In order to log someone out, you have to reset their cookie. Have a look at how it's done when loggin out in login.php.

402

(27 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I'm currently working on integrating the forum login with the trac login. I'll announce when we can start using the tracker.

403

(6 replies, posted in General discussion)

I'm afraid I can't help you either. You'll have to ask the people running the site. We only develop the forum software.

404

(62 replies, posted in News)

When I started working on PunBB some years ago, I was very proud of what I accomplished. PunBB became my "baby". When you work on something for a long time and it turns out people actually like what you've done, you try to hold on to that work and you become hesitant to let other people in. This happened to me with PunBB. I was glad to accept patches and stuff from other people, but whenever someone contacted me and asked if they could be part of the development team, I always politely declined their request.

Today, my feelings on this have changed. I don't feel comfortable taking all the credit for PunBB when I know that the work is much more of a team effort. I also realize that PunBB would benefit greatly from having more than myself, Paul and Bert at the helm. Over the last year, I've noticed how the amount of time and energy I have over to work on PunBB has decreased. I have a regular 9 to 5 day job, I freelance as a web developer and I'm working on a commercial web application (soon to be announced :D). Trying to squeeze in an hour here and there for PunBB just doesn't cut it. Don't get me wrong, I still love working on PunBB and I have every intention of keeping PunBB alive and kicking.

So, where am I going with this. Well, obviously what I'm talking about is inviting more people to work on PunBB in an official manner. We've been keeping this under wraps for a few weeks, but today I am thrilled to present to you the PunBB Development Team (in alphabetical order):

Bert Garcia (hcgtv)
Connor Dunn (Connorhd)
Frank Hagström (Frank H)
Kristoffer Jansson (Jansson)
Neal Poole (Smartys)
Paul Sullivan (Paul)
Rickard Andersson (Rickard)
Shawn Brown (ShawnBrown)

As you can see, the team now consists of 8 people. The reason I wanted ConnorHd, Frank H, Jansson and Smartys on the team should be obvious. These guys know the ins and outs of PunBB better than anyone and they've been active contributors since PunBB's infancy. Some of you might also recognize Shawn Brown. Shawn knows JavaScript and regular expressions better than the rest of us combined. It is possible that in the future, even more people will be invited to join the development team, but I think this will suffice for now :) Please note the word "invited". We will not be accepting requests to join the team. We spot you, not the other way around.

There's more stuff in the pipeline related to this change, but I'll have to get back to you on that in a day or two.

Now, how about a big welcome to the new warriors in the fight against bloat :)

Cheers,
Rickard

Edit: I forgot. If you want to get in contact with any of us, you can either send an e-mail via our profiles or you can send them directly to <firstname>@punbb.org.

405

(10 replies, posted in General discussion)

I'm a sucker for podcasts myself. I listen to most of the twit podcasts, boagworld, engadget and boing boing.

Contact your host and ask them what ends up in the error log. Or look at it yourself if you have access to it.

407

(8 replies, posted in General discussion)

What's up with open source projects always using mailing lists as a means to communicate? Here's why mailing lists suck:

- You get massive amounts of e-mail that are of no interest to you.
- E-mail clients always mess up threading which leads to discussions often forking into separate threads.
- You have to access the archives via some website somewhere.
- Searching sucks.
- You still have to register.

I hate mailing lists!

I'd ask the author of the mod.

Moved to modifications.

409

(28 replies, posted in General discussion)

Flash is alright with me as long as it is non-interactive. Navigation is Flash is pure evil. I kind of like Flash video though.

410

(3 replies, posted in Feature requests)

What board settings?

Do any of the variables in your config.php contains singlequotes? If they do, you need to prefix the singlequotes with a backslash. For example, if you're database password is wouldn't, it needs to look like this in config.php:

$db_password = 'wouldn\'t';

412

(12 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I agree that PunBB silently failing when a client does not access cookies is bad. We need to work on that for 1.3. That doesn't mean we should implement session support though. I strongly dislike URL-propagated session IDs. They're ugly, insecure and it just feels like a big hack.

Spartanicus wrote:

Spambot protection

I'm all for spambot protection, but as someone already pointed out, I don't believe there are any good protection schemes that are also truly accessible.

Spartanicus wrote:

More granularity for board features (for example board stats inclusion, although easely removed from the code)

This should be better in 1.3.

Spartanicus wrote:

Indent offset for PHP generated HTML to fit into existing site code (use the indentation from the template?)
More consitent indentation of <div>s

Finally someone who's on my side! I've been referred to as the indentation nazi smile No, but really, the problem with going all the way with the indentation from the template is that we would need to indent everything two or three tabs. Not just the markup that we output when we're in markup mode (?>), but the markup we output in PHP mode (<?php). It's a lot more work than it sounds like smile

413

(8 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Sure. The scripts are easy. Just download them from the old host and upload them to the new host.

Then you need to download a backup of your database and upload it to the new host. Do you have access to phpMyAdmin or even better, do you have a shell account?

414

(22 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

As soon as Trac is up and running again, we'll enable the bug tracker. That should do it.

415

(8 replies, posted in General discussion)

We had something similar happen here at punbb.org about a year ago. I was able to track down the person behind it. Turns out he had written a script that grabbed a page of PunBB.org, but he had made some mistakes in the code so the script grabbed the page a couple of thousand times. He had also confused the time parameters in the scheduled cron job which meant it was pretty much running constantly. The bandwidth graphs from that month are funny looking big_smile

416

(27 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

If only I knew. I've reported the error to my host. Hopefully, they'll get it fixed soon.

417

(22 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Hmm, interesting. I wonder what it doesn't like about that regex. Do you have any idea what version of Apache and/or mod_rewrite you're running?

418

(22 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Ok. Would be kind of interesting to know what the problem was though. So if it's not too much trouble, maybe you could install 1.3 somewhere and try again?

419

(22 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Could you check your error_log now? I mean, unless you've cleared it since you ran 1.3.

420

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

There's something about this in the comments for Stefans blog post announcing the httpOnly extension:

http://blog.php-security.org/archives/4 … x-2.0.html

421

(22 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Are you still having the internal server error problem or just the HTTP_REFERER problem? The latter you can ignore since we will most likely get rid of the referrer check completely in 1.3.

If you're having the internal server error, do you get anything in Apache's error_log?

422

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Have you added the s to your base URL in admin/options as well?

423

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Adding as it 5 + 7? In that case you would do something like this:

SELECT blaha, yadda, num_posts + num_topics AS num_total FROM ........ ORDER BY num_total

In PunBB 1.3 you will be able to create multiple moderator groups. Should solve your problem.

Very strange. I'll have to ask the host about this. I've added an .htaccess file to prevent disclosure of config.php, should the problem ever occur again.

I've changed all the passwords.