What scripts besides SMF do you use?

[bloc]

As this board is quite active with many requests for different kinds of bridges and integrations I am wondering what scripts you normally use - besides SMF?

[ExcalibursZone]

I use quite a few custom scripts that I've written myself. I use SMF for my user authentication system mostly. I've got comicbook collecting scripts, fanfiction, games, a custom gallery I'm working on, etc. all of which use SMF for the member info.

And I use it for forums, of course Personally, I detest CMSes so I never use them.

On another note, I no longer integrate WP and SMF, nor MediaWiki. Why? The member tables are too different between them all.

A way around this that I've been working on is a generic user object, which allows me to grab whatever user info I need from whatever package and spew that information out for whatever script I'm using. If I can get this to work, it might be easier to write bridges for other scripts by using a generic user object that all of them share.

But we'll see. Right now the user object is being used to support both IPB and SMF for my custom gallery (it works DARNED well!) and I thought it might be interesting to provide functionality between the different scripts. So, abstract the user information so that all my scripts use the same stuff, but the info could be stored in different ways... bah, we'll see how it goes. *back to working on coding*

[bloc]

I see.

The main reason with this little poll is to find out what people use the most, I am looking at expanding creation of themes for other scripts which don't necessarily need to be integrated with SMF. Joomla and Coppermine I am aware of(and have a few themes made for) but otherwise its really a big unknown what people use. MediaWiki for example, that might be more widespread than I assumed.

[ExcalibursZone]

Well, if you're looking for a way to use themes on SMF, my suggestion is to give everything an ID or a class of some type. Stop using inline stiles, and do everything via CSS. It'll make the code easier to generate and creating themes will be a matter of just redefining the CSS.

It's an idea, and I think it would work pretty well.

[karlbenson]

^
The updated default theme in the next 2.0 beta does use alot more css micro-classes, and less tables.

[ExcalibursZone]

I'll have to take a look at 2.0 then But after it's out of beta... heh

Though, when I say go to CSS and such, I mean 100% CSS for structure, which will make creating themes for SMF a snap.

[Perochak]

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