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Hi,

No, not a wiki product by the phpBB Group. I am pleased to announce the addition of a wiki for syndicating code documentation and content at http://wiki.phpbb.com/.

This wiki is a place where you can share your experience with the codebase of phpBB3. Anything related to code documentation, modding/styling tutorials can be added there. Please note that we currently only allow registered users to edit/add pages.

What it is not

The wiki is not meant to be a general documentation of how to use phpBB3. It doesn't describe how to register, post new topics, etc. - this can still be found within our user documentation.

The MOD Documentation available at phpbb.com will be slowly moved to the wiki over the next weeks.

The phpBB Teams.

Modification pre validator open for public usage

After some time of development and internal testing we've decided to open our MODification pre validator, abbreviated to MPV, for public usage.

MPV is similar to mEAL, a tool you were able to use in the past to test MODs before submission to the MOD Database. MPV will return basic problems and make sure you use the latest release of MODX.
MPV will pick out basic problems with your MOD and give you feedback on these. If you submit your MOD with basic problems that MPV highlights we will deny the MOD within the first 24 hours, as per our Insta-Deny policy. If you don't receive a deny notification your MOD will be fully validated.

To test your MOD with MPV simply visit http://www.phpbb.com/mods/mpv/ and follow the instructions. You will receive a report from it after a few seconds.

If you find any bugs or problems with MPV, please report them to our website bug tracker.

You can discuss this announcement here: viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1149945

The phpBB MOD Team

It has now been one month since Londonvasion 2008, the first ever live phpBB conference. As promised, the entire public event was recorded for distribution to the community. We welcome you to share the experience with us by watching the recordings and participating in the Londonvasion discussion topic.

The Londonvasion registration page has been replaced by a page of links to the videos and photo albums. The entire conference has been broken up into 14 videos of varying lengths in order to make the file sizes more manageable. You can stream the videos from Vimeo, or downloaded them in your choice of format.

If you have additional photos that you wish to add to the page, please PM me.

Thank you and enjoy

The phpBB Team


Permanent links to the page:
http://www.londonvasion.com
http://www.phpbb.com/londonvasion/

MOD Authors Convention, 30 August 2008

Like last year, we are going to have have a MOD Author's Convention in 2008. It's been a bit delayed due to Londonvasion, but now we're ready.

The MOD Author’s Convention is an opportunity for all MOD Authors to meet up and also talk to the phpBB MOD Team. The Convention will take place in the #phpbb-mod IRC channel (freenode) on the 30th of August 2008. It's your chance to ask questions, bring suggestions and discuss ideas for the future of modding!

To give everybody the chance to participate, we’ll be having time slots with different topics spread over 24 hours. You don’t have to ask your question during the specific slot, but we’ll try and keep the overall discussions within those topics. There are two 2-hour time slots for each topic, in order to accommodate participants in different timezones. You can use TimeAndDate.com to calculate your local time. Each timeslot is linked to TimeAndDate so you can determine your local time for that session.

Discussion Topics Time Slots
00:00 to 02:00 UTC, 12:00 to 14:00 UTC: Intro, Feedback, Suggestions, and the future of Modding
02:00 to 04:00 UTC, 14:00 to 16:00 UTC: MODX, Packaging
04:00 to 06:00 UTC, 16:00 to 18:00 UTC: Modding for phpBB3, best practices
06:00 to 08:00 UTC, 18:00 to 20:00 UTC: MOD Documentation, Wiki
08:00 to 10:00 UTC, 20:00 to 22:00 UTC: MODDB, Submitting, Validation Process.
10:00 to 12:00 UTC, 22:00 to 24:00 UTC: Open Modding Discussion

Like last time, you can use this Java applet provided by freenode. For more information about IRC, go here.

We’re hoping to see you there!
The phpBB MOD Team

The ability to subscribe, via email, to MOD and style updates has been added to the MODs and styles database. When you subscribe to a MOD or a Style you will receive an e-mail notification when the MOD or Style is updated.

To toggle your subscription status, click the "Subscribe" or "Unsubscribe" link on the MOD or Styles overview page as appropriate.

If you find any bugs or problems with this feature, or in any other part of the MOD or Styles databases, please report them to the website bug tracker.

If you would like to make a feature request or just have feedback for the MODs and styles database, you may do so in this topic.

- The MOD and Styles teams.

Hello

As part of the discussion at Londonvasion, it was determined that the layout of the discussion forums on phpbb.com was in need of revision.

To this end, we have made changes to the discussion forums. The 2.0.x discussion forum has been locked; this will remain read-only. The 3.0.x discussion forum has been renamed phpBB Discussion and has now moved to the new “Non-support specific” section.

The change has been made to ensure easier phpBB discussion topic creation, as now you do not have to choose between two similarly named forums, there is just one.

You are able to discuss this announcement at:
viewtopic.php?f=64&t=1104365

Thank you,
phpBB Team

Londonvasion 2008 is now over, and we all had a blast!

This was a historic event for phpBB as it sets precedent for future plans. We would like to thank all those who attended the conference for their support, and the community as a whole for providing us with the resources necessary to make such an event possible.

As promised, the entire event was recorded and we have already begun working on editing the video. A new Londonvasion page will be added within the next week with videos, photos and detailed descriptions of what went on. Keep an eye on the Londonvasion discussion topic in the 3.0 Discussion Forum for updates from the team.

