Very nice... I bookmarked that one....
27 2006-02-24 18:27
Re: US Civil War Online - CSS Integration (6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
Thanks Elzar... with a little tweaking I think I have it working how I want it...
Muchos Gracias
28 2006-02-24 16:40
Re: Help! The cache directory is currently not writable! (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
you can do it from shell by typing in:
chmod 777 <path to your forums>/cache img
or you can chose the chmod command from your FTP program and do it there...
29 2006-02-24 16:37
Re: US Civil War Online - CSS Integration (6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
I'm still working the IE issue.. I can't seem to figure out where the mixup is located in the CSS structure...
30 2006-02-23 13:42
Re: Why the people will use PunBB? (19 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)
I think I prefer PunBB over the rest because:
1. It is considerably less bloated than the other bbs packages (sort of like the Lite Beer commercial, "Tastes Great, Less Filling").
2. Modification is far less complicated than the other bbs packages.
3. The learning curve on how to administer the package is VERY low... easy is good.
4. It appears to be pretty darn stable.
5. Overall the folks who use it seem to friendly and eager to help out without getting all snooty and harsh.
6. The price is right! 
I use vBulletin at one other site simply because I purchased a license a few years ago and I don't want to let it go to waste.
I have given up on packages such as IPB, SMF and Burning Board because, simply put, they are bloated and I personaly think WAY overpriced. I have NO problem paying for a software, as long as it is reasonable for your "Everyday Joe". I'd pay for PunBB if it went to a commercial software, as long as it was reasonably priced.
Keep up the good work with PunBB, I plan on using it for all my sites that require a bbs package for many years to come.
31 2006-02-22 21:18
Re: US Civil War Online - CSS Integration (6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
Thanks... it's pretty basic but I am happy with it...
sometimes less is more
32 2006-02-22 01:28
Re: More extern.php help, please (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Maybe try adding the entire path... thats what I did and it seems to work fine:
<?php include('http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/forums/extern.php?action=news&fid=15&summary=yes&show=5'); ?>33 2006-02-21 14:06
Topic: US Civil War Online - CSS Integration (6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
Well, I have been working on getting PunBB integrated with my site using CSS and I have been fairly successful.
I still have a few bugs to work out and I am still working on issues with the way PunBB appears in IE, but in FireFox and Opera it looks pretty good.
34 2006-02-20 02:56
Re: [Release?] Extern.php News Extension (81 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Actually, I HAVE found something that is a bit undesireable about the script, albeit a very minute problem and more of a housekeeping issue than a functional issue.
The script works fine but it will invalidate your XHTML 1.0 & CSS validation. The inserted code creates the recent posts from the forums and they do not conform to any XHTML 1.0 doctype.
Anyone have an idea how to circumvent this issue?
35 2006-02-19 00:46
Re: [Release?] Extern.php News Extension (81 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
This is cool and I am using it... one question... is there a way to make the headline bold and a complete listing while retaining the summarized post content?
Maybe this was addressed here but if so I missed it...
36 2006-02-17 01:00
Re: Site integration problem (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Nevermind.. I got an answer at another site.... thanks anyway....
37 2006-02-16 14:54
Re: Intergration with flashchat.php (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Did you already check this thread out?
38 2006-02-16 14:25
Re: Intergration with flashchat.php (4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
I dont know what flashchat is but I do know in the PunBB documentation it explains how to integrate a PHP script in with <pun_include> in section 3.4 of the FAQ included with PunBB.
39 2006-02-16 14:06
Re: Site integration problem (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
My bad.... it is renamed to Custom.css but is currently still stock Oxygen.css except for the width modification.
40 2006-02-16 13:39
Topic: Site integration problem (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
I was wondering if someone can take a look at my layout and help me out a bit. I posted this over at PunRes but have been getting no responses there so I thought I would try here...
I have a base CSS layout for my site I am creating and I am trying to incorporate PunBB into it by editting the main.tpl file and using the Oxygen stylesheet as forum stylesheet and importing the main site stylesheet as well. The main site looks fine, passes validation but when I attempt to view the forums it is out of alignment. The header and main body fit fine, but the footer area doesn't appear correctly.
