div class="form-item"> <input type="text" class="input-text" value="" size="25" name="keys" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" name="op" title="Search" alt="Search" /> <input type="hidden" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>" name="form_token" /> <input type="hidden" value="search_form" id="edit-search-form" name="form_id" /> <input type="hidden" name="type[forum]" id="edit-type-your_content_type" value="your_content_type" /> </div> </form>](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/forum-presentation-1206729419774094-2/85/Forum-Presentation-20-320.jpg)
![Categories if (arg(1)== NULL){ $topiclist .= "<table class='forumcats'><tbody><tr class='rowheader'><td class='columnheader'><div class='catheader'>Categories</div></td><td></td><td></td></tr>"; } foreach ($forums as $key=>$forum) { // this is the start of the forum list routine that generates the containers and forum list. if ($forum->container) { $c++; if (round((($c-1)%3))==0) { $topiclist .= '<tr class="row'. (round($c/3)+1) .'"><td class="column' . (round($c-1)%3+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>'; } elseif ($c!=count(variable_get('forum_containers'))) { $topiclist .= '<td class="column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>'; } else { $topiclist .= '<td class="column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td></tr>'; } [stuff deleted] print $topiclist . '</tbody></table>';](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/forum-presentation-1206729419774094-2/85/Forum-Presentation-22-320.jpg)
![User roles <?php $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment $uroles = $comment_author->roles; foreach ($uroles as $urole) { $urole = str_replace(" ", "_", $urole); $userroles .= "<img src='/sites/default/themes/Diamond/images/" . $urole . ".gif' title='". $urole ."'></img>"; } ?> <table class='tablecomments'><tr class='comment-top'><td class='cleft'> <?php print l ( $comment_author->profile_first_name ." ". $comment_author->profile_last_name , 'user/' .$comment_author->uid); ?> <?php print $userroles ?> </td> […stuff deleted…] </table>](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/forum-presentation-1206729419774094-2/85/Forum-Presentation-26-320.jpg)
Forum Presentation
- 1. Making Diamond Sparkle Forums & The Business Objects Community Site for Developers Tony Chang Angus Pratt
- 2. Who are we? Formally known as Seagate Software, Crystal Decisions. Now known as Business Objects, an SAP Company Datawarehouse software – reporting, data cleansing, integrating, publishing
- 3. What is Diamond? Community website for BusinessObjects. 1.5 - 2 years old. Focus on the developer community Blogs, Video Tutorials, Samples, Books, Forums, API Documentation 30k Reg. Users, 1M page views/month
- 4. Diamond Community SDKs for Developers Developer Evangelists Communities White Papers Articles Blogs Forums
- 5. Why Drupal? Quick and Easy to get running Flexibility allowed bypassing red tape Small budget allocation
- 6. Diamond Forums History Improving look and functionality of forums Improve quality and encourage participation (karma, subscriptions) SAP came along SAP Developer Network Less jarring move Moving in the near future
- 7. Forum functionality Node is central Comments tied to node
- 11. Forum (before)
- 12. Forum (after)
- 13. Node (before)
- 14. Node (after)
- 16. Forum – Template
- 18. Template – Forum List http://drupal.org/node/199071 http://drupal.org/node/154325
- 20. Search table <form action="/search/node" method="post" id="search-form" class="search-form"> <div class="form-item"> <input type="text" class="input-text" value="" size="25" name="keys" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" name="op" title="Search" alt="Search" /> <input type="hidden" value="<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>" name="form_token" /> <input type="hidden" value="search_form" id="edit-search-form" name="form_id" /> <input type="hidden" name="type[forum]" id="edit-type-your_content_type" value="your_content_type" /> </div> </form>
- 22. Categories if (arg(1)== NULL){ $topiclist .= "<table class='forumcats'><tbody><tr class='rowheader'><td class='columnheader'><div class='catheader'>Categories</div></td><td></td><td></td></tr>"; } foreach ($forums as $key=>$forum) { // this is the start of the forum list routine that generates the containers and forum list. if ($forum->container) { $c++; if (round((($c-1)%3))==0) { $topiclist .= '<tr class="row'. (round($c/3)+1) .'"><td class="column' . (round($c-1)%3+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>'; } elseif ($c!=count(variable_get('forum_containers'))) { $topiclist .= '<td class="column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>'; } else { $topiclist .= '<td class="column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td></tr>'; } [stuff deleted] print $topiclist . '</tbody></table>';
- 24. Template – forum nodes http://drupal.org/node/46027
- 26. User roles <?php $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment $uroles = $comment_author->roles; foreach ($uroles as $urole) { $urole = str_replace(" ", "_", $urole); $userroles .= "<img src='/sites/default/themes/Diamond/images/" . $urole . ".gif' title='". $urole ."'></img>"; } ?> <table class='tablecomments'><tr class='comment-top'><td class='cleft'> <?php print l ( $comment_author->profile_first_name ." ". $comment_author->profile_last_name , 'user/' .$comment_author->uid); ?> <?php print $userroles ?> </td> […stuff deleted…] </table>
- 27. User Picture <div class='userpicture'> <?php if ($node->picture) { $userpicture = theme('image', $node->picture); } else { $userpicture = '<img src="' . variable_get('user_picture_default') . '" alt="Default User Picture" />'; } print $userpicture; ?> </div>
- 28. Number of Posts <?php $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment $allposts = "SELECT(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(node.nid)) FROM node WHERE node.uid= ". $comment_author->uid .") +(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(comments.cid)) FROM comments WHERE comments.uid= ". $comment_author->uid .") AS result"; print l("Posts: " . db_result(db_query($allposts)), 'userposts/' . $comment_author->uid) . "<br>”; ?>
- 29. Member since $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment <?php print l("Member Since: " . format_date($comment_author->created, 'custom', 'M d, Y') . "<br>“ ?>
- 30. Modules added Subscriptions Comment mover Spam Service links