PunBB 1.2 Beta (Page 9 of 11)

Debian used to have UTF8 as default. (which in theory is a good thing. a database is a backend thing. It should store stuff in a global accessible and unique way.)

So punbb currently has a more or less big problem handling discussions in multiple languages (say swedish and russian), unless users change the forum-language in between.

Does it make sense to change the english langpack to utf8?

Oh, changing the default client_encoding for the database makes umlauts work.

I'm not really that deep in php, so stupid question: What string functions do you use in punbb that need specific UTF-8 support?
strlen? Do you really need the number of "visible" characters instead of the number of octets?
regex? Yes, "?" would only match an octet instead of a character. Do you use regex for anything that would need that? the index/search is word based anyway, right?
I think, the other normal string functions can be seen as a subset of the above two problems.

*smile*

See above. Would it really break horribly? I have no idea, and haven't tested.

For the docs/reference:

punbb=# ALTER DATABASE punbb SET client_encoding TO 'LATIN1';

Replace latin1 by the most appropiate one from <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/stat … l#AEN18181>.
Or use createdb's -E (--encoding) option to create the databsse with the right charset. Like:

createdb --encoding SQL_ASCII --owner punbb punbb

Just thought I'd do a quick update...

Well, finally found the time on Sunday to sort this out and solved my problem. An easily recreateable(!) edit of header.php and  a merge of template files and css and now I've got exactly what I wanted in merging the two together and back to being able to change my whole site layout/look with the edit of 2 files

But I knew the css would clash...that's taking longer to go through
Just waiting for the non-beta release now.   great work Rickard/Paul.

Cheers
Rich

I would stop work on it. I've changed the css for the final version. I have had a go at sandboxing the css. Basically PunBB is in a wrapper div with class="pun". I've now made everything that does not have a PunBB specific class or id a descendant of the wrapper e.g. .pun TD, .pun P. The idea is that the stylesheets will only effect markup inside the wrapper. Site markup outside the wrapper should not be touched. If you want elements of your site to use PunBB's stylesheets then you just put it inside the wrapper div or put another div around it with class="pun".

Brilliant...that's saved me a post this morning I was going to ask if you could do that.
I'd tried doing the opposite and explicitiy wrapping my tags but of course it still picks up things I've not fully set.
I'll sit and wait then.

If you need anything testing on this let me know as I've got it integrated so can easily tell if things are being affected elsewhere.

Cheers,
Rich

To Rickard: You haven't changed the smileys ? http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3317&p=9 -> Message 2

Rod: Please simply accept, that some people do not want or cannot use javascript. (just a simple example: blind people prefer textmode browsers, and I'm not aware of any one, that has js.)

XSS and js give a nice combination too. IF I use a graphical browser, then js is disabled.

And if you want to have some fun reading about what all can be done with js: http://isc.sans.org//diary.php?date=2004-11-24 (look for "Follow The Bouncing Malware")

Let's please end this discussion soon.

I like PunBB for not needing js. And I hope, Rickard wont change this.

No problem, I'm waiting final release to develop my own vision. If for "bad javascript" you have to fun to edit post per post using requests per post and so js can edit several posts at same time and only ONE request, no problem. Coppermine is a revolution of administration : I'll continue in this way, alone. But I'll suggest my vision in mod section.

Stop to think with "disable js" ... in this case, xhtml 1.0 is not read by Lynx, Mozaic, NS3, IE3 and NS4 : and a lot of people use them. Future is in front of us, not behind.

By message box I assume you mean the textarea controls. Like just about everything else you can control the height with the stylesheets. If you think there is too much space at the side of the textareas, just make them wider. The posting options are better off where they are for lower resolutions and narrower layouts.

Thanks. Fixed

Yes, it will be possible. PunBB 1.2 will be released shortly. I really can't say any more than that.

Hi Rickard,

The 11_to_12_update.php misses to add o_default_user_group to the config.

I had to add it manually to the DB. Using the admin interface didn't do the job.

You might want to share the default config between install.php and the update scripts. So that the update script can just go in a loop over the config settings and check wether pun_config[new_var] does already exist, if not, add it to the db.