It's a non-event - as a forum grows, you'll get a lot of hits like this (and note, none of those URLs are of any surprise to me).

I want to make it so users with a certain rank (based on number of posts, not given manually) can see other sections etc, while other members & guests cannot. However, such a thing still appears to not exist within the punbb community. Any ideas?

Pun Gallery works absolutely fine with Punbb, and I've had no problems at all with it (other than a lack of ability to edit submissions - you can delete but not edit - and the lack of a 'comments' feature, both of which are promised to be things to come).

Anyway, I have it running on http://www.ausphreak.com/gallery.php which is going strong.

Thanks a ton, I'll test this out now.

edit: Seems to work, but if being used along with the Online Today mod, the  final } has to be removed from:

    include('botdetect.php');
    $botStatus = isBotOnline(5);

    if ($num_users > 0 || $botStatus != '') {
       echo "\t\t\t".'<dl id="onlinelist" class= "clearb">'."\n\t\t\t\t".'<dt><strong>'.$lang_index['Online'].': </strong></dt>'."\t\t\t\t".implode(',</dd> ', $users);
    if($botStatus != '' & $num_users == 0)
        echo substr($botStatus, 1);
    else
        echo $botStatus;    

    echo '</dd>'."\n\t\t\t".'</dl>'."\n";
    }
        echo "\t\t\t".'<div class="clearer"></div>'."\n";

}

And the word else must be removed from the beginning of the bit for the Online Today mod (otherwise you have two conflicting else statements).

5

(72 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Hopefully it'll be able to be released along with 1.3.

You won't lose any of your posts or users. It'll just be a few php files, and will have no bearing on the forum itself. Fingers crossed, your old styles should still work too.

7

(13 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Can we have a writeup then? I'm interested on potentially displaying this on my site, because it seems handy.

8

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Well, no offence for it, but do you really think you're fulfilling a need? If you want people who aren't your friends to join up, you have to include something that no other Metallica fanclubs have.

9

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Gizzmo - http://www.lettertogod.net/letters/index.php

10

(13 replies, posted in Feature requests)

just modify your index.php

at line 179 youll find this
        if ($cur_user_online['user_id'] > 0)

I can only think it'd have something to do with that.

And I agree, this'd be very cool, although I'd like to add support for the MSNbot etc also (which I can only assume wouldn't be much harder to do).

11

(24 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Click on your profile. The number at the end is your ID.

a.k.a. http://punbb.org/forums/profile.php?id=5165 - your ID on punbb.org is 5165.

12

(2 replies, posted in General discussion)

Hint - use the Search Button.

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=8628 - This seems to solve all of your problems.

13

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Ok, simply enough, you're not taking the SQL database with you. That database controls the whole forum.

Go and extract it, then add it to your GoDaddy account. Then if need be, mess with config.php again, and you should be set.

If GoDaddy.com doesn't offer SQL hosting, then unfortunately you can't use your PunBB install on it.

14

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Yeah, it's by far the easiest way.

edit: if you don't want to have the javascript, you can just put

<meta 
http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=your new address.html">

between the <head></head> tags.

15

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

It's not the best approach, but you could always put up an index.html which just redirects in a normal fashion.

Haha, I like the way you think wink

The fact is, it's not really that feasible.

Eww.


Um, I don't think you'd be able to. As it happens, SWF files can be, well, bad... but hey, don't take my word for it, search for swf or flash here.

I think you should definitely use MyPunBB (to be fair, the ad is very minimal), then work from there. It'l stop a lot of heartache, and hosts with SQl and PHP not only cost more, but are usually very difficult to work with if you're not quite sure how it all works.

...if this wasn't just an attempt to plug your new forum once again, you would have just reposted it here.

21

(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

I've changed the style to a black one... *sigh*.

Nonetheless, it does look good still (and not as squished as it was with Kontrast, which I still love with a passion, just maybe not with FrontPage).

Note - you need control of SQL in order to install PunBB, so if your host doesn't offer that, you're better off registering a forum on http://www.mypunbb.com and linking it to your website.

Note - I've CHMODded all of the cache files to 777 for the time being, but obviously I wouldn't want this as a longterm solution (they're meant to be CHMODded to 755)

Error: Unable to write configuration cache file to cache directory. Please make sure PHP has write access to the directory 'cache'.

As you can tell, this is a fairly significant error. I can't make any major changes to my forum because of it. And the worst part of all is that I have no idea how it happened. This error has occurred within every section of the Administration area.

The most obvious assumption made from the error is that the CHMODDing of the 'cache' directory is incorrect. However, it is safely sitting at 644, which means that it shouldn't be a problem.

The only files I've affected recently are the avatars (I've moved them around a little etc), and the admin.tpl file. I've even restored the old admin.tpl file (not that I thought it would help at all), and it didn't do a thing.

Is there something I've potentially overlooked here that could have a bearing on what's going wrong? It's not just an administation pane thing, because it's recently (this has all happened within the last few hours) stopped image uploads being possible through the gallery mod.

Thanks for the help, in advance.

25

(9 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Come on, let him be, he's just showing off his newest MyPunBB install smile