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:) First, thank you for your plenty of advice. There seems to be a lot we can do to make database work better and faster. Your advice, to let the database do the main work and not the php script, is very wise in most cases. The PHP interpreter of user php codings is very slow in compare to what a da...

Types of abstraction layers People sometimes say “SQL abstraction layer” or “database interface” fairly loosely, assuming everyone knows what they mean. Not so — I’ve seen at least four distinct meanings in common usage: 1. A software library to connect to a database server and issue queries, fetch...

First, it pulls a bbcode_bitfield from $user->template... I don't know much about this step. Later, it checks against NUM_CORE_BBCODES (Which I changed from 12 to 13) What exactly is needed to be edited to add new bbcode to phpbb3? Edit: After more searching, I've found that my work is stumped by t...