Developer Notes

If you are interesting in contributing to the 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)

Style 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.

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.