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 Post subject: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:54 pm 
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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 :lol: 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. :hello1: 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. :wav:

Bill


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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:21 am 
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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 :lol: 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. :hello1: 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. :wav:

Bill

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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:11 am 
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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.


Just checked, and all of Weather Underground's banners are html. Guess my weather sig is going bye bye. :cry:


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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:25 am 
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mantis wrote:
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.


Just checked, and all of Weather Underground's banners are html. Guess my weather sig is going bye bye. :cry:


The good news is creating new BBCodes is not that hard so one might show up to display Weather Underground banners.

Bill


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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:29 am 
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bambooweb wrote:

The good news is creating new BBCodes is not that hard so one might show up to display Weather Underground banners.

Bill


I just wrote to Weather Underground that they need to come out with IMG code stickers/banners. :)


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 Post subject: RE: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:33 am 
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Like
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Code:
[img]http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniWeather08_both/language/www/US/WA/Tyler.gif[/img]


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:34 am 
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bambooweb wrote:
Like
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[img]http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniWeather08_both/language/www/US/WA/Tyler.gif[/img]


Ok, I suck.


:oops:

Now get it to work with KTXSUGAR4 :D


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 Post subject: RE: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:42 am 
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Guess I'll have to stick with the local airport...

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 Post subject: RE: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:31 pm 
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speak English. I'm just a simple guy here All i hear is wha wha wha like the teacher on charlie brown. :oops:

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 Post subject: RE: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:33 pm 
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when in the presence of greatness, just smile and nod, smile and nod..... :lol:

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:01 pm 
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millerlightman02 wrote:
speak English. I'm just a simple guy here All i hear is wha wha wha like the teacher on charlie brown. :oops:


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!".
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
Code:
http://weathersticker.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniWeather08_both/language/www/US/WA/Tyler.gif


Paste that link in your signature or post between
Code:
[img]...[/img]
and you should have the temperature on your post.

Bill


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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:34 pm 
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All good here :D apart from the RED names, sort of hurts my eyes :wink:

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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:10 pm 
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Markj wrote:
All good here :D apart from the RED names, sort of hurts my eyes :wink:


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.


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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:57 pm 
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GrowingHabit wrote:
Markj wrote:
All good here :D apart from the RED names, sort of hurts my eyes :wink:


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.


That's the red, white, and blue for the Americans.
The blue, white, red for the French.
The white, blue, red for the Russian.

Sorry if I left out someone. :)

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 Post subject: Re: New Forum Software
PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:56 pm 
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Ah, even Russia :bigsmurf: Ecnal Renkcelk should be happy about that.

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