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I have an old ver. of 1.2.x installed, and wondering if anyone knows of any issues installing 1.3 on the same server.

Old ver would be myserver.com/forum
New ver I would install into myserver.com/forum2

If so, after doing this, would copying my database data from the old v. to the new v. migrate without problems (assuming I change the various config vars in the config options?

I'm not totally sure how this happened, but my 1.22 forum recently received some aggressive spam (I reported this via the bug report link on the PunBB site on the weekend and no response).

I'm not sure how this happened, but spam was being posted into the forum, with usernames that do not exist in my database, and the users all had a user ID of 1 (which is the guest ID). I managed to block this spam but adding some extra checks in post.php blocking guest posts.

What I don't understand is how this happened.
- I double-checked all user groups and guests do not have permission to post
- I check all forums and guest post permissions were all turned off here
- I also cross-checked the IP addresses of the posters and the spammers are not any IPs of users that logged into the site

Does this look like there might be a security hole somewhere? Any ideas how this may have happened?

I'm considering going through the painstaking task of upgrading a highly modded 1.2 forum to 1.3.

In addition to this, I have many many custom pages on my website that use punbb's user tables and many punbb functions. For example I have custom profile pages that refer to all the $pun_user[] variables. Another example is I use some of the parsing functions when posting user content to other pages on my site.

My question is, does 1.3 still user mostly the same function names, user table names, routine names, and still reference $pun_user[] for all the user vars?

I have an unusual case of users passwords being reset.

People are using the forgot pass feature, resetting their passwords, they can then log in fine, then change their password but come back a day later and the password has been reset again.

Any suggestion what might cause this? I thought it might be a cookie with an old "remember me" data, but have verified that users are clearing their cookies.

Anyone interested in helping me with this type of mod?

I want it so you cannot post to forums within X days of joining.

Any quick tips on how to do this would be appreciated.

Anyone planning on working on one of these for PunBB?

http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php

There seems to only be a plugin for Vbulletin so far, it might get some great exposure to PunBB if there were one and I know I'd be using this plugin if it were available.

Does anyone have some tips for ways ban or deal with users who keep changing IP addresses and creating new accounts?

I've banned users IP and also their range such as 111.11.11 and even 11.11 on all their IP addresses and they keep changing IP address and it's getting tiring trying to keep up.

Is there any way I can deal with this or at the end of the day if users keep changing IP addresses, you just have to hope they get bored and go away - or run out of IP addresses