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seems iphone users are having a problem with part of the post page showing in the enter text area/box.
What files do I need to edit to remove "BBCode: on [img tag: on Smilies: on" at the bottom of the page?
also need to remove the "Options" area which displays the check box and "Never show smilies as icons for this post"
thanks!
You may also want to check out http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/0 … -makeover/.
If you use a separate stylesheet for mobile devices, you can maintain the same look that your users are used to on your site when it's served to the PC, but have a mobile-friendly version as well that is automatic.
Great article and info. My problem is I like to switch my style based on if I am inside or outside, I have black background that works well at night and a white background that works well when I am out in the sunlight. Also my droid screen is 800 px wide but the style needs to be 570 to fit my screen perfect when its in landscape orientation. If I set a single mobile page then I am forced to use that one style no matter what right? If it had a popup option to select "day or night" that would work great. As it is I am letting my users pick their style from 8 total:
White backgrounds, black text, easy to read in sunlight
z_mobile_day_480px
z_mobile_day_570px
z_mobile_day_680px
z_mobile_day_800px
Black background, light blue text, nice at night
z_mobile_night_480px
z_mobile_night_570px
z_mobile_night_680px
z_mobile_night_800px
.brd { margin: 0 auto; max-width: 1100px; min-width: 700px; padding: 1.3em 2em; width: 90%; }Removing auto worked great! Thanks! Now the whole forum is on the left and I have several different widths so depending on how big their phone screen size is they can pic one that fits their screen.
Change width to 100% or remove auto from margin.
I have designed some of my styles to be more mobile friendly, for example the width on one style is set at 800 so it fits my droid pretty well in landscape but the forum is centered on the page (computer or droid) but when I open it on the droid I get only about half the forum showing, the left half is blank space, so each time I refresh I must first grab the forum on the page and slide it left to view the whole thing. What do I need to change to make the whole forum appear on the left side of the page? I guess "justify left" the whole forum is what I'm trying to do.
Thanks!
Turn on in MySQL config slow query log and watch slow queries.
Ok I'll see if I can do that. Thanks
A. Mysql analyze + Mysql optimize
I have used optimize, it isnt making a difference and the techs at my host told me it gets optimized each morning when the cron updates all the programs on the server.
I have not tried the analyze though.
Thanks in advance for any help
1. I have designed one of my styles to be more mobile friendly, the width is set at 800 so it fits my droid pretty well in landscape but the forum is centered on the page (computer or droid) so when I open it on the droid I get only about half the forum showing, the left half is blank space, so each time I refresh I must first grab the forum on the page and slide it left to view the whole thing. What do I need to change to make the whole forum appear on the left side of the page?
2. I've had this forum for over 4 years, its a sports message board and stays pretty busy. The board is nowhere near as fast as it used to be even though each of the 3 moves has been to an upgraded server the board has gotten slower. Right now its a text only board (except for small avatars) and there are no uploads or downloads to the server, its a VPS with 768 Ram, 40GB storage and 2000 GB bandwidth and I dont use even half the storage. That should be plenty of server for a punbb board right? Anyway here are the questions about trying to find why my server is so slow-
A. On the admin page I see 7772893 rows listed, which is about how many posts I have since the move to a new host 3 years ago but I only have 70k posts on the board as I delete a LOT of posts, it seems to help with the speed. Is it searching all 7.7 millions rows each time? Do I need to delete the blank rows in mysql/phpmyadmin?
B. Searches really kill the server, if I search and especially if I open 2 tabs and search at the same time the board slows to a crawl for all users. Server load spikes from .50 (on avg) to a 3, 4 or 5. If I only have 70k posts it shouldnt cause this problem should it? I never user all the ram, at most only half the RAM available has ever been used. Its all on the CPU. Also I have search limited in the admin panel to "only search one forum at a time" PLUS I have two forums hidden, I use them as an archive. So in reality the people should only be searching through 28,000 posts on the main board. Is there a way to improve the search or fix this problem? Maybe there is a problem with mysql or something? Does the search actually search all posts in the database but only list the ones from the chosen forum?
Thanks for any help or advice you can give me 
TFD wrote:somewhere around 20% use mobile or a combination with PC
Thx. That's pretty high and makes me more inclined to believe that by 2012-2013 50% of traffic could be from mobile devices.
I definitely think this warrants a strategic effort by PunBB Devs to find a solution for HTC, Blackberry and the iPads and netbooks of the future...
