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It's unsupported, as has been said many many many times before... if you can't work it out by yourself... don't mess with CVS code. Anyone asking for support or providing support for 2.1/2.2 CVS are likely to make developers rather miffed, which further delays this forcoming version version. Yes, I...

Roberdin wrote:I can assure you it does, but only to a limited number of levels.

Oh. Thanks for the correction.

I've read the article I referred to in the previous post, and I've looked at the phpBB code. God I love this new forum/subforum implementation. It uses something called the Modified Preorder Tree Traversal algorithm. You pay a higher insert perfomance penalty, but new forums/subforums will only be c...

I've only skimmed through the phpBB 2.1 code, but it looks like they're using a tree structure to store and retrieve the forum categories.

This article on SitePoint explains how tree structures work in conjunction with databases.

Hope this helps. I was wondering about how subforums work, too.

Yup. (See Paul's post above this one ) But thanks for further clarifying.

I did a search on Matt Mecham and found this interview on SitePoint

Interesting reading.

MarkS wrote:I wasn't replying to you specifically. I was replying to the original poster, and the public in general. Sorry for the mixup.

Oh, sorry.

The bottom line is you should be thankful that the developers work so hard on v2.2, without being paid. What does this show, exactly? It shows that they want to develope this board, simply to be nice and generous to thousands of people around the world. I don't think the vB team can say that...they...

No, I've made a universal decision that no one needs longer than five minutes ;) Yes, of course it is. Would the word "unilateral" be more appropriate here in place of "universal?" Sorry, off topic. It's the editor in me. :D Looking back through this thread, I forgot that I had offered to write a M...

psoTFX wrote:IPB took a few years to finish Given it's heritage ... which everyone conviently forgets

I'm just curious. What is its heritage? Does Paul know of some juicy details?

Thsnks, DoD.