Using Products in RC1?

[Colin F]

Hi Coders,

RC1 was released yesterday with the new product management system. If you're thinking of using it, make sure to read the following:

Originally Posted by Kier

Product ids should contain only lowercase characters and underscores please.

This was always supposed to be the case, but we forgot to put enforcement code into RC1 (it's in RC2 though).

Basically, a product ID is invalid if the following returns false:

PHP Code:

 if (preg_match('#^[a-z0-9_]+$#s', $productid))
{
// product id is valid
} 


Please make sure to take this into account when using the product system.

Additionally, Jelsoft is reserving productnames prefixed with vb for official products. Once again, please take this into account.

Thanks

[Paul M]

Yes, so I discovered ........

(and reported)

[amykhar]

Also, note that product id's must be 15 characters or less at this point.

[Colin F]

Jelsoft is reserving the prefix vb for official products, so please take that into account.
I've updated the first post to include that.

Thanks

[Chris M]

May I suggest that you use your vB.org username and a small shorthand name for your products that you release?

For my Attachments Per Forum Mod, I used hellsatan_apf (hellsatan_attachmentsperforum)

Satan

[Andreas]

Hmm, why should the ID contain the Nickname?
Don't see a point for that ...

[amykhar]

cause we want people to remember how we suffered for them while coding these mods, Kirby

[Marco van Herwaarden]

And to avoid 2 coders choosing the same name. Personally i always use 'mh' followed by an abreviation of the hack. I also do this for phrases, new tablenames or columns i add to existing tables. Not to forget function names etc.

[Chris M]

Exactly - Nobody else (I hope) will release a modification under my name, therefore I'm almost sure that hellsatan_ will be unique to me

Satan

[Link14716]

hellsatan sig hack maybe?