It seems like development has stopped completely. i mean is even the 1.4.3 is being developed or not, if its developed then i have very important suggestions for it.

The first is about the SEO, i already posted my openion in this topic, i beleieve that the extension + my ideas should be merged in core.
http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … optimizer/

Features:
- redirect urls between schemes to remove duplicate content.
- prevent from manual changing hardcoded links in forum when administrator change url scheme.
- removes "Page 1" from first page of list. Only second and more has "Page x"

SuperMAG wrote:

Few suggestions if this extension is still developed:

1- Remove the forum title from topic, it makes that topic extra large, and its not needed to be in there anywhere, its all the the topic tile, having forums title in makes no sense, forums are like categories, where you are just suppose to post the topic in to have everything arranged.


2- Description in topics in search engines, can it be changed to first few lines of the topic instead of the description of the main forums. So this makes the description in the main forums only be showed on main page and forums page, while topic pages have first few lines from topic. This will make huge improvement in search engines.


3- Its about the posts and topics that are indexed in search engines, in most other forums software, the topics main link is indexed as far as i know, not the single posts in it, the posts are indexed with a topic like + something like #p5263636 so it scrolls down to that post. This will hugly improve SEO of the site, it will remove the many duplicate links and the results in the search engines will only contain the main topic links with that #243242 things.

Example:
Now:
Main topic link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … optimizer/
Main topic first post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/142851/#p142851
Main topic second post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/142874/#p142874

With my idea:

Main topic link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … optimizer/
Main topic first post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … r/#p142851
Main topic second post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … r/#p142874


4- In Google search engine results, there is always this "Skip to forum content." in the description, can you remove that please.


Lastly, to the developers of Punbb, these stuff should be implemented to the core, not as an extension, i mean SEO is an important thing, it shouldn't be ignored, it should be added to the core.

My Second idea is about the pagespeed, according to google, the forums are not cached and does have an expiry date for all the static contents, Static contents like JS, CSS and Images should be cached (leverage browser caching", it will increase the performance by alot, i mean alot.

Few suggestions if this extension is still developed:

1- Remove the forum title from topic, it makes that topic extra large, and its not needed to be in there anywhere, its all the the topic tile, having forums title in makes no sense, forums are like categories, where you are just suppose to post the topic in to have everything arranged.


2- Description in topics in search engines, can it be changed to first few lines of the topic instead of the description of the main forums. So this makes the description in the main forums only be showed on main page and forums page, while topic pages have first few lines from topic. This will make huge improvement in search engines.


3- Its about the posts and topics that are indexed in search engines, in most other forums software, the topics main link is indexed as far as i know, not the single posts in it, the posts are indexed with a topic like + something like #p5263636 so it scrolls down to that post. This will hugly improve SEO of the site, it will remove the many duplicate links and the results in the search engines will only contain the main topic links with that #243242 things.

Example:
Now:
Main topic link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … optimizer/
Main topic first post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/142851/#p142851
Main topic second post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/post/142874/#p142874

With my idea:

Main topic link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … optimizer/
Main topic first post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … r/#p142851
Main topic second post link: http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … r/#p142874


4- In Google search engine results, there is always this "Skip to forum content." in the description, can you remove that please.


Lastly, to the developers of Punbb, these stuff should be implemented to the core, not as an extension, i mean SEO is an important thing, it shouldn't be ignored, it should be added to the core.

78

(1 replies, posted in Feature requests)

search for broadcast email extension.

79

(2 replies, posted in Discussions)

http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … -in-punbb/

This is still not working, i have no idea why.

81

(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.4 additions)

Great, both problems are now fixed, thanks alot.

82

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.4 troubleshooting)

http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/ … optimizer/

not working, it is showing me this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in /home/mfiehazy/public_html/include/url/Folder_based_(fancy)/rewrite_rules.php on line 64

hey kushi, if you are still there, can u give me an example of url code in the rewrite-rules.php

i added this:

    '/page/1/football-news-feed/'                                                                                            =>    'pages/football-news-feed.php'

doesn't work obviously, can u give me an example.

Ah, i didn't knew about that, thanks a lot, i guess i don't need to make all those folders lol.

