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Many of my users use photobucket to include images in their posts using img BBCode.  As of a couple of days ago, all was working well...then inexplicably new threads that included img BBCode from PhotoBucket gave 403 Permission Denied errors.  I may have updated a couple of extensions but none that should have an effect on this behavior.  Any ideas what might be going on?

Also, this only affects new posts...older posts that already include img coding are working just fine.

...I just checked my error_log files and they are pretty much filled up with "PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library" errors, so I'm not discounting something wrong on with the server settings.

Thanks in advance.

I submitted some CSS bugs for previous versions and had hoped for better when upgrading to 1.3.4.  After some simple restyling of the default CSS for my site, mostly changing the color scheme, I did find the CSS is better overall, but still overly complex.  I especially found the CSS implementation for the admin area pretty inconsistent.  The "Manage Extensions" page was especially bad!!!...and I never did get it quite fixed without breaking other things, too.

I can backtrack and find some specific places, but I propose the follow changes for consideration:

A) Remove all of the CSS classes and ids specific to "admin" and just borrow from the regular pages.  Do people really want to style their admin area so differently from the rest of the site?  It seems like a waste of time and energy on all fronts.  But as it is now, the real waste is actually trying to FIX the bad implementation so the admin area is at least "functional" in appearance.  Let the few people who really want a different-looking admin use a different CSS in their admin template.

If nothing else, consider that EVERY PAGE that loads includes all of this admin-specific CSS styling that isn't even SEEN except in the admin area.  Very inefficient.

B) Simplify the color scheme!  How many shades of blue/gray are really necessary?  Half of them are barely perceptibly different.  Load Oxygen_cs.css using the tool below and explain to me why so many *nearly-exact* colors are necessary?

http://www.dagondesign.com/tools/css-co … ment-tool/

Thanks.

This extension concurrently logs a user into PunBB and ZenPhoto.  It is extremely bare-bones and has limited testing, but seems to be working on my site.  Open config.php to read more and to configure it.  It will NOT work until configured properly.

http://punbb.informer.com/wiki/_media/p … extensions

I'm quite new to PunBB, so I just want to make sure I'm on the right track...

I am looking to synchronize my users of PunBB with ZenPhoto, a picture gallery program.  I first looked at this from the ZenPhoto side and was faced with heavy modifications of core files!  Yuck!  I think with PunBB's hook/extension system, I can accomplish 90% of what I'm after...

Specifically, I would like my extension to do the following:

* Upon PunBB register, add the user to the ZenPhoto database with certain default rights (can upload files, etc.).

* Upon PunBB user deletion, remove the user from the ZenPhoto database.

* Upon PunBB login...

-> check if user is in ZenPhoto database and add if not.

-> update ZenPhoto user password (in case the password was changed by the user since last log in).

-> set additional cookie for ZenPhoto authentication.

-> set additional session for ZenPhoto authentication.

* Upon PunBB log out...

-> unset ZenPhoto cookie.

-> unset ZenPhoto session.

Those are the basics.  One caveat is that ZenPhoto uses a different password hashing (md5?), but I *think* it should be possible to run the user-supplied password through two separate hashes to deal with it?

If I could use include_once() in the extension to pull from ZenPhoto, I could even use their native functions to deal with the password hashing, cookies, and such.

Any suggestions, code snippets, or links are welcome!

I've been setting up my forum and have come across a few bugs.  Sorry if these have been posted before.  I'm new to punBB.

Oxygen.css ->

Around line 139

#brd-redirect, #brd-maint, #brd-util {
    margin: 50px auto 12px auto;
    width: 60%;
    }

Shouldn't it be "#brd-main" instead?

Around line 220

.brd .main-head .hn, .brd .main-foot .hn{
    font-size: 1.084em;
    padding-right: 10em;
    }

You probably want to add a space for consistency's sake: ".hn {".

Around line 225

.brd h2.main-subhead {
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 1px;
    padding: 0 1.417em;
    font-size: 1.084em;
    padding: 0.462em 10em 0.426em 1.417em;
    }

Isn't the first "padding" unnecessary and repetitive?

.brd .extension .options, .brd .hotfix .options {
    border-top-style:dashed;
    border-top-width:1px;
}

You want an extra tab on that last bracket?

Oxygen_cs.css ->

Around line 363

.brd .main-frm .ct-group td{
    background: #FBFBFB;
    }

You probably want to add a space for consistency's sake: "td {".

Around line 371

.brd .main-content .main-item .icon {
    border-color: #EDF1F5 #DDE0E4 #C6CBD3 #BABFC6
    }

.brd .main-content .redirect .icon {
    border-color: #f4f4f4 #f4f4f4 #f4f4f4 #f4f4f4
    }

.brd .main-content .sticky .icon {
    border-color: #D7E5F3 #C3CFDC #9FB3C7 #90A2B4
    }

.brd .main-content .closed .icon {
    border-color: #ACACAC #979797 #898989 #7A7A7A
    }

.brd .main-content .sticky .closed {
    border-color: #D7E5F3 #C3CFDC #898989 #7A7A7A
    }

.brd .main-content .new .icon {
    border-color: #2B75AD #235E8C #1F537B #266799
    }

You probably want these to end with ";".

Just generally with the css files, it seems like these could be tightened up and tidied up a bit.  I get the feeling there is probably double the code necessary, but that's just an impression after playing for a short time.

Parsing routines ->

I can't give a specific file for this, but just explain...  As mentioned in this post, I took something of a roundabout way to convert my phpBB3 board to punBB 1.3.2.  I expected a few glitches.

One of the things that ended up happening is that I got several incorrectly formatted BBC quote tags, like this:

[quote:3943ds]

I think the extra code is inserted by phpBB3 to help match with closing brackets, but what ended up happening once I got to punBB 1.3.2 was that I got a bunch of extra closing "blockquote" tags without matching starting tags.  The formatting broke down completely with this!

I have noticed since that punBB checks that such code cannot go INTO the database through normal posting, but that only checks things on the front end.  In my opinion, the parsing of the code coming OUT OF the database needs a little more robustness.  If the database can store it, the parsing routines should handle it.

That's about all I can offer for now.  I'll post again if I run across anything.