Making Diamond Sparkle Forums & The Business Objects Community Site for Developers Tony Chang Angus Pratt

Who are we? Formally known as Seagate Software, Crystal Decisions. Now known as Business Objects, an SAP Company Datawarehouse software – reporting, data cleansing, integrating, publishing

Formally known as Seagate Software, Crystal Decisions. Now known as Business Objects, an SAP Company

Datawarehouse software – reporting, data cleansing, integrating, publishing

What is Diamond? Community website for BusinessObjects. 1.5 - 2 years old. Focus on the developer community Blogs, Video Tutorials, Samples, Books, Forums, API Documentation 30k Reg. Users, 1M page views/month

Community website for BusinessObjects. 1.5 - 2 years old.

Focus on the developer community

Blogs, Video Tutorials, Samples, Books, Forums, API Documentation

30k Reg. Users,

1M page views/month

Diamond Community SDKs for Developers Developer Evangelists Communities White Papers Articles Blogs Forums

SDKs for Developers

Developer Evangelists

Communities

White Papers

Articles

Blogs

Forums

Why Drupal? Quick and Easy to get running Flexibility allowed bypassing red tape Small budget allocation

Quick and Easy to get running

Flexibility allowed bypassing red tape

Small budget allocation

Diamond Forums History Improving look and functionality of forums Improve quality and encourage participation (karma, subscriptions)‏ SAP came along SAP Developer Network Less jarring move Moving in the near future

Improving look and functionality of forums

Improve quality and encourage participation (karma, subscriptions)‏

SAP came along

SAP Developer Network

Less jarring move

Moving in the near future

Forum functionality Node is central Comments tied to node

Node is central

Comments tied to node

Container (before)‏

Container (after)‏

Container marked (after)‏

Forum (before)‏

Forum (after)‏

Node (before)‏

Node (after)‏

Node marked (after)‏

Forum – Template

Container marked (after)‏

Template – Forum List http://drupal.org/node/199071 http://drupal.org/node/154325

http://drupal.org/node/199071

http://drupal.org/node/154325

Container marked (after)‏

Search table <form action=&quot;/search/node&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; id=&quot;search-form&quot; class=&quot;search-form&quot;> <div class=&quot;form-item&quot;> <input type=&quot;text&quot; class=&quot;input-text&quot; value=&quot;&quot; size=&quot;25&quot; name=&quot;keys&quot; /> <input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot; name=&quot;op&quot; title=&quot;Search&quot; alt=&quot;Search&quot; /> <input type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>&quot; name=&quot;form_token&quot; /> <input type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;search_form&quot; id=&quot;edit-search-form&quot; name=&quot;form_id&quot; /> <input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;type[forum]&quot; id=&quot;edit-type-your_content_type&quot; value=&quot;your_content_type&quot; /> </div> </form>

<form action=&quot;/search/node&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; id=&quot;search-form&quot; class=&quot;search-form&quot;>

<div class=&quot;form-item&quot;>

<input type=&quot;text&quot; class=&quot;input-text&quot; value=&quot;&quot; size=&quot;25&quot; name=&quot;keys&quot; />

<input type=&quot;submit&quot; value=&quot;Search&quot; name=&quot;op&quot; title=&quot;Search&quot; alt=&quot;Search&quot; />

<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;<?php print drupal_get_token('search_form'); ?>&quot; name=&quot;form_token&quot; />

<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; value=&quot;search_form&quot; id=&quot;edit-search-form&quot; name=&quot;form_id&quot; />

<input type=&quot;hidden&quot; name=&quot;type[forum]&quot; id=&quot;edit-type-your_content_type&quot; value=&quot;your_content_type&quot; />

</div>

</form>

Container marked (after)‏

Categories if (arg(1)== NULL){ $topiclist .= &quot;<table class='forumcats'><tbody><tr class='rowheader'><td class='columnheader'><div class='catheader'>Categories</div></td><td></td><td></td></tr>&quot;; } foreach ($forums as $key=>$forum) { // this is the start of the forum list routine that generates the containers and forum list. if ($forum->container) { $c++; if (round((($c-1)%3))==0) { $topiclist .= '<tr class=&quot;row'. (round($c/3)+1) .'&quot;><td class=&quot;column' . (round($c-1)%3+1) . '&quot;><div class=&quot;cat&quot;><a href=&quot;/forum#'.$forum->tid.'&quot;>' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>'; } elseif ($c!=count(variable_get('forum_containers'))) { $topiclist .= '<td class=&quot;column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '&quot;><div class=&quot;cat&quot;><a href=&quot;/forum#'.$forum->tid.'&quot;>' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>'; } else { $topiclist .= '<td class=&quot;column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '&quot;><div class=&quot;cat&quot;><a href=&quot;/forum#'.$forum->tid.'&quot;>' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td></tr>'; } [stuff deleted] print $topiclist . '</tbody></table>';

if (arg(1)== NULL){

$topiclist .= &quot;<table class='forumcats'><tbody><tr class='rowheader'><td class='columnheader'><div class='catheader'>Categories</div></td><td></td><td></td></tr>&quot;;

}

foreach ($forums as $key=>$forum) { // this is the start of the forum list routine that generates the containers and forum list.

if ($forum->container) {

$c++;

if (round((($c-1)%3))==0) {

$topiclist .= '<tr class=&quot;row'. (round($c/3)+1) .'&quot;><td class=&quot;column' . (round($c-1)%3+1) . '&quot;><div class=&quot;cat&quot;><a href=&quot;/forum#'.$forum->tid.'&quot;>' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>';

} elseif ($c!=count(variable_get('forum_containers'))) {

$topiclist .= '<td class=&quot;column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '&quot;><div class=&quot;cat&quot;><a href=&quot;/forum#'.$forum->tid.'&quot;>' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>';

} else {

$topiclist .= '<td class=&quot;column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '&quot;><div class=&quot;cat&quot;><a href=&quot;/forum#'.$forum->tid.'&quot;>' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td></tr>';

}

[stuff deleted]

print $topiclist . '</tbody></table>';

Node marked (after)‏

Template – forum nodes http://drupal.org/node/46027

http://drupal.org/node/46027

Node marked (after)‏

User roles <?php $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment $uroles = $comment_author->roles; foreach ($uroles as $urole) { $urole = str_replace(&quot; &quot;, &quot;_&quot;, $urole); $userroles .= &quot;<img src='/sites/default/themes/Diamond/images/&quot; . $urole . &quot;.gif' title='&quot;. $urole .&quot;'></img>&quot;; } ?> <table class='tablecomments'><tr class='comment-top'><td class='cleft'> <?php print l ( $comment_author->profile_first_name .&quot; &quot;. $comment_author->profile_last_name , 'user/' .$comment_author->uid); ?> <?php print $userroles ?> </td> […stuff deleted…] </table>

<?php

$comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment

$uroles = $comment_author->roles;

foreach ($uroles as $urole) {

$urole = str_replace(&quot; &quot;, &quot;_&quot;, $urole);

$userroles .= &quot;<img src='/sites/default/themes/Diamond/images/&quot; . $urole . &quot;.gif' title='&quot;. $urole .&quot;'></img>&quot;;

}

?>

<table class='tablecomments'><tr class='comment-top'><td class='cleft'>

<?php

print l ( $comment_author->profile_first_name .&quot; &quot;. $comment_author->profile_last_name , 'user/' .$comment_author->uid);

?>

<?php print $userroles ?> </td>

[…stuff deleted…]

</table>

User Picture <div class='userpicture'> <?php if ($node->picture) { $userpicture = theme('image', $node->picture); } else { $userpicture = '<img src=&quot;' . variable_get('user_picture_default') . '&quot; alt=&quot;Default User Picture&quot; />'; } print $userpicture; ?> </div>

<div class='userpicture'>

<?php

if ($node->picture) {

$userpicture = theme('image', $node->picture);

} else {

$userpicture = '<img src=&quot;' . variable_get('user_picture_default') . '&quot; alt=&quot;Default User Picture&quot; />';

}

print $userpicture;

?>

</div>

Number of Posts <?php $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment $allposts = &quot;SELECT(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(node.nid)) FROM node WHERE node.uid= &quot;. $comment_author->uid .&quot;)‏ +(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(comments.cid))‏ FROM comments WHERE comments.uid= &quot;. $comment_author->uid .&quot;)‏ AS result&quot;; print l(&quot;Posts: &quot; . db_result(db_query($allposts)), 'userposts/' . $comment_author->uid) . &quot;<br>”; ?>

<?php

$comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment

$allposts = &quot;SELECT(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(node.nid))

FROM node

WHERE node.uid= &quot;. $comment_author->uid .&quot;)‏

+(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(comments.cid))‏

FROM comments

WHERE comments.uid= &quot;. $comment_author->uid .&quot;)‏

AS result&quot;;

print l(&quot;Posts: &quot; . db_result(db_query($allposts)), 'userposts/' . $comment_author->uid) . &quot;<br>”;

?>

Member since $comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment <?php print l(&quot;Member Since: &quot; . format_date($comment_author->created, 'custom', 'M d, Y') . &quot;<br>“ ?>

$comment_author = user_load(array('uid' => $comment->uid)); //load the profile of the user who posted the comment

<?php

print l(&quot;Member Since: &quot; . format_date($comment_author->created, 'custom', 'M d, Y') . &quot;<br>“

?>

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Subscriptions

Comment mover

Spam

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