- implemented comments (in general and as preview on account page & latest comments)

- partially implemented site reputation (required to grant privileges to comments)
- reworked 'home'-page (the news-box is now as configurable as you want)
- removed some ancient compatibility-code for IE67 (srsly, its 2014!)
- dropped associated stylesheets, reviewed the rest
- split some user-restrictions to trigger on insufficient siteRep
- added text-page: Markup-Guide
- implemented new class to handle Markup

- bugfixes [TM]

- also you will need to reapply the db-dumps (you may want do save account*, news,
reports, ..)

includes/markup.class.php

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+<?php
+
+if (!defined('AOWOW_REVISION'))
+    die('invalid access');
+
+/*
+    this is just a skeleton for now
+    at some point i'll need to (at least rudamentary) parse
+    back and forth between markup and html
+*/
+
+class Markup
+{
+    private $text      = '';
+    private $jsGlobals = [];
+
+    public function __construct($text)
+    {
+        $this->text = $text;
+    }
+
+    public function parseGlobalsFromText(&$jsg = [])
+    {
+        if (preg_match_all('/(?<!\\\\)\[(npc|object|item|itemset|quest|spell|zone|faction|pet|achievement|statistic|title|event|class|race|skill|currency)=(\d+)[^\]]*\]/i', $this->text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER))
+        {
+            foreach ($matches as $match)
+            {
+                if ($match[1] == 'statistic')
+                    $match[1] = 'achievement';
+
+                if ($type = array_search($match[1], Util::$typeStrings))
+                    $this->jsGlobals[$type][$match[2]] = $match[2];
+            }
+        }
+
+        Util::mergeJsGlobals($jsg, $this->jsGlobals);
+
+        return $this->jsGlobals;
+    }
+
+    public function fromHtml()
+    {
+    }
+
+    public function toHtml()
+    {
+    }
+}
+
+?>