AWS and vb3.5

Hi,

I thinked its asked many many times but I've not seen a concrete YES or NO so far.

I started with the first AWS version and spended hours to update it everytime.
I've never thought that so many ideas will make it into the hack and no I really love it and will not miss it on my board.

Cause I will definetly upgrade to vb3.5 I started to check which hacks I use will be ported to vb3.5 and which not.
For sure I want to see things like AWS on the list of hacks that I will not miss in vb3.5.

Please rewrite it so that it works with 3.5 in the way it is working now with 3.0.7 and we learned to love it.

Regards
jluerken

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I’d like to see this implemented for Vb 3.5 as well. I am currently running the latest beta and I’d like to have this hack up and running as soon as I possibly can as a warning hack is almost essential now days on open discussion communities.
What’s your expectation before a public release is available?

[sv1cec]

Folks,

I've said it before, and I'll say it again now.

I have every intention of porting AWS to vB 3.5 but it is not an easy task. There are a lot of things to learn and a lot of differences that have to be taken into consideration. I have spend about a week, porting the installation scripts to work properly with vB 3.5 and I am currently working on the rest of the files.

But, it is not an easy task. vBulletin didn't try to make this upgrade easy for us, hack coders, instead they have us chasing our tails, with endless changes of code, which could have been implemented behind the scenes, if you understand what I mean.

Add to that the new hook system, with which I need to familiarize myself, add the fact that the good old vB variables are changed and now I need to copy and paste for things I could code by heart, add the fact that AWS is a complex hack, with several files edited, add that vBulletin didn't bother coming up with a specs file, which one could read and use as a guidance (instead they relied on this site members to come up with tutorials, etc) and you understand it is not an easy task. My knowledge on the technologies used by vB is limited (I have no experience with Java or Javascript, XML is unknown to me), and I am not a young coder who can learn things easily.

On top of that, I do not have all day to work on the code. I have about 6 hours every day, during which I am free to do things I like or things I need to do. In those 6 hours, I need to pack whatever other people do during a whole day, so my time to work on AWS is limited. I can therefore not commit on any delivery time, all I can say, is what I said above, that I'll do my best to port AWS to vB 3.5. Thank God, I now have access to a test environment, without which I wouldn't be able to do anything (thanks Juan), so at least one problem is solved.

Sorry if that is not enough, but that is all I can offer to you guys at the moment.

Rgds

[Michael-DLR]

John,

I appreciate your efforts and I am sure everyone else does as well. You have one of the best hacks out there and we appreciate all the time you have spent already.

Thank you,

Michael

[beano33]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

Sorry if that is not enough, but that is all I can offer to you guys at the moment.

Rgds

You've done more much than enough. Given the complexity of your hack I'm surprised you're even working on it before vB 3.5 gets to the RC (release candidate) stage.

[sv1cec]

I am working on it, but I ain't making much progress, unfortunatelly. You see, with some minor changes, the hack could work in 3.5, as is, but that would bypass the new ... standards and require you to hack the php files again. I do not want to release it like that, I prefer to spend some more time and understand the whole hooks thing, and do it properly. I am not sure if I'll succeed, but at least I'll try.

And you are right, things are not very stable with 3.5 yet, so I am not sure if the time I invest in researching its internals is worth it.

[DS MrSinister]

I hope you will bring this out for vb 3.5...

I am not going to do anything to my site until 3.5 goes gold.. got to many hacks installled......... So plz take you time and do it the right way my friend.

[sv1cec]

Well, you might be interested to know, that the basic functionality of AWS (i.e. the ability to warn a member etc.), as well as the largest part of the AdminCP part (admin_warn.php) is running fine on the test server. Of course, there are still some issues to be clarified (for example, where will the functions_warning.php contents should be? If we are to avoid editing the php files, the functions that are currently in that file, should be moved elsewhere, where?) and a lot of testing to be done, but it works!

I still haven't touched the automatic warnings issues, which relate to the censorship in posts and PMs.

Rgds

[Michael-DLR]

Awesome progress you are making. Thank you for all your efforts!

Michael

[Dennis B]

Thanks John. :up: :up: