That's a very silly rule, but yes, using file_exists would probably be better.

You, as admin, have to go to the profile of the user and click on the Administration tab. There you can select what group the user is in.

Yes, you can create a group per family and allow only that family to view it.

454

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Erm, the DB abstraction layer is on 1.2 too, and it's based on the PHP4 OOP model, not the PHP5 model.

455

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

There's nothing currently in PunBB that would benefit from PHP5, but it works just fine on it, so I don't see the problem.

456

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

As I said, yes.

457

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

There are currently no security exploits known, and if one were to pop up, it'd be fixed within the day.

458

(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Maybe the database name is case sensitive?

459

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

No, because the tables etc wouldn't have been created.

What you could try is just renaming install.php to, say, awhoogha.php or so. See if it runs then.

Make sure you put it in the forum root.

2A: Try MySQLi
D1: 'root' is the correct one

Are you trying to use MySQL or MySQLi?

LAMP is excellent for such things.

But as for your problem: make sure you're using 'localhost' as the server name, not 'http://localhost' or whatnot.

464

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Check if there's actually anything in the timestamp DB fields.

465

(26 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Actually, isn't there an admin option to disable reporting?

466

(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

CHMOD install.php to 755 instead of 777?

467

(2 replies, posted in Programming)

I believe so. Run it through the validator?

468

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I did, yes tongue

Enable debug mode.

With 1.3's API it should be fairly easy to do. But they're two different applications, developed by different people. You can't just expect it to work wink

471

(6 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I went through some frustrations scrolling through endless lines of php/html mix to find that line where I want to change the color of some text

That's what CSS is for...

472

(3 replies, posted in Programming)

Try doing

echo $name;

It might be adding some unwanted characters.

473

(10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

That must be a mod, as PunBB doesn't have that functionality by default.

474

(10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

What error does it give you?

475

(3 replies, posted in General discussion)

Not unless they have access to your server.