Ok that is might complicated, since i have no coding knowledge, i though there was some sort of easy code you put in the page and thats it lol. but its ok. big_smile.

Anyway thanks alot for the work you put in this. I also replaced some stuff of your code, here:

<?php
/**
 * Display my custom page :-)
 *
 * @copyright (C) 2008-2012 PunBB, partially based on code (C) 2008-2009 FluxBB.org
 * @license http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GPL version 2 or higher
 * @package PunBB
 */
 
if (!defined('FORUM_ROOT'))
    define('FORUM_ROOT', '../../../');
require FORUM_ROOT.'include/common.php';
 
define('FORUM_ALLOW_INDEX', 1);
define('FORUM_PAGE', 'football-formation-creator');
 
// Setup breadcrumbs
$forum_page['crumbs'] = array(
    array($forum_config['o_board_title'], forum_link($forum_url['index'])),
    'Football Formation Creator' // Set up your page title here
);
 
require FORUM_ROOT.'header.php';
 
// START SUBST - <!-- forum_main -->
ob_start();
 
?>    
<div class="main-head" style="margin-top: 1em">
        <h2 class="hn"><span>Football Formation Creator &mdash; This tool is brought to you by <a href="http://this11.com/">This11.com</a>.</span></h2>
    </div>        

    <div class="main-content main-frm">
<div style="padding: 15px;">

My page content.

</div>
    </div>
<?php
 
$tpl_temp = forum_trim(ob_get_contents());
$tpl_main = str_replace('<!-- forum_main -->', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
 
ob_end_clean();
// END SUBST - <!-- forum_main -->
 
require FORUM_ROOT.'footer.php';

I used main-frm instead of main-message cuz the last one has different margins or paddings for each side, where i added <div style="padding: 15px;"> so that each side has equal space.

since my page is located in /page/1/football-formation-creator/
i renamed the file to index.php.

so it serves as a whole link, http://www.myfootballcafe.com/page/2/fo … n-creator/

Incase someone makes an extension of custom pages in the future, that page/1/ will be keep the link same.

i also played with the title, so the title and page id are seperated, ex:

define('FORUM_ALLOW_INDEX', 1);
define('FORUM_PAGE', 'football-news-feed');
 
// Setup breadcrumbs
$forum_page['crumbs'] = array(
    array($forum_config['o_board_title'], forum_link($forum_url['index'])),
    'Football News Feed' // Set up your page title here
);

did i do it correct? does this affect anything else.

I have a question, Suppose i create that page, i also add the page link to the menu.

So when someone opens the page, i want it to show in the menu that the page is opened. like selected. is that possible.

thanks, although i already created mine, this one has many other features that i really like.

easy, you dont need extension for this.

Create groups for each of these groups from admin > users > groups page.

Then go to admin page > start > forums > and edit the forums and specify each group you want to see that forums

91

(80 replies, posted in PunBB 1.4 additions)

ok, will that new version will fix this problem?

i deleted the cache, its not working, there were 6 people on the website at the time, it only showed 2 online, 1 guest and 1 memeber, it never goes over that 2.

also it shows the same in admin page, only 2 online max.

93

(5 replies, posted in Discussions)

well i use htaccess to cache the content, and trust me it works. use this tool to see the page speed. although u will feel the difference yourself.

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

here is my code, i added it in the main htaccess before the 'Punbb End':

# Expires Headers - 2678400s = 31 days
<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2678400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2678400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2678400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 518400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 2678400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 2678400 seconds"
</ifmodule>

# Cache Headers
<ifmodule mod_headers.c>
  # Cache specified files for 31 days
  <filesmatch "\.(ico|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|swf)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2678400, public"
  </filesmatch>
  # Cache Javascripts for 31 days
  <filesmatch "\.(js)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2678400, private"
  </filesmatch>
</ifmodule>

<FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Cache-Control "private, no-cache, no-store, proxy-revalidate, no-transform"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

    #The following lines are to avoid bugs with some browsers
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html 

well i cleared the cache (through the admin clear cache) extension, i thought thats was made for that.

but i will delete all the files now. i had a thought, can this be related to a cookie, i haven't changed my cookie code in my config.php.

