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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

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

Diamond Community
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

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

Forum functionality
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

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

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

Categories
if (arg(1)== NULL){
$topiclist .= "<table class='forumcats'><tbody><tr class='rowheader'><td class='columnheader'><div class='catheader'>Categories</div></td><td></td><td></td></tr>";
}
foreach ($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) {
$topiclist .= '<tr class="row'. (round($c/3)+1) .'"><td class="column' . (round($c-1)%3+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>';
} elseif ($c!=count(variable_get('forum_containers'))) {
$topiclist .= '<td class="column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td>';
} else {
$topiclist .= '<td class="column' . (round(($c-1)%3)+1) . '"><div class="cat"><a href="/forum#'.$forum->tid.'">' . $forum->name . '</a></div></td></tr>';
}
[stuff deleted]
print $topiclist . '</tbody></table>';

Template – forum nodes

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(" ", "_", $urole);
$userroles .= "<img src='/sites/default/themes/Diamond/images/" . $urole . ".gif' title='". $urole ."'></img>";
}
?>
<table class='tablecomments'><tr class='comment-top'><td class='cleft'>
<?php
print l ( $comment_author->profile_first_name ." ". $comment_author->profile_last_name , 'user/' .$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="' . variable_get('user_picture_default') . '" alt="Default User Picture" />';
}
print $userpicture;
?>
</div>

Number of Posts
<?php
$allposts = "SELECT(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(node.nid))
FROM node
WHERE node.uid= ". $comment_author->uid .")‏
+(SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(comments.cid))‏
FROM comments
WHERE comments.uid= ". $comment_author->uid .")‏
AS result";
print l("Posts: " . db_result(db_query($allposts)), 'userposts/' . $comment_author->uid) . "<br>”;
?>

Member since
<?php
print l("Member Since: " . format_date($comment_author->created, 'custom', 'M d, Y') . "<br>“
?>

Modules added
Subscriptions
Comment mover
Spam
Service links

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by Angus Pratt on Mar 28, 2008

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