[ᒪeumonic]

I know EVERYONE hates theme archives, but I figured I would waste my time creating one for all of the themes I release as an easy place to get them. This will only be a repository of MY themes, so I will not be taking requests for themes to be added.

Anyway, I did this so that people wouldn't have to deal with the bullshit of reading through all of the HackForums crap to get to a theme they wanted and I wanted to see how easily this could be created. This is not a static program; it will read from a database that I host personally, so you only have to open the application to check for new themes.

Anyway, enough mindless banter; here is my shitty, done-anyway-because-it-was-late-and-I-was-bored, easy-as-fuck-to-make theme repository using PHP, MySQLi, and VB.net.



I will most likely release it tomorrow when I can get the database moved over from a local to remote location.

Sorry for wasting your time, HackForums.

I will be completely releasing the source code for this if requested. I have nothing to hide in it and made it extremely easy to edit for users.
Source code shows: (Click to View)
(VB.net)

• Use of proper threading
  


• Explanation of easy use of ListViews
  


• Examples of Lists (of string arrays, nonetheless)
  


• File downloading
  

(PHP)

• Reading a MySQL database
  


• Editing a MySQL database
  


• Integration of MySQL manipulation in HTML forms
  

Quite a bit of shit you can learn from it.

[Je$us]

Looks nice dude, keep it up.

I'm just now learning how to code :)

[ᒪeumonic]

I was also trying to make something similar to this but won't be releashing it as you will release your own... Anyways, good luck and keep up the good work!

Yours would work, but I would recommend getting rid of the ListBox and use the ListView. Resizable and everything; sortable.

[ᒪeumonic]

im actually a fan of such tools cause that way i can easily check how the themes look

Well this is a really easy to play with little source code. I coded a PHP back panel and a VB.net front-end so you can easily add a new theme to the database and have the application immediately reflect your change. It even has a setting to change the site it connects to for the database; you can tell it not to connect to my site or connect somewhere else/to someone elses repo. (I might even make this accept multiple sites and download from all of them - assuming they're formed the same way.)

[Yui Asuna]

"MySQLi" ?
You used SQL injection to make your program ? Lol'd

It will be useful, it's a pain to search through all the forum everytime you want a damn theme.

[Ever0n]

I quite like theme archives, easy to find themes, even if usually there aren't many good ones. I like the idea you have here with it connecting to a database and having it pull from the internet. I'd really like to look at the source code too, I could really learn something with your use of threading and interacting with SQL databases

[Ever0n]

What the hell are you talking about? ❓ Seems like a spammer...

He's made 10 posts in the past 10 minutes all saying similar things so I'd agree, I reported it so I guess the staff will sort it out.

[๖ۣۜMephobia]

That's cool, mind adding some of my themes to your repo?

[๖ۣۜMephobia]

What was the point in making this thread, besides taking up HF database space? There was no need to make a "preview" thread, even if you are going to update it with a download. just release the program and be done with it. There doesn't have to be this much hype when releasing things.

Sorry for ranting, I just get really tired of the "Preview" threads... It looks great, and I love how you're releasing the source for others to learn from. I wish this forum had more people like you.

I actually like previews. It let's us on HF tell the creator what we like and don't like about it. Then the creator can mod it to our liking. This will result in a better end product.

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I was also trying to make something similar to this but won't be releashing it as you will release your own... Anyways, good luck and keep up the good work!

Also, does your connect to a database? Or all the themes preloaded?

[DotNetNut]

I like the MYSQL integration, that makes it a lot more scalable and much easier to manage your theme repo.

Gratz, looks good and i can only assume as most things you code its nice and clean :P

[ᒪeumonic]

"MySQLi" ?
You used SQL injection to make your program ? Lol'd

It will be useful, it's a pain to search through all the forum everytime you want a damn theme.

http://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php
http://php.net/manual/en/class.mysqli.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQLi
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ref_mysql.asp

Anything else I can help you with or are you jut going to question the shit I say, despite the fact that I know exactly what I am talking about?

[seifertson]

all in all, your a great contributor to the community and i cant wait to see the final product.