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hi,

Are there any 'official' guidelines yet on mod migration to 3.1 ?

Specifically,

• will users be be forced to erase all prior MODs and DB changes prior to updating their boards ?
• if not, are there wiki's on how to update mods to 'extensions' ?

DavidIQ wrote:This will happen on phpBB.com soon after Alpha 1 is released.

great news

In MVC, you can/will have multiple views by default. the controller decides which view to render, and the views have no knowledge about the controller(s).

So i agree that having just one index.php entrypoint looks a bit narrow.

1. Currently, if you run this and the 'Blog' category already exists, it will throw an exception.

Currently Migrations is very strict because we thought it was safer to let users deal with database issues (with support of course) than attempt to handle it automatically, which can lead to ...

hi,

mods (Extensions) and styles are probably going to be the hottest topics once 3.1 gets released. where can we post [DEV] extensions / 3.1 styles until phpbb.com gets updated ?

imkingdavid wrote:You are welcome to take a look at the code for my topic prefixes extension. This is an example of using both PHP and Template events.

while phpbb 3.1 will require 5.3.3, your extension requires 5.4. is this intentional ?

as long as we have the choice of specifying an image through css this change doesn't seem too harmful.

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... Currently the text for posting buttons is fixed ...
Is this what you had in mind? It does work and I'm sure you could change sprites and the font you want.
EDIT: Do note the code in those files are a little outdated so do merge with the latest carefully.

yes indeed. I didn't see that RFC but ...

the ie8 argument is moot. just give us the necessary template variables so the style designer can make that choice.