v7 - don't MOD!

Hi all!

My few words about v7 and my opinion about MODS...

No system is perfect. That's true. But most annoying thing for me is modding. Now I'm talking about our beloved PHPFusion. In fact, previous versions hasn't too much possibilities to do some things without modding, but currently I can say that (almost, read as: NO SYSTEM IS PERFECT) every what you want can be done in PF v7 without one line of modified code. How? Simple. DEV Team trying to modularizing most parts of PF. We have got output handling (thanks to Matonor!). Only thing that can bother you is your imagination. If you aren't a coder or can't understand PHP/MySQL commands then you can stop to read this post.

I will not explain here the power of new possibilites of PF v7 but I would like to present to you how to use imagination to make impossible things possible.

The point is to think about our CMS not only in part but as a connected and related parts. If you mod some part of PF then you must remember that it can be related to others and then maybe mod another part. Great if you're doing it only for yourself and you remember what you've done. When you want to upgrade your modded files to newest from original package (ex. sql injection found -> problem solved) then you need to mod newest file. So you're modding, and modding, and...

Next thing which I've observed after v7 release is that users don't using v7 possibilities even if old v6 mods can be done with! I know that currently almost no manuals are done but you can always ask on official PF site. Try to ask and then think how to made it without mod. Mod is bad - programming without mod is good!

This is the first part of my thinking about v7 and MODs (bleah!). I would like to give you and example how to make some things made by mods for v6 which were made for v7 without mods. I mean our Polish Support Site forum. Let see an example:



As you can see this is normal forum post. Normal? No!
[olist=1]Do you see OS and browser detection at top-right?
Do you see 'Helped X times' (Pomogl: X) below 'User posts' (Postow: X)?
Do you see 'Skip to top' arrow at bottom-left (arrow-up image)
Do you see communicators icons at left from above?
Do you see other icons (after standard icons Reply & Edit) Helped and Warning at most left?
[/olist]
If true then believe me: that was done without one line of MOD!

Assuming:
Try to write new things for v7 without modding!