MyBB 1.9 Development

[Serpius]

As described in the roadmap I posted recently, the future development of MyBB is going to happen over a series of major releases:

• 1.9.0
  
• 1.10.0
  
• 1.11.0
  
• etc.
  

This thread is dedicated to the ongoing development of MyBB 1.9.0.

New Features/Changes

• Brand new responsive theme, with more semantic HTML5 structure behind it.
  
• Changing the template system to use Twig. This brings the following improvements:
  • Conditionals and loops within templates, removing the need for plugins like the PHP or Template Conditional plugins.
    
  • Ability to include templates from withina  template, leading to more flexibility for theme developers.
    
  • HTML in variables in templates is escaped by default - no need to remember to use htmlspecialchars_uni() in backend PHP code everywhere. This should lower the chances of inadvertent holes for XSS attacks to leak through due to output not being filtered.
    
  • Ability to register functions that can be called within templates. Functions such as formatting dates according to MyBB settings, checking permissions, and more will be available from straight within templates, making logic muche asier to reason about.
    

Current Status


As of the time of writing, progress on 1.9 is still very early. Work is happening in a dedicated develop/1.9 branch on GitHub. So far, there is a single template converted to Twig, which is the User CP drafts page. There is still a great deal of work to be done here, such as finishing converting the header and layout templates, and adding the user CP menu to the page. However, it should make clear the structure:

• All base templates are stored in the "inc/views/base" directory.
  
• The drafts tmeplate can be found here, and gives a good example of the Twig syntax - it makes use of a loop, layout blocks, comments, and template includes.
  
• Twig extensions (which provide functions and global templates) live under the "MyBB\Twig\Extensions" namespace. There are currently two extensions registered - one for providing translations inside templates, and another for providing theme support. More extensions will be added as they're needed - such as a User CP extension to provide the User CP menu.
  
• Twig views are rendered using the "\MyBB\template()" function, as shown here.
  

Timeframe

It is planned that 1.9.0 will be available at least as a beta verison within the first quarter (Q1) of 2018, though obviously the sooner the better. We welcome any contributions to the effort that people can provide. For example, if you're used to working on Twig, you can follow the below process:

• Fork the MyBB repository to your GitHub branch.
  
• Create a new branch based upondevelop/1.9.
  
• Convert a template to Twig, and test it locally.
  
• Create a Pull Request to the MyBB repository against the develop/1.9 branch.
  
• The team will review and merge the PR, knocking another template off the list to convert!
  

It is my plan that this thread will act as a status log of progress on 1.9, and I will post weekly status update summary posts, which will be linked to in this opening post as they are created. These status sumamries will detail what's been achieved in the last week, and which templates have been converted (and by who, if by somebody outside the team).

Would this thread be better off in it's own 1.9 forum? 

Or...

At least rename this 1.10 to 1.9.

Either way is the more logical use of the correct versions and it's discussions of those respective versions. 

Discussing 1.9 version inside a 1.10 forum seems illogical to me.

[WallBB]

Thanks for sharing the roadmap Euan, looking forward to it.

[Euan T]

Would this thread be better off in it's own 1.9 forum? 

Or...

At least rename this 1.10 to 1.9.

Either way is the more logical use of the correct versions and it's discussions of those respective versions. 

Discussing 1.9 version inside a 1.10 forum seems illogical to me.

Yes, I'd been meaning to change the forum name, Devilshakerz beat me to it (we've also used the same name on the Discord server).

[html_nerd]

Thanks to all developers and contributors helping this long overdue release happen.

We are all anxiously waiting for it.

[Euan T]

As I said in the first post of this thread, I plan to do status updates around once a week on the development of 1.9. Here's the first of these, and I plan to do these on Sundays from now on.

Translated Templates

• Subscribed Threads in the User CP
  
• Send Thread
  
• Warnings Page
  
• Drafts in the User CP
  
• Announcement View Page
  

Other Work

• Getting started with MyBB 1.9 development - Composer Wiki Page
  

We're also tracking which templates still need to be translated to Twig, in this issue. Note that the list in this issue isn't entirely accurate as many of these templates will disappear since we can use conditionals and loops inside actual templates thanks to Twig. Other templates like headerinclude will also be rolled into the layout template.

We are also tracking any functions that may be useful for use inside Twig based templates, in this issue. These functions will be added to new or existing Twig extensions during the development process. If you spot any functions that you think would be useful, please add them to the issue.

[lomazzo]

Hi how's it going?

I read that 1.9 is going to look like this:

http://mybb.jsoltesz.com/mybb-theme/

Can you please add "threads" and "posts" in each forum, or just "posts" at least? It would look much better. People are much more likely to join a forum if they see that it has a bunch of posts.

[andrewjs18]

Hi how's it going?

I read that 1.9 is going to look like this:

http://mybb.jsoltesz.com/mybb-theme/

Can you please add "threads" and "posts" in each forum, or just "posts" at least? It would look much better. People are much more likely to join a forum if they see that it has a bunch of posts.

it's a test forum.....

[lomazzo]

Hi how's it going?

I read that 1.9 is going to look like this:

http://mybb.jsoltesz.com/mybb-theme/

Can you please add "threads" and "posts" in each forum, or just "posts" at least? It would look much better. People are much more likely to join a forum if they see that it has a bunch of posts.

it's a test forum.....

yes I know but they said that it's going to be very similar

[amanda_2011]

Hi how's it going?

I read that 1.9 is going to look like this:

http://mybb.jsoltesz.com/mybb-theme/

Can you please add "threads" and "posts" in each forum, or just "posts" at least? It would look much better. People are much more likely to join a forum if they see that it has a bunch of posts.

it's a test forum.....

It's the mobile test version, right?

[andrewjs18]

Hi how's it going?

I read that 1.9 is going to look like this:

http://mybb.jsoltesz.com/mybb-theme/

Can you please add "threads" and "posts" in each forum, or just "posts" at least? It would look much better. People are much more likely to join a forum if they see that it has a bunch of posts.

it's a test forum.....

It's the mobile test version, right?

yes, it'll be mobile friendly.