Web Wiz Forums Development Blog
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Topic: Web Wiz Forums Development Blog
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: Web Wiz Forums Development Blog
Date Posted: 17 February 2005 at 9:26am
This topic is the Development Blog for version 8 of Web Wiz Forums, so that people have an idea of how things are going.
Please don't ask 'WHEN WILL VERSION 8 BE RELEASED' as the answer is, 'I do NOT know' as it depends on how long various parts take to develop and how much free time I get to work on it.
If you have any suggestions please post them in the following topic:-
forum_posts.asp%3fTID=13859&PN=1 - Version 8 Suggestions - POST THEM HERE!!
Version 8 is going to concentrate on 1. Performance and 2. Improving current features, once this is done adding new features will be looked at.
Major features that are not required by most uses and would drastically
effect performance, such as galleries, are not going to be
added. If users want such additions there are many portal systems based
on Web Wiz Forums that do have these features.
Web Wiz Forums is focused to be one of the fastest performing ASP Bulletin Board Systems.
Version 8.0 - Released
Version 7.x to Version 8 Upgrade Tool v 1 -Released
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 February 2005 at 12:51pm
Items that have been completed so far:-
- System to approve new posts before they are displayed
- Sub forums
- New Web Wiz Rich Text Editor version 3 integration
- Quick Reply Box
- Editing of Polls
- Show 'Today' and 'Yesterday' for dates
- International Date function used for dates to prevent date issues between database versions and servers
- Improved performance on Active Topic page
- Numerous bug fixes and small improvements
- Improved performance for Members list by over 3000% !!!!!
- Improved performance for topic and post pages
- Admin approval of new members before they can activate their accounts
- New permissions system now complete
- Improved performance by removing recordset paging and using arrays instead
- New more powerful searching, with better performance and security
- Improved security filters
- Improved HTML striping function
- Full CSS Skin for simpler implementation
- Better Email Activation system
- mySQL database support
- Global time offset to set the forum to a different date to that of the server
- Improved the way images and files are uploaded, so when a post or topic is deleted any files associated withit are also deleted
- New CSS styles now implemented for admin section
- Page links, to multiple pages posts and topics, now on the top of the page as well as the bottom
- Support for Skype in user profile
- Improved Profile page, using full page instead of pop-up
- Now message icons to be displayed next to topic
- SMTP server authentication
- Skin CSS file and image location to be set from admin area for simpler setup of new skin
- Improved poll vote saving to prevent users from multiple voting
- Improved forum stats found on the forum index page
- Active users page now also shows location
- IP addresses shown in active users page in admin area
- New login system using cookie-less sessions for those sites and users who have problems using cookies.
- Improved new session system so that a database is used for sites on load balanced servers or using web gardens and web farms
- New Calender System
- Better statistics (today's birthdays)
- Admin approve member
- RSS XML Feeds for Last 10 posts, across all forums and individual forums
- Online RSS Feed viewer using XLST Style Sheet
- RSS Feed for Calendar Events and Individual Topics
- Windows Authentication
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 February 2005 at 12:01pm
The admin section for creating, removing, and changing Sub Forums is now complete.
The new forums permission system is well under way and the admin section
for it is almost complete. I just need to do some cleaning up and redo
the individual member permission pages.
As the moderated posts feature is part of the permissions system, and
as the main forum pages for this are complete, apart from some cleaning
up, the moderated posts feature will be 98% complete with the finishing
of the new forum permission system.
I hope to have the admin section for the new permissions system complete by the end of this week.
In the main forum the new permission system will be added as I go
through the pages increasing performance by placing recordsets into
arrays. The aim, hopefully, is to have a maximum of 3 to 4 database
queries per page, and hopefully with most pages this will be less.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 March 2005 at 7:18am
The admin side of the new permissions system is now complete.
This is a little bit later than the end of last week, which I
predicted, due to not having as much time to spend coding as I thought.
The permissions system simplifies the old permission system by removing the
old generic forum permissions (which even I found complicated to setup), instead
now you create permissions for each group on the forum using a grid
(pictured below).

By using this system instead, not only does it make setting and
checking permissions when setting up simpler, it also means that it is easier to check
permissions when running database queries as all permissions are now kept in the one database table.
This will mean that I will be able to improve performance as getting
the users forum permissions will require less database
queries per page, speeding up the performance of the forums engine.
Individual member permissions are also still available, though a new page, and will override
group permissions on those forums individual member permissions are set.
The next job I plan on doing is to speed up the performance of the
forums engine, I hoping that I can reduce database queries on pages by
at least 50% and use arrays to speed up the processing time. Whilst
doing this I also plan on implanting the new permissions, sub forums,
and post moderation features into the main forum pages.
