I'm having some issues in setting up Subscriptions for my phpbb forum, in that, I can't find a link to subscribe to the forum :/ Through the ACP, I've set the following to enabled: Allow subscribing to topics Allow subscribing to forums This was done through General > Board Configuration > Board Features. I can't find any other sect...
I'm looking for extremely simple forum software. Something that simply allows a user to create an account, make a post, and for users to comment on that post. No HTML, no user profiles, no private message, no bloat. Just software for simple postings. Almost borderline blog software that allows user created accounts. I've looked at the...
I'm modifying phpBB's table to have bidirectional relationships for friends. Unfortuntately, people that have already added friends have created duplicate rows: user1 user2 friend 2 3 true 3 2 true 2 4 true So I'd like to remove rows 1 and 2 from the example above. Currently, this is my query bu...
I need to modify PHPBB in a way to be able to automatically approve newly registered users that have an email address ending with ".org". How can I perform this? I'm sure I need to modify the code, but I need to know where. ...
Hi all, I'm struggling to try and find an answer to this question and was hoping someone might be able to help me. Are there any common/easy editable themes that I can use across Joomla (or Drupal), Wordpress and phpBB? I know that you can find decent forum and blogging modules in both Joomla and Drupal but I want to stay with Wordpre...
I am used to post my ideas on one forum and started to worry that I will loose them if it gets closed. Do you know a good way to download entire (ideas of other guys are also nice!) phpBB3 forum to a database? Is there software already available, or I have to write it myself? UPDATE1: Well, I can write it myself - this is not that hard...
There is this forum. I want to to be able to select a certain forum post and convert it to a blogger post . Is this possible ? If so how do I get started ? Thanks ...
Hello, I am looking for a forum script in PHP. Some time ago I installed phpBB but I had to remove it since my site was hacked and attacks cam from some security problems in this script. So I am looking for a popular php forum script that has NO SECURITY FAILS like phpbb. Any recommendations ? Thanks ...
Hi all, I need to modify the PHPBB3 application for my research purposes. So I am trying to understand its structure. Will be helpful if someone could help me with the a good starting point. If anyone of you came across a good article, please do post it here! ...
Hi all, In web applications like phpBB, when every time a new page is requested, is a new database connection created? For example when 5 users login using login.php simultaneously, is a new database connection created for each of the five users? ...
I am trying to integrate my login system made with PHP with the PHPBB Login system. My problem is that I am including the PHP login document which contains a class called $user but my login system uses $user as well. e.g My function for login is executing inside a class called $user and the phpbb login class is $user->login Is it possib...
Hi there, Im trying to find a way to enable HTML Tags in PHPBB (only for administrations). do you know how can I achieve this? Thanks ...
I want to crawl some data out of a phpBB forum i'm a member of. But for that, login is required. I can login using cURL, but if I try to crawl the data after logging in using cURL, it still shows that I need to login before viewing that page. Is it possible to login using cURL AND retain that session to do some farther job? Another thin...
While I search this one out on my own, may be some one could provide quick answer. Thank you so much in advance. So i really enjoy google groups and how every member receives notification about all new things that happen in the group. All new topics, old topics, added replies and so on. But we need our own forum, so my group went with p...
Well guys, to ask the question is pretty simple, but myself, I'm having a problem on finding the answer, and I need this badly... The question is: I have the following function in (donate/index.php) function submitted_amount() { global $db, $user, $auth, $template, $current_dir; global $config, $phpbb_root_path, $phpbb_admin...
I have a phpBB forum and would like to write an external class which can be used to send private messages to some of the users of the forum. Also, I'd like to automate the process of sending a post on the forum since some automatic notifications can thus be included in it. Something along the lines: PhpbbControl::sendPM(Integer $from_...
Hello everyone ;) I'm developing a website and I want to use PHPBB auth system. I managed to get it working pretty well, following a few suggestions I found on this website, but I've got a problem. Basically all I need to do is accessing template variables such as {U_PROFILE}, {L_PROFILE}, {U_PRIVATEMSGS}, {PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO} and othe...
Hello! I used to run a phpBB forum for our class in school but we have now graduated and the forum isn't used anymore. I want to remove the phpBB installation but there is a lot written in the forum that is fun to read now and then. I wonder if there is an easy way to convert the phpBB forum to some kind of static archive page that any...
Hey there I am trying to extract, say, the latest/most recent 5 threads in the X section of my Forums and have it 'posted' on my website with a link so the viewers can go directly to the thread instead of having to browse the forum or what not. I've seen and read some tutorials online but...in all honesty, phpbb seems like a mess to me...