Is PhpBB functional enough for this forum ?

[MetalheadGautham]

The current forum script, PHPBB. is quite low on features compared to others. Can we switch to MyBB, a feature rich, light weight, easy to use and free bulletin board software ?

[Arite]

How is phpBB 3 low on features... :
http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/compare.php

Albeit the Comparison is on the phpBB site, it does still provides a fairly comprehensive comparison with IPB, vBulletin and SMF.

Also MyBB is, although freeware, not open source.

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

And this is the first reason that we won't use MyBB...
Moreover there are no good scripts for phpBB to MyBB using Pgsql databases migrations.

[MetalheadGautham]

lets see:

1. are you able to retain PhpBB settings over to a new version on upgrading ?
2. what about the fact that PHPBB is insecure compared to others ?
3. does phpBB have Quick Reply ?
4. can phpBB automatically merge double posts, and concider updates to a post as a new post and bring the thread to the top ?

[Arite]

1. are you able to retain PhpBB settings over to a new version on upgrading ?

From what I can see the phpBB3 converter is not complete. Also this forum is, as j-b said, running with PosgreSQL which (could) cause further issue since MyBB is MySQL only.

2. what about the fact that PHPBB is insecure compared to others ?

Agreed phpBB3 is quite a target for spammers etc. due to it's popularity. This can be improved by e.g. changing the CAPTCHA and adding in additional text validation. The Wine HQ forum reportedly did this:
http://www.winehq.org/?issue=341#Status ... e%20Forums

3. does phpBB have Quick Reply ?

No. The VideoLAN servers are pretty fast though so wouldn't improve the speed greatly. Also there are a couple of mods such as eviL<3's Quick Reply mod and Handyman's AJAX Quick Reply mod.

4. can phpBB automatically merge double posts, and concider updates to a post as a new post and bring the thread to the top ?

A bump interval can be set - i.e. the amount of time before the same user can post again/bump the topic.

Cheers, Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I am willing to add any good plugins you want. List them.

I am NOT willing to use MySQL over PGsql.

Moreover, we don't get many spammers since the move to phpBB3

[MetalheadGautham]

I am willing to add any good plugins you want. List them.

I am NOT willing to use MySQL over PGsql.

Moreover, we don't get many spammers since the move to phpBB3

please add the quick reply and multiquote plugins

[Arite]

multiquote plugins

What do you mean by multiquote plugin? Do you mean "ticking" several quotes like in IPB, which then automatically adds them to the reply posting box?

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I am willing to add any good plugins you want. List them.

I am NOT willing to use MySQL over PGsql.

Moreover, we don't get many spammers since the move to phpBB3

please add the quick reply and multiquote plugins

Links to the plugins ?

[Arite]

The Quick Reply mod links posted above:

Also there are a couple of mods such as eviL<3's Quick Reply mod and Handyman's AJAX Quick Reply mod.

From what I can see the one made by evil<3 looks nice and simple.

The Ajax one by Handyman requires evil<3's quick reply mod too (as far as I know adding functionality via Ajax so that the page doesn't need to be reloaded to display the post), however the Ajax mod will not work with the latest Evil quick reply mods - need to be earlier than the RC1/2/3 release version (so perhaps this one).

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I did install the quick reply MOD. It doesn't show. The MOD installation system is horrible...
I don't think I will loose my time on it.

[Arite]

Agreed installing mods isn't that nice generally - a pain after updating too. I don't think the Quick Reply would greatly improve the forum either.

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, I have to disagree from an administrator point of view. Quick Reply means less accesses on this server.

It is installed now, but it doesn't show...

[Arite]

Fair enough - which mod did you install and did you refresh the prosilver Template and Theme cache?

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

evil quick reply.

I did cleaned the cache, yes.

[Arite]

Right well I've just got it working for prosilver (version 1.0.1 from here).

In the "install.xml" file the modified files which need to be changed and uploaded are:

• viewtopic.php
• includes/acp/acp_language.php
• includes/acp/acp_styles.php
• language/en/common.php
• language/en/acp/styles.php

And the new *.php file which need to be uploaded is includes/functions_quick_reply.php, found in:

• root/includes/functions_quick_reply.php

That only changes the main PHP, the prosilver and/or subsilver2 styles need to be modified to display the mod too so, for prosilver, in the "templates/prosilver.xml" file there are more instructions for modifying the prosilver template. The files needing modification are:

• styles/prosilver/imageset/en/imageset.cfg
• styles/prosilver/template/viewtopic_body.html
• styles/prosilver/theme/buttons.css
• styles/prosilver/theme/colours.css

And the new files to be uploaded are:

• styles/prosilver/imageset/en/button_quick_reply.gif
• styles/prosilver/template/posting_qr_body.html

Which are found in:

• templates/prosilver/imageset/en/button_quick_reply.gif
• templates/prosilver/template/posting_qr_body.html

After uploading all the new and modified files, refresh the cache for the Imageset, Template and Theme for prosilver and it should work.

The styles set can also be changed for subsilver2 if anyone uses that, however the default is prosilver so unlikely that many users are using subsilver2.

EDIT: Further modifications can be made to get smilies and BBCode for Quick Reply.

Arite.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I have done all that

[Arite]

Well only thing I can think of is that the prosilver styles have not been refreshed since had the viewtopic_body.html template been updated the quick reply button/quick-reply-icon class should be there after the reply-icon div class. Also ".quick-reply-icon span" should be in the style.php CSS (derived from stylesheet.css etc.).

Arite.

[Arite]

OK, the quick-reply-icon class etc. is there in the template and theme etc. - from what I can see everything else is in place for prosilver.

For refreshing the Template go to:
ACP >> Styles >> Template

And select "Refresh" for prosilver.

For the Theme and Imageset the same needs to be done.

The image_site_logo is assigned to forum_cone.png (which doesn't exist).The current image is forum_cone2.png so after refreshing the prosilver imageset the Site Logo would have been re-assigned to forum_cone2.png for it to be displayed.

If all of those things were done and you reassigned the Site Logo to forum_cone2.png then I can't see why it is not displaying.

Cheers, Arite.

[MetalheadGautham]

Hey j-b, how about SMF instead of PhpBB ?

[Arite]

SMF is a good forum package (I still prefer phpBB though), however it goes against the GNU philosohpy/free software since the license for e.g. redistribution is restrictive and SMF are given the right to change the agreement at any time.

Arite.

[MetalheadGautham]

SMF is a good forum package (I still prefer phpBB though), however it goes against the GNU philosohpy/free software since the license for e.g. redistribution is restrictive and SMF are given the right to change the agreement at any time.

Arite.

good point, but still... its almost opensource. Somewhat like Java.
This confusion regarding the right forum software in my case ensured that my website is now only a plain blog, instead of a Joomla! Site plus Forum as originally planned.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Quick Reply is in.

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[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You are obviously on the wrong forum.