This is the main.tpl file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html dir="<pun_content_direction>">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<pun_char_encoding>" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/forums/style/Custom.css" />
<pun_head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><img src="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/images/logo.gif" alt="logo" width="460" height="80" /></div>
<div id="menu" align="right"><a href="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/index.php">home</a> <a href="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/forums/">forums</a> <a href="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/resources.php">resources</a> <a href="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/timeline.php">timeline</a> <a href="http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/reenacting.php">reenacting </a></div>
<div id="body"></div>
<div id="punwrap">
<div id="pun<pun_page>" class="pun">
<div id="brdheader" class="block">
<div class="box">
<div id="brdtitle" class="inbox">
</div>
<pun_navlinks>
<pun_status>
</div>
</div>
<pun_announcement>
<pun_main>
<pun_footer>
<br />
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"><p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" width="88" height="31" border="0" align="middle" /></a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/"><img
src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss"
alt="Valid CSS!" align="middle" style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" />
</a>
<br />
©2006 Inotch.com</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>and this is the default.css (my websites CSS layout) file:
html {
margin: 0px;
height:100%;
}
h1 {
color: #535769;
font: bold 1.6em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
h2 {
color: #535769;
font: bold 1.4em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
body {
background: #6A6D7C;
text-align: center;
font: .7em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height:100%;
}
#wrapper, #wrapper3col {
margin: 0px auto; /* to fix centering in Mozilla */
background: url('http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/images/background.gif') repeat-y;
text-align: left;
width: 749px; /* width should be the same as the background image */
height: 100%;
padding: 0px 17px 0px 17px;
/* box model hack */
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width: 715px;
}
html>body #wrapper, html>body #wrapper3col { width: 715px; }
#footer {
margin: 0px auto; /* to fix centering in Mozilla */
background: url('http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/images/contentbottom.gif') no-repeat;
width: 749px; /* width should be the same as the background image */
color: #B1B5C1;
padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px;
}
#header {
height: 82px;
background: #000000;
}
#menu {
background: url('http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/images/menubg.gif') #023A6A repeat-x;
border-top: solid 1px #000;
border-bottom: solid 1px #000;
padding: 5px;
color: #fff;
font: bold 1.1em Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#menu ul {
list-style: none; /* removes list marker */
padding: 0px; /* removes left indent */
margin: 0px;
}
#menu ul li {
display: inline; /* sets list items to display in a row */
padding-left: 10px; /* puts space in between list items */
}
#menu a:link, #menu a:visited {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}
#menu a:active, #menu a:hover {
color: #EDDF7D;
text-decoration: none;
}
#leftcol {
width: 152px;
float: left;
padding: 10px 8px 8px 10px;
/* box model hack */
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width: 152px;
}
html>body #leftcol { width: 152px; }
#maincol {
width: 545px;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
/* box model hack */
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width: 525px;
}
html>body #maincol { width: 525px; }
#centercol { /* basically a modification of "maincol" */
width: 395px;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
/* box model hack */
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width: 375px;
}
html>body #centercol { width: 375px; }
#rightcol {
width: 150px;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
/* box model hack */
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family:inherit;
width: 130px;
}
html>body #rightcol { width: 130px; }
.clear { clear: both; }and finally here is the main website file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>US Civil War Online</title>
<link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><img src="images/logo.gif" alt="logo" width="460" height="80" /></div>
<div id="menu" align="right"><a href="index.php">home</a> <a href="forums/">forums</a> <a href="resources.php">resources</a> <a href="timeline.php">timeline</a> <a href="reenacting.php">reenacting </a></div>
<div id="body">
<div id="leftcol">left</div>
<div id="maincol">
<p>Eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt quis nostrud exercitation qui officia deserunt.</p>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, duis aute irure dolor ut enim ad minim veniam. Ullamco laboris nisi ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Sunt in culpa eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Qui officia deserunt excepteur sint occaecat sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt.</p>
<p>Ullamco laboris nisi velit esse cillum dolore. Ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Excepteur sint occaecat lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, quis nostrud exercitation.</p>
<p>Consectetur adipisicing elit, ullamco laboris nisi sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt. Sunt in culpa ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Cupidatat non proident, eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Ullamco laboris nisi qui officia deserunt velit esse cillum dolore.</p>
<p>Ut enim ad minim veniam, cupidatat non proident, quis nostrud exercitation. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, excepteur sint occaecat eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt sunt in culpa in reprehenderit in voluptate.</p>
</div>
<br class="clear" />
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer"><p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" width="88" height="31" border="0" align="middle" /></a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.uscivilwaronline.com/"><img
src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss"
alt="Valid CSS!" align="middle" style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" />
</a>
<br />
©2006 Inotch.com</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Here is the link the site: http://www.uscivilwaronline.com
Any help with this is GREATLY appreciated.
41 2006-01-28 00:55
Re: How to upgrade when PunBB is customized (29 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
404 error... not found....
