I am using my own db for phpbb3 forum, and I wish to insert some data from the forum into my own tables. Now, I can make my own connection and it runs my query but in trying to use the $db variable(which I think is what you're meant to use??) it gives me an error. I would like someone to show me the bare bones which i insert my query in...
Hi! I am admin on a forum. Earlier we had phpbb 2.0 and i made a bot that could write to the forum. Now, we have upgraded the forum to phpbb 3.0, but i can't get my bot to write to the forum anymore. I have looked for a solution, but now i am out of ideas. So it would have been great if anyone have a suggestion. i have btw used CURL a...
I've built web apps before that utilize PhpBB session and user data. The common move is to use code like this: define('IN_PHPBB', true); //replace $phpbb_root_path with path to your forum $phpbb_root_path = '../forum/'; $phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1); include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx); // Start session managem...
Can anyone tell me where the config of cache folder is for phpbb3? I need to use a different folder due to my isp and can't find where i can point the folder to another location. ...
I've written this to try and log onto a forum (phpBB3). import urllib2, re import urllib, re logindata = urllib.urlencode({'username': 'x', 'password': 'y'}) page = urllib.urlopen("http://www.woarl.com/board/ucp.php?mode=login"[logindata]) output = page.read() However when I run it it comes up with; Traceback (most recent call last):...
hi, i have an issue with caching of templates in phpbb3. i have made changes to a template in the admin control panel and saved it, then cleared the template cache through the "purge cache" and i don't see changes reflecting on the forum, but the change WAS saved in the admin control panel. i next edited the template file manually (not t...
I am using the prosilver theme in phpbb3. In the file forumlist_body.html there is a part that looks like this: <dd class="lastpost"><span> <!-- IF forumrow.LAST_POST_TIME --> <dfn>{L_LAST_POST}</dfn> {L_POST_BY_AUTHOR} {forumrow.LAST_POSTER_FULL} <!-- IF not S_IS_BOT --> <a href="{forumrow.U_LAST_POST}">{LAST_POST_IMG}</a> <!-- E...
Hi, I am new to PHP. I am trying to hide total number of 'Views' and 'Replies' column on the forum view page. I am not sure what all changes would be required. My working environment consists of phpBB v3.0.0 and MySQL v4.1.1. Would appreciate any help or inputs. Best Regards, Gaurav ...
Is there a way to integrate CodeIgniter with phpBB3? The reason I ask is because I would like to use the user system as a base for my future CodeIgniter Application. Is it a good idea to use phpBB as a base user system? ...
I'm trying to start building a whole application using phpBB3 user system as a base using CodeIgniter framework. However before starting I would like to hear a piece of advice from any phpBB3 Developer out there. I've been developing for Wordpress and Drupal. But recently I decided I would build up something fit to my needs instead of u...
I'm getting awful lot of spam to my forums where only registered users can post and captcha is in use. What could we best solution to stop spammers registering to my forums? ...
I ran into an issue that I haven't found a perfect solution for yet. First let me outline the scenario. I have a PHPBB3 forum on a server and also an application (developed by me) on the same server which is linked to the forum. The application is only accessible if you are logged in to the forum and also some parts of it are only access...
Hello, I want to only grab the last post of all topics in a category (Category->Forum->Topic->Post) from a phpbb database in a single query. Currently I have cooked up this, but it returns only the first post, not the last. SELECT *, MAX(p.post_id) FROM phpbb_forums f, phpbb_topics t, phpbb_posts p WHERE f.parent_id IN (<categories>) A...
Hi i am using phpbb3 in one of my project. can you tell me how to stop same user login from different places? regards Tarique ...
I have transfered a big phpbb3 database from a latin1 database to an utf-8 Everything went ok, now I need to change the "strange" characters in the database. Yesterday I found a method that worked, now I can't find it anymore, I tried: update phpbb_topics set topic_title = replace(topic_title, 'Ã', 'à'); update phpbb_topics set topic_ti...
phpBB stores forum post texts in a strange way (like: [BLOB - 115 B]), what is it? How it is done? ...
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...
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...
hi to all , what is the best to integrate phpbb3 with joomla.. ...
I would like to allow guests to view the forum topics but not view the posts however if i provide read access they can read both. Is there a way i can stop them viewing the posts? Thanks ...