board layout admin page

Please implement this page.  No theming is needed here.

priority 1 since I need this to theme the home page

I started a simple editor in rev 5c4cedf. Don't worry about the look, I will work on that later. This is unfinished, so the page doesn't even save the structure.

We discussed how many levels a Board can have, but I don't remember our decision. Supporting a flat (max-2-levels) layout would simplify things a lot. Should I implement many levels or should we start with a flat (max-2-levels) layout?

The page doesn't work for me.  I just see 2 buttons that do nothing.

Flat isn't the same as max-2-levels since flat means everything at the same level.  So I am fine with max-2-levels but not with flat.

We discussed this. I need a way to get/set the Board code in lua table format.

(I will continue working on the UI in the meanwhile)

Please check the latest code.  I split Board.save() into Board.to_doc() and Board.save_doc() .  You can call to_doc() and then manipulate that and then call save_doc() which will also update Board.  Does this work?

In my default forum the to_doc() function returns this:

{type="board", id=1, name="My Board", next_forum_id=2, depth=1, tree="{{id=1, is_forum=true, name=\"My Forum\"}}"}

The "tree" value is quoted. That quote is not needed, right? Any easy way to remove it? If not, I will have to do some parsing when I convert it to json.

Do you mean that you want the tree as a data structure (table) instead of a string?

I need it as a string, but without those quotes. Imagine a string that could be pasted in a lua program as a data structure. In my case, I will paste it as a JSON structure and then the code will navigate through it.

So I can return to you a data structure and you can call Io.repr() on that. And then you can pass me back a similar data structure to save.  Okay?

Yes, but I assume I can convert a string into a data structure in lua (i.e., the inverse of Io.repr).

I made the change.  You can see how to do the inverse of repr in Board.luan .  But if you really want JSON support, this should be added to Luan directly.

I've made some improvements in rev c0ea2c7. Please test the UI and let me know if you see issues. If it works fine, I will finish it.

I can't do this:

category
   forum 1
forum 2

What you can do is move forum2 to the top:

forum 2
category
    forum 1

I tried Proboards and Lefora and they don't allow your structure either.

Proboards and Lefora don't allow top level forums at all.  I don't see why you wouldn't allow top level forums anywhere.  Where drag-and-drop is ambiguous, you can use the horizontal position to decide what to do.

Please try rev 695399b and let me know if it works for you.

It looks fine.

Board.fancy_test() seems to be broken. I need this to finish the UI.

I was wrong and it seems to work. Assigning to me.