http://loopnote.com/help/forum

Pretty boring punbb implementation, although the loopnotes service itself sounds kind of interesting.

152

(2 replies, posted in General discussion)

Couldn't you address this issue just through CSS - ie have one CSS file for mobile/handheld users, one for regular browsers, one for printing etc, while running on the same domain name.

Eg place in your <HEAD> section something like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/handheld.css" media="handheld" />

Opera.com for example does this very well.

153

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Have a look at Rickard's 'News Generator' extension downloadable off punbb.org, and also some of the variations/tweaks to it that have been discussed in this forum. I suspect it might come very close to meeting your requirements.

154

(18 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

what ver of punbb are you using?

This looks like the vulnerability re cookies that 1.2.17 has fixed.

155

(7 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

Our friends from Ukraine have been busy. It might be handy to put 85.255.112.0/20 into your .htaccess blocklist.

Google is your friend - search on "mysql Errcode: 17" and point your [idiot] host towards the first two results from bugs.mysql.com - eg http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=9551.

It's not likely to be anything to do with you, but everything to do with how your host has setup MySQL and the rest of the server too.

157

(4 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

What sort of numbers are you talking about re 'maximum users'.

Tweaking for maximum users BTW is a black art that can involve not only MySQL settings, but (if you run LAMP) also lots of tomfoolery involving Apache and PHP and sometimes even punBB itself.

To un-install the 1.3 beta, just delete all it's php etc files off your server and delete the MySQL database created for it as well.

The mod you tried to install was designed to work with punbb v1.2.*.

I'd just install punbb v1.2.17 and run with that.

There is no compelling reason to start running v.1.3 yet.  PunBB v1.2.17 runs fine and will do so for a long time yet.

Where did you download your punbb?

In relation to (3) and (5) it looks like you have installed something like the MegaPun heavily modded PunBB - http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=4369 -  not the vanilla PunBB you get when you download PunBB directly off http://punbb.org/downloads.php. In order to diagnose any problems with the code, you may have to contact the mod author(s) or other users of the respective version you have installed.

As to stopping guests viewing profiles, a solution is here: http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?pid=13645

Couldn't you also adapt the news generator plugin to do some of this job too? : http://punbb.org/downloads.php

"This plugin generates static markup based on topics in a specific forum... " - ie it turns a bunch of topic posts in a forum into a static HTML page. You can even shape the output with its templating system. Crank it through your various forums and bingo.

So how did you solve it - what code went into which PunBB php file?

It might be handy for others if you share your solution smile

Have a look at your forum using IE6... you will need a microscope to view the fonts correctly.

And this stuff down the bottom is so 1990's: "Best viewed 1024x768+ with Firefox".  No-one codes their HTML that way anymore - ie for specific browsers and specific screen resolutions.

163

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.3 troubleshooting)

Aha. Thanks for that elbekko.

But while it may be based on the 1.2 source, 1.3 doesn't seem compatible with 1.2 - most mods, patches, hacks - and even the CSS - will need to be re-done to work with 1.3. So it (arguably) isn't really just a simple, linear upgrade. Most 1.2 stuff will break on 1.3.

164

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.3 troubleshooting)

Apologies if this has been raised before, but why not call PunBB v1.3 a proper v2 release?

All the extensions and mods for 1.2.x won't work on 1.3, the extension system is fundamentally new, and much of the 1.3 code seems to have been re-written from scratch. So it seems to represent a real big departure from 1.2 in many important ways.

Seems like enough justification for labelling the current 'v1.3' more than just a point upgrade, IMHO...

I mean, if that's the scale of the changes we see in a mere point upgrade (ie 1.2.x > 1.3) , then I look forward to  the eventual upgrade from v1.3 to v2 delivering all sorts of miracles, including world peace and Jesus returning to Earth ... smile

165

(69 replies, posted in News)

Ahoy there HMS Beagle.

How goes your voyage of discovery? Been to the Galapagos Islands again recently?

166

(69 replies, posted in News)

As they are essentially one and the same vuln, then as the SektionEins vulnerability report itself notes:

Vendor Status: Vendor has released PunBB 1.2.17 which fixes this issue

167

(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

FSX wrote:

And for the topic subject in the last post colum, Punres wiki smile : http://wiki.punres.org/Last_post%27s_su … orum_index

Aha. Of course. Thanks FSX!

168

(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Very nice.

But can someone remind me please which PunBB mod gets the post subject up there in the 'Last post' column on the forum home page?

ie gives you:

Last post

"Mithrill officially online!
Today 13:28:03 by wee-man"

instead of just:

"Today 13:28:03 by wee-man".

I must be getting senile because I can't remember how to implement that.

169

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

A very elegant design - simple and modern.

It would be great if you packaged the style and made it available for others to use via punres.org ... smile

http://xable.net/forums

Nice simple grey PunBB theme on this Windows XP Sp2 Update Pack site.

171

(6 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

Yep, a nice styling job. Good work.

I'd make the 16x16 forum menu icons (transparent) GIF's though. PNG's don't display properly on some browsers (IE6) unless you tweak them, whereas GIF's work OK everywhere. You icons lose their transparency under IE6, resulting in some visual ugliness.

Smartys wrote:

sirena: It is, this page displays it in a different format though. And to everyone. Including guests.

Thanks Smartys. That's good to know.

Hmmm. I'm not sure *guests* need to know the list of extensions a 1.3 forum has running, as kierownik's extension does. That might invite trouble.

Without running kierownik's code to see what it does, or indeed having a working copy of Punbb 1.3 beta around at the moment to check on either smile, shouldn't this functionality be part of the admin interface to 1.3 anyhow?

Just like in Firefox, for example under Tools>Add-Ons you can see what extensions are loaded, shouldn't you be able to see from the standard admin interface to 1.3 what extensions are loaded in PunBB?

174

(7 replies, posted in General discussion)

Xmas is over Rickard!

Maybe the graphics on the punbb.org home page should reflect that now. smile

It's like leaving the Xmas tree out with all of its decorations for 1 month past Christmas day. In some cultures, it's bad luck to do so.

175

(3 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 show off)

They need to test out their forum style under IE6 though.... fonts are TINY and all render about 6pt.  You need a magnifying glass or even a microscope to read their forum.

And their top menu above the forum goes completely awry too. The tabs are **completely** mangled up. What a nightmare!

Poor work.

Memo to the Bebo developers: why not adopt a testing/ browser support regimen akin to something like Yahoo's 'A-grade browser support' framework: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles … ex.html...