I hope to have this finshed within the next 2 to 4 weeks, and have an
aplha 2 version for testing these new features on this site.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 March 2005 at 5:14am
Progress last week on wwf v 8 has been slow as I spent most of last
week in bed with a nasty bug and was helping out with a Tsunami Charity
gig this weekend.
But I have now finished improving the performance on the main forum page (default.asp).
Thanks to the new permissions system and adding the following fields to the database table tblForum:-
1. Last_post_author_ID - data type = integer - default value 1
2. Last_post_date - data type = date/time - default value = now()/GetDate()
I have increased performance and database hits by quite allot.
In the old version if you have 10 forums in 2 categories it required 40!!! database queries to get all the required data.
Now with the new system I use 1 database query to get all the
information for all categories, forums, permissions, etc. This cuts
down on database hits by an incredible amount and also improves
performance by over 1000% in most cases.
To further improve performance the returned database query is placed
into an array before displaying it on
the screen.
This should mean that for those experiencing performance problems
because they have allot of forums, the next version shouldn't keep a
high performance level, no matter how many forums you have.
The next task is to work on the Topics page, to increase performance, in the same sort of way.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 18 March 2005 at 1:00pm
To keep everyone updated on the progress of version 8, all this week I
have been working on improving performance on the Forums Topics and the
page displaying the posts.
Most of the week has been spent messing with SQL queries to try and cut
down on database calls and also with the use of arrays this has
improved performance on these pages.
The Forum Topics page, has gone from over 52 db calls for a site with
10 forums and 20 topics displayed per page, down to just 4 queries max
including getting sub forums that will be in the next version.
The Forum Posts page has also had db calls reduced as well in the same
way and also using an array for for the posts to speed things up.
Database calls for this page are now down to a maximum of 3 queries.
I'm going to carry on working through all the files to improve
performance, cut down on database calls, and change the pages to
support the new permissions system.
Hopefully now these main pages are done, the other pages should be much quicker to work through.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 April 2005 at 6:24am
Progress update:-
As each file is being re-written to improve performance and integrate
the new permissions system, as I am going through the files I am also
putting in some new features to save going back at a later stage to
re-write the file again.
Over the last few weeks I have been re-writing the files to post,
reply, edit, etc. posts in the forum. This has been quite a complex
task as there is additional data to also store in the database when
posting a message as well as the new permissions system and improving
performance.
While re-writing the post system I'm also changing the way people will
post replies. I'm changing the present reply box to a quick reply box
with less features, if people want the full reply box they can click a
button to be taken to the full reply box with all the features. This
should improve performance of the forum and cut bandwidth usage as
less images etc. will need to be loaded on each page where there is a
reply box.
While working my way through this I shall also look into adding a way to edit polls.
As I've got allot of other work on at the moment, I'm hoping to have
the new post, edit, reply, etc. system finished within the next 2 to 3
weeks.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 May 2005 at 11:35am
Work on creating a new web site for http://www.bassbound.com - www.bassbound.com took a bit longer than I thought due to the size the site ended up being.
However, it is now complete, so work is again under way on version 8 of Web Wiz Forums.
I'm still working through the files to integrate the new permissions system and increase performance.
I am really pleased at the amount of extra performance I am getting
from the files I have already done, but as I am being very thorough work
is progressing slowly, but it sold be well worth the wait
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 May 2005 at 4:59pm
Quite a bit of work has been done over the past few weeks on version 8.
I have now re-written nearly all the main pages within the forum to use
arrays instead of recordset paging, this has improved perfomance
greatly. I have also used better SQL to cut down on the number of
database quiries.
The feature for moderators and admins to check and approve posts before
they are displayed within the forum is also complete, with improvements
from the test version seen
presently on this site. The person who created a post can now view and
edit the post before it is approved by a moderator and/or forum admin.
A quick reply box has also been added instead of the full editor seen at the bottom of pages displaying the posts.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 September 2005 at 4:27am
A few poeple have been complaining about where the next version of Web
Wiz Forums is, so I thought I had better post this message.
Version 8 is still being writen but every single one of the aprox.
200 files is being re-writen, so far I have spent around 1500 hours
re-writing files, and I'm afraid that it will take more time to
complete the rest then add new features that people have been asking
for.
Also the new http://www.webwiz.net/asp/sample_scripts/RTE_application.asp - Web Wiz RTE v3 to be included in Web Wiz Forums version 8
took me over 1000 hours and 7 to 8 months to develop and fully test which has delayed
things slightly more for Web Wiz Forums.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 September 2005 at 4:30am
Because of problems with the use of security images in the present
version and it not working on some systems I am planning on re-writing
this part of the code and releasing a version 7.94 within the next few
weeks.
But I can see it taking around 40 to 50 hours to complete and test
properly, so if I get allot of emails from the site it may take a
little longer than the predicted 2 weeks.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 8:47am
The new permissions system for Web Wiz Forums version 8 is now complete, with almost every file needing to be re-written.
