Developer Notes
If you are interesting in adding to or editing the BlueThrust5 code, here are some notes.
- 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)
- Whenever you add or edit a function, please add variable types. Instead of
function setDebugMode($value), please dofunction 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.
- Try not to change themes. Modifying a theme requires changing all 29 of them.
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.
- 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.
- app_captcha
- app_components
- app_selectvalues
- app_values
- clocks
- comments
- console
- consolecategory
- console_members
- customform
- customform_components
- customform_selectvalues
- customform_submission
- customform_values
- custompages
- diplomacy
- diplomacy_request
- diplomacy_status
- downloadcategory
- downloads
- download_extensions
- eventchat
- eventchat_messages
- eventchat_roomlist
- eventmessages
- eventmessage_comment
- eventpositions
- events
- events_members
- failban - This is a throttle for the pin # required in Add Console Option, Edit Console Option, and Edit Theme. It is not a throttle for regular login.
- forgotpass
- forum_attachments
- forum_board
- forum_category
- forum_memberaccess
- forum_moderator
- forum_post
- forum_rankaccess
- forum_topic
- forum_topicseen
- freezemedals_members
- gamesplayed
- gamesplayed_members
- gamestats
- gamestats_members
- hitcounter
- iarequest
- iarequest_messages
- imageslider
- ipban
- logs
- medals
- medals_members
- memberapps
- members
- membersonlypage
- menuitem_customblock
- menuitem_custompage
- menuitem_image
- menuitem_link
- menuitem_shoutbox
- menu_category
- menu_item
- news
- notifications
- plugins
- plugin_config
- plugin_pages
- polls
- poll_memberaccess
- poll_options
- poll_rankaccess
- poll_votes
- privatemessages
- privatemessage_folders
- privatemessage_members
- profilecategory
- profileoptions
- profileoptions_select
- profileoptions_values
- rankcategory
- ranks
- rank_privileges
- social
- social_members
- squadapps
- squadinvites
- squadnews
- squadranks
- squads
- squads_members
- tableupdates
- tournamentmatch
- tournamentplayers
- tournamentpools
- tournamentpools_teams
- tournaments
- tournamentteams
- tournament_connect
- tournament_managers
- websiteinfo