themeWeenie Template Pak Added
themeWeenie Template Pak has been added for use with your websites. The Template Pak is based on a design by Bryan Bell.
Discussion Conferences
Your websites now have a simple interface to discussion conferences. Conferences allow you to group related topics together. By default your website has four conferences: Files, General, Images, and Webpages.
When you add a message that has an image or file attached, the message is automatically routed to the Images or Files conference.
There is no requirement to use conferences. You can continue to use your website the way you have been if you don't need conferences.
MySQL queries to update conference descriptions
Here are MySQL queries for my records with use of a subquery to update empty conference descriptions.
UPDATE `message` SET `content_markup` = IF( `content_markup` = '', 'uploaded files are added here', `content_markup` ), `content` = `content_markup` WHERE `id` = (SELECT `conference_message_id_files` FROM `configuration`);
UPDATE `message` SET `content_markup` = IF( `content_markup` = '', "put the topic here if it doesn't fit elsewhere", `content_markup` ), `content` = `content_markup` WHERE `id` = (SELECT `conference_message_id_general` FROM `configuration`);
UPDATE `message` SET `content_markup` = IF( `content_markup` = '', 'uploaded images are added here', `content_markup` ), `content` = `content_markup` WHERE `id` = (SELECT `conference_message_id_images` FROM `configuration`);
UPDATE `message` SET `content_markup` = IF( `content_markup` = '', 'optionally add webpages here', `content_markup` ), `content` = `content_markup` WHERE `id` = (SELECT `conference_message_id_webpages` FROM `configuration`);
Entering Relative Url Change
The steps for entering a relative url for a message have changed. The relative url is now entered in the Add/Edit Message forms.
Captcha Links
Some time ago I did some research on the use of Captchas for my previous hosting service. Just capturing some links here for future reference.
Email Discussion Message Replies
Users of your website can now receive replies to discussion messages via email.