[Beaverbeliever]

SourceBB

Background:
A friend and I have begun a project that will be revolutionary to any medium to large size gaming clan or organization with multiple game servers and a website.

The project, it called SourceBB. This is a combination of phpBB3 Forums and Sourcemod to create an ultimate ban and administration system. Basically using MySQL across the board to provide global results on any large gaming network.

Tell me more:
SourceBB works in this way: It starts at the forums. When a user registers, they will input their SteamID to be contained on their account. It also saves the users IP during signup, and adds them to the Sourcemod SQL Admins database with no flags. There is an additional field in the table for verification. When a user connects to the server, and their SteamID has a 0 in the verification slot, it will verify IP, and change it to a 1. Then printing that the user has been verified.

Another process is all admin distribution is done using Forum Groups. The forum groups will contain certain flags for different levels of admin in Sourcemod. If a user is in a forum group, they will receive all admin flags assigned to that group.

Banning is another feature of this system. When an admin bans a player, they are added to a database, and banned from all servers in SourceBB.

What if I use different forums?
Well, right now we are only planning on developing this for phpBB. If you have never tried phpBB before, or have disliked it in the past; SourceBB may change that.

Doesn't Sourcebans do all this?
Sourcebans is a very nice tool, and works great, but lacks several of the community features of using forums. Sourcebans works well for small groups with 50 or less admins, but can really load the servers down with its admin-prefetching qualities. SourceBB is designed using threading, which is easier on the servers with 50 or more admins. Not to mention, you no longer need to add admins to Sourcebans. Now it can be done with simple user group administration all on phpBB.

When will this be out?
We are working every day on this, and hope to release it October 31st, 2009, but please remember we are not yet complete.

Do you have a Website?
Yes! We do, please click the link below!

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Can I donate to SourceBB?
Of Course! Please click the button below, and specify your username if you want your name and the amount contributed.


Donor List:
-arm5ky ($5)
-DuckSoup-Gaming ($10)

Feature Checkoff List:

Done:

• Admin managment
• Full integration with phpBB
• Verification system
• Steam Community features

Not Fully Done:

• Ban Management
• Easy automated installation

Remember there is more to come, so please be patient. We will use this thread to announce updates!

Credits:

• spidEY - Coding Sourcemod/PHP
• Beaverbeliever - Game Server/Design