Digitalpoint now running xenforo!!

Oh yeah... I also made a new DB adapter so XenForo can work with master/slave DB set ups (rather than just the one DB server only).

Thankfully XenForo lets you define a new DB adapter to use in the normal config file, so it didn't require any hacking on standard files.

PHP:

$config['db']['adapterNamespace'] = 'DigitalPoint';

 

Isn't that a side effect of them originally using Zend Framework? I know in ZF you can set $adapterNamespace in Zend_Db / Zend_Db_Adapter -regardless that is nice.

 

Well, the side effect really of them using Zend Framework made it trivial for them to add such an option when I asked for it. Literally it only took them 2 or 3 lines of code to allow the existing $config object to accept a user defined adapterNamespace.

But could you do it in 1.0.0 simply because they were using Zend? No.

 

What do you think about the running speed of your site so far under XenForo. Seems a lot slower to me than your vBulletin 4 board before.

 

I recently saw this during my travels over the weekend. Awesome job, Shawn!

Finally, finally a big board site goes xenForo. And digitalpoint.com gets a brand new front page to boot!

I'd like to know exactly how you made the setup to work the way you made it: DigitalPoint points to portal, and forums is on it's own subdomain....

 

Oh ya, I almost forgot about the home page, that does look amazing and very clean.


hmm.. wonder if something is being worked on, I couldn't post

 

Having XenForo routes for specific sub-domains is probably one of the hackiest things I've ever done... it didn't require any file edits, but well... let's just say I don't really expect it to work on any XF update unfortunately.

It does require "exploiting" the way Zend Framework works and some hacky things *it* does with certain web servers (namely IIS). I'm not using IIS, I'm just taking advantage of some stuff Zend does for IIS servers.

It was some idioticness on my part.

 

no biggy

 

Haha... speak for yourself.

 

lol

 

It's actually quite a bit faster... I'm guessing ~3x faster once Google Webmaster Tools has a week or so to compile some worthwhile stats. Main page takes 0.3-0.4 seconds to render (under vB it was right about 1 second).

 

Nice to see you finally switched over. I dislike the fact that I feel inadequate now.