Rearranging Our Forums

[requinix]

The staff have been discussing rearranging our forums for a couple weeks and we'd like to ask for feedback from the rest of the community.

 

Do you feel like PHP Freaks needs to add a particular forum? Did you had a hard time finding the right place to ask a question? Were you confused about which forum was most appropriate for some topic? Speak up and we'll try to do something about it.

 

If you like diff output, here's the changes:

• PHP Freaks Information Welcome to PHP Freaks
  • Announcements: "Announcements, news, and important information specific to PHP Freaks."
  • PHPFreaks.com Website Feedback: "Discussions about our website should go here. Feature requests, compliments, complaints... whatever you want, just be nice :)" (move to General)
  • Introductions: "Introduce yourself and get to know your fellow PHP freaks Freaks."
• PHP Coding
  • FAQ/Code Snippet Repository: "Check here first for questions that come up a lot. READ-ONLY" (move down)
  • PHP Coding Help: "Do you need help with some code you wrote? Ask here! We'll get you the answers!"
    • PHP Math Help: "Got a math based question? Post it here!" (merge up)
    • PHP Regex: "All that regex stuff you were never able to figure out." (promote)
  • PHP Regex Regex Help: "All that regex regular expression stuff you were never able to figure out."
  • Third-Party PHP Scripts: "Need help with a script code someone else wrote? Post your question here."
  • FAQ/Code Snippet Repository: "Check here first for questions that come up a lot. READ-ONLY"
• SQL / Database Forums
  • MySQL Help: "Installation, usage and other issues related to MySQL should be discussed here. For questions about MySQL queries, installation, and other issues related to MySQL"
    • Installation & Configuration Issues: "" (merge up)
  • PostgreSQL: "PostgreSQL Forums"
  • Microsoft SQL - MSSQL: "Microsoft SQL Forums - Related to PHP Programming."
  • Other RDBMS and SQL dialects: "Oracle, SQLite, IBM Db2, etc."
• PHP Applications, Frameworks and Libraries (move down)
  • PHP Applications: "WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Zen Cart, osCommerce, Magento, MediaWiki, etc."
  • Application Frameworks: "Laravel, Symfony2, CakePHP, etc."
  • Other Libraries and Frameworks: "Any type of PHP framework or library that doesn't fit in any of the other boards."
  • Third Party PHP Scripts: "Need help with a script someone else wrote? Post your question here."
• Client Side
  • HTML Help: "HTML Questions? Ask here!"
  • CSS Help: "Get help with Cascading Style Sheets"
  • Javascript Help: "Get help with Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, etc."
    • Ajax Help: "Get your Ajax help here!" (merge up)
  • Other: "Other client side stuff, such as Java Applets, Flash & ActionScript"
• SQL / Database Forums (move up)
  • MySQL Help: "Installation, usage and other issues related to MySQL should be discussed here."
    • Installation & Configuration Issues: ""
  • PostgreSQL: "PostgreSQL Forums"
  • Microsoft SQL - MSSQL: "Microsoft SQL Forums - Related to PHP Programming."
  • Other RDBMS and SQL dialects: "Oracle, SQLite, IBM Db2, etc."
• PHP Applications, Frameworks and Libraries Applications & Frameworks
  • PHP Applications: "WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Zen Cart, osCommerce, Magento, MediaWiki, etc."
  • Application Frameworks: "Laravel, Symfony2, CakePHP, etc."
  • Other Libraries and Frameworks: "Any type of PHP framework or library that doesn't fit in any of the other boards."
  • Third Party PHP Scripts: "Need help with a script someone else wrote? Post your question here." (move into PHP Coding)
• Web Server Administration
  • PHP Installation & Configuration: "If you are having issues installing or running PHP, you should discuss them here."
    • Installation on Linux: "Get help setting up Apache, MySQL, and PHP on a Linux environment." (merge up)
    • Installation in Windows: "Get help configuring Apache, MySQL, and PHP on a Windows environment." (merge up)
  • Linux: "Get help with your Linux system here."
  • Apache HTTP Server: "Apache HTTP Server questions should be discussed here, including how to use mod_rewrite to create human-friendly URLs."
    • mod_rewrite: "" (merge up)
  • Microsoft IIS: "Microsoft IIS questions should be discussed here."
  • Other Web Server Software: "Any other Web server software, including other HTTP servers (Lighttpd, thttpd etc.), but also mail servers (Sendmail, Postfix), etc."
• Other
  • Application Design: "Programming theory, database design, performance, etc."
  • Other Programming Languages: "Got a question about another programming language? Post it here!"
  • Editor Help (Dreamweaver, Zend, etc): "This forum is for those people using various editors to manage their applications. Please state your editor."
  • Website Critique: "Need someone to review your website and give you a critique about how it looks? Post your link in here and let other people help you decide what needs to be done!"
  • Beta Test Your Stuff!: "READ THE BEFORE POSTING. YOUR THREAD WILL NOT BE APPROVED IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS"
• Freelance, Contracts, Employment, etc.
  • Services Offered: "Looking for work? Post here if you want to offer your services."
  • Job Offerings: "Looking to hire someone? Post here if you have a project/job or employment position you want to post. Post project, job, or employment position details here."
  • Archived: "" (removed)
• General Discussion
  • PHPFreaks.com Website Feedback: "Discussions about our website should go here. Feature requests, compliments, complaints... whatever you want, just be nice
  • PHP Conferences & Meetups: "Have a conference you'd like to announce to the world? Or having a local meetup? Here is a great place to tell your fellow PHP developers!"
  • Website Critique: "Need someone to review your website and give you a critique about how it looks? Post your link in here and let other people help you decide what needs to be done!" (move into Other)
  • Beta Test Your Stuff!: "READ THE BEFORE POSTING. YOUR THREAD WILL NOT BE APPROVED IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS" (move into Other)
  • Miscellaneous: "Miscellaneous Ttopics that do not fall into all of the other forums. You can have personal discussions here about the weather, your car, your dog or whatever.. Have fun :)"

If you don't like diff output then here's a summary:

Moved:

- Website Feedback: moved to General category

- Third Party PHP Scripts: moved into PHP Coding category

- Website Critique: moved into Other

- Beta Test: moved into Other

 

Rearranged:

- Applications/Frameworks/Libraries category: moved below Client Side

- SQL/Database category: moved above Client Side

- PHP Regex: promoted

 

Merged:

- PHP Math Help: merged up into Coding Help

- MySQL Installation/Configuration: merged up into MySQL

- Ajax: merged up into Javascript

- (PHP) Installation on Linux, Windows: merged up into Installation & Configuration

- mod_rewrite: merged up into Apache

 

Removed:

- Archived (old job offerings)

 

Other changes:

- Assorted renames

- Assorted changes to descriptions

Edited August 16, 2017 by requinix
see post #3

[Sepodati]

I don't care for the regex/math/mod_rewrite sub-forums unless they're drawing a bunch of traffic themselves. These don't appear to. Just my $0.02.

[requinix]

So we'll get rid of Math as it never was that popular, and promote Regex since it is popular. We'll also merge mod_rewrite into Apache (with an edited description) since it was the only remaining sub-forum.

 

I've edited the first post to match.

[requinix]

Just updated the forums.

 

If anyone has comments or suggestions about the changes, head over to the Feedback forum (which is now situated in the "General Discussion" category).