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(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

I believe one of the main points of PunBB is that you can do just about anything with the style sheets.

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(7 replies, posted in Programming)

Exactly how dynamic does the DOCTYPE have to be?

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(3 replies, posted in Programming)

Motivated, the file you are looking at is the included file.

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(3 replies, posted in Programming)

This has been done many times; Just google 'MD5 Database'.

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(33 replies, posted in Programming)

Zone Alarm == null

That about sums it up. wink I think most software firewalls have that problem, though I must admit Windows' firewall is probably the least intensive.

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(9 replies, posted in Programming)

druvans wrote:

when I execute the script from my PHP editor, it works.  anyway I ll mail to textdrive tech support

Hm... Does it actually execute or just debug?

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(19 replies, posted in Programming)

Yeah, my sig changed since the first post, so my article can be found at http://www.bwongar.com/articles/

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(9 replies, posted in Programming)

Looks like an SSL issue. Talk with your host about the error reported.

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(33 replies, posted in Programming)

I don't like the windows firewall - just hogs resources on my machine tongue Just my preference. I have a hardware firewall on this side of my internet connection. I've never had a problem with it, never had to restart it.

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(19 replies, posted in Programming)

Well, let us know what problems you encounter, things you want to know, etc. I'll be here to help smile

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(9 replies, posted in Programming)

On further inspection you should be able to use imap_errors() to help find the problem. Put the following line of code near at the bottom and show us the results:

print_r(imap_errors());

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(9 replies, posted in Programming)

Connor - he's using the actual method described on php.net. The error he described is after the condition "if ($folders == false)". He's not getting an actual folder list from the IMAP server.

Druvans - Are you sure that host you are attempting to connect to allows IMAP, and are you suer of the port?

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(3 replies, posted in General discussion)

Perhaps you could just have your provider forward those emails to your phone? For example, a phone email address is like 1234567890@cingularme.com

Check with your provider.

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(13 replies, posted in General discussion)

scottywz wrote:

I just prefer PunBB. smile

I think that's the general consensus of the people here wink

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(13 replies, posted in General discussion)

CodeXP wrote:

Taking credit for inventing features that Opera have had for ages.

First of all, even if they were to do so, that is not FUD. The deal that Firefox has is it is up against Internet Explorer, not necessarily Opera. Why make this distinction? Because Firefox is free, as in Beer, Freedom and PunBB. They're marketing toward getting people who use IE exclusively to make the switch. Now, I don't claim that it is a perfect browser, but I do believe in my opinion that Firefox is generally superior. You have your opinion, I have mine. What I spread is not FUD. FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. I'm advocating a product that has made my life better (hell, I'm a web developer) and I wish that upon everyone else.

Thank you.

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(8 replies, posted in General discussion)

wtf........

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(34 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)

Paul wrote:

What is this fetish with alternative user agents all about. Is there anything on the web so important that you can't wait until you get home to look at it.

I wrote a ticketing system for my company and since I'm in the field doing miscellaneous crap, I need constant access to it. This "alternative user agent" is not an alternative for me. It is a necessity.

Holy crap! This project isn't dead!

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(8 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

0.015 avg.

My board on a first load takes about 0.15 seconds. After that one (hit refresh) and it takes 0.015 seconds. My personal server uses MySQL 4.0. The servers I use and maintain at work use MySQL extensively for content, tracking user data, searching, etc. and I can tell you this cache is a lifesaver!

CodeXP wrote:

It sure does smile I think you misunderstood me a little though. I was just thinking of performance on the front page. Fetching active topics from all forums would most likely always return a new result set, so in that case, I wouldn't think you could improve performance by using query caches...?

I still believe it would. It would use the query to find all the newest posts, caching that query until a new post is made.

CodeXP wrote:

Anyway, I upgraded my local MySQL installation to v4, but for some reason, even if I set the query cache size to 64M, it doesn't seem to go any faster with PunBB. PhpMyAdmin querys runs *much* faster though, so I know it's working, but the page generation times for PunBB seems to be the same. Any particular reason why I'm encountering this behaviour?

I'm really not sure what could be causing this. It could be that since you have so few posts and topics on your laptop that it really doesn't make much difference period, considering the size of the database is VERY small. The overhead is probably not hit yet.

Secondly, it could be due to the fact that it is running on Windows. This is just a thought, as I have no experience with MySQL on a Windows box. MySQL was generally written for UNIX, ported to Windows as somewhat of an afterthought. Perhaps it doesn't read the configuration correctly?

Other than that, I don't know what to tell ya tongue

Open up your javascript debugger within your browser and see if it errs up. Might be a conflict between two sets of code, i.e. variable names.

Actually, it does help quite a bit in a forum setting. If you look at the total number of views per topic in relation to how many posts/replies there are in said topic, you'll notice there is roughly a 1:12 (posts:views) ratio. So essentially just over 75% of the time (factoring in other... factors), the query cache is utilized. Plus, the cache will be utilized moreso in things that don't change so much, i.e. user info.

Does that help?

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(51 replies, posted in Feature requests)

People talk about this situation like there is one end-all be-all method for anti-spam registration. This is simply not the case. This issue is constantly evolving on both sides.

CodeXP wrote:

While true, that won't help much seeing as my host won't be upgrading anytime soon (blame it on the goddamn Ensim CP).

First of all, your host sucks tongue

Otherwise, for the most part, your code is fine. A little funky, sure, but it isn't necessarily bad.

CodeXP wrote:

In any case, the less SQL querys one has to run, no matter if using MySQL 3 or 4, the better smile

I think your insistence against MySQL is somewhat unwarranted. In many cases (talking MySQL 4+ here) a simple query is often faster than opening/reading/closing a file. This is especially enhanced with the aforementioned query cache. Many people find that the more queries they use, the slower their code is. I find that the more I rely on MySQL, the better and faster my code is.

Why is that? Because I know how to optimize my queries and MySQL Server. Take a look at this article I wrote if you want to learn more.

By the way, I'm not attacking you! I'm just trying to dispell the myth that MySQL is the culprit when most of the time it is bad code. (Or in your case, a much much too old version of MySQL tongue )