Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


quester - Jan 15, 2009 10:39:33 am PST #2525 of 4673
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Ever since I switched to the "new improved board" I cannot stay logged in. If I'm inactive for 15 minutes or so I have to log back in. Is this just me? Is it a deliberate feature?


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 10:43:45 am PST #2526 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What do you mean by "new improved board"? There's no intentional code reason that you should be booted out.


quester - Jan 15, 2009 11:15:21 am PST #2527 of 4673
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Well, not too long ago there was a different address or something. Something was different. When I used to log in on the previous one, I'd stay logged in.

I'm not even sure what the change was, but you gave a new link or address and this is where I've been ever since. I don't remember what the issue was...new server maybe?


Dana - Jan 15, 2009 11:16:18 am PST #2528 of 4673
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Are you maybe using buffistas.net, quester?


quester - Jan 15, 2009 11:17:39 am PST #2529 of 4673
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Yes, Dana, that is the address I'm at. Is it the wrong one?


§ ita § - Jan 15, 2009 11:18:40 am PST #2530 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

buffistas.net is the test site. Untrustworthy code. Use buffistas.org.


quester - Jan 15, 2009 11:33:26 am PST #2531 of 4673
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Ah! I bet that would explain it! Glad I asked. Of course, I should have asked awhile ago. D'ho!

Thanks for the help!


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2009 5:24:04 pm PST #2532 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Quester, when you say you were using buffistas.net, you don't mean buffistas.net, right? So what URL were you using?


quester - Jan 28, 2009 4:11:26 pm PST #2533 of 4673
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.

Hmmm, that doesn't look like the one I was on. I was at a place that was identical to buffistas.org, and all of the posts I made while there are visible here. It was some weird doppleganger board.


0 - Jan 28, 2009 6:39:55 pm PST #2534 of 4673

One thing I've noticed is that some users are using "font color equals white" tags to post in-line spoilers. If people are using the personal css feature like I am with a black background and gray text, then the spoilers show up in blazing white characters instead of being hidden.

Rather than try to change the humans, this regular expression will replace those font tags with the appropriate span tag.

$string = 'the actor on tonights show is <font color="white">sooper seekrit</font> !!';

$pattern = '/<font color=([\\"\\']*?)white([\\"\\']*?)>(.*?)<\\/font>/is';

$replacement = '<span class="spoiler">$3</span>';

preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);

Just a suggestion.