All recordset paging has now been removed and instead arrays are used
using 'GetRows()'. This has improved performance by over 200% on all
pages that were using recordset paging.
The next part will be to re-design and re-write the search feature of
Web Wiz Forums. The idea is to make the search feature more flexible
and powerful and at the same time improve performance and security.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 4:26am
After upsetting my girlfriend this weekend, by spending the entire
weekend in front of the computer from 8am till 11pm, I've now finished
the new search engine for Web Wiz Forums.
The plan was to make Web Wiz Forums search engine more powerful, with
more options and at the same time make it more secure, improve
performance and lower database hits.
To achieve this the search engine was completely re-written, now only 1
SQL query is run to complete a search and permissions are also included.
To improve performance further the search results are then stored in the
web servers memory till 20 minutes after the search was last viewed.
This has added benefit of not needing to run the search every time the
results page is looked at and/or moving between pages if the results go
over multiple pages.
To improve performance further and take the strain off the database, IP
addresses are now logged so that users have to wait 20 seconds between
new searches, search word lengths have to be 4 characters or above, and
there is a maximum of 1000 results returned.
However, to add to the flexibility of searches, you can now select to
search by date, and to return results by particular users.
Multiple forums can also be selected.
The next step in the development of version 8, is to work on a mySQL
version and use CSS throughout for skins to make skins simpler to
implelment.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 December 2005 at 12:09pm
Finally after 2 weeks of solid work late into the night (most nights about 1am and starting again by 9am), I have
re-written all public viewable HTML pages by hand to add in the new CSS.
This has a few benefits, because old browsers like Netscape 4 are
no-loner a basis for compatibility all the tables, colours, fonts, etc.
are done through 1 CSS file.
This means that HTML file sizes are much smaller and render faster in browsers, and by updating the HTML
by hand it is much cleaner and I've converted it to XHTML.
New skins should be simpler to implement by just editing 1 CSS file,
however, I am still deciding whether to make it so that new skins can be
implemented from the admin area, with an option to allow users to
choose their own skins within the forum. Please comment on this in the
version 8 suggestion post.
The look of the forum has also been changed at the same time, with a
more uniformed look and new features like changing the order of lists
(topics, posts, etc.) and page links between multiple pages is done at
the top and bottom of pages.
For now, from feedback from yourselves I am going back to the new
search tool and am going to make it so that results can be displayed also as
posts, rather then just the topic headings. This should make searching
for a particular post easier.
I hope to have the new search fully finished by the end of this weekend
as I don't think it should take more than 20 hours to implement and test.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 December 2005 at 11:49am
Implementing the the new search to display results as posts was a
little more difficult than I thought, but after a late night Friday and
Saturday coding I finished it by Sunday lunchtime.
After this on Sunday I decided to give it ago at porting the new forum
engine to work with mySQL, this went allot easier than I thought and I
was determined to finish which I did do, by 4am Monday morning!!
Anyway, apart from more testing to make sure there are no more surprise
bugs, Web Wiz Forums version 8 will have a mySQL version.
As progress is going better than I thought I hope to have a beta version available by the end of this month.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 1:54pm
A beta release of version 8 is still planned for the beginning of January, and progress on version 8 is still continuing.
As an updated, I spent most of Christmas Eve and Christmas day re-writing the file and image upload tool in Web Wiz Forums.
The new upload tool now places uploads into a 'temp' folder, they are
then only moved to their final position when the post is posted and
their file names placed into the database.
This allows for uploads to be associated with posts so that they can be removed when the post is deleted.
Any orphaned files left in the 'temp' folder can be deleted without
fear of removing a file or image from a post. At the moment this will
have to be done by FTP, but I plan on witting an online tool to do
this.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 December 2005 at 1:58pm
CSS styles are now implemented for admin section.
Boxing day was spent re-writing the admin section.
The files from the admin section have now been moved to the main forums
folder and given the pre-fix 'admin_'. This allows for simpler
implementation of Web Wiz Forums as common files can now be shared with
the admin files.
Whilst doing this the new CSS styles have been implemented for the
admin section, this will mean that the admin section is now also
skinable.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 January 2006 at 5:09pm
Version 8 is now almost at a position where I would be happy to release
a beta version, for people to test the new forum engine while I write
some new features for version 8.
I am making a few finishing touches over the next few days before releasing alpha
2 on this site so that I can make sure there are no big problems before
I release Web Wiz Forums version 8 beta 1 next week.
I'm hoping to have version 8 beta 1 out near the beginning of next
week, but to be on the safe side I have given myself to the end of next
week.
Please do not ask to have a version before the official beta release as
the software will not be ready and this will only lead to delays.
Beta versions are for testing only and WILL contain bugs, so please
don't expect or try to run the software on a production site.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 January 2006 at 2:37pm
Well I've placed Web Wiz Forums version 8 alpha 2 on this site to test
some of the new features before the beta 1 release next week.
Most things seem to be running fine except for 1 big bug.
To prevent date issues between different locales, servers, databases,
etc. I'm now using ISO international date formats as below:-
2006-01-05
This works great in ASP, VBScript, ADO, Access, mySQL, SQL Server 2005, etc. so should prevent date issues.
However, it seems that for some stupid Microsoft reason SQL Server 2000 doesn't
like this format and wants the following format for international
dates:-
20060105
This would be OK but nothing else works with this format, including
ASP, ADO, and VBScript, so just globally changing the date format for SQL server
version of Web Wiz Forums doesn't work either.
Anyway, hopefully the problem is now solved, and some dates in the SQL
Server version are now in the fomat '20060105' and others in the ISO
format, depending if the date is to be used directly in a none ADO
database query or not.
This has been a big issue coursing problems for allot of you using this
forum, as I didn't find this bug till after deploying alpha 2 on this
site, as I was testing the new version on SQL 2005 Express, and this
site is using MSDE 2000 so the problem didn't come to light till after
deployment.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 12:43pm
I've just placed version 8 alpha 3 on the site this morning.
This new alpha version is to fix a few bugs that have been found in the
previous alpha version, as well as adding a new active users function,
that now also tracks user location.
So far not to many bugs have been found, and from feedback it seems
that most of you are very impressed with the increased performance.
Version 8 beta 1, is still on schedule to be released later this week.
At present I'm continuing testing and getting everything ready for
launch on either Wednesday or Thursday.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 10 January 2006 at 6:20pm
All is now ready for release of version 8 beta 1 tomorrow!!!
After almost 2 years and many 1000's of hours of development, night
and day, re-writing the entire engine for Web Wiz Forums version 8 is
at a stage where I am happy to release a beta version.
I'm going to be testing all versions (SQL Server, mySQL, and Access)
this evening and tomorrow morning for any bugs, so along as no bug
bugs come to light version 8 beat 1 will be released tomorrow at
approximately mid day UK time.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 January 2006 at 2:06pm
Version 8 Beta 1 is now released
Please see the following page if you wish to join the beta testing program of the next generation of Web Wiz Forums:-
http://www.webwiz.net/web_wiz_forums/forum_beta_download.asp - http://www.webwiz.net/web_wiz_forums/forum_beta_download.asp
A general announcement will be made within the next few hours as well as a new sub forum specifically for feedback and bug reports for version 8.
A competition will also be launched in the next few days, with prices, for those who wish to develop new skins for version 8, with the winning entries being included in the final release. [EDIT] Due to changes in the forum and CSS this comp will need to be delayed till the beta 2 release. Sorry.
A big thank you to all who have supported Web Wiz Forums over the years and hope you will continue to support the latest version and thank-you to all who will take part in the beta testing program.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 January 2006 at 4:56pm
A number of bugs have come to light during the beta 1 testing and are being worked through.
Most of the bugs that have come to light so far have been fixed and a number of other changes have been made after feedback from users.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 January 2006 at 1:46pm
As well as fixing bugs as they come to light in beta 1, I have also been adding extra security to the forum.
As the admin section needs as much protection as possible I have now made it so that the admin password needs to be re-entered when access the admin area of the forum. To also add extra protection session variables are used to keep the admin logged in, within the admin area, instead of cookies which can be faked.
The next item I am looking at working on is to develop a system where cookies don't need to be enabled on the users browser for nromal users to login. This should help clear up issues with users that don't have issues with their browser excepting cookies.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 January 2006 at 12:31pm
I've now completely re-written the way users are tracked throughout the forum, with higher security for the admin area.
The new system uses it's own application level sessions to track the user throughout the forum.
If for some reason can not be detected in the users browser session ID's are appended to URL's, this means that cookies are not required to use the forum.
For added protection the admin section will use a different system to the main forum and the admin password will need to be re-entered to enter the admin area. Auto-login will not be supported for the admin section as this will make it harder for a hacker to gain access to this section.
I'm still considering an option to have a sepperate password for the admin section that all admins will need to enter to get access, this would be a bit of a pain for users, but would add a much better level of security.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 February 2006 at 5:07pm
This forum, on this site, is now running alpha 2 of the next version.
This is to test out the new session system to track users, that is also cookies-less, so cookies are no-longer required to use Web Wiz Forums.
If you would like to test this and give feedback on the new system, then please try using this forum with cookies disabled in your browser.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 February 2006 at 4:47pm
I've finally finished the new Calender system for the forum, which I am now testing on this site.
I had a look at how Calender systems were implemented on other forums and found with most forums the Calender system seemed to be a bolt on extra.
This not only seemed bad for performance, but also on most of the sites I looked at the Calender system seemed to be hardly used at all.
