subblack theme

hoppyintheuk · New Member Joined: Aug 09, 2006 Posts: 5

Hi all,

Just loaded the latest version of Raven Nuke, does anyone have a link for a valid raven compatible download for subblack theme (gold/black)?

Hoppy

persona_non_grata · Joined: Posts: 0

does it give any errors ?
isnt that a disipal theme?

wiz · Client Joined: Oct 09, 2006 Posts: 357 Location: UK

Valid as in a working link? or Validated?

persona_non_grata · Joined: Posts: 0

probably validated as in www

montego · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:40 am

Doubtful that very many themes will be truelly XHTML (let alone HTML) compliant when PHP-Nuke's core code was such a mess that it forced theme designers into having to "adjust". We fixed much of PHP-Nukes core code, so, unfortunately, it could cause compliance issues in many themes.

Since RN 2.1.x is XHTML 1.0, the things to look for in your themes are:

<br> --> <br />
<hr> --> <hr />
<img ......> --> <img ..... />

all img tags must have an alt attribute even if it is just alt="".

all attributes must have a value wrapped in quotes. It is OK for the value to just be "". Therefore, if you have just selected as an attribute in an OPTION field, it needs to be selected="selected".

HTML tags must be in lowercase.

and so forth...

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Fluke · Hangin' Around Joined: Oct 24, 2003 Posts: 32

montego wrote:

Doubtful that very many themes will be truelly XHTML (let alone HTML) compliant when PHP-Nuke's core code was such a mess that it forced theme designers into having to "adjust". We fixed much of PHP-Nukes core code, so, unfortunately, it could cause compliance issues in many themes.

Since RN 2.1.x is XHTML 1.0, the things to look for in your themes are:

<br> --> <br />
<hr> --> <hr />
<img ......> --> <img ..... />

all img tags must have an alt attribute even if it is just alt="".

all attributes must have a value wrapped in quotes. It is OK for the value to just be "". Therefore, if you have just selected as an attribute in an OPTION field, it needs to be selected="selected".

HTML tags must be in lowercase.

and so forth...

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I am currently working on converting subBlack to RavenNuke(making my own theme based off subBlack actually).. it's not easy and my columns/blocks etc are all messed up(seems to be no constraint on their width). I saw this post and hoping(based on fact I see whats mentioned here is present in the subBlack theme) after making the changes things fix themselves up in the theme.

I am using the default Raven theme.cfg to revamp the subBlack but there are particular java applets and I've basically nuked the references within the main template theme.cfg. I think this RavenNuke looks really good and looks more secure than any other Nuke out there. Running FutureNuke our site was hacked in just under a week and the hacker deleted all images/buttons and theme directories on the site.

FutureNuke is horrible, being that I know sql there were many indexes that were just wrong on the tables. The other thing about FutureNuke is it includes a lot of mods and it makes it very hard to manage. Hoping I stay with Raven Nuke and hoping I can get this theme working.

If I can get this site and theme going, I'd like to contribute some money towards Raven (not just saying that either). I think Raven Nuke looks really nice and secure, especially from the db view. Very clean.

montego · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:34 am

Just a quick comment on this here:

Quote:

FutureNuke is horrible, being that I know sql there were many indexes that were just wrong on the tables.

Just so you know (setting your expectations), we have NOT reviewed any of the current RavenNuke(tm) indexes. We are still using the original 7.6 indexes (I hope). At some point, we want to focus on improving overall performance from a database call standpoint, so, this will get looked at eventually.

Good luck on the theme!

banelos · New Member Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 22

Anyone found a place to get an updated SubBlack or fixed it themselves for RN 2.10?
Currently the issues I have are:

Forums-
Layout of forum categories and forums is very small and hard to read.
The cell on the left where "Joined: Posts: Location:" etc. is in threads is too tight making all the text fill a lot of lines.
Quick Reply part at the end of threads looks weird and is missing a few things.

Frontpage:
Blocks for the right side doesn't show.
Even on a version of the theme i had where right side blocks worked in 2.02.02, it doesn't now. They show up in the bottom below all the articles instead.
Missing borders for each posted article for some reason.

Have been trying for a bit to fix it myself, but my knowledge into the workings of PHP-Nuke aren't that extensive.

PS. The improvements in RN 2.10 looks very nice so far and I really like the new wysiwyg editor.

banelos · New Member Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 22

Sorry to revive an old thread, but is there any update to this?

Did anyone get subBlack to work with the new version of Raven PHP-Nuke or found one that was fixed? I tried to fix it myself, but my knowledge of php wasn't good enough to do it.

My users would really hate to change theme and therefore I had to keep my site to the old version of RavenNuke, but sadly it recently got hacked since it didn't have all the newest security updates (which was partly my fault, could have updated Sentinel seperately).

Paul_K · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:48 am

Having just converted a custom theme to be xhtml compatible (using a RavenNuke theme as a guide!) I'd be willing to have a go at it for you. Now, where do I download SubBlack?

banelos · New Member Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 22

Hey there Paul_K, that sounds really great..!

I believe the newest source for it would be:

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I remember having to correct an issue with right-aligned blocks not showing in the theme.php file for subBlack

Just changing "if ($index == 1)" to "if (defined('INDEX_FILE'))" did it I think.

Thanks in advance if you go ahead and convert it Paul!

EDIT:
Installed the new RavenNuke locally today and tested the subBlack I linked in this post. You do indeed need to go into theme.php and correct what I wrote above in the themefooter().
This time the right-aligned blocks worked fine though, not showing below articles like it did some time ago.

The problems that still exits are the following:

-News articles on the frontpage doesn't have any frame as seen

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-Author info on forum posts are truncated as seen

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-Quick Reply and other links below topics are missing.

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is a screen of the same install running fsubice where it all shows compared to the screen above.

If anyone has an idea how to fix any of these issues please let me know Smile

Guardian2003 · Site Admin Joined: Aug 28, 2003 Posts: 4821

You will also need to keep an eye our for changes in the banners code unless this theme was originally written for nuke 7.9+

banelos · New Member Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 22

Oh just found out that both the missing frames on news posts and the tiny poster info on the forums are fine and working if you view the site in IE, so it's just Firefox that doesn't like it.

What could be wrong here, is it just some missing xhtml compliance?

Also any idea how I get the quick-reply function to work in this theme?

PS. Test site address is

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(dont mind the blocks complaining, I havn't uploaded those)

banelos · New Member Joined: May 05, 2006 Posts: 22

Ok I finally got into fixing it all myself..

I wen't the shortcut and targetted the specific conflicts that were giving visible flaws. The hard part was finding out which files to edit, but once they were found it was pretty easy to look at the fisubice counterpart and see what had to be corrected..

I got both the missing frames on news posts, truncated poster info on forums and I also got the Quick Reply function in.

I had a slight problem with the Quick Reply though.. The Helpline box that shows tooltip information when mousing over the bbcode buttons seemed to be hardcoded to a white background.. (and since subBlack text is white I needed that changed)

Looking in the modules/Forums/viewtopic.php I could see that its background color was defined like this:

Code:

background-color:#".$theme['td_color2']."

And that in the default subSilver template that reference is set to #FFFFFF

But even if I used the themes/fisubice/Forums/theme_info.cfg to change td_color2 to another color it did not seem to overwrite the white one.

I ended up just removing the background-color property altogether from the helpline since that would make the background seem transparent and look fine in all themes.