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OK, sorry, elbekko, but I'm getting nowhere with the Easy Poll mod!

After fiddling around for 2 days I did a completely fresh 1.2.14 installation without any mods, no extra data or else, just the installation out-of-the-box with the admin user and the "Test" category and forum. The only "extra" part I installed was the German language.

Then I installed Easy Poll + v.2.0 and had the same malfunctions as in the previous installation. This proves to me that Easy Poll does not work with PunBB 1.2.14 - at least not without some changes, and I do not know which changes to the original mod I would have to make.

wobo

Yes, that's what I think as well. I'll remove the Subforum MOD and check. But that's bad because both features are needed badly. I have 15 subforums at the moment and was planning to open at least 10 more, so reducing the first level forums (53 in 9 categories, it's a monster).

wobo

OK, update:

I have installed the MOD. install_mod.php worked without error message, the fields it is supposed to set in the database are set.
I checked the c&p twice.

Result:
I get a blank page whenever I start viewtopic.php, search.php and admin_forums.php. I'll check the code once more.
And the poll-related text in the output of admin_groups.php is in french instead of German (yes, I did change the English and German lang files)

wobo

First time I installed it I got a blank page when I start PunBB. I went back to the status before the installation of this MOD and did all other MODs for the bare necessities first. Now I'm coming back and I'm in the middle of the c&p orgy. I'll come back reporting after that's done.

wobo

Not infinite but I did not see any porblems in all that time with this MOD in phpBB or the same function in SMF. When a user stays away too long or forgets to mark all unread and "uninteresting" posts as read for a while he may get a database error one day when he clicks on "Show unread posts". All he has to do then is clicking on "Mark all forums read" and he can go on. But that happened only in few cases where the user kept more than 800 or 1K or more unread flags.

No. The timeout is no help if you have a connection breakdown or you want to shutdown your laptop when you enter the plane (and leave the WiFi access area) after having read some of the new posts while waiting for boarding. It does not solve the essential problem of saving the unread marks independent from sessions:
I click on the link "Show new posts" and I see 50 or 60 posts (that's normal in our forum when I stay away for a day or a weekend). I do not have the time to read all of them, so I just read the first 10, log out, go fishing, come back in the afternoon, log in and with a click on "Show unread posts" I have my list of unread posts plus the posts that came in after I logged out.

This is working right now in SMF on my forum with 1K registered users and around 50 new posts coming in daily (worked as well with the MOD in phpBB). I did not experience any heavy load on mysqld on the server or any slowing down or anything else.

Looking at the "Unread MOD" in phpBB this functionality does not seem to be such a problem to be implemented in PunBB by an experienced PHP coder. Maybe someone could have a look at that MOD and get his ideas from there. Or he could port that MOD to PunBB. Anyhow, this function became so popular to the users that I can't offer them a forum without it. It's one of the MUST HAVEs, once you know that it exists.

wobo

I didn't

Installed and tested all 3 mods, working, thx again!

wobo

Good news that it works, now would you care to show the changes you made to install_mod.php? Or did you install in a previous version?

wobo

There was much talk about what would be sensibel and feasable. I've been using phpBB and SMF. Now I want to switch to PunBB because SMF is not a free (GPL'd) forum.

Concerning unread posts:
Say, I open the forum and there are 20 new posts. I start rreading and writing and then my beautiful neighbor rings at the door. When I come back I am logged off (or connection to the ISP has broken or my grandpa's dog ate the power cord). When I log in again - where are the marks of the 10 new posts I could not read in my previous session?

This makes sense and it is feasable and it is possible to code in a PHP software (although I myself could not do it). But I have seen it in function: Look at the Unread MOD in phpBB and look at the implemented function in SMF. Both were not causing any remarkable load for the mysqld in a website with 1K registered users and 130K postings in 3 years.
In both functions there were links to: "Show unread posts" (which shows all posts you haven't read) and "Show new posts" (which shows new posts since your last login.
And there was "Show answers to your posts" (which does the obvious)
The "Show unread posts" function can be tagged with a time limit (after x days the flags go away - in a FIFO way), so the amount of data would not get too large.

wobo

Found it.

So I would love to hear about the tedious work of installing the Easy Poll mod on PunBB 1.2.14
Polls are essential in our forum, not just chitchat polls but also polls for decisions about changes and such.

wobo

I just discovered that after de-installing Easy Poll all pages function except the search (and all links that rely on search.php). I've to go hunting for the error in search.php.

Could you elaborate a little bit, pls ?

Not if a large part of the system consists of MODs, especially MODs which have their part in the database! Reading that the majority of the MODs will be integrated differently in 1.3 it seems to me that updating from 1.2 to 1.3 will as gruesome for me as switching from any other software to PunBB.
You are right if we were talking about the pure PunBB without any extensions.

Ok, so, assuming that Richard agrees to the opinions given by Smartys and Jansson I'll have to look at phpBB as the only other GPL'd software which meets the most requirements of our forum. I will keep an eye on PunBB though for another forum I plan to build soon.

wobo