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what is difference between a CMS and a blogging engine?

Hi folks, I'm not sure if the following 3 are synonyms or if there is any difference between them or of they have any hierarchical relationship. But could you please clarify me on how are they different/related? 1) CMS 2) Blogging-Engine 3) Forum Software like PHPbb Thanks ...

Logging into a PHP forum using lib-cURL and getting a page contents

This is my code: $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://www.membersite.com/login.php"); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'username=deleted&password=deleted'); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'C:\xampp\htdocs\scrape\cookie.txt'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);...

Matching usernames in a memberlist using regex

On a phpBB forum, memberlist.php lists all the members of the board with the following HTML: <a href="profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=4">Username</a> Where u=4 is the UserID of the user, and Username is obviously their username. There are probably 50-100 peices of HTML like this and I would like to match them all, so I was going t...

phpbb admin config file

Does anyone know where the config file for the admin is? For instance I want to change the database connection for the admin. I know where the main config file is but is there a separate admin config file with the db connection? ...

Converting phpBB BBCode posts to Markdown

I have a phpBB2 forum with posts stored in BBCode. The forum posts are stored like this in the database: [quote:e5adceb8e8][quote:e5adceb8e8="Person 2"][quote:e5adceb8e8="Person 3"]Nested quote[/quote:e5adceb8e8]Another nested quote[/quote:e5adceb8e8]Some text[/quote:e5adceb8e8] [b:e5adceb8e8]Some bold text[/b:e5adceb8e8] [i:e5adceb8e8...

how do I install this php word censor for phpBB?

Hi I am trying to add a list of words to be censored. So I found this site http://www.phpbbsmith.com/projects/phpbb3/word-censor-list.html that does it for phpBB. I downloaded the file and I put it in my root folder. I get this error Fatal error: Call to a member function session_begin() on a non-object in C:\HostingSpaces\SomeName...

Import PhpBB2 users into django-auth

Is there an elegant way to take the phpbb user table from the version 2 series, and import the users into my django auth_users table? I'm looking to outright dumb the old table completely, but don't want to lose the users. I'm aware that the password column is just a md5 hash of the user's password, but inserting the user with md5$$us...

Custom authentication handlers in phpBB3 issue: logging in but not saving to session

Hello, I'm creating a custom authentication handler in phpBB3 so that it's integrating into an existing website, and so members don't have to log into and create accounts on both the main site and the forum area. I've taking the existing DB authentication file auth_db.php, copied it, renamed it auth_whb.php, and set that as my authenti...

Integrating Python or Perl with PHP

I'm going to help my friend in a improve of his phpBB board, but I want to make somethings there in Python or Perl. But it's possible to integrate these languages with PHP? ...

How to show recent topics from my phpBB forum in my drupal website?

I have setup a phpBB forum and people are using it. It has a decent level of activity. I have setup a Drupal 6.15 website and I want to show the recent topics from that phpBB forum on this website. Both are separate domain names, if it matters. I've been searching since morning in Google for a module to do that but the results beat ar...

Scraping a phpbb forum

I want to know if it's possible to copy all the publicly available posts and data from one phpbb3 forum to a remote one without the database passwords and such, and if so, the simplest way to go about it. Details of the situation: We need to move the forums to a new and better place, but the guy who owns and operates the server where we...

jquery theme for phpbb?

Hi, Is there any possible way to apply jquery theme (theme roller) to PHPBB forums? Any help? Thanks in advance ...

Global list of all top level forums and sub forums in phpbb3?

I'm trying to find out how to display a forum/subforum heiarchy on every phpbb page displayed. I'm able to display the top level forums, but I can't figure out the subforums. I've tried adapting the code in the SubForum Display Options mod here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&amp;t=1651405 Here is an example of what...

phpbb - how to restrict access to Board index

hello to all, my client wants me to create a series of websites, each with its own forum. i have installed and played around with phpbb before and it is my understanding that each installation is capable of creating many forums. i already created a few using the same installation in another project. in each forum's "main page" there i...

How to show <?php tags in BBCode?

Is it possible to show <?php and ?> tags in BBCode? I know about the [code] and [php] tags, but these still strip out any code blocks that contain things like: <?php echo "myvalue" ?> Thanks for any ideas. ...

Searching phpbb's 'topic_title' via MYSQL php, but exact match doesn't work

$sql = sprintf( "SELECT topic_title FROM `phpbb_topics` WHERE `topic_title` LIKE '%%%s%%' LIMIT 20" , mysql_real_escape_string('match this title') ); Which I run this query in phpMyAdmin the results are: (correct) match this title match this title 002 But when I run...

Integrating PHPBB into CMS

I have a full CMS and I want to integrate it with phpbb. Basically I want when user registers -> registers with phpbb and same with login. Is there any good tutorial or something that can help me? ...

How to match multiple field in mySQL

Im trying to match forum_id with several different forum_id's, something like forum_id = 5,7,12,43,63,78 I currently have this code: SELECT topic_title, topic_id, forum_id FROM $MYSQL_TOPIC WHERE topic_title LIKE '%%%s%%' AND forum_id = 5 LIMIT 50 (using mysql_real_escape_string and sprintf) I tried: forum_id = 5 OR 7 foru...

What is the best forum plug-in solution for the Symfony framework?

I'm looking for a good solution to integrate a forum into a symfony application. Something like phpBB would be excellent. I've seen phpBB plugins to integrate with symfony but that's not enough for my purposes, also, mapping database tables is a lame approach in my opinion. If anybody knows a good working forum component for Symfony t...

phpbb specific forum page styles

I am using phpbb on a site for a client, and the client has requested that each different forum page have a different background color. Such functionality is not built into phpbb (from what I can tell), so how should I go about doing this? Can I modify the code of phpbb directly? My other thought was to use a js conditional statement, ...