I decided for Web Wiz Forums to implement a Calender system in a different way so it is more of an integral part of the forum software.
In Web Wiz Forums, if you have permission to do so, when you create a new topic you have a choice of entering the topic into the calender as an event by setting the date of the event.
Not only does this mean that more users are likely to create events, but also means that events have the same permissions (read, reply, create) as the rest of the forum, and also has a minimal impact on the performance of the forum engine.
I have also uploaded aplha 3 to test on this site which, as well as the new Calender system also has a number of other new features:-
- New Calender System
- Improved session handling, with database option for those on ,oad balanced servers or using web gardens
- Post Reply page now shows the post you are replying to at the bottom of the page
- Improved CSS style sheet
- CAPTCHA security image only shown after 3 failed login attempts for that user
- New Forum Control Panel (formally the admin area)
- Plus many other bug fixes and improvements
I am still hoping to have version 8 beta 2 released by March 1st 2006
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 February 2006 at 6:33pm
At the moment I am still on schedule for the Version 8 beta 2 release tomorrow.
I have also finished, just in time for beta 2, a beta RSS Feed for Web Wiz Forums.
For the RSS XML Feed I have also created an XLST Style Sheet so that when you click on the RSS link in a browser you get some nice formatted text of the last 10 posts, and not some garbled XML.
RSS Feeds are available on the main forum page for the last 10 posts in the forum, and within each Forum Index page to get a feed of the last 10 posts in individual forums.
The XLST Style Sheet is not yet complete as I'm also plan on having some easy options to sign-up to feeds. I also planning on creating an RSS Feed for the Calendar System as well as soon as time permits.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 01 March 2006 at 10:42am
Version 8 Beta 2 is now released
Please see the following page if you wish to join the beta testing program of the next generation of Web Wiz Forums:-
../web_wiz_forums/forum_beta_download.asp - http://www.webwiz.net/web_wiz_forums/forum_beta_download.asp
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 March 2006 at 6:00pm
I've not been standing still since the beta 2 release and have added many new features for the next version and cleared up any bugs with beta 2.
I have been working on the RSS Feeds to make Web Wiz Forums one of the first full featured forums to use RSS throughout with built in RSS viewer, for both latest topics, individual topics, calendar events, etc.
I have also improved security by tightening up the login system and session tracking system, as well as introducing a new Flood Control for the Private Messenging system.
The login system and database opening and closing has now been modulised into functions to make it simpler for site integration and mod writers.
The upgrade tools are well underway, but Access one is giving some real headaches, but I hope to have them fully finished and tested over the weekend ready for version RC1 release next Tuesday.
Performance has also been improved for the main forum index page and for the Calendar System.
The Calendar System has been cleaned up since being introduced in beta 2 with the layout improved and the calendar jump links better placed.
Currently the release dates for Web Wiz Forums version 8 are as follows:-
Version 8 Release Candidate 1 - 21st March 2006
Version 7.x to 8 Upgrade Tool Beta 1 - 21st March
Estimated time for final version - Easter 2006
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 March 2006 at 10:30am
Version 8.0 RC1 is now released
It's been a busy 24 hours and I'm very tired at the moment having only had 3 hours sleep and getting into the office at 6.30am this morning to make some last minute finishing touches to version 8 RC1.
However, it is here and ready for download, please see the following post for more details:-
forum_posts.asp?TID=18814&FID=18&PR=3 - Web Wiz Forums version 8.0 RC1 released
Database upgrade tools are available from:-
forum_posts.asp?TID=18817 - Official Web Wiz Forums v7.x to v8.x Upgrade Tools
From those early birds upgrading large forums and those under heavy load feedback has been really good, and even I am really impressed with the speed improvements.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 March 2006 at 12:35pm
Version 8 RC1.1 is now released
Version 8 RC1 has proven very popular with over 900 downloads in the first week, which has meant allot of support questions and people asking 'how does this work' and 'where can I find this'.
A few bugs have come to light in RC1 most of which have been quite small and simple to fix, however, to prevent others running into these issues I have released version 8 RC1.1 which fixes all known issues found to date in previous versions.
I have also updated the '7.x to 8 Upgrade Tools' due to user feedback which has found issues with the new permissions system. As a result the new upgrade tool now removes any old permissions and creates all new permissions which are set to the built in default, which may mean some users having to re-apply forum permissions once they have upgraded their version 7 database.
The full version 8 should still be released around Easter time, probably on the Easter Weekend as the weekends are quieter so that the level of support for the first day release isn't to overwhelming.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 April 2006 at 6:34pm
Version 8 RC1.1 seems to have fixed most of the issues that people had with previous version 8 releases.
There are still a few minor issues to iron out which effect only a small number of people and these issues are being worked through.
I have also been working on Windows Authentication, so expect to see this in version 8.
