Post by αℓℓı on Jun 22, 2008 4:39:38 GMT -5
[/url] ;; You know that thing we have here called quid? That's a custom money hack. If it weren't for that, you wouldn't be collecting quid.What are custom hacks? Why do we care?
Hello~
It's me again, your HTML/CSS whore.
I mean.
Yep.
Coding whore. <33
Alright, so let me explain. No, this isn't the HTML Guide. Want one?
Even if you don't, I'll be making one eventually.
Custom Hacks
Custom hacks, or edits to the side coding, or simply known as Scripts/Codes, are codes done by various people for various reasons. I'll be calling them Hacks/Custom Hacks here, most of the time.
What are they? What do they do?
Well, if you go to a basic proboard that has no custom hacks or even a layout--ones without layouts most likely lack custom hacks--then you'll notice some difference about them.
The most common custom hack is a LAYOUT. You all know what layouts are, right?
I'm not going to explain if you don't, because you can see it.
These are pretty simple.
Other custom hacks do various things. Some edit things you can do to your profile, others edit things the site does, and functions.
I thought it'd be cool to list all the custom hacks Kairuu has. They are mostly located in the Global Header, although some are added to the Global Footer. A few are in the Main Header, a couple in the Main Footer--it all depends where the coder says the script needs to go.
Click the title to go to the page we got it from!
How many hacks do we have right now? _14_
Here's our list.
•Myspace Profile Button ;; If you wanna post your myspace AND a personal link--now you can, because we have a space dedicated to myspace. Yep.
•User Legend ;; You know that think near 'online members' that, when you hover-over, displays what color members are of what usergroups? This is where we got that function.
•Moving the Header ;; The Proboards advertisement banner is above our header, unlike most forms. How? It's against the Proboards ToS to move the banner--but we moved the HEADER, not the banner. It looks a lot better with no disruption, doesn't it? c:
•Center Category Titles ;; A very trivial and simple hack, but this does something that I wanted to do for awhile now--it centers the titles for almost all of the headers (y'know, like, 'Info Center' and all the category names).
•'Select Smilie' Drop-down and Preview area ;; No link, sorry. But do you see the thing to the left of the text box when you post a new message? Yea, that's not normally there. Those are extra smilies that we can add to, and you can preview them before clicking and posting them in your message.
•Font-face Drop-Down menu ;; No link. Below the 'colors' drop-down menu is also a font-face drop-down menu. Courtesy of a custom hack.
•Remove Topic Icon ;; There is usually a second icon in between the little folder picture and the name of the board, when you're viewing a list of topics. Why not here? Because they're pointless and annoying, and we can get our point across with BIG, BOLD LETTERS AND CAPITALIZATION. And also because it... apparently came with whatever other hack I had copied and pasted from the old Kairuu.
•Least to Greatest in Polls ;; Another trivial code. This hack will display poll results from least to greatest in terms of number of votes.
•View Posts since Last Visit ;; A custom hack that, at the bottom of the page RIGHT ABOVE "Info Center", next to "mark as read", adds a button, "posts since last visit" that will display every post that has been made since your browser last saved Kairuu's cookie (a computer function that stores data). If you always leave your window open or never log out, this probably won't work correctly for you.
•Remove Delete Post ;; This removes the "Delete post" function from the mod functions for those who can delete posts. INSTEAD, it is now DELETE THREAD. This is because deleting the first message of a thread with more than one post in it will only delete the message, not the thread. This instead will allow us to delete the entire thread in one shot.
•Display Staff PMs in Highlight ;; If you get a message from a staff member (any staff member listed in the code, including mass-messages), it will be highlighted in a particular color--currently a blue just hardly lighter than the lighter color of the background. EVERYONE MUST READ STAFF PMs. There is also a somewhat gaudy Message Legend underneath the inbox table that displays your... message legend. Yeah. Pretty simple.
•Secondary Member Group ;; This gives the option for us to give everyone a secondary member group. Why? You'll see~
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When I add more custom hacks to Kairuu, I'll add them to this list so you know exactly what weird shit is going on with our coding.
If you see anything that's glitched and think it's due to coding errors, PLEASE CONTACT ME PERSONALLY.
I know where all this coding is shoved, where in the coding scripts it's shoved, and how to get it out, fix it, or replace it. Or at least, I think I do. c:
KNOW A HACK AND THINK IT'D BE GOOD FOR KAIRUU?
WANT KAIRUU TO DO SOMETHING SPECIFIC, EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW A HACK FOR IT?
POST HERE AND SUGGEST.
If you have a link, that's even better, otherwise I have to go find links myself. Because I am NOT going to program hacks. Not. Going. To. Happen. Ever. NO.
Anyway, even if you don't really know what you're saying (most people don't when it comes to CSS/HTML/coding in general), feel free to attempt to explain, and I'll try to pick out of it what I can. C:
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