1 Topic by JonathanS (edited by JonathanS 2004-04-11 03:49)

  • Registered: 2004-04-11
  • Posts: 6

Topic: Smiles Question, Login Script from Website, and other questions

Hey guys--first off, let me say I love punBB.
I've been an heavy IPB forums user, but after about a month
working on a friend's site, I still couldn't get IPB v1.3 to be intergrated :x

Anyways, not even 30mins after I downloaded, and burned, the ZIP file
for punBB, got it running on my other comp (I have server setup) as a test.

Not even 10mins past that point, about 40mins since finding punBB,
I had it COMPLETELY customized and skinned to match my site!!

But now, I have a few questions for you guys,
as while I have some pretty good working PHP knowledge,
its not NEARLY enough to be able to figure this out....



1) I have made some cool smiles; I've added them to my
smiles folder, but how do I make it so if I do say mad
it'll show the mad.gif smile? etc.

2) How would I go about making an simple PHP/mySQL script
to process the user/password entered into a forms field, so it'll
log the person in and forward them to the forums base_url?
If someone has a pre-made one / example, please post smile

3) I wish to modify, at least by radically changing the colors
for the forums layout, punBB; I read through the GNU, but I admit
I think most of it went over my head past the 50th or so line.

My question is, am I allowed to modify punBB, and release
it as 'gdBB' or some similar name, as long as I keep the
copyright info in the files, as well as the 'Powered by punBB' line/link?

4) I'd like to use my html table coding, produced by ImageReady (Adobe),
so that my heaeer is this awsome image I've been working on; point is,
how would I go about doing this?? I tried just div align and the img tags
in the description, but then it makes me put in a board name which,
very saddly, causes the image to mess up totally; plus the fact
it forces the image to be very poor quality as I must make it whole,
instead of a few "slice" images...

Cheers,


<EDIT>Scatch the smiles post, idiot me just found the 'HOWTO' topic lol</EDIT>

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: Smiles Question, Login Script from Website, and other questions

JonathanS wrote:

2) How would I go about making an simple PHP/mySQL script
to process the user/password entered into a forms field, so it'll
log the person in and forward them to the forums base_url?
If someone has a pre-made one / example, please post :)

You can use the login script in PunBB for that purpose. Just create a login form similar to the one in PunBB and set the form to submit to login.php in your forums directory.

JonathanS wrote:

3) I wish to modify, at least by radically changing the colors
for the forums layout, punBB; I read through the GNU, but I admit
I think most of it went over my head past the 50th or so line.

My question is, am I allowed to modify punBB, and release
it as 'gdBB' or some similar name, as long as I keep the
copyright info in the files, as well as the 'Powered by punBB' line/link?

What do you mean by radically changing the colors? Do you mean adding a new style? In that case, that can be done via stylesheets. Have a look in the directory style/.

What the GNU GPL license basically says is that you may download, modify and do whatever you want with it as long as any release you make is also made under the GNU GPL. If you don't release your own version, you can do whatever you want with it. I can't really see how modifying the colors for the forum layout would warrant a completely new version. If you feel PunBB doesn't have the features you want or lacks in some other way, feel free to release your own modified version, but don't do it just because you want to change some of the colors or something like that. I can't stop people from forking PunBB, but I can try to convince them not to :D

JonathanS wrote:

4) I'd like to use my html table coding, produced by ImageReady (Adobe),
so that my heaeer is this awsome image I've been working on; point is,
how would I go about doing this?? I tried just div align and the img tags
in the description, but then it makes me put in a board name which,
very saddly, causes the image to mess up totally; plus the fact
it forces the image to be very poor quality as I must make it whole,
instead of a few "slice" images...

Have a look at the template files in include/template/.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

Rickard's Website

  • Registered: 2004-04-11
  • Posts: 6

Re: Smiles Question, Login Script from Website, and other questions

smile Got the header down;
before I didn't realize where to check,
because the fact that it said "<pun_title>" (I believe so) tongue

As for releasing a vers. -- it'd basicly include a different
default color, more styles to go with it, plus some
mods to go with it by default, etc.

Cheers & Thanks,

  • From: 127.0.0.1
  • Registered: 2001-11-02
  • Posts: 9,167

Re: Smiles Question, Login Script from Website, and other questions

Have you had a look at PunBB++? It's basically what you're talking about.

"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."

Rickard's Website

  • Registered: 2004-04-11
  • Posts: 6

Re: Smiles Question, Login Script from Website, and other questions

Rickard wrote:

Have you had a look at PunBB++? It's basically what you're talking about.

I feel damned ashamed now;
I need to look more b4 I try
and re-invent the wheel roll