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Fresh install.
database default (MySQL 4.1) has Collation = utf8_general_ci
when I post a message with an accented char (àèìòù, ecc.) the message get trunkated from that letter included.

If I change collation to "latin1_general_ci" the message don't get trunkated but the accented letters become question marks (?).

Any idea?

Ty,
Gabrielli Paolo

What about giving to punBB the ability to authenticate against a remote punBB (and, later, against anything similar like LDAP)?
I think it could be a cool (and light) feat that can open a lot of ways.

Being more pratical I think there is a need of using an abstract authenticate($login, $password) function in the code.
First this function will have inside the same code that we can found now in login.php
Then this function could be overwritten by future mods to incorporate other auth methods (like the remote one or LDAP).

Paolo

P.S.: Where is the CVS or the SubSeven?

Now actual 1.2 code

//
// Generate a random password of length $len
//
function random_pass($len)
{
    $chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';

    $password = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $len; ++$i)
        $password .= substr($chars, (mt_rand() % strlen($chars)), 1);

    return $password;
}

Maybe better:

function random_pass () {
    $length ="8";              // the length of the password required
    $possible = '23456789abcdefghijkmnpqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    $str ="";

    while (strlen($str) < $length) {
        $str.=substr($possible, (rand() % strlen($possible)),1);
    }

    return($str);
}

//  Adapted from code by the following author:
//
//   Author: mr.shifter@hosted.uklinux.net
//   http://www.hosted.uklinux.net/php/freescripts/index.php
//
//       All Rights Reserved Free to use don't abuse
//   PLEASE NOTE:The numbers 0 and 1 (zero and one) and the letters
//   l and o, ('el' and 'oh' in lowercase) and the letters I and O
//   ('eye' and 'oh' in uppercase) have been removed from the random
//   generator, so as not to cause confusion when writing them down.

I'm watching my punbb_online table via phpMyAdmin and in the ident field I can find Guest's IP address (user_id = 0) that are private (not routable) IPs like 192.168.*.*

Below is the phpBB 2.0.8 code to obtain the client's IP:

if( getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR') != '' )
{
        $client_ip = ( !empty($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) ? $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] : ( ( !empty($HTTP_ENV_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) ? $HTTP_ENV_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] : $REMOTE_ADDR );

        $entries = explode(',', getenv('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'));
        reset($entries);
        while (list(, $entry) = each($entries)) 
        {
                $entry = trim($entry);
                if ( preg_match("/^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)/", $entry, $ip_list) )
                {
                        $private_ip = array('/^0\./', '/^127\.0\.0\.1/', '/^192\.168\..*/', '/^172\.((1[6-9])|(2[0-9])|(3[0-1]))\..*/', '/^10\..*/', '/^224\.
.*/', '/^240\..*/');
                        $found_ip = preg_replace($private_ip, $client_ip, $ip_list[1]);

                        if ($client_ip != $found_ip)
                        {
                                $client_ip = $found_ip;
                                break;
                        }
                }
        }
}
else
{
        $client_ip = ( !empty($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) ? $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] : ( ( !empty($HTTP_ENV_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR']) ) ? $HTTP_EN
V_VARS['REMOTE_ADDR'] : $REMOTE_ADDR );
}

What about having the format_time() in /include/functions.php using a $pun_user['date_format']
instead of $pun_config['o_date_format'] variable.
Of course there must be an input text in the profile.php to have the user specify his own date-time format and also a new field in the punbb_users table.
Maybe in the Language Definitions the translator can put the preferred date and time representation for their language...

P.

I think that if I'm replying to a topic where I've already activated the "Subscribe to this topic" checkbox, that checkbox should remain selected the next time I wrote a reply
and/or
in the "Profile" I should have a "Subscribe to topic when you reply" option that makes the checkbox already selected and that subscribes me when I use the "Quick post".

I'm sorry if I write too much on this forum but I like this software too much
(and I always use the subscribe option in all the forums I use )

P.