1,851 Reply by hcgtv

(27 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Dr.Jeckyl wrote:

i'm having trouble with editing/modifying the sql tables.

Have you tried going into the forums table structure and add a field from that interface?

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1,852 Reply by hcgtv

(38 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Remember to vote for PunBB when you visit opensourcecms.

Currently there's 14 votes for PunBB and 15 for phpBB.

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1,853 Reply by hcgtv

(9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Paul wrote:

Once I've finished with the xhtml/css for PunBB 1.2 I think I will have a go at writing a PunBB 1.2 skin for nucleus (I would seem to be the obvious person to do it). Would you be able to test it out?

Sure, send it my way. I'll add it to my skins site.

The skin I did was a proof of concept, a rather crude hack.

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1,854 Reply by hcgtv

(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Todd wrote:

Pun intergrates with Nucleus? Shares same users?

See here: http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4121

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1,855 Reply by hcgtv

(9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Paul wrote:

hcgtv: Is all the nucleus xhtml in the template/skin file. If it is then wouldn't it be possible to rewrite the template to work off a PunBB style sheet? In effect creating a PunBB skin for nucleus which would really make them look integrated.

Yes, Nucleus is xhtml compliant.

Since I'm more familiar with Nucleus. Rather than change div tag names in my skins/templates to match the PunBB CSS, I just made my CSS have the same color values as the punbb.org site which uses oxygen.css and site.css.

But yes, if the skins/templates have the same element names as the PunBB CSS then they could share the same look and feel.

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1,856 Reply by hcgtv

(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

cuteseal wrote:

Not sure what punbb is doing on a CMS site, since it doesn't really integrate with any CMS yet...

It integrates just fine with Nucleus, a user that registers on Nucleus gets registered on the PunBB forum. Also posts on Nucleus can be sent to topics on PunBB for discussion. I have my skins site integrated this way.

I also plan on bringing in the PunBB posts where comments would normally display in the blog item. I was waiting on 1.2 to integrate posts but I'll start playing with it next week.

See my skins site: http://hcgtv.org for a sample of what is being done. Click on discussion in any item to be taken to the forum.

Since I'm so new to PunBB, I'm still in a learning curve.

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1,857 Reply by hcgtv

(9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Dr. Jeckyl, I got a skin for you to look at.

Here: http://hcgtv.org/blog/10

Still playing with it, just some quick CSS hacks to mimic punbb.org.

Update: Skin is not available anymore but we will be designing a new one soon. Just wanted to add this update since i have seen many PunBB users hit the above url with no success.

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1,858 Reply by hcgtv

(38 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Rickard wrote:

Perhaps someone (me?) should drop him an e-mail.

Sent him an email. It runs rather quickly on his machine.

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1,859 Reply by hcgtv

(50 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Gardener wrote:

I have a lot of projects going on know, so this is definately put on hold for some time. But I am planning on doing it if I get the time.

I'm going to try the Iframe route this week. I'll post here my findings.

I don't plan on embedding the whole forum in my blog just the replies to the article but it will still serve as a test of sorts.

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1,860 Topic by hcgtv

(38 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Chanh Ong was nice enough to inclue punBB 1.1.5 in the forum section of his excellent comparison site.

http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php? … amp;id=361

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1,861 Reply by hcgtv

(50 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

Gardener wrote:
hcgtv wrote:

Are you saying that punBB wouldn't be able to be embedded like simpleboard?

The last option would be to open punBB in an Iframe, which isn't too bad in most cases, but I've seen Opera having problems with it.

Excuse my ignorance, I didn't know the implications. Thanks for enlightening me.

I've looked into Iframe and that might be the way to go. If it's only Opera issues that would keep it from happening then we can write an email to Oslo :)

Whenever you do integrate, I know that opensourcecms.com would be very interested in using it, as long as there is some kind of conversion script to go from simpleboard to punBB.

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1,862 Reply by hcgtv

(12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Dr.Jeckyl wrote:

do they have to be .png or can they be .gif? i would like a small animated one, nothing fancy tho.

You have 2 choices is you want to use a gif:

1. Change occurences like this line in index.php:

$icon = '<img src="img/'.$cur_user['style'].'_new.png" width="16" height="16" alt="">';

2. If you are in a Unix environment, create a symlink:

ln -s animated.gif style_new.png

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1,863 Reply by hcgtv

(12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

One thing to keep in mind when using a new stylesheet is that you also have to create a new image in the /img directory for the new topic indicator.

I was missing posts on my forums using the new phpBB stylesheet until I figured out that I need a phpBB_new.png image.

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1,864 Reply by hcgtv

(18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Paul, the externlocal.php file, is there somewhere where I can download it?

Is extern.php changing for 1.2?

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1,865 Reply by hcgtv

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Rickard wrote:

Haha! Post-Nuke sure seems like a load of crap. I wonder why it's so popular.

Caue people coming from frontpage want a plug-and-play cms solution. They don't want to bother learning the why's and how's of their systems. Xaraya is a better nuke spinoff, if the nukes are your thing.

Rickard wrote:

Oooh, a Pentium Pro. I love pro's smile

I picked it up at a Government surplus store for $25. It's been running Debian for the last 2 years like a champ.

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1,866 Reply by hcgtv

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Rickard wrote:

I would much prefer if he used a real benchmark tool though. ApacheBench comes to mind.

This person is using ApacheBench on a comparison of Postnuke versus Mambo. It's the dicussion of this thread that lead me to the previous one I posted.
http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread … &pp=10

I would love to run benchmarks but my system is not up to today's hardware specs.
http://hcgtv.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19

I'm really having a lot of fun with punBB smile

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1,867 Reply by hcgtv

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Paul wrote:

They have got their figures mixed up. It's PunBB which should be in first place with a percentage of 14.69%

Incidentally, is it the absence of templating which is a major contributor to PunBB's performance?

He's going to redo the stats soon. I asked him to add Nucleus to the CMS list. Maybe someone can help him configure punBB to get it into first place.

I think, in punBB's case, it's is also the absence of fluff. I was not surprised to see how phbBB did in the test.

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1,868 Reply by hcgtv

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

See also here, forums are at the bottom:
http://www.english.rk.edu.pl/article7.html

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1,869 Reply by hcgtv

(14 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

In this thread Krapan talks about Invision/punBB:
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=2755&p=3

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1,870 Reply by hcgtv

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

CodeDuck wrote:

PunBB 1.1.5 is the top story at http://www.foruminsider.com - very nice :-)

I never knew such a site existed, damn I thought I had reached the end of the internet smile

Very nicely done site, clean to the point.

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1,871 Reply by hcgtv

(30 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Got the update, copied over changed files, ran the update.

All seems fine, fast as ever. Updated the source xref.

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1,872 Reply by hcgtv

(1,382 replies, posted in General discussion)

dolphin

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1,873 Reply by hcgtv

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Dr.Jeckyl wrote:

so this

BODY {background-color: #ffffff; 
      background-image: url("backgif.gif?);
      background-repeat: repeat;}

is the way it should be?

That should be fine it should work, hit your refresh button if it doesn't look right.

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1,874 Reply by hcgtv

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

This is what you'd have to do:

background-image: url(backgif.gif); 
background-repeat: repeat;

If you place the gif in the same directory as the css then you don't have to worry about the long urls.

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1,875 Reply by hcgtv

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Make sure there are no spaces or linebreaks before the <?php and after the ?> in config.php.

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