Awesome thing, but somewhat primitive and annoying for writing longer documents I must say. I've managed to structure the first document for GoMobile like a Wiki by just using HTML and some div-powered templates;
http://www.mybbgm.com/misc.php?action=help&hid=8
Turned out well I thought, however I'm just wondering if there are any mods to 'update' the help doc system? (tl;ds) Something that allows you to use BBCode and gives you a full editor, or something?
It's not really a plugin request (yet), I'm just wondering if something exists or if anyone has any suggestions as to the most efficient way of writing articles other than copy/pasta from Wordpad.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
That's a pretty nice looking Help Document you got there.
Off-Topic: A bug on your product.
On the forum display, the padding on the right is messed up. Makes you have to scroll to the right. That's on iOS 4.2 iPhone.
Can't you just type them?
I do, I'm just wondering if there was a mod to add bbcode support or the likes. I'm just lazy, really, and don't want to integrate a full Wiki.
I don't think there is the help section of MyBB is usually forgotten even though as you proved it can be very useful
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I think putting in the bbcode editor would be a good idea though.
HTML is more primitive than mycode? Since when? And who needs a WYSIWYG anyways? If you must use one locally and then copy/paste the html. There is nothing you can't do with the help docs you can't do with a wysiwyg or mycode but you can do a lot more with html than mycode.
I love the help docs. I been using them extensively on my sites for a while and I think if more members used them too then maybe MyBB would expand their usage. I would rather see permissions on help docs than wysiwyg editor.
And check Download.com for free editors. They'll do fine for the help docs too.
I don't mean a WYSIWYG editor, I would like to see bbcode support (a larger writing space [inb4chrome/ff4beta] would be nice too) and a "Save & Refresh" button (similar to templates) so I can make a change and continue editing right away. Only reason I say it's primitive is you're limited to
just HTML. BBCode is significantly more efficient than raw HTML for creating things such as blocks (such as the wiki-style inline-images I've used in mine). The code I use now consists of:
<div class="block_r"><a href="http://mybbgm.com/images/docs/acp_pluginspage.png"><img alt="ACP: Plugin List" src="http://mybbgm.com/images/docs/acp_pluginspage.png"></a><br>Plugins available for your board.</div>
That could very easily become:
[block=acp_pluginspage.png]Plugins available for your board.[/block]
To be completely honest I was a little disappointed when I noticed BBCode wasn't supported. Simply adding BBCode support and automatic linebreaks (as opposed to using <br /> manually, though I suppose I could utilize whitespace: pre-wrap; ), as well as a larger writing space would effectively serve as a full-featured CMS. I use BBCode for a lot more than just formatting text and images.