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by Dog Cow
Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:59 pm
Forum: General Development Discussion
Topic: Anyone running mysql 5.5?
Replies: 15
Views: 32511

Re: Anyone running mysql 5.5?

I've got 5.5.x. Not the most recent one, though. Just upgraded from 5.1.x about 3-4 weeks ago.
by Dog Cow
Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:52 pm
Forum: [3.x] Discussion
Topic: SEO URLs
Replies: 94
Views: 269964

Re: SEO URLs

If anyone is interested, here's how I implemented SEO URLs on my forum: First off, my forum has a single point of entry, a front-end controller. This means that I catch all requests and handle them appropriately. The canonical URL for a topic looks like this (where the leading slash indicates forum ...
by Dog Cow
Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:48 pm
Forum: [3.x][Archive] RFCs
Topic: [RFC|Accepted] Simple message API
Replies: 12
Views: 46185

Re: [RFC] Simple message API

An array to set options which looks like this:

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$message->set_options(array('bbcode' => false, 'smilies' => false, 'urls' => false));
So I don't have to remember the order of arguments. Plus I can leave out some of those options if I wanted to accept defaults.
by Dog Cow
Tue May 25, 2010 11:13 pm
Forum: [3.x] Discussion
Topic: A Rant on Forums
Replies: 9
Views: 21619

Re: A Rant on Forums

I disagree with the poster on a few points, but I think that his argument does have some merit and isn't "completely irrelevant."
by Dog Cow
Tue May 18, 2010 7:52 pm
Forum: [3.x] Discussion
Topic: A Rant on Forums
Replies: 9
Views: 21619

A Rant on Forums

I found this to be an interesting rant on web forum systems, and maybe we can keep some parts of it in mind as we work on phpBB 4. http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1421845&cid=29902621 by Malohin (167866) on Wednesday October 28 2009, @05:08PM (#29902621) This is not a new slogan. "Jo...
by Dog Cow
Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:45 pm
Forum: [3.1/Ascraeus] Merged RFCs
Topic: [RFC|Accepted] Avatar improvements, Gravatar
Replies: 15
Views: 57739

Re: [RFC] Avatar improvements, Gravatar

Highway of Life wrote: Such as uploading attachments to Amazon S3. But is that a different RFC?
Or storing the forum posts on S3.
by Dog Cow
Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:39 pm
Forum: [3.x] Discussion
Topic: Login Logs
Replies: 13
Views: 28818

Re: Login Logs

One could keep track of failed log ins as well.
by Dog Cow
Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:02 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Posting through email (by example: by cell phone)
Replies: 1
Views: 7474

Re: Posting through email (by example: by cell phone)

People talk about it, give arbitrary, non-sensical reasons as to why it wouldn't work, and all the while, nothing gets done.
by Dog Cow
Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:01 pm
Forum: [3.x][Archive] RFCs
Topic: [RFC] Post log/record
Replies: 21
Views: 53840

Re: [RFC] Post log/record

ToonArmy wrote: or differencing could be used.
That's the ticket. There's no sense in storing the entire copy of each revision. Even Subversion stores diffs for each revision.
by Dog Cow
Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:57 pm
Forum: Chit Chat
Topic: Is Area51 connected to phpBB.com?
Replies: 5
Views: 18198

Re: Is Area51 connected to phpBB.com?

Xsit3d wrote:Do you guys have anything to do with the development of the phpBB source?
We are the secret underground test facility. :)