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This is still 2.1. When it is released, it will become 3.0. It is my understanding that "Olympus" is only a codename while it is still in development, not to be used when 3.0 is actually released.

Hope this helps

Sphen

It was my impression that Nathan Codding took elements from several templating engines and combined them with a lot of his own ideas. You are correct about Paul recoding a lot of it though.

Sphen

Hi, phpBB is using a custom built templating engine built by former team member Nathan Codding. It uses a lot of elements of Smarty. phpBB probably wouldn't switch to Smarty because it is a lot of work to change all the code, and they already have a system in place that works. As for the CMS issue, ...

Hi,

As it says on the Sourceforge Site Status page, there is a problem with the CVS server for some projects. phpBB happens to be one of them.

The CVS version and the snapshots are the same. This server uses a cron (?) job to grab the contents of CVS, package them up, and put them on the server to download, every hour.

efrg12>>As long as the DB structure doesn't change, your data will be fine.

Sphen

It's a permissions thing. The topic starter is allowed to lock their own topic.

Sphen

Hi,

One of the largest sources is at:

http://www.phpbbhacks.com" target="_blank

There are also lots of other smaller sites.

Google: phpBB Mods

Hope this helps

Sphen

When it comes to public BETA, I assume that they will make it available for download, and wait for users to start reporting bugs to the tracker.

Hi,

It's CVS and unsupported, and not a cookie issue.

Sphen

Hi,

The feature set for phpBB 2.2 has been finalized. What you can do is head over to http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phpbb" target="_blank and submit your idea to the feature tracker. Then it will be considered for the next release of phpBB.