It's "forums" not "forum"
Oh, and I do not see any post icons at all... I tried with Firefox, Avant and IE
42 2006-01-26 20:53
Re: How to upgrade when PunBB is customized (29 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
bluedigitalmedia wrote:
You state that now I'm using phpBB it is not secure - unless one can prove as such, it is speculation. I know phpBB has had security issues in the past, but my research indicates that the developers are taking a more active role in addressing those issues.
Well, if you consider a Google search on security issues with phpBB that show CONSISTENT security issues (think Internet Explorer... everyone has it and seems to use it so it gets exploited more) is speculation, well, it's your site mate.
Also - my host provider supports phpBB via Fantastico in my cPanel so that I will know when a new update is available - that was something I didn't have with punbb.
Forget modifying your site then to anything outside of the stock install if you are going to use Fantastico and the updates it provides. If you make any mods to the site it will most likely crash when you apply any patch that Fantastico puts out for phpBB as it is a stock patch and does not take into account any forum mods. You would have to pretty much do the same thing you do with PunBB going this route...
Good luck with it...
43 2006-01-26 16:50
Re: One of my PunBB Sites (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
Thanks... I'm glad y'all like it.
The Google ad's are there to hopefully help draw some people in and the logo is the way it is because the text emulates the handwritting of the era (19th century).
I need to install Opera and see how it looks. I exclusively use Firefox, but have taken a look at the site in IE.
EDIT: I just installed Opera and Avant browsers and the site looks normal in both.
j2k4b, are you using an older version of Opera perhaps?
44 2006-01-26 16:46
Re: How to upgrade when PunBB is customized (29 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)
bluedigitalmedia wrote:
I finally gave up and moved the forums to phpbb.. I couldn't afford to take any more time out of my day to work on this..
You just went from secure to massively UNSECURE... 
45 2006-01-23 22:35
Re: OLD TOPIC TO DELETE (133 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
mdfh wrote:
A wonderful mod,
and if there's any possible to quota a category?
for example, limit to 5MB to a category.Thanks!
I second this... I'd like to install it if the ability to limit how much of my server space users are allowed to have... I can see a random user joining up and then uploading his entire photo gallery and sucking up every available byte of space.
If there was a way to add the ability to limit user galleries to a specific amount of space that would be awesome.
46 2006-01-20 17:23
Re: Show post title instead of Time. (7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Anyone know wahts the "dans" line was SUPPOSE to refer to in the code for this:
// If there is a last_post/last_poster.
if ($cur_forum['last_post'] != '') {
$idmT = (isset($idmComp)) ? ' title="'.$idmComp.'"' : '';
$last_post = format_time($cur_forum['last_post']).'<br />dans <a href="viewtopic.php?pid='.$cur_forum['last_post_id']..... etc etc etc....
I just removed it and things work fine....
47 2006-01-20 00:18
Topic: One of my PunBB Sites (3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)
I've only slightly modified it as I don't have the skills some other folks have, but I am very happy with the results...
Missouri and the US Civil War
http://civilwarmo.inotch.com
Thanks for looking!
48 2005-12-03 06:27
Re: Coppermine Integration... (80 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Bingo... those two files corrected the problem.
Many thanks for looking into it and putting the time into fixing that!
49 2005-12-02 16:28
Re: Coppermine Integration... (80 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Thanks... I have been searching at the CPG site for about an hour now and have found some related stuff but almost all of it is related to phpBB2 (I found one post discussing the "Critical error- There was an error while processing a database query" issue, but again, the files were phpBB2 files, not PunBB).
I'll keep looking, but if you have any suggestions it is appreciated (I'll wait for 1.4.3 if there is not already a fix for this issue concerning PunBB & CPG).
Thanks again....
50 2005-12-02 15:40
Re: Coppermine Integration... (80 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)
Not sure if this has been addressed, but I have looked over these forums as well as the forums at Coppermine and have come up short.
I am using PunBB 1.2.10 and Coppermine 1.4.2 (from what I can tell both are the latest versions of each as of today). Both products work fine stand-alone.
When I run the Bridge manager for CPG and choose the PunBB 1.2 it appears to integrate just fine, when I log into PBB I am also logged into CPG. I haven't found anything inside PBB that appears to be amiss BUT now when I try to get into the "Users" area of CPG I get a critical error, also, the Groups have now changed to just first letters.
Basically whats wrong is I now cannot pull thumbnails from CPG because of the users error. It obviously appears to be with the bridge. If I set CPG BACK to stand-alone mode I no longer can log in and I have to re-install CPG.
I know this sounds like a CPG question, but I thought I would toss it out here to see if anyone here has run into this with these versions or would have an idea about how to fix the problem.
Thanks!