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Such functionality would be part of the events system, which was pushed back due to time constraints.

Expect to see it in 3.2



Is there a post somewhere explaining the features held back to 3.2 and/or the full functionality of the events system? I've seen this mentioned, but haven't been able ...

Yes - and we will be disabling it on our board as well.

Admin Panel > System > User Control Panel > Friends & Foes > Disable Manage foes.

We are planning on leaving the friends list enabled - but if you want to get rid of that just disable it a level higher. If you really want to erase all signs ...

one reason may be the fact that these fields exist in v2, so it is, in a way, inertia.

Probably you got the point. What to do with phpBB2 tables location field, when converting to phpBB3, if it doesn't exist in the latter?

Put them in the "custom" location field, which would be turned on by ...

This is good you guys, but it presents some MAJOR problems once Final comes out.

Why? There is a convertor in the pack... ;)

Yeah, but the converter does some major removing and addition, unlike from phpBB2 to phpBB2 or phpBB1 to phpBB2.


But if the converter is doing the work for you ...

My smilies and avatars will not transfer.

When I tried the first CVS that included a converter (when this topic was created) I just assumed that I didn't have the chmod permissions set correctly. I tried again with a later CVS and now with B5 and they're still not converting.

My images folder (as ...

chrisf wrote: So what happens if the admin converting to Olympus isn't the founder and 1st admin? What's the difference ?
Sorry if sounds numb but i've not got a successful convert to refer to so cant see the difference.

Well .. you can add and remove founders.

Highway of Life wrote: You can still achieve the custom title using custom profile fields.

Hmm ... eventually I'll catch on to the extreme customization this will allow Again, another mod avoided (or built in? .. depends on how you look at it) by the custom profile fields 8)

The ranks in phpBB3 are very similar to ranks in phpBB2. There is improvements with group integration, but the user control is much the same.

However, I'm sure a custom rank mod will appear for phpBB3 just as it did for phpBB2.

Does the speed of it matter that much? You're only going to do it once or twice at the most.


But when you factor in that your board is going to have to be disabled as you run the copy functions, it does matter. In a forum with thousands of users and hundreds of thousands of posts, that's a long ...

Works a treat but it's pretty slow on a large board...

Does anyone know if there are plans for a .sql upgrade script for those with shell access? Certainly would be a lot quicker!


Do you have whm/phpmyadmin? You can just copy the database to newuser_newdb. It's much quicker than disabling ...