Version 8 will be release sometime around the middle of this month, but I am a bit dubious of setting a date due to the overwhelming response for support for previous version 8 releases. Instead I may opt for a surprise launch during a weekend when it is quieter, but I am still undecided about this.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 April 2006 at 9:55am
Version 8.0 is now released
OK, I know this post is a little late as version 8.0 was released a week ago, but it has been a very busy time, with over 2,500 downloads in the first week!!
So far things are looking very good with only a few minor bugs reported that are being worked on and hopefully will have a new version out shortly that will fix these issues. As a whole though I am very pleased with the present version as it appears extremely stable with allot less upgrade, setup, etc. issue than I anticipated.
However, this doesn't mean development will stop on version 8 as new features and improvements are still being worked on, but at a slower pace due to a new site being built for this site.
The new Web Wiz Guide site is also aimed at the development of Web Wiz Forums with a new knowledge base section planed that will have more detailed install instructions, and articles on setup, modifications, etc.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 May 2006 at 11:42am
It's been quite a busy time recently moving office and setting up new servers etc., but it's slowly getting there.
Development on version 8 is still continuing, but at a slightly slower pace as it's quite a busy time at the moment.
Version 8.02 has been released today, however, it is only a minor release fixing a number of issues found in previous releases, and only added extra is that CAPTCHA security images are now used for Guest posting to prevent remote form spammers from spamming forums.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 4:31pm
Web Wiz Forums version 8.03 released today!!
This new release is a security release for Web Wiz Forums.
I have completely re-written the 'HTML Secure' that filters hyperlinks and images to ensure that they are safe for XXS Hacking.
All users should upgrade to this latest version, to ensure that their forum has maximum protection from these types of attacks.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 June 2006 at 4:35pm
Web Wiz Forums is still being developed, and the 'to do' list is slowing filling with more ideas from everyone as they come up.
The pace of development has somewhat slowed as of late to concentrate more fully on the development of a new site for Web Wiz Guide.
This new site will have a new design and layout so you can find things better, but will also include new features such as an online knowledge base with tips on modifications, more complex setup options, common errors, setup tips, etc.
Also, don't forget, if you have made a new skin for your web wiz forums, then why not enter the skin contest, with lots of prizes on offer.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 August 2006 at 5:19pm
I've been working on an update to the Rich Text Editor as Opera 9 now has support for Rich Text Editing.
The Opera RTE API seems to be very quirky and a bit buggy, but the RTE is still workable (just).
I have added support for Opera to the RTE for this forum so that Opera users can test the RTE for themselves.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 September 2006 at 12:01pm
It looks like the next version has been delayed further.
After looking into many of the winning entries of the skin competition and being contacted by several graphic/icon companies it seems that the majority of winning entries actually used images and icons stolen from other sites and copyrighted CD's.
Although it did state that all entries must be your own work, and emails where sent to people in the shortlist asking them to confirm that all images and icons were their own work, it appears that many of the entries where using graphics and images that were infact other peoples work and were copyrighted.
This means that we only have 2 skins left which look like they are actually legitimate.
I am presently talking to some icon sites about using their icons in Web Wiz Forums, if this is not possible then a whole range of new icons for skins will need to be developed in-house, which would delay the next release by sometime.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 September 2006 at 10:42pm
After not getting as many skins as I would have liked in the skin contest I have now been looking into purchasing a license to use some professional stock icons from one of the many companies who offer such icons.
The only problem is that to redistribute within software they all only license the icons for redistribution in binary format. This isn't much help for Web Wiz Forums which is not compiled, but hopefully a solution can be found as I am in discussion with a couple of companies.
I hope with professional icons that Web Wiz Forums will look many times better than it does now as the icons I have designed over the years are not great as I am a programmer rather than a graphic designer (Apart from my animated emotions, I think the rest suck ).
I am also considering at the moment instead of producing a version 8.5 to go straight for version 9, this way as well as a completely new look I can also include some new features that require database changes, such as a chat room for the forum and a number of other ideas that I have.
I have been working contently, in between the many support questions and admin work, on the next version. Although nothing major to talk about (at the moment) has been added I have been cleaning up a few bugs and improving the way some of the features work.
I also released version 3.1 of the Web Wiz Rich Text Editor at the beginning of this week which now supports RTE on Opera 9 on Windows, Linux, and MAC, this will also be included in the next major release of Web Wiz Forums.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 September 2006 at 5:30pm
I have been in discussion with http://www.awicons.com/%20 - www.awicons.com and have a license and permission to use a number of sets of their professional icons in Web Wiz Forums (sorry you will not be permitted to use the icons outside of Web Wiz Forums without purchasing a license from http://www.awicons.com/ - www.awicons.com for them).
The icons from http://www.awicons.com/ - www.awicons.com are exceptional good and will give Web Wiz Forums a much improved more profession look, with a number of different skins selectable from the default install based on icons from a number of their sets.
