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What happens when different modifications want different versions of the same library? A naming convention needs to be adopted in the coding guidelines to deal with this. For example, require of MOD authors that version numbers and "min" be removed, so you have just names like: jquery.js ...

I think it's time phpBB come up with a standard for dealing with MODs that include jQuery (or Motools, Prototype, Dojo, Scriptabulous, etc). Currently, MOD authors who build MODs using these libraries (no doubt to help their javascript programming, particularly when adding AJAX features to phpBB) us...

The hook system does not even exist yet. So I assume you mean the system that exists in 3.0 which was built to embed phpBB into another software. That system executes code on every page load simply because that makes sense if you want to embed the entirety of phpBB in another software. The MOD hook...

I have one question/concern regarding this new push towards using hooks to modularize MODs in 3.1 and beyond... How will this impact memory usage, and has this been considered? Among the few MODs I have already installed that have switched over to using the Hook system instead of the traditional cor...

iPhone 4... Good or Bad?

Hi guys and thanks for the RC! I performed the automatic update on a vanilla install of 3.0.7-PL1, and then I diff-compared that with a vanilla install of 3.0.8-RC1 and found about 8 files that had differences. In all cases the differences were due to areas where the automatic updater introduced new...

I have moved on to using Mysqldumper which is great. Now if phpBB built in that sort of functionality - that would really be something!!! -Scheduled auto-backups -User defined number of backups to keep -Uses javascript and php to stagger the back-up and restore processes to avoid script execution ti...

Hmm, I just tested out Invision IP.Board. They provide an option in the Admin section that lets you choose to have javascript files (they use scriptaculous and prototype) load from Google's servers or from your own server. Kind of a nice option. Maybe phpBB could implement it that way. In terms of h...

Yes to including jQuery :-) No to loading from Google (or another CDN). While google's servers may be reliable, my connection to them is not. Particularly here in China, various Google services are often arbitrarily blocked. All JS should be served from the phpBB instance itself. The loading needs ...

If it hasn't been said before, I'll say it now: PLEASE ADD JQUERY to PHPBB!!! More and more MODs and styles are using Jquery. This can be very frustrating to board admins, as they could end up with multiple inclusions of Jquery as well as multiple/redundant Jquery files that came with their MODs or ...