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naderman wrote:I think you misunderstood. Basically I could imagine something like getAllForums() that then either run a SQL query if using a RDBMS or query a particular view on a NoSQL db.

I think you posted while I was adding to my post; we have the same imagination.

Although the work required to get all the SELECT queries translated might be significant. What's this? Are we going to copy-paste code? I thought that v4 was going to be a rewrite. As you might have seen on the wiki, the current plan is to have a set of entities and to use an ORM for those. Looking...

I think that phpBB 4 should include an abstracted storage interface which would make it easy to not only: a.) implement different RDBM systems such as we have today, but also b.) implement storage systems which are not an RDBMS. So essentially, we need to get rid of SQL queries in the files and inst...

Yes, it will work. I have been running 64-bit PHP 5.x and 64-bit MySQL 5.x for over a year now.

Think about which is easier to type, nelsaidi or nelsaidi@domain.com ? Good point. As an admin, I don't use auto-login, so I like not having to type in a long username to get in to my site. In fact, I even changed the login script so it will accept a user ID too. I just type '2', a tab, my password...

ToonArmy wrote:

Dog Cow wrote:

bobtheman wrote: 2. User login via Email address

There goes the option to allow multiple users to have the same address.

Depends on the authentication method doesn't it. But I really don't see the use in it anyway.

What other features are in phpBB 3 which you don't see the use for?

You can check your HTTP access logs, but that won't have the username, of course.

bobtheman wrote: 2. User login via Email address

There goes the option to allow multiple users to have the same address.

The only thing I don't like is spaces instead of tabs. I just hate looking at someone else's mess who didn't use tabs.

Dog Cow likes curly braces. And on their own lines, too.