Oh wow, Gud, thanks!

Well, this is just a very early preview and I've done very little to customize the default styles in Bootstrap.

The new top header doesn't have the right colors and the links on it might change, but it gives you an idea.

The panel of links on the left made going to phone view view tricky so I removed it thinking it could be placed the header and right sidebar.

I'm not sure the layout works well at tablet size, but I think it looks good at phone and desktop size. It will probably need some tweaking.

I like what you've done with it, Gudanov.

The development site has been updated.

www.buffistas.me

Colors are a bit better. And you can click on the test thread and see posts. The one thread and two posts are coming out of the database instead of being static now. It also now uses https (will automatically redirect http).

I think I will tackle login and all that stuff and then open things up to contribution.

To work on the site you'll need git, a gitlab account, a local webserver, mysql (other databases might work okay but scripts to populate with test data might need tweaking), php, and composer. On Apache you'll need the rewrite mod.

It uses the following PHP libraries: Propel for ORM, Twig for Templating, Pimple for Dependency Injection, Slim for URL routing, and Monolog for logging. Composer will pull those in so you don't need to grab them.

You rock for moving us forward, Gud!

Thanks, Gud. I can't code, but I can test like a maniac when you are ready.

Read New is going to have to be a lot more prominent on the mobile version.

Will we luddites who only read on computer (my smart phone...isn't allowed to be) have the option to keep the present look? I'll bet that's way too much trouble, huh?

Maybe the left-sidebar can appear if the browser window gets wide enough.

Getting ready for another update tomorrow. No UI adjustments yet as I've been working on the guts.

I think it's ready for contributions. Let me know if you want to add some code (please use branches rather than committing directly to master). It's all done with PHP, HTML templates, and CSS. It's hosted on gitlab so you need a gitlab account (which is free) to work on the project. There's enough code there now that you can see the patterns for how things work. Templates are used for views and PHP is used for controllers and utility functions. URL routing is all handled in the index.php file. PHP code and HTML are never mixed.

If you are interested in testing it out, let me know what userid you are going to use and I'll give you an invite code to register.

There is almost no functionality yet. There's registration (not how it will work for the real version), there's login and logout, you can view the one active thread, and you can post to the one active thread. And that's pretty much it.

The database is subject to getting wiped pretty often so everything will be pretty ephemeral.