orlandu63 wrote:

Why is form e-mail part of the core, and subforums not?

It's all a matter of opinion. For some people, subforums are necessary; for many basic forums, their needs are satisfied through categories and forums. On the other hand, many forums like having a simple, basic way for users to contact each other privately. Email satisfies that requirement.
Also, implementing subforums efficiently is a non-trivial task, whereas email is fairly simple. Thus, the code for subforums could end up complicating the core any place forums/categories are currently used.

qubertman wrote:

Here is an idea. Also limit to the # of emails that can be sent per hour per user.

That's done implicitly with the flood limit. One email per 60 seconds is 60 emails per hour; one email per 300 seconds is 12 emails per hour. Etc. smile

427

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

You said you're getting that error without running install.php. For that to happen, your forum must have a config.php file wink

The reason I asked is that I can't think of a way to do so (short of a CAPTCHA, which would obviously be an extension), since there's no such thing as a "remote submission." The headers of any request can be faked and any hidden form fields, etc can be scraped. It's tough. smile

How do you propose we stop that?

Link to your forum?

431

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Don't write your own config.php file then wink

432

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

He said profile.php but meant register.php

433

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

If I were you, I would use phpMyAdmin, which I know comes with xampp.
And yes, just replacing iso references with utf-8 references is not enough. You will generate a mixed environment that will be difficult to convert from to 1.3, which has full UTF-8 support.

434

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

No, 1.2.17.
And you create the database via the command line or a tool like phpMyAdmin or your host's control panel, if they offer that functionality.

435

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Well, the first thing I noticed is that you're trying to use 1.2.6: you might want to update to the latest version tongue

Now then
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=16801

436

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Talk to your host then.

437

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

No, SpinkBB works perfectly fine. It sounds like you're changing filenames and forgetting to update the import statement in the top of the main .css file for your style. Is that the case?

438

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.3 troubleshooting)

Fixed

All the .php files, yes.

440

(8 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

The IE7 issue is a bad meta redirect. Probably because it doesn't have URL: before the URL bit.

441

(14 replies, posted in Programming)

No problem, don't worry about it smile

With regard to your suggestion, it's good but it then makes things more difficult for uses of the URL where you don't want & (I don't know what the numeric entity is offhand). For example, redirecting to that URL via a 301/302 header. Also, it means storing more characters in the database. It's simpler to encode it when necessary.

442

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

If you download the software to set it up that way, yes. if you're using a Windows computer, search for xampp

443

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

You can use any FTP program you want. You just need a server to upload the files to. The underlying OS does not matter either.
And you would be surprised how many people either don't search or search and don't find helpful things like that.

444

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

http://punbb.org/docs/video_tutorials/

Delete the cache php files.

446

(1 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

What file do I edit to add additional links to menu?

None, it's an admin option.

is there like an integration guide somewhere? I'd like to integrate this into my website, but not quite sure how to go about doing it?

http://punbb.org/docs/dev.html#integration

447

(14 replies, posted in Programming)

Well, there sort of is. From that page:

In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB

In any case, you're simply setting it to text, as I said before tongue
That likely won't be the solution those, since, as I said, we can't just do that in MySQL for various reasons.

That won't work in 1.2, because of the PUN_ROOT settings.

449

(14 replies, posted in Programming)

There isn't a way to remove the limit altogether, as far as I know: I don't know PostgreSQL well enough to say for certain. You could set it to a TEXT column (or the PostgreSQL equivalent), that would likely be more than enough. And snipping the URL has the potential to break things.
We'll have to see what the fix is for 1.3, since the online table in MySQL is a HEAP table and we can't just go around adding TEXT columns there.

450

(14 replies, posted in Programming)

Well, same idea tongue