XF 1.0 Creating a Simple Modification

By exposing code events and allowing listeners to attach to them, XenForo makes it easy to alter its default functionality with simple callback classes.

The API for doing this is well-defined and documented, so modifications made in this way stand a very good chance of remaining backward compatible through future version updates.

This video shows me creating a simple add-on that allows us to see how an existing thread would look with over a thousand pages.

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As usual, it's a large, HD video, so I suggest you view it at its original size by clicking the full-screen gadget in the bottom-right corner of the video.

Edit: If for whatever reason you can't view the video here, view it directly on Vimeo (but please leave comments here, not there).

 

[Salty]

Optimise for the common case. Threads with over 9,999 pages? I don't think I've ever seen one.

Doesn't really matter now anyway - I made a change this afternoon that means we support up to 9,999,999 pages.

thx

 

[Kier]

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(image showing a thread with 3,272 pages)

I'm lost, why are you quoting me as saying I've never seen a thread with over 9,999 pages, and posting a picture of a thread with 3,272 pages?

 

[CyberAP]

I'm lost, why are you quoting me as saying I've never seen a thread with over 9,999 pages, and posting a picture of a thread with 3,272 pages?

Thats the figure of speech.

 

[Kier]

Thats the figure of speech.

 

[Salty]

I'm lost, why are you quoting me as saying I've never seen a thread with over 9,999 pages, and posting a picture of a thread with 3,272 pages?

Here you go bro

 

[HydraulicJack]

Here you go bro

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The red digits are not very visible to my eye. More contrast would help. Other than that, a nice simple design imho.

 

[Cezz]

Here you go bro

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It is still less than 9,999 though isn't it??? Again Kier's point was that he hasn't seen a thread OVER 9,999 you still haven't shown one.

 

[Salty]

The red digits are not very visible to my eye.

Do you do DVI to HDMI from your computer to your monitor?

It is still less than 9,999 though isn't it??? Again Kier's point was that he hasn't seen a thread OVER 9,999 you still haven't shown one.

Speaking of which, it would be nice to have something in my admincp that could graph/display posts per day in given threads. Only thing we have is global posts per day~

 

[Cezz]

Do you do DVI to HDMI from your computer to your monitor?

What would this matter? You should build your site for the vast majority of users and not specifically target people who do (or don't) use DVI/HDMI to connect their monitors.

 

[HydraulicJack]

Do you do DVI to HDMI from your computer to your monitor?

iMac. No external monitor, mon... ps: but the example that Salty posted here> http://xenforo.com/community/threads/creating-a-simple-modification.3532/page-5#post-56529

...looked a lot better than the example I saw that motivated my comment. Maybe I was just short on sleep re: the former version~

 

[kmike]

There's an XML file that is installed (along with the physical PHP, image, and JS files) that brings everything into the DB for you (from templates to listeners, options, etc; quite a few things actually). That's why Kier "attached" his listener to a specific add-on.

Eh, everything is in the DB again?... would it be possible to move templates to the file system? It would surely make the style development a whole lot easier.

 

[Kier]

It would surely make the style development a whole lot easier.

Actually that would make no difference to the ease of style development. I'll explain why in a Have You Seen before too long.

 

[HydraulicJack]

kewel

 

[SeVeN]

When will release documentation for xenForo?

 

[Erik]

When will release documentation for xenForo?

I'm guessing the beta will have some basic documentation, but I wouldn't be expecting too much until it hits the Gold release.

 

[Rodrigo Farcas]

 

[steven s]

Will this dev menu available to everyone?
Not that I may know what to do, but it's nice to know if I want to try.

 

[Cupara]

Will this dev menu available to everyone?
Not that I may know what to do, but it's nice to know if I want to try.

Yes using the same method as others, you would need to enable debug mode via the config file.

 

[Mosh]

In your config file enter the following line to enable debug mode:

$config['debug'] = 1;

 

[Cupara]

Mosh, you will want to enter that line but instead of 1 you put true like so:

$config['debug'] = 'true';