851 Reply by Paul

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Did you change the language file to this
'Forum Index' => 'Forum Index'
When you should have done this
'Index' => 'Forum Index'

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852 Reply by Paul

(10 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I think this would have to be a mod. As a feature you have to think is it something that a forum, particulalry a lightweight forum like PunBB, really needs. I suspect not.

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853 Reply by Paul

(5 replies, posted in Feature requests)

You are wasting you time trying to use bullets. The list items are set to display:inline to make the list horizontal so bullets won't work. You might get them to work if you reconfigure the list items to display:block and then float them but I doubt you will get very good resuts in all browsers. The easiest solution is to use graphic bullets. Just give each list item a background image and then enough left padding so the text doesn't overlap the image.

Note: You apply bullets to the list item, applying them to the "a" will never work.

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854 Reply by Paul

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)

Initially moved from bug reports to troubleshooting but now moved back again.

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855 Reply by Paul

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

I don't understand what you are asking. Why do you need a tool when you've already done it by hand?

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856 Reply by Paul

(33 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Probably the wrong thread to mention it but if anybody really wants a Frontpage style program then they could do a lot worse than First Page 2006 which is quite remarkable for a free app.
http://www.evrsoft.com/1stpage3.shtml

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857 Reply by Paul

(33 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

If you really want a pleasant surprise, uninstall Frontpage alltogether.

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858 Reply by Paul

(7 replies, posted in Feature requests)

function pun_link($link, $args = null)
{
    global $pun_config;

    if ($args == null)
        return $pun_config['o_base_url'].'/'.$link;
    else if (!is_array($args))
        $link = $pun_config['o_base_url'].'/'.str_replace('$1', $args, $link);
    else
    {
        for ($i = 0; isset($args[$i]); ++$i)
            $link = $pun_config['o_base_url'].'/'.str_replace('$'.($i+1), $args[$i], $link);
    }

    return $link;
}

There is actually a bug in it which I will have to remember to tell Rickard about.

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859 Reply by Paul

(7 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I'm not sure this is really relevant anymore, for example the links to the menu items now look like this

<li id="navuserlist"><a href="'.pun_link($pun_url['users']).'"><span>'.$lang_common['User list'].'</span></a>'

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860 Reply by Paul

(33 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Filezilla is probably a little more complicated than Smartftp. Basically all ftp clients work the same, you get two screens, one showing your files on your PC and one showing the folder on the server. You just move files from one to the other. Frontpage is exactly the same, what they call "publishing" is just a built in ftp client.

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861 Reply by Paul

(33 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

If you want another go with Filezilla, you should have downloaded the .exe file which is the windows installer. Here is a direct link
http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefo … _setup.exe
Copy it to your browser rather than just clicking on it if you want it to work.

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862 Reply by Paul

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

And thats as far as this thread needs to go.

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863 Reply by Paul

(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

You should ask in the mypunbb forums, they will have to provide you with the information and the backup file.

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864 Reply by Paul

(8 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Well if thats possible it means that parser.php is not fully doing its job. What if anything is happening to parser.php is not my department ($buck = 'passed').

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865 Reply by Paul

(8 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Miles wrote:

Does PunBB 1.3 provide protection against a user breaking a page with invalid markup?

Well a user can't use markup anywhere so the problem shouldn't arise, if it does then it means there is a bug in parser.php. There is nothing to stop style designers, people writing extensions or administrators coming up with rubbish markup though. There is no difference between 1.2 and 1.3 in that respect.

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866 Reply by Paul

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

You need to sort out the text size in IE.
http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=7181

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867 Reply by Paul

(9 replies, posted in General discussion)

Actually the text is displaying in Opera 9 but you get an infinite scroll when you get to the end of the text.

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868 Reply by Paul

(9 replies, posted in Feature requests)

I put in a request to head office for bbcode to be altered for 1.3 to allow exactly this for the same reasons as you've done it (I can't do regex, not enough brain cells). In the meantime I will splice your code into 1.3 for testing. Shouldn't there be a default e.g. "No descrption provided" or something similar?

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869 Reply by Paul

(8 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Read that article a long time ago. I disagreed with it then and still do. Version 1.3 has gone the opposite direction. Its been running perfectly as application/xhtml+xml and even text/xml with the aid of content negotiation (there will be a content negotiation extension). Since custom templates can now be used the end user can change the doctype for a particular style to whatever they wish. Since the markup is valid xhtml 1.0 strict an html 4.01 Strict doctype should also work without difficulty.

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870 Reply by Paul

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '&' in /www/c/cbborg/htdocs/myforums/config.php on line 2

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871 Reply by Paul

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

I have read it. The graphics are not necessarily a PunBB modification. You could use the same graphics for phpBB, Invision Board or anything else  you like.

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872 Reply by Paul

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

zaher: Its a little more complicated than that. You can certainly take the stylesheet providing you keep any copyright notice intact. If the style uses graphics then you can't just take them as well. My understanding is that the graphics can be subject to a seperate copyright and whatever licence the owner chooses. The logic is that the graphics could be used totally independently of the stylesheet and PunBB.

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873 Reply by Paul

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Correct, provided they preserve the copyright and stick to the terms of the GPL license.

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874 Reply by Paul

(15 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

The GPL license does not alter the copyright. PunBB is copyrighted as are all the styles, mods etc. If somebody infringes the copyright then the same legal remedies are available to enforce it as would be the case with a commercial license.

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875 Reply by Paul

(9 replies, posted in Feature requests)

The problem is when you are designing with people using screen readers in mind you have to be conscious of not creating pointless noise. They are quite likely to find unnecessary titles a pain in the ear and just a general nuisance in that they slow down navigating the site. That is one reason why a large number of screen reader users, so I'm told, surf with the title attribute reading capability deactivated. I tend to think that if you need a title tag to explain link text then you really need to come up with better link text.

Having said that, there are some instances where titles are useful. For example take the front page of PunBB.org where the names of topics in the new topics list are truncated. Another example would be the help links for bbcode, a title saying they link opens a new window is sensible. A further example would be user names in posts, a title saying that the link goes to the users profile might be sensible since it isn't obvious what the link target is. It really comes down to using titles where they add something useful but not using them everywhere just for the sake of it.

As for the Alt atribute (its an attribute not a tag). Thats will be fixed in the next version.

As for adding additional spans to links to contain explanatory text. There is no cross browser way of doing it just using css. You can however cheat in some instances by editing the language files so they would read for example 'link text <span>some explanation</span>',.

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