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Not saying they can't, necessarily, but it is highly common for users to disable access to their email accounts. Plus email is considered much more personal than a public forum, so it weirds people out to receive strange emails...

Note the reason they chose the word 'forum' anyway.

deusiah, when I said my vote was for 'no PMs', I didn't mean to imply you don't need a PM system.  I was only saying that I like having a forum without one.  I agree with you that it would be nice to have an easy way to add a PM system for those that need it -- hopefully the mod that's being written will do the trick.

BTW, very cool sig you have there.  *bookmarking* your site now.

I know.  I went and found your polite notice.  Then I tried the mafia game site, but my computer got overwhelmed downloading the page, so I figured I'd try later.

Very funny messages on the bottom - telling me my IP address, the number of kilobytes in a megabyte, ...

OK Connorhd then we have reached an agreement. I was under the impression your were against the whole PM idea but now I understand your only aginst it being built-in and that's fair enough, afterall if you have no use for a PM system why would you want it built in?

I like this sound of this mod system being developed that allows simple installtion of mods. My vision of PunBB in the future is a customisable forum. You make the package you want via chosing options you want when you download it. Now that would be something!

That's the way I'd like to see PunBB swing anyway. Choice is a good thing and you can never have too much of it

not yet - http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?i … ction=last

Give it a spin: http://punbb.org/download/plugins/AP_News_Generator.zip

I won't put it up for download on the website until some of you have tested it out.

Whoa nice job.  Worked like a charm.  I can see the potential for even more uses for this.

It was never intended to auto generate.  He stated this somewhere on the form.  But I guess where there is a will there is a way.  I suppose if you had access to it, you could setup a cron job.

The problem with autogenerating the news is that it requires edits to posts.php and I don't want to do that.

One nice thing about the plugin is that you can stick a topic in the news forum and it will appear at the top of the news output regardless of whether there are newer posts. Oh, one more thing, I recommend that you set "Sort topics by" to "Topic start" in admin_forums for the news forum. That way it's sorted more appropriately.

Yes, but then I'd have to add them to the database and I don't want to do that. The alternative is that you would have to enter them every time and that is hardly any better.

because where would it store the settings, you only want to set it once and then it stay the same