Hopefully this will mean that Web Wiz Forums is not only one of the fastest and sinecurist forums systems around but one of the best looking as well. http://www.awicons.com/ -
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 October 2006 at 7:24pm
As well as the awicons, I also now have a licnce to use Glyph Lab Stock Icons in Web Wiz Forums from http://www.glyphlab.com/stock_icons/preview.html - http://www.glyphlab.com/stock_icons/preview.html
This now means that the default download can come with at least 3 different sets of icons in skins, which will mean you can select which ones work best for your site 
These new icons will be introduced with version 9, which will also have new features added, some features that are under consideration includes, chat room and gallery.
8.50 will be released quite soon, this version contains a number of enhancements and bug fixes that have been written to date, so that people waiting for bug fixes are not delayed by the development of version 9. There will also be a number of new features as well like support for Opera 9 on the Rich Text Editor and admin controls for changing the date of an event.
I shall also open a new sticky topic that you can post suggestions in for version 9.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 10:35am
I've put up the new alpha version of 8.50 on this forum to test some new features.
This includes the new post icon notification, which I have managed to make quite accurate, if you move the mouse over the new post icon it will tell you how many new posts there are in a forum or topic, this is only reduced when you view the page that has the new post on it. The code to do this is a little complex so please inform me of any problems.
The active users table is also more accurate, as it now tells you if the user is denied access to the page they are on, this is to prevent confusion where it looks like search robots or guests are viewing profiles or topics they don't have access to and is appended with [Access Denied] in teh active users table.
There is also now support for Opera 9 in the RTE, and there is better detection of what browser people are using with support for Firefox 2, IE7, and Opera 9.
The forgotten password pop-up window has now become a fully fledge page, and is now a 'forgotten login' feature, with users able to recover both lost passwords and forgotten usernames.
There are also numerous bug fixes and other features.
Other features are also under development for 8.50, but I shall tell you more about these nearer the time.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 November 2006 at 10:21am
I have just added to the site for testing a new button on the quick reply toolbar.
If you click the button it will take you to the full reply page, and any post you are in the middle of entering into the quick reply box.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 December 2006 at 9:28am
At the present time a new site is being developed for Web Wiz Guide as
the present site is becoming a bit long in the tooth and the main items
people come here to find are hidden away.
Version
8.5 is not going to be released, instead it will now become version 9
as some database changes are required to accommodate some new features,
including using a new XML system for configuration so that new features
can be added without database changes. Version 9 will also include a
completely new look and a user skin selector with at least 3 default
skins supplied with the default install all using professionally
designed icons from Awicons, and Glyph Labs.
All this work is
going along at a good pace at present so unless any unexpected or
difficult to solve issues arise all this will hopefully not be to long
to wait for.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 12:21am
Progress is continuing on the new web site for Web Wiz Guide and we hope that the new web site and new version of Web Wiz Forums is not to far off.
For those of you impatient to wait here is a quick preview of one of the completed pages for the new site:-

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 December 2006 at 12:26pm
While continuing the development of version 9 which we hope to have a beta release of in the early part of the new year, we have just released version 8.05.
Version 8.05 will be the last in the 8.x platform and has a number of new features as well as fixing a number of bug and security issues to round of the 8.x line with a secure and stable platform.
This version stable version is intended to complete the 8.x line while version 9 is developed and for those who have not already upgraded to the 8.x version and for those who wish to wait awhile before upgrading the the next major version when version 9 comes out.
For further information please see ../news/news_item.asp?NewsID=102 - Web Wiz Forums version 8.05 released
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 January 2007 at 1:44pm
Many people keep asking when they can expect version 9.
At the present time the Web Wiz Guide web site is being redeveloped, this includes a new payment system, an online client area for managing your licenses keys and support through, approximately 300 redeveloped pages, online real time demo of software including admin areas, improved online documentation, and many other new features. This is taking a little longer than expected to be developed but we hope to have this finished by mid February.
Web Wiz Forums version 9 is still under development, the actual completion time is very difficult to say as allot of factors play a part as testing can reveal issues which can mean that features need to be re-written losing weeks of development time. The redevelopment of the Web Wiz Guide site is also having an impact on development time. However, we hope to have a beta version available before Easter.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 6:53pm
Although things may seem quite here recently at Web Wiz allot has been happening behind the scenes, including Web Wiz Forums version 9 development, a new website with searchable knowledgebase, improved install documentation, online client area, and a new product called Web Wiz NewsPad.
We hope to release a beta version of NewsPad within the next few weeks. The software allows you to post news bulletins to you web site and RRS Feeds as well as sending out email Newsletters to your subscribers.