95

(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.4 additions)

there is also a way to create a page. just create a php file (index.php) and put it in folder called contact-us or just contact:

And use this in the php file:

<?php

    define('FORUM_ROOT', '../../'); // Point to the forum directiry
    define('FORUM_PAGE', 'formation_creator');
    require FORUM_ROOT.'include/common.php';

    $forum_hooks['hd_main_elements'][] = 'unset($main_elements[\'<!-- forum_crumbs_top -->\']); unset($main_elements[\'<!-- forum_crumbs_end -->\']);';

    // Setup breadcrumbs
    $forum_page['crumbs'] = array(
    array($forum_config['o_board_title'], forum_link($forum_url['index'])),
    'Formation Creator' // Set up your page title here
    );

    require FORUM_ROOT.'header.php';

    // START SUBST - <!-- forum_main -->
    ob_start();

?>

    <div id="brd-main">
        <h1 class="main-title">Formation Creator</h1>

        <div id="brd-crumbs-top" class="crumbs">
    <p><span class="crumb crumbfirst"><a href="http://myfootballcafe.com/">MyFootballCafe.com</a></span> <span class="crumb crumblast"><span> &rarr;&#160;</span>Formation Creator</span> </p>
</div>
        
        
        <div class="main-head">
        <h2 class="hn"><span>Formation Creator</span></h2>
    </div>

    <div class="main-content main-frm">
<div style="padding:15px;">
<object width="100%" height="500px">
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <param name='flashVars' value="send=Draw+this+11&tipText=Click+to+edit&open=open&save=save&saveAs=save+as&add=add&remove=remove&changeShirt=change+shirt&player=player&fileNameLabel=Team+name">

    <embed src="http://this11.com/files/board4.swf" AllowScriptAccess="always" width="100%" height="500px" wmode="transparent" flashVars="send=Draw+this+11&tipText=Click+to+edit&open=open&save=save&saveAs=save+as&add=add&remove=remove&changeShirt=change+shirt&player=player&fileNameLabel=Team+name"></embed>
</object>
</div>
    </div>
        
        <div id="brd-crumbs-end" class="crumbs">
    <p><span class="crumb crumbfirst"><a href="http://myfootballcafe.com/">MyFootballCafe.com</a></span> <span class="crumb crumblast"><span> &rarr;&#160;</span>Formation Creator</span> </p>
</div>
    </div>

<?php

    $tpl_temp = trim(ob_get_contents());
    $tpl_main = str_replace('<!-- forum_main -->', $tpl_temp, $tpl_main);
    ob_end_clean();
    // END SUBST - <!-- forum_main -->

    // Uncomment this if you don't want the footer
    //$tpl_main = preg_replace('#<div id="brd-about" class="gen-content">.*?</div>#us', '', $tpl_main);

    require FORUM_ROOT.'footer.php';

afcource you have to change title, links, and content in that page. i think the keydog way is better and less complicated for u.

has this extension has been fixed yet?

97

(80 replies, posted in PunBB 1.4 additions)

This extension is not working in my forums, so i disabled it. it shows this error:

Warning: require(./style/Oxygen/Oxygen.php) [function.require] failed to open stream. No such file or directory in /home/mfiehazy/public_html/header.php on line 114
Warning: require(./style/Oxygen/Oxygen.php) [function.require] failed to open stream. No such file or directory in /home/mfiehazy/public_html/header.php on line 114
Fatal error: require0 [function.require]: Failed opening required './style/Oxygen/Oxygen.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mfiehazy/public_html/header.php on line 114

Note, i have deleted my oxygen, only have my theme, put that theme mobile version (copied oxygen mobile) in the css folder of the extension, but still shows this error.

98

(21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.4 additions)

This extension has a problem, it works in quick reply or making a new topic or even in PM.

But it doesn't work on advanced reply inside the topic, "Post reply" button to be exact.

Edit: Also it doesn't work when you edit the post.

well, i donna, my both name servers ip's are the same, can that be the problem.

100

(22 replies, posted in Development)

ah, really?