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no refresh ucp and mcp tabs

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Hello
what is your idea about no refresh ucp and mcp tabs?
use jquery like tabs ( option , attachment , poll creation ) in posting area.

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Re: no refresh ucp and mcp tabs

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I like the idea and it is, actually, something I've been thinking for quite a while. I'm just not sure about how to execute it.
For starters, just swapping "tabs" without any animation or something like that should suffice.

For me, I'd start right away making something useful for tabs system for MCP and UCP so that switching does not require a full page reload.

I think that we shouldn't read all tabs in a single page load. I think, when loading, getting 1 tab with some useful templates (to generate the other tabs) should be the best choice. Then the communication between it and the forum resumes to simple JSON objects with the relevant content.
Anyway, if they let me do it, I'd have to take a nice look at it before I even start.

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not sure about the new template system but when I brought this up last year it was pointed out that due to the way the template system works in relation to modifications at that time it was not fully possible. But its a discussion that needs to be addressed and its one of the ones on my list coming up for a new theme. Especially since we have extensions now.
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Maybe. It can be a PITA, though. I'll see what I can find. Thanks for the headsup.

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This means we need to generate quite a lot of pages instead of just one for each request, although most of them are not used.
Posting is different, as they all are part of the same form
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@nickvergessen
My idea was to use AJAX wisely.
When the page loads, 1 page is loaded from the server.
For starters, The idea is as follows:
As the user clicks on the top tabs or the left tabs, the relevant content is received from the server in order to display the content for the user.

That content is cached in the DOM itself by placing and removing DOM nodes using javascript.
My main idea would be to store the nodes in a javascript object. To which I switch to to change tabs. Animations are not possible with that but I'll make it such that adapting so that animations can be made should be an easy adaptation.
I think I'll need to change some of phpBB's inside in order to jump over processing that relates to the header, footer, etc... and only get the tabs content but it feels like it should be a fun challenge.
Oh! This also means that, inside each tab, even if you cahnge tabs, the context is maintained (I think that's a plus).

I may, later, make preloading of pages based on the user navigation and how we thing the user will probably navigate but that's for a later version is that requires a nice time thinking (waiting time vs resources expended with it).

BTW, for now, I won't be doing AJAX submit. If I do it, it is for a later version.

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Re: no refresh ucp and mcp tabs

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Sounds good to me by the way so I do not have remake this topic it's what I wanted to cover here https://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopi ... 81&t=45539

Topic #11 Proper use of ajax calls to render specific content.
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Sounds like you can run into race conditions when you have multiple tabs with the settings page.
So I guess this is not going to happen
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Re: no refresh ucp and mcp tabs

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What kind of race condition?
Is the race condition In the server?
Where is the race condition?

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Open a page in tab A and tab B.
In tab A you change the setting, you close it.
Tab B still shows the the data from before tab A's action.
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