What should interest Web Wiz Forums users is that NewsPad will have full integration with Web Wiz Forums allowing you to create and send eNewsletters to your Web Wiz Forums members. These can even be group specific and also allow you to send in batches for those who have limits of the number of emails they can send through their hosts systems in a given time frame.
This means that Web Wiz Forums users will now be able to enjoy keeping in contact with all their members via email using fully fledged Newsletter software and you can even use mail merge tools to customise your Newsletters to your members.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 8:49am
The launch of Web Wiz NewsPad has been delayed slightly due to issues with the AJAX method of sending Newsletters coursed the browser to freeze up under heavy load, so had to be redeveloped.
We have also taken this time to add more tools such as database and CSV import of subscribers.
With tight Web Wiz Forums integration Web Wiz NewsPad can be used as a Web Wiz Forums Add-on to send Newsletters to your Web Wiz Forums members. It can also be used as a standalone Newsletter and News Bulltin software for your site, with you able to not only send Newsletters but also post News Bulletins to your site with RSS Feeds as well as email subscriptions.
Web Wiz NewsPad is in it's final stage of testing and should and we should have beta 1 released very soon.
The beta release will have no limitation's so you can test it out by sending Newsletters to your Web Wiz Forums members, this can be done on a group biases so you can send different Newsletters to different groups.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 March 2007 at 3:10pm
Web Wiz NewsPad version 1 beat 1 with Web Wiz Forums integration has now been launched.
While in beta Web Wiz NewsPad has no limitations on the number of emails you can send, and with Web Wiz Forums integration you can use it to send Newsletters or Emails to any or all of your Web Wiz Forums Groups.
Sending emails to your forum members using this software can be done in batches or paused and restarted at any time, so there are no limitations on how many members you can send Newsletters to using this software even if your system resources are low or your web host limit the number of emails you can send.
Web Wiz NewsPad can also be used as standalone Newsletter or News Bulletin software with RSS Feeds and many advanced features.
For more information and to down please see:-
http://webwiznewspad.com - Web Wiz NewsPad
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:18am
It may seem to many that not allot has been happening so far this year, but I can assure you we have been working harder than ever.
Within the next 6 to 12 weeks we will be launching a new web site, with searchable knowledgebase, improved documentation, and an online client area.
At the same time we will also be launching new major releases of ALL our software including Web Wiz Forums version 9, Web Wiz RTE version 4, and Web Wiz NewsPad version 1.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 May 2007 at 5:29pm
Within the next 2 to 3 weeks we are hoping to have a pubic demo of version 9 of Web Wiz Forums. This will not be a complete version but will allow users to report back any issues with the new AJAX and DHTML interface.
Below is a quick preview of the new options menu which includes drop down menus. In the picture you can see a drop down preview of the events calendar which uses AJAX for improved performance.

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 14 June 2007 at 4:26pm
The Web Wiz Forums version 9 new front end interface is developing
nicely, so that you can get an idea of how it will look, and so we can
get any feedback, we have placed a live demo of version 9 at the
following link:-
http://forum.webwiz.net - http://forum.webwiz.net
If you have any comments or feedback on the new interface please post your comments in the following topic forum_posts.asp?TID=23521&FID=18&PR=3 - Web Wiz Forums version 9 Live Demo
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 July 2007 at 11:53am
The final testing of Web Wiz Forums version 9 is being carried out today and if all goes well a beta version will be released tomorrow for download and testing.
Later today we will be updating this site to use only Web Wiz Forums version 9 so that we are able to test the forum in a live environment to iron out any bugs that have not come to light in testing.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 13 July 2007 at 9:46am
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Web Wiz Forums version 9 beta 1 released
Web Wiz is proud to announce the latest release of our award winning http://www.webwizforums.com/ - Web Wiz Forums bulletin board software. This latest version builds on previous released adding a new interface and new features.
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New features include:-
- New look interface, using Web 2.0 and AJAX
- New look Admin Control Panel with new tools
- A range of built in skins to select from
- New more secure upload system, with built in Member File Manager
- Improved Member Profiles
- New Generic Member Import Tool, to import members from other databases, forum systems, portals, etc.
- http://www.webwiznewspad.com/ - Web Wiz NewsPad integration, to display News Bulletins with Web Wiz Forums and send eNewsletters to your members
- Improved search tools including Quick Forum and Quick Topic search tools
- Quick access drop downs to a wide range of tools and features
- Web Wiz Rich Text Editor version 4 integration
- Improved ‘HTML Secure’ security filters updated to protect against all the latest XSS Hacking Exploits
- YouTube and Movie Support using BBcodes
- Improved cookie management and handling
- Quick Reply Box with Full-Reply Switch
- Improvements to logging in, will now return you to your previous location
- Calendar Events can now stretch multiple dates
- Improved Admin Control Panel, Member Management Tools
- + over 250 changes and improvements!!
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 July 2007 at 5:36pm
Web Wiz Forums version 9 released
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