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[Kesomir]

Ok, the site isn't finished yet (my sites never are ;) ). Still have to put some sort of review system in place and I havn't found a decent commercial solution I like that integrates well with vb (styles as well as database).

It's an online gaming community (surprise surprise) which play various games together as well as being a resource for gaming related articles, information, help and reviews.

http://www.onlinegamers.org.uk/

Includes:

vbAdvanced CMPS
vbAdvanced Links
Photopost
v3 Articles

plus a ton of other hacks and customisations.

Enjoy.

[apokalupsis]

For the review system, I recommend: http://www.incursio.com/products/censura/

It integrates well.

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[Kesomir]

yeah I read the post you made either here or at the admin zone but I didn't like it being "compiled", and wanted an easy style integration with vbulletin (not just a login integration).

I discussed the issue with my forum head staff tonight and we decided to go for reviewpost. While not having as many options as say censura, it seems to fit our needs well enough and was cheaper ;) Since I already have Photopost and went through the pain of getting that integrated I figure I'll have an easier time integrating reviewpost the way I want than I would with another system.

[apokalupsis]

Yes, you'd have to do some header/footer tweaking to make it appear integrated w/ the site, which is a bummer...but the features it offers are far superior than ReviewPost IMO.

Depends upon your wallet and your time I suppose. It can be integrated w/ the header/footer quite nicely...just takes a little time to do so.

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[Kesomir]

What I was more worried about was the rest of the integration ie: having to make a style for censura which used the vbulletin css markups (alt1, etc). I had coppermine "integrated" with my site before I upgraded to photopost and it wasn't as good an integration, photopost really does come through on that front.

Coppermine didn't use the actual headers but some copies which I "faked" thus losing a lot of the dynamic code. I think now I'm more familiar with vB systems I could probably do a better job, but I want it to be relatively easy each time I upgrade, I use two styles on the site, so I need the css data to change rather than be hard coded.

Perhaps if we feel someway down the line that we outgrow reviewpost we can take a look at other options, it certainly isn't the ideal solution we just think it's the best of a limited crop.

I Still don't like the code compiled, that put me off censura right away.

[apokalupsis]

I understand fully.

That being said...you didn't like Coppermine's integration? I currently have PhotoPost, but I license ran out...so I can't get the updated version. I was thinking about going the Coppermine route (it's free!)...but you say that it doesn't integrate as well as PhotoPost?

[Kesomir]

as far as user login integration is concerned coppermine works fine, you can get blocks here for vbadvanced for it as well, but as for styles integration "out of the box" pp has it and coppermine doesn't. It would need a lot of work.

Coppermine also doesn't support watermarks unless you hack the functionality in.

[Swanny231]

Hey Kesomir, where did you get that Teamspeak and game servers boxes ? I am in a design process and I will really like to get those hacks.

[Kesomir]

I asked jugo over at www.s3squad.com very nicely if he'd let me use it and he did, go ask him if you can use it ;)

As for the server box, that's just html, it isn't dynamic. It requires the user to have multiplay's URL Gamestarter installed to launch the software from the link.