Well, per-topic permissions are going to be a pain no matter how you do them (and I can't think of forum software where they wouldn't be). Just making a tool to handle letting you set them is going to be a pain
Making the users in group A anonymous would be simple, it just depends on how you want to do it. You can modify post.php so the poster username and poster ID are set as a guest, for example.
1,626 2007-12-21 12:17
Re: Help: How to make a user group anonymous (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
1,627 2007-12-20 23:47
Re: spammers filling up user counts (21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
I don't think so, the code was posted to a topic. It was a cronjob and not a particularly well written one (in terms of using PunBB code, etc), but it worked.
1,628 2007-12-20 22:27
Re: Help: How to make a user group anonymous (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Topic or forum?
Group A is not possible out of the box, Group B is possible if you mean forum and not topic.
1,629 2007-12-20 22:26
Re: spammers are on to you (24 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Spammers are always going to adapt to new systems.
Now then, as to your suggestions:
CAPTCHA: It's not accessible to blind users and would require us to either use PHP sessions (which we use nowhere else) or add our own system for storing data in, say, the online table, both of which are less than ideal. Of course, people are always looking to crack CAPTCHAs using OCR software, so we would probably end up in another arms race against spammers.
Random email: I'd be interested to see how you would do that, I don't think it's actually possible. Of course, each individual forum can change its welcome email to be unique, which is a point I'll be addressing right now
Now then, for 1.3, we plan to release several extensions to help deal with spam. The key to addressing spam, however, is realizing how much of it is automated. Just adding a trick to every forum won't help, since spammers will code their bots around it. So, we need to focus on allowing each forum to make its setup unique.
1,630 2007-12-20 22:16
Re: spammers filling up user counts (21 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
kevinnading: How else would you suggest the users be stored efficiently?
Non-verified users have their own group ID, 32000, which can be used to identify them. You can easily write a script to delete members who don't activate within an hour or a day or a year, I've seen people do it.
1,631 2007-12-20 22:14
Re: problem patching to 1.2.16 (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
It sounds like you have a parse error somewhere but display_errors is disabled: are you sure you overwrote all of the PHP files (other than config.php)?
1,632 2007-12-19 23:06
Re: header image with each style (10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
A better way to do this would be to simply make the background-image url point to the PHP file, which then echo's out the contents of the randomly selected image file
1,633 2007-12-19 21:35
Re: 'Online' table (5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Optimize is not the issue there, and as Rickard said a HEAP table can not be optimized. If you want to find the source of the error, enable debug mode and paste the full error.
1,634 2007-12-18 23:28
Re: Restrict Categories to certain users. (1 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
PunBB doesn't automatically promote users, so you'll have to figure out what modification you installed to do that
1,635 2007-12-18 23:27
Re: A quick and easy question: (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Moved to Modifications
1,636 2007-12-16 23:35
Re: New post/replies/edit reporting to external email addy (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
To answer your question, not without writing a modification
1,637 2007-12-16 23:34
Re: Blocking User List to normal users (5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Yes, although I doubt it will make bots stop posting
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9520
1,638 2007-12-16 18:50
Re: Image alt attribute (18 replies, posted in General discussion)
Mmm, I don't know. Perhaps with Javascript or CSS.
1,639 2007-12-16 18:47
Re: Image alt attribute (18 replies, posted in General discussion)
<!ATTLIST IMG
%attrs; -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
src %URI; #REQUIRED -- URI of image to embed --
alt %Text; #REQUIRED -- short description --
longdesc %URI; #IMPLIED -- link to long description
(complements alt) --
name CDATA #IMPLIED -- name of image for scripting --
height %Length; #IMPLIED -- override height --
width %Length; #IMPLIED -- override width --
usemap %URI; #IMPLIED -- use client-side image map --
ismap (ismap) #IMPLIED -- use server-side image map --
>
It wouldn't allow a URI
1,640 2007-12-16 18:29
Re: Image alt attribute (18 replies, posted in General discussion)
You can't put another image there (I think), the alt text is just text. How would you put another image there?
1,641 2007-12-16 17:12
Re: Caching on read-only webspace? (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Mmm, I had a thought, can you make symlinks on Sourceforge?
1,642 2007-12-16 16:55
Re: Looking for a particular mod (4 replies, posted in General discussion)
User Subscription mod?
Edit: I just created a forum there, you mean the plugin?
Edit2: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=44901#p44901
1,643 2007-12-16 16:54
Re: PunBB API to assist in migrating from PunBB to Drupal forum? (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
So you're migrating AWAY from PunBB to Drupal? You might be better off asking the Drupal people
1,644 2007-12-16 13:53
Re: Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare... (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
OK, your lang/Swedish/help.php is not a language file, my guess is it's another copy of help.php. Download the language pack again and replace it
1,645 2007-12-15 22:07
Re: <p></p> Tags Show Up After Every Users Post!!! (2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Well, posts in PunBB are surrounded by <p></p> in include/parser.php. Have you modified that or viewtopic.php in some way that would display the tags as text?
1,646 2007-12-15 13:39
Re: Wrong redirect after changing my forum Folder on my Server. (6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
You actually need to edit the base URL in the database to do this
update config set conf_value="newsite" where conf_name="o_base_url"
where newsite is your new base URL
That can be run in the textbox of the DB Management plugin
1,647 2007-12-15 13:37
Re: An error was encountered Error: Unable to fetch search index words. (12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Upload the DB Management plugin, it can be found on the PunBB downloads page. Then navigate to it in the admin panel and there will be a button at the bottom for repairing all tables. Click that.
1,648 2007-12-15 13:25
Re: An error was encountered Error: Unable to fetch search index words. (12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
Run the following SQL query:
repair table search_words
1,649 2007-12-15 13:12
Re: An error was encountered Error: Unable to fetch search index words. (12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2658
The sticky at the top of this forum
1,650 2007-12-15 00:55
Re: help (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
Not being able to upload a style is a problem
Tell me in the PunBB-Hosting support forum if you're still having issues and what error you're getting