New Forum Software
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- bambooweb
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New Forum Software
I am planning on upgrading this site to v3 of the phpBB software this weekend.
Hopefully I can get it done late Friday night so it will be back up and working on Saturday. The site will be down for a couple of hours as I update everything.
After it is back up you might have to reset your cookies but I think that has been fixed.
There could also be some problems with other site pages because the session and login code has changed but those should be quickly fixed.
Some things will be different than the current version.
NO HTML in posts or signatures.
This was a security hole that they changed with the new software. If you posted photos with html they will not show.
Attachments.
I will turn on the attachments for posts (and signatures?) so people can upload photos into posts. I will later integrate the upload into the photo gallery.
Photo Resize.
I am still working on resizing photos with Img tags so they will default to a maximum of 600 pixels wide.
Digests.
If you are getting a digest, it will stop when the forum changes.
I will be adding a MOD that will allow you to get emails from the forum and will allow you to reply by email. I will need to test it before I add it here.
Plant lists.
These have been moved into everyone's profile and are expanded.
Spell Check.
I have added a spell checker and after it is up and running I will add the spelling for bamboo names.
List length.
Now we can select the number of topics or posts to show on a page. The software has changed so much that it will take some time to figure out how to do it but I will add it back in.
A number of other things have and more will be added as we make sure things are working.
After the swap I plan on clearing out the test site and start a new test site for testing so additions and fixes should come faster.
Bill
Hopefully I can get it done late Friday night so it will be back up and working on Saturday. The site will be down for a couple of hours as I update everything.
After it is back up you might have to reset your cookies but I think that has been fixed.
There could also be some problems with other site pages because the session and login code has changed but those should be quickly fixed.
Some things will be different than the current version.
NO HTML in posts or signatures.
This was a security hole that they changed with the new software. If you posted photos with html they will not show.
Attachments.
I will turn on the attachments for posts (and signatures?) so people can upload photos into posts. I will later integrate the upload into the photo gallery.
Photo Resize.
I am still working on resizing photos with Img tags so they will default to a maximum of 600 pixels wide.
Digests.
If you are getting a digest, it will stop when the forum changes.
I will be adding a MOD that will allow you to get emails from the forum and will allow you to reply by email. I will need to test it before I add it here.
Plant lists.
These have been moved into everyone's profile and are expanded.
Spell Check.
I have added a spell checker and after it is up and running I will add the spelling for bamboo names.
List length.
Now we can select the number of topics or posts to show on a page. The software has changed so much that it will take some time to figure out how to do it but I will add it back in.
A number of other things have and more will be added as we make sure things are working.
After the swap I plan on clearing out the test site and start a new test site for testing so additions and fixes should come faster.
Bill
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Re: New Forum Software
YAHOO!!!!!bambooweb wrote:I am planning on upgrading this site to v3 of the phpBB software this weekend.
Hopefully I can get it done late Friday night so it will be back up and working on Saturday. The site will be down for a couple of hours as I update everything.
After it is back up you might have to reset your cookies but I think that has been fixed.
There could also be some problems with other site pages because the session and login code has changed but those should be quickly fixed.
Some things will be different than the current version.
NO HTML in posts or signatures.
This was a security hole that they changed with the new software. If you posted photos with html they will not show.
Attachments.
I will turn on the attachments for posts (and signatures?) so people can upload photos into posts. I will later integrate the upload into the photo gallery.
Photo Resize.
I am still working on resizing photos with Img tags so they will default to a maximum of 600 pixels wide.
Digests.
If you are getting a digest, it will stop when the forum changes.
I will be adding a MOD that will allow you to get emails from the forum and will allow you to reply by email. I will need to test it before I add it here.
Plant lists.
These have been moved into everyone's profile and are expanded.
Spell Check.
I have added a spell checker and after it is up and running I will add the spelling for bamboo names.
List length.
Now we can select the number of topics or posts to show on a page. The software has changed so much that it will take some time to figure out how to do it but I will add it back in.
A number of other things have and more will be added as we make sure things are working.
After the swap I plan on clearing out the test site and start a new test site for testing so additions and fixes should come faster.
Bill
Re: New Forum Software
Just checked, and all of Weather Underground's banners are html. Guess my weather sig is going bye bye.bambooweb wrote: NO HTML in posts or signatures.
This was a security hole that they changed with the new software. If you posted photos with html they will not show.
- bambooweb
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Re: New Forum Software
The good news is creating new BBCodes is not that hard so one might show up to display Weather Underground banners.mantis wrote:Just checked, and all of Weather Underground's banners are html. Guess my weather sig is going bye bye.bambooweb wrote: NO HTML in posts or signatures.
This was a security hole that they changed with the new software. If you posted photos with html they will not show.
Bill
Re: New Forum Software
I just wrote to Weather Underground that they need to come out with IMG code stickers/banners.bambooweb wrote:
The good news is creating new BBCodes is not that hard so one might show up to display Weather Underground banners.
Bill
- bambooweb
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RE: New Forum Software
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[img]http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniWeather08_both/language/www/US/WA/Tyler.gif[/img]
Re: RE: New Forum Software
Ok, I suck.bambooweb wrote:Like
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[img]http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniWeather08_both/language/www/US/WA/Tyler.gif[/img]
Now get it to work with KTXSUGAR4
RE: New Forum Software
Guess I'll have to stick with the local airport...
- millerlightman02
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RE: New Forum Software
speak English. I'm just a simple guy here All i hear is wha wha wha like the teacher on charlie brown.
Michael Geis
wiener dogs and bamboo
what else is there?
wiener dogs and bamboo
what else is there?
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RE: New Forum Software
when in the presence of greatness, just smile and nod, smile and nod.....
works for me!
works for me!
- bambooweb
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Re: RE: New Forum Software
On the Weather Underground site (The weather forecasters not the terrorists with the same name) http://www.wunderground.com/ you can find your town then find "Free Weather Stickers® for Your Homepage!".millerlightman02 wrote:speak English. I'm just a simple guy here All i hear is wha wha wha like the teacher on charlie brown.
Choose a banner and they will give you the code to put on a web page. Remove all of the code except for the part after 'img src='. Example
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http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniWeather08_both/language/www/US/WA/Tyler.gif
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[img]...[/img]
Bill
Re: New Forum Software
All good here apart from the RED names, sort of hurts my eyes
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Re: New Forum Software
Have to agree with this one- the red is very distracting. A dark blue that matches the theme overall without the high contrast nagging the corners of the eyes would be nice.Markj wrote:All good here apart from the RED names, sort of hurts my eyes
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Re: New Forum Software
That's the red, white, and blue for the Americans.GrowingHabit wrote:Have to agree with this one- the red is very distracting. A dark blue that matches the theme overall without the high contrast nagging the corners of the eyes would be nice.Markj wrote:All good here apart from the RED names, sort of hurts my eyes
The blue, white, red for the French.
The white, blue, red for the Russian.
Sorry if I left out someone.
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Re: New Forum Software
Ah, even Russia Ecnal Renkcelk should be happy about that.