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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:27 pm  Post subject: PHPBB 3 upgrade?
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What are the feelings of the option to upgrade to the latest PHPbb version? This is a major increment that adds a lot of management improvements and greater control over forum design and layout.

The idea would be to port forward the look and feel of the site entirely, I have largely done this for one of the RCs. PHPBB3 is now released officially.


Unfortunately due to some of the design descisions by the team the upgrade isn't simple:
  • HTML is not supported, and as such it will need hacking back in
  • I will have to port forward news and shares on the frontpage portal as BBCode and html are no longer compatible.


The decision for them to offer no upgrade path html is pretty shitty and a major hinderance.

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I hate it when people design software in a way, that upgrading will result in a huge pain in the ass for the user.

PhpBB is a nice forum engine indeed. Upgrading is a good idea I think.
But my opinion is to install it beside this site on the same server, or create a full backup of this one and try to upgrade it.

The first option enables us to use this site paralell to the new one.

I would suggest to create a separate instance of this site and let the current be alive as soon as you are satisfied with the results of phpBB 3 you can switch to the new one.

Good luck anyway. And feel free to ask me for help if you might need any. :wink:

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Yeah upgrade! But you must do it in a away that we don't notice anything. :lol: Good luck Spudvich.


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The purpose of upgrading is that people gain by it. Is that really the case? In other words: what are the advantages? I read this
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This is a major increment that adds a lot of management improvements and greater control over forum design and layout.
but what does it really mean for the users of this site?

The only thing I'd really like to see in an upgrade is that I can search for titles within collections, but I doubt that PHPbb3 will do that for me.

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Dunno, but I'll keep coming regardless of whatever you do. :)


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Slayer wrote:
The purpose of upgrading is that people gain by it. Is that really the case? In other words: what are the advantages? I read this
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This is a major increment that adds a lot of management improvements and greater control over forum design and layout.
but what does it really mean for the users of this site?

The only thing I'd really like to see in an upgrade is that I can search for titles within collections, but I doubt that PHPbb3 will do that for me.


The list of improvements are here: http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

I'll go for the paid security audit. :)


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I'm ok with going phpBB3, i liked the look of the temporal phpBB3 site Spud made. It's just fucked up that it involves that amount of work for the html, frontpage stuff etc

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elchupacabra wrote:
The list of improvements are here: http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/


Apart from the HTML setback it seems like enough improvement.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:42 pm  Post subject:
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No HTML in messages. :cry:

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For html I think you need to be in: functions_content.php
* generate_text_for_display()
* generate_text_for_storage()
* generate_text_for_edit()

And from there, change things and allow html.
If I got time, I can probably mod: message_parser.php and add option for allowing optional html in messages.

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i'm afraid workload wise there was a severe shit storm, that became a shit hurricane, which set a shit tanker on fire, which careered into a shit reactor, causing a cascading shit holocaust.

Had absolutely no time to look into phpbb3 upgrade, won't have either... not until work settles. :(

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:58 pm  Post subject:
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Got this link from elguaxo: http://www.lithiumstudios.org/forum/vie ... f=31&t=535
It's a mod for enabling html. It adds an extra permission setting, so you can allow users/groups to post html.

Applied it to sbig forum, and seems to work fine.
Only problem I encountered was that ed2k links added in anchor form are broken.

So I need to find a workaround for that. Or apply a different ed2k hack.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:11 pm  Post subject:
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I have already upgraded a site of a guy from PHPBB2 to PHPBB3. It was straight forward.

The only thing that sucks, is that the theme structure seems to be different and he couldn't use his old theme. :?


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:42 pm  Post subject:
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@vae, yes, i got sent that last week. I'm trying to juggle some time to do an upgrade locally.

@elchup, luckily i've already ported a lot of the main theme.

The thing that needs the most work would be the frontpage portal which would also need updating.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:59 pm  Post subject:
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Right, needed minor tweaks between versions... and html isn't great but its there.

Some sneaky peakies:
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Mods applied are ed2k, html (only for collections), a couple of my own design, and a quick reply.

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looks not bad, not bad at all. I do not like phpbb3, but... looks like you done big job to changing the look of php3. And phpbb2 mods of ed2k doesn't work on 3?

btw, what elvis is doing in torrent section? :mrgreen: :P some changes are welcome - i think so :wink:

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:11 pm  Post subject:
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Macabria, what's your grievance with phpbb3? maybe we can address it / patch it so its not so much a problem.

I have a kind of disconnect caused by the amount of information it throws at you, i'm trying to make the theme feel as much like the current forum as possible.

there are notable improvements, like better caching, etc.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:21 pm  Post subject:
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all mods http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... es+private

portal http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... p;t=550233

ed2k mod http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... p;t=562531


but i think you know all those. ed2k mod i've tried, it works

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:26 pm  Post subject:
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sorry i meant what do not like about phpbb3 so I can see if i can fix it? :)

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