I agree, I recently went to a smart phone and I log in all the time from the couch to check on things and make a few posts, I logged in from my car while I was waiting ona friend yesterday. Imagine it will only become more popular as the phones abilities increase. I have a droid and I'm looking at the Nexus1 for my next phone.
major rewrite kind of sucks. Somehow everyone else seems to have a mobile version.
You basically need a major rewrite of the css to fit a 320px screen as that's less than halft the current minimum width size...
In my opinion YOU (or your users) need to specify what info you do and don't want. Example: the left colomn in viewpost is something that would probably have to be hidden/display:none and instead next to the date at start of post inser the name of poster to save those 15-20% width for a start... etc etc
PS: What percentage of your daily users comes on with mobile devices?
well all we have is name, title, 100px avatar, offline and IP for the admin. Id be cool if we could drop the avatar for mobile style and move the name, title, offline/online and IP above the post in someway, even if before the text. then have all text start on the very left.
somewhere around 20% use mobile or a combination with PC
ok well I have a pretty big forum, 3,268,937 posts in the last two years and Ive had it up for almost 4 years. Anyway lots of people are using phones, droid, iphone, blackberry, hero, nexus1 etc and they all request a mobile version that autoswitches when you login like other forums and google, and youtube and everything else. IMO you guys should make it a priority to get something worked out. Id be willing to give you the feedback Ive received so far if it would help.
Ive made one they can switch in their profile, 480px wide so it works great on iphone or droid in the landscape position (horizontal) but its still way to wide for upright or 320 pixels for the iphone and droid eris (hero). What Id like to do is change the forum widths in thread view so where the user name, avatar, online indicator, ip etc are located I need to reduce the width so that the text area has more space, where can I do this? what file am I looking for? I did it once with views but I forgot where it was.
thanks
would be nice if someone designed a style for mobile users for the default styles. I have a lot of users ask for something that works better on their blackberrys etc
someone want to make a simple one? Thanks
60 views and no one has posted? Does no one have a big forum with mobile users?
would be nice if someone designed a style for mobile users for the default styles. I have a lot of users ask for something that works better on their blackberrys etc
someone want to make a simple one? Thanks
sorry, could stop my self. you didn't even bother to do backup. if you did, even old one, just grab you user sittings and replace it with the current one if you know how to deal with mysql.
My database is huge. I dont back it up I let the host do that
Yes, there is cache with forum bans ("<FORUM_ROOT>/cache/cache_bans.php")
Thank you. I solved it by logging in to a separate admin account using a proxy. I had to ban then unban my account since I emptied the ban in php then I just clicked "regenerate all cache files"I think this is a plugin so people may want to have that
hhahahahaha
Thanks for the help!
I fixed it
ok this is no longer funny. I removed my name from the ban list in phpmyadmin but cant login because it says Im banned. Is there a cache or something I needed to delete? What else do I need to do?
uh I did this to myself because I was bored. My first name/admin name (RR) gave me the "cant ban" message so I signed on a different name with admin rights, moved my original name (RR) to normal poster(not admin) and banned it. Now I am banned on both accounts. I deleted the ban/name in php my admin. No joy. Stuck in limbo due to too much booze and boredom
It's doable, depends on what service you use (paypal, clickbank, google checkout etc).
I use paypal but Id be willing to use whatever works.
There was always talk that this would be developed for 1.3 however no one has. I dont belive it has been done before either?
Ok thanks. This was a third party software that was pretty cool it would be nice if punbb had it though
Great thanks!
Thank you. Im having a hard time figuring out what to do. It appears the new code is listed in these but Im not sure what to replace or just add? Am I missing something? Like in mods it says "replace x with y" etc.
I really only want to fix any security issues. The board is fine the way it is
is there a way to see the changes made? I downloaded the zip and its has a lot of files but I dont know whats changed. My forum has a lot of stuff changed like added login box, custom switch so I can turn images on or off per forum etc and I dont want to mess anything up. Im not a pro at this and I had to have help with those changes and Im afraid I will mess something up.
Thanks in advance!
a couple years ago I saw a post about some software that would let member pay and it would automatically switch their user group/allow them to sign up, it renewed on its on etc. Their website listed punbb as one of the specific forums that it woudl work with. Anyone know what this is? Ive seen amember software, Im looking for a different one. It was like $99 one time fee to purchase and they installed it for you.
any help is greatly appreciated,
TFD
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