Builders Collective

Symphony Forum Ensemble

    I can’t speak for the dev team about the official release for the Members extension and Forum Ensemble, but I know that the version of the Members extension that is being used by the yet-to-be-released Forum Ensemble uses changes that have been added to the latest integration branch of Symphony 2.0. My unofficial opinion is that the release will likely coincide with the release of Symphony 2.0.7. As for when the ensemble will be released, that’s a matter for the dev team to answer.

    In the meantime, I have uploaded a sneak peak of the ensemble to builderscollective.com. My intention for this site is to supplement the discussions on this forum: anything off-topic here will be fair game there. It’ll be my playground for any development ideas that I’m toying with, whether it’s design, wireframes, prototyping, CSS, XHTML, XSLT, PHP, jQuery, RaphaelJS or Flex SDK. But it will all be focused on open source. As with DesignProjectX, it’s a work in progress.

    Feel free to sign up and let me know if you find anything amiss. And let me know if you have any requests. What about this forum, for instance, would you like to see changed? One thing I’d like to do is bring back categories and figure out how to improve search.

      I would love to see categories!

        It shouldn’t be terribly difficult to add categories. That’ll be next.

          Bauhouse! Did you use an extension for your register/login/activate routines or is that all part of the forum module? If so what?

          I’ve wasted so much time this week trying to find something that essentially does what I just did to sign up here. I’ve spent a couple of days working on my own custom frontend signup event but am still so new to symphony that it’s taking ridiculous amounts of time to move forward.

          I’d be interested in any direction you might give.

          Suggestion for the Forum

          Does the forum have RSS feeds generated automatically. I use feedly to keep up with the various forums I’m on and RSS keeps things tighter for me.

          PS I dig the secret agent subtext you’ve got working here. When I start seeing unmarked panel vans in front of my house, I’m going to start worrying though.

            I can’t take credit for any of the secret agent subtext. That’s all the Symphony Dev Team’s doing. They’ve got a wicked sense of humour.

            Regarding the register/login/activate routines, everything you need is included in the Forum Ensemble. For RSS, that’s something that hasn’t been included but wouldn’t be difficult to add. Perhaps that should be the first thing. Then categories.

              I haven’t had the time to document anything, but take a look at how the ensemble works. If you need this to work with an existing install, you’ll need to look at making some changes to the core. I believe these changes will be making it into the next release of Symphony, but for now, you’ll need to hack. You’ll also need development branches of the Members extension, the Forum extension and Advanced Symphony Database Connector extension. Here’s what you’ll need: