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Topic: Help! I've been left in the lurch

Hi all,

I'll try and avoid a lifestory here, but basically, my phpbb forum was pulled down by myself. I transfered the database over to a new host and allowed a friend (who is far more savvy than me) to make the change over to punbb.

It was a success, and according to him, he had checked everything and corrected any bugs he had found.

The only thing left for him to do was to implement the style he had created for the forum. Trouble is, he has now disappered off the face of the earth. I'm a little pissed off because the forum has been down for over a week (when it should have only taken 2 days at the very most).

So, as a stop-gap, I will use a style from this forum - but the problem I have is this:

I asked him a week back why emoticons/tags and all the other features that appear when posting are not there.

He said its because the forum is currently 'barebones'.

What does he mean by this? Is it the case that installing a new style wont bring out certain elements?

How are emoticons etc made active?

Surely a punbb forum can work to the max and is not dependent on the actual style - or is it the case that my friend may have code to update?

I hope I've made some sense.

Thanks to anyone who can offer any suggestions/help.


ta,

N

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

The style has nothing to do with smilies or BBCode: those are enabled/disabled in the Administration Panel through the Permissions page

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

They are enabled.

Do I need some kind of mod in order to have buttons appear when posting, stating: B / I / U / Img / Quote ?

etc

Currently, I have to manually type the codes.

Not sure why the emoticons are not appearing, as they appear to be in the right folder.

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Did he modify parser.php?

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

Thats the problem. He worked on his own and wouldnt actually offer anything up front with regards to the work he has done. I'm so frustrated over this, because I'm stuck with half a forum.

Is there a guideline to what I need to do with parser.php?

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Not without knowing what he has edited wink

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Fantastic smile

Looks like I'm stuck then.

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Try using a clean copy of parser.php

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

Hold up, so he has probably edited the parser.php file to suit HIS forum style that has yet to be uploaded?

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If stuff handled by parser.php isn't working and it's enabled properly, then the problem is probably there. There is no "barebones" version, so I assume he messed with parser.php

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

What your friend meant by barebones is that it is a standard install of PunBB without any modifications. The features you are talking about such as buttons for smilies etc are not standard features, PunBB does not have the same feature set as phpBB. I suspect what your friend had in mind was to install modifications to duplicate the features of phpBB. That has nothing to do with styling, it involves modifying the code, though in some cases you might have to add something to the stylesheets to style a particular modification.

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Was he talking about buttons for smilies? My bad, I misread hmm

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Actually both, I think his friend probably told him PunBB would work just like phpBB and then partly installed some modifications.

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

Hi chaps,

Paul - that makes sense. If my friend decides to turn up soon, then I'm guessing he will add the mods and upload the new style.

I think in the mean time, I'm gonna read up on pun - and if Lord Lucan remains away, then I'll have to work out things for myself.

Cheers,

N

15 Reply by nick23 (edited by nick23 2006-06-27 21:46)

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

hi chaps,

I've uploaded the following mod:  Easy BBCode 1.0.1 http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=6217 - and the bb code buttons appear perfectly, however when posting, text is only present for the emoticons (rather than the actual png files)


Below the bbcode buttons i just get the text version of the emoticon, and when clicking on it, the text version appears in the post. The actual smilie doesnt appear either way.


This is from my parser.php file:


// Here you can add additional smilies if you like (please note that you must escape singlequote and backslash)
$smiley_text = array(':)', '=)', ':|', '=|', ':(', '=(', ':D', '=D', ':o', ':O', ';)', ':/', ':P', ':lol:', ':mad:', ':rolleyes:', ':cool:');
$smiley_img = array('smile.png', 'smile.png', 'neutral.png', 'neutral.png', 'sad.png', 'sad.png', 'big_smile.png', 'big_smile.png', 'yikes.png', 'yikes.png', 'wink.png', 'hmm.png', 'tongue.png', 'lol.png', 'mad.png', 'roll.png', 'cool.png');



Am I meant to change something here? Or within the mod_easy file uploaded from the Easy BBCode mod?


(the png files are all located in html/board/img/smilies.



cheers,

16 Reply by nick23

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

Sorted. I've worked out the problem. png files dont appear to be working.

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Re: Help! I've been left in the lurch

Okay. Fixed it. Was an issue with the files uploaded (the actual png files).

Anyways, all looks good apart from 2 emoticons that appear to be squashed when appearing under the bbcode buttons and when selected in a post.

Any ideas what may cause this?