So what kinds of mods have you guys made for Olympus?

[catoro]

Not wanting to sound like a Coldfusion advocate, but after having to work with it for two projects, it was actually quite fun (as long as one ignores the stupid syntax, seriously wtf: I don't want to use tag based syntax in core code). It has very good and informative debugging messages, database handling is a breeze (ever tried to get Oracle to work with PHP?), and in my experience it was not as slow as people claim it it to be.

The main advantage is that Coldfusion makes a lot of stuff very easy for you, which of course is also the main disadvantage for serious developers. It doesn't give you a lot of options to play with.

well... you have me there. I've never tried to work with Oracle
I've only worked with MySQL and it's pretty easy
Probably because php and MySQL are both open source so they make sure they work together.

You should investigate cfscript if you are like allot of people and do not like the tag syntax. It gives more of an oo type feel to it. The only real exception is you still need to use <cfquery> for querying a database...although you could create a simple function that you can globally include to query via cfscript.

small example from one of my ses scripts:

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// depending on the web server, get the info from different cgi vars.

currentPath = '';

if (Len(cgi.request_uri)) {
 currentPath = cgi.request_uri;
}
else if (Len(cgi.path_info)) {
 currentPath = cgi.path_info;
}
if ((Len(currentPath)) AND ((Len(cgi.script_name) GT Len(currentPath)) OR (NOT find(".",currentPath)))) {
 currentPath = cgi.script_name;  
} 

/* only do stuff if currentPath has len, otherwise it breaks the RemoveChars() function */
if (Len(currentPath)) {

	/* replace any ?,&,= characters that are in the url for some reason */
	cleanpathinfo=REReplace(currentPath, "\&|\=", "/" ,"ALL");

	/* get everything after the first occurence of ".XXX/",
	   where XXX is .cfm, or whatever you use for your templates 
	   In other words, get the query string */	
	cleanpathinfo=RemoveChars(cleanpathinfo,1,Find("/",cleanpathinfo,Find(".",cleanpathinfo,1)));

or a simple switch/case...

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<cfscript>
switch (URL.cmd) {
// Index
case "Home": {
	GetPageContext().include('_content/index.cfm');
	break;
}
// Collection
case "collection.index": {
	GetPageContext().include('_content/collection/collection.cfm');
	break;
}
case "collection.ejournals": {
	GetPageContext().include('_content/collection/ejournals.cfm');
	pagename='Electronic Journals List';
	break;
}
default: {
	GetPageContext().include('_content/index.cfm');
	break;
}
}
</cfscript>

or control white space...

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<cfscript>
pageContent = variables.fullpage;
getPageContext().getOut().clearBuffer();
pageContent = reReplace(pageContent, chr(9),"", "all" );
pageContent = reReplace(pageContent, "    ","", "all" );
pageContent = reReplace(pageContent, chr(13)&chr(10)&chr(13)&chr(10),chr(13)&chr(10), "all" );
pageContent = reReplace(pageContent, chr(10)&chr(13),"", "all" );
pageContent = reReplace(pageContent, "[[:space:]]+", " ","ALL");
writeOutput(pageContent);
getPageContext().getOut().flush();
</cfscript>

[Spectral Dragon]

I would also like to see the list of mods being ported to 3 or currently being worked on/currently done.

I've been trying to see, for example, if the knowledge base mod was being worked on for 3.

[Handyman]

I would also like to see the list of mods being ported to 3 or currently being worked on/currently done.

I've been trying to see, for example, if the knowledge base mod was being worked on for 3.

The knowledge base mod is being worked on, but Richard (the person making it) has never used php before, so I think he needs help.
I don't have time to build it, so I'm just giving him instruction on how to do it... it's taking a while, but he will eventually get it done and he is learning quickly.

[Highway of Life]

There seems to be a good amount of demand for the KB MOD, so I have a feeling Richards MOD will be a community project.

[Trinity_Sound_System]

I'm hoping someone is working on caledar mod.

[Limit-Studios]

I'm working on a Bug Tracker MOD for phpBB3, its making good progress and just getting to grips with the permission system.

[Highway of Life]

Yes, Andrew is working on a good calendar MOD.

The one that was made for phpBB2 really sucked, so it won't take much to beat that one.

[Trinity_Sound_System]

Yes, Andrew is working on a good calendar MOD.

The one that was made for phpBB2 really sucked, so it won't take much to beat that one.

I've had no problems with it. I am really hoping that he will include the option of having the current week displayed at the top of index page of forums. While it was a bit too large and took up too much space, I was able to shrink it down quite a bit so it fits in nicely on my forums. Really hoping I can keep that feature on my index page of my forums, as I don't think people on my site ever go to the whole month view as the coming week is enough and right there at top of index.

[tffnguy]

A digest MOD would still be good! Anyone? I've got quiet a few members on digest and am sure they won't be happy campers when there isn't one in 3.

[DoubleJ]

I'm hoping someone is working on caledar mod.

I will work on one, but I mainly design it as a plugin for our clansite, so it may have another feature set then a normal calender, but I want to finish my blogmod first before I continue on that mod.