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In other news, I thought I'd try a new tactic with getting phpseclib down in size. I'm not yet sure whether I'm entirely happy with it, but anyway.

I went through the files, making sure I only had the files I needed, then pushed them all through http://customhost.com.ua/php-minify/ to strip comments. I made sure to leave whitespace in and preserve newlines since I still want readable source, then did some regex magic to convert all the leading 4-spaces to tabs and I'm now down to ~280K with it. My target's always been 250KB to try and slim it down to, since if it's there, I figure it's small enough to justify its inclusion.

On reflection, I realised that I was a bit uptight with my PHP 5.3 compatibility changes, a class having its own name as a function will still be called for a default constructor, provided it's not namespaced, so I don't need to go through and convert the default constructors to __construct, but I now don't have the source I did changes to initially, it still has all the PHP 4 compatibility in it, and more irritatingly I ditched the conversion I did to indicate visibility of variables - they're all declared as var rather than public/private, which means they'll all be technically public.

Here's the thing: do I do it *right* and fix all that, or do I leave it, knowing that it'll work because it's not actually an issue per se and leave it being smaller?

Alternatively I can still use RepositoryHosting ;) Sure, it's not free (but is only $6/month) but the choice of SVN, Mercurial and Git, with more control over the number of users/permissions etc... makes it fairly hard to beat short of running it myself.

Hmmm, I've wondered today about making badges based on my avatar-interpretation-of-logo, where I'd create a grey-scale base that would look like a base that supported the logo (as though the logo were placed into a slight recess in the surface).

Then, I'd write a PHP script to accept a colour, it would tint the background, insert the text I give it, then overlay the logo into place to make new badges. It seems like a lot of effort but that's the sort of crazy thing only I would do, because that way I'd be able to spin new badges out for whatever teams/colours we want :)

I think it would also probably necessitate a custom font renderer since I'd keep the same font but there's no really good way to outline the font we currently use cleanly (having already tried it) but that's not exactly a killer. Either I'd get the text and draw it or encode it into the script like I did for the CAPTCHA font.

It's really not that polished. I certainly wouldn't publish it, even knowing my earlier published mods weren't nearly as polished.See for yourself. ThemeSelector.php - the entire plugin.


So, yes, it does use your code but the amount of code that's duplicated, it's not worth making into a function. JS is not clever, not efficient, but it was hacked together quickly!

I find it hilarious that I have almost as much effort in loading the theme list than I do everything else...

Well, I don't think I can do too much more work on the plugin manager (other than minor stuff) without adding this before long, simply because most of the hooks I'd really want to add, well, depend on this.

I'm not imagining any problems off it right now, I'll have another read of the code later on tonight, then look at playing with it in a real environment unless anyone has anything else to add?

Nope, not seen it, what's it about?

Take care of yourself! I doubt I could manage an hour's jog. Even after two months on Wii Fit... which I've let lapse because even after 2 months I hadn't shifted much in the way of weight. :(Going live isn't going to be a problem, given my typical 100+ posts per day support schedule... especially given that towards the end of my regular time at sm.org I was consistently doing 5k posts a month.

I'm hoping, though, to limit the number of support posts that we get by setting intelligent defaults (like making quick reply on by default) and the admin UI just being easier to cope with.

Meanwhile, I'm just reinstalling it cleanly to be able to judge what it looks like - but I'm getting the impression that using Diagona icons might be an idea.

Having now actually seen it, I'm inclined to agree with using smaller icons. They just seem a shade too big for the relative size of buttons. Going greyscale won't really help, IMO.