Developer Notes

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RedDragonWebDesign edited this page Sep 4, 2020 · 27 revisions

If you are interesting in adding to or editing the BlueThrust5 code, here are some notes.

Tips

You can turn on Debug Mode in My Account -> Administrator Options -> Website Settings -> Debug Mode. Debug mode on will do PHP error_reporting(E_ALL)

Guidelines

Whenever you add or edit a function, please add variable types. Instead of function setDebugMode($value), please do function setDebugMode(bool $value): void. This helps with tooltips and with bug catching.
Try not to change the database schema. Changes to the database schema risk breaking backwards compatibility, and may require changing installer code.

State of the code

The code in this project is workable. I was able to patch in the things my client wanted. But there are several areas that need modernization:

Was designed for PHP 5. Huge number of notices and warnings when running on PHP 7.4
Does not follow MVC (Model View Controller). MVC is the excellent practice of separating SQL, HTML, and PHP into different files.
Many skins, but the skins are not mobile friendly.

Menu Section Numbers

Rank Numbers

Administrators can't be seen because their rankcategory_id = 3, and that rankcategory_id doesn't exist. To make an administrator visible, make a category for them and put them in it.
rank_id is both rank and permissions.
color - not used. rankcategory table has the colors.
hiderank - hides the rank on the ranks page only, members with that rank still show up in other places
autodisable - not DSL (days since login) related. Rather, it's a different feature. It'll disable you for failure to get promoted within X autodisable days.

SQL Tables (101 Tables)