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APTX wrote: In theory it's something that will alow you to easily update your board even if it has mods installed.

Surely if you change things enough its still going to confuse any diff system.

What happens if the changed line is one that you have also changed, how is it going to resolve that?

Or for those *nix users:


(if you don't know what yes does, then read the man/info pages)

Ectoman wrote:

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<?php echo "Hello World!"; ?>

I may have just found a bug in that.
It may not work on all setups, what if 'echo' is in the list of disabled functions in php.ini?

Isn't it possible your board is slow because you installed a lot of mods? MODs need to be able to work on there own without other MODs so they may be resending queries to the database instead of sharing query results.

I assume you have looked at performance tweaking up the chain?
i.e. use BSD or ...

1) A formal beta3 provides a fixed, known snapshot that everyone could use for testing, working on mods, reporting bugs, etc. The cvs is obviously going to be constantly changing, you'd need to specify exactly which time-stamp of the cvs you were testing against. This is probably beyond the ...

battye wrote:

camm15h wrote: You've found us out there, the new version will indeed be called phpBB Bats&Pumpkins.

Indeed, named after yours truly

wow, your name's Pumpkin?

On a large forum with hundreds of users, sending the mails all at once could crash the mail server and/or be interpreted as a DOS attack,


I'm not entirely sure about this, so someone with more knowledge than me jump in, but do you really need to send a copy of the email per user to your mail ...

Well, first of all, it's improper coding practice to USE ALL CAPITALS IN YOUR HTML CODE.

Didn't it used to be the other way around?


For example, <TABLE align="center" cellpadding="10">
<TR><TD valign="top">[SNIP]

Is going to only parse as: <table align="center" cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<td ...

Ok, so I googled utf8 and I know what it is now, but how exactly does that benefit us? In what way does it improve phpBB?

People can use wierd foriegn characters in their posts.
Admitidly this is a huge problem when it comes to filtering out certian words, and even caused security vunerabilities ...

I have the problem with php5 some of my applications won't run perfectly with it so I still use php 4. I wish scripts would be fully compatible with php5 because then I would upgrade. .

Maybe thats because you wrote your scripts badly?
Most scripts should work OK. I switched my PHP4 app onto ...