We have two versions of BlueThrust available:
- Version 4 - The original BlueThrust clan scripts from 2016. Great if you are running a really old version of PHP such as PHP 5.6.
- Version 5 - The latest and greatest BlueThrust clan scripts that we have done some bug fixes and PHP error fixes on. Great if you are running a modern version of PHP such as PHP 8.1. This is a WORK IN PROGRESS and may still have some errors.
For all bugs, security issues, and feature requests, please create an issue.
Your feedback is essential to help me decide what to work on. Feel free to make lots of issues.
If you like this fork or found it useful, please consider leaving us a star. It lets me know that folks are interested in the project and that I should spend more time on it.
- Technical Debt
- Fix PHP warnings
- Reduce # of SQL queries
- Lint the code
- Create developer documentation - see the wiki
- Fix v4 Bugs
- Fix broken page "Add Menu Item"
- Fix forum advanced search
- (couple of others)
- Small Features
- Big Features - None yet. Any suggestions?
"Clan Scripts" are a website engine (CMS) for gaming communities. BlueThrust is one of the best clan scripts created during the Battle.net era of clan websites (Starcraft: Brood War, 2000-2005).
The original author was nice enough to open source the scripts, created a GitHub for them, and released them with a license that allowed modification and redistribution.
I attempted to contact him via a couple of different email addresses. I didn't get a response. The original GitHub hasn't been updated since 2014. The BlueThrust.com website has a version of the scripts that haven't been updated since 2016.
I was hired by a client in 2020 to update these scripts and add features. As a result, I became pretty familiar with them.
This repository is a fork of the BlueThrust 4 scripts, and I am going to share some of the changes I made for my client. I am naming this fork BlueThrust Clan Scripts v5.
- Military ranking system (M26)
- Days since login (DSL) system - requires members to log in every X days or be auto disabled
- Integrated forum
- Multiple skins
- Permissions - the higher the rank, the more website access
- Public & internal news
- Squads
- Tournaments
- Events
- Medals
- Diplomacy
- Custom pages
- Top players
- Logging
- Private messages
- Upload files / upload forum post attachments
- Customizable control panel menu
- Shoutbox
Do you just want these scripts up and running? Not interested in the technical details? I'm available for hire. I can help with any/all of the following:
- Buying a domain name
- Buying web hosting
- Installing and configuring BlueThrust
- Making custom modifications to BlueThrust
Click here to send me an email.
Would you like a different website skin? There are 29 to choose from. Head on over to the BlueThrust5-Themes repository. I did not create these, they are from the BlueThrust website. But I am maintaining them on GitHub so that I can keep their code up to date.
Interested in contributing? Here's some developer notes.
