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Defected
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Hi!

I've been thinking for a while now to finally start working on a theme, but a free one, that will be available to everyone. That will be simple but have a ton of features. Obviously, there's a lot of work for that.
I'm currently working on Osclass fork (planning to make a new pull request with location fix soon), on 1-2 freelance projects and trying to keep my sites alive... 🙂

Then I thought, if the theme will be free, and available to everyone, it will be published on GitHub. And if it's on GitHub, everyone can contribute.

I want to know, is any other dev interested in this "project"?

How would you want to start?

My idea was to make the theme "modular". The theme itself will be as simple as it can, but it can be expanded with plugins because we would add quite a few new hooks.
CSS related, a framework like Bootstrap 4 can be used, and then, again, expanded with a bunch of UI kits for a fresh design with (almost) no code changes.

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Posted : 15/10/2019 9:49 pm
marius-ciclistu
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Just a thought. Make it without plugins, all the functionalities builtin but with on off capability from admin area. In that way you will not have plugin conflicts and you could modify it's core without fear of brooking the plugins functionality:)

 
Posted : 16/10/2019 1:10 am
(@rusnam)
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first need a design

 
Posted : 16/10/2019 4:23 pm
marius-ciclistu
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first need a design

A list of functionalities and then the design:)

 
Posted : 16/10/2019 8:13 pm
(@subzero)
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I can make the design 😉

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Posted : 17/10/2019 10:06 am
Defected
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I am listening to your ideas. 🙂

I can make the design 😉

You have much more experience with web design, what CSS framework are you most familiar with? Or you usually make everything from scratch?

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Posted : 17/10/2019 12:04 pm
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I am listening to your ideas. 🙂

I can make the design 😉

You have much more experience with web design, what CSS framework are you most familiar with? Or you usually make everything from scratch?

I am working with Bootstrap 4. 😉

Frontend Dev / UX-UI Designer / Illustrator / Father / Linux Enthusiast / Minimalist

 
Posted : 17/10/2019 7:41 pm
marius-ciclistu
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Just a thought. What do you think of a functionality to suggest categories on item post when entering the title of the ad?
That could be made via js onkeyup in title input field, but it must be adapted to category multi select(like in admin) or category select (like in bender). I mean when the user clicks on a suggested category the category select should be updated. In the second case it's easy. in the multi select not so much 🙂

 
Posted : 17/10/2019 8:11 pm
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Just a thought. What do you think of a functionality to suggest categories on item post when entering the title of the ad?
That could be made via js onkeyup in title input field, but it must be adapted to category multi select(like in admin) or category select (like in bender). I mean when the user clicks on a suggested category the category select should be updated. In the second case it's easy. in the multi select not so much 🙂

[member=6]marius-ciclistu[/member] i love that idea. It can be done as you already said with js onkeyup but how it will udersatnd and suggest the right category? For example if i type on title field "Samsung galaxy" how it will suggest the "Smartphones" category??? As for category multi select i don't prefer this way. A simple select box with all categories is the best option at least for me. 

Frontend Dev / UX-UI Designer / Illustrator / Father / Linux Enthusiast / Minimalist

 
Posted : 17/10/2019 8:22 pm
Defected
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Just a thought. What do you think of a functionality to suggest categories on item post when entering the title of the ad?
That could be made via js onkeyup in title input field, but it must be adapted to category multi select(like in admin) or category select (like in bender). I mean when the user clicks on a suggested category the category select should be updated. In the second case it's easy. in the multi select not so much 🙂

[member=6]marius-ciclistu[/member] i love that idea. It can be done as you already said with js onkeyup but how it will udersatnd and suggest the right category? For example if i type on title field "Samsung galaxy" how it will suggest the "Smartphones" category??? As for category multi select i don't prefer this way. A simple select box with all categories is the best option at least for me. 

We can offer multiple options. Maybe there can be a field where you can define keywords for each category and based on it you get recommendations when typing a title.

Available for custom Osclass development. www.defected.dev

 
Posted : 17/10/2019 8:32 pm
Defected
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I may make a repo on GitHub this weekend. Should we use Bender for the "skeleton"?

We also need a name, not only for the repository but for the function name prefixes too... 🙂

Suggestions?

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Posted : 17/10/2019 8:34 pm
marius-ciclistu
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When you have many categories the multiselect is quicker.
About your question. When the page loads, the js should receive an object/array with id=> category name. On key up js can search in that array and suggest the results with id and name.

Second way: ajax call to search for that title like word* not +word*. The number of ads/ categories should  be the suggested categories.

 
Posted : 17/10/2019 8:39 pm
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I may make a repo on GitHub this weekend. Should we use Bender for the "skeleton"?

We also need a name, not only for the repository but for the function name prefixes too... 🙂

Suggestions?

[member=3]WEBmods[/member] Yes i think Bender would be good for the "base". As for the name what about "Matrix" ?
And mtx_ for function name prefixes?

When you build the repo on Github do let me now so i can start impement the bootstrap framework and start building the UI.

Cheers

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Posted : 18/10/2019 3:48 pm
(@dev101)
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If you plan to make it bootstrap based, OW theme seems more logical to me. With minimal changes you can make it use v4.
Bender is too different, but of course, it is your choice.

off/ Btw. can you make forum send reply content in email notifications?

 
Posted : 18/10/2019 5:40 pm
Defected
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If you plan to make it bootstrap based, OW theme seems more logical to me. With minimal changes you can make it use v4.
Bender is too different, but of course, it is your choice.

Latest Osclasswizards uses Bootstrap 4, but licensing worries me. Bender is open source, not sure about Osclasswizards.

off/ Btw. can you make forum send reply content in email notifications?

No idea, I'll check.

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Posted : 18/10/2019 5:59 pm
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