The future holds great things for us and we hope that this will be the first of many live events in the name of phpBB.

Thanks!

We are pleased to announce the opening of a phpBB Blog. This blog will be written by the phpBB Team on various topics related to phpBB and communities. The blog will provide an inside look into the phpBB Teams while benefiting the community.

Be sure to check it out: http://www.phpbb.com/blog

The MOD Team no longer accepts new phpBB2 Modifications into the MOD Database. Security updates for existing phpBB2 MODs in the database will be accepted. Please submit these updates using the My MODs section.

Along with this the [2.0.x] MOD Writers Discussion and [2.0.x] MOD Requests forums have been changed to read only. No new topics or replies will be allowed. New topics can no longer be made in [2.0.x] MODs in Development forum. Everyone can still reply to existing topics.

If you have any questions, feel free to PM me. Thanks.

Hello,

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB 3.0.2 package. This version has seen numerous stability fixes, performance tweaks and general bugs fixed. Additionally one minor security-related bug was fixed.

With this release, we also re-introduced the code changes tutorial. Due to the different codebase in phpBB3, these are a lot bigger and a lot more complicated than they ever were in phpBB2 - also the reason why we introduced the automatic update package and automatic updater in phpBB, which is able to handle modded boards too by merging differences. We do not recommend the use of the code changes tutorial - those are meant for professional users and support teams to help assist users having problems while updating.

Please note that we urge you to update. The versions we currently support here are phpBB 2.0.23 and phpBB 3.0.2.

Important changes since 3.0.1:

• [Fix] Ability to set permissions on non-mysql dbms (Bug #24955)
• [Fix] Fixed blank style on setups having no username defined within config.php (Bug #25065)
• [Fix] Made the compress_tar class tolerate archives that do not properly have their archived contents listed (Bug #14429 / thanks to JRSweets for his patch)
• [Fix] Moved topics should not count towards the number of topics in a forum (Bug #14648 / thanks to Schumi for his patch)
• [Fix] Properly check for invalid characters in MySQL DB prefixes during install (Bug #18775)
• [Fix] Bring the PostgreSQL backup system back to working order (Bug #22385)
• [Fix] Update correct theme for cached styles in style.php (Bug #25805)
• [Fix] Correctly determine safe mode for temp file creation in functions_upload.php (Bug #23525)
• [Fix] Correctly sort by rank in memberlist (Bug #24435)
• [Fix] Purge cache after database restore (Bug #24245)
• [Fix] Correctly display subforum read/unread icons from RTL in FF3, Konqueror and Safari3+. (thanks arod-1 for the fix, related to Bug #14830)
• [Fix] Added missing form token in acp (thanks NBBN).
• [Fix] Do not remove whitespace in front of url containing the boards url and no relative path appended (Bug #27355)
• [Fix] reset forum notifications in viewtopic (Bug #28025)
• [Fix] corrected link for searching post author's other posts (Bug #26455)
• [Fix] HTTP Authentication supports UTF-8 usernames now (Bug #21135)
• [Fix] Topic searches by author no longer return invalid results (Bug #11777)
• [Fix] Delete drafts and bookmarks when deleting an user. (#27585, thanks Schumi for the fix)
• [Fix] Set last_post_subject for new topics. (#23945)
• [Fix] Allow moving posts to invisible forums. (#27325)
• [Fix] Don't allow promoting unapproved group members (#16124)
• [Fix] Correctly fetch server name if using non-standard port (#27395)
• [Fix] Regular expression for email matching in posts will no longer die on long words.
• [Fix] Do not display ban message if direct call to cron. (thanks Dog Cow for reporting)
• [Fix] Correctly display double-colon on special conditions within highlighted php source (Bug #26795)
• [Fix] Increase storage capacity of titles/subjects due to specialchared content (Bug #25235)
• [Fix] Catch invalid username wildcard ban (we do not support these) (Bug #29305)
• [Fix] Fix (email)-domain checks for those having DNS prefixes set (Bug #29635)
• [Change] Adjust truncate_string() to be able to adjust the maximum storage length.
• [Change] Sort the tables at the database table backup screen
• [Change] For determining the maximum number of private messages in one box, use the biggest value from all groups the user is a member of (Bug #24665)
• [Change] Show email ban reason on registration. Additionally allow custom errors properly returned if using validate_data(). (Bug #26885)
• [Change] Don't allow redirects to different domains. (thanks nookieman)
• [Feature] Added optional referer validation of POST requests as additional CSRF protection.
• [Feature] Added optional stricter upload validation to avoid mime sniffing in addition to the safeguards provided by file.php. (thanks to Nicolas Grekas for compiling the list).
• [Feature] Streamlined banning via the MCP by adding a ban link to the user profile. Also pre-fills ban fields as far as possible.
• [Feature] Added ACP logout to reset an admin session.
• [Sec] Only allow urls gone through redirect() being used within login_box(). (thanks nookieman)

Please refer to the changelog for a complete list of fixes since 3.0.1:

http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents. ... &version=3

A short explanation of how to do a conversion, installation or update is included within the provided INSTALL.html file, please be sure to read it.

Minimum Requirements

phpBB3 has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use it.

• A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
• A SQL database system, one of:
  
  • MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)
  • PostgreSQL 7.3+
  • SQLite 2.8.2+
  • Firebird 2.0+
  • MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
  • Oracle
• PHP 4.3.3+ (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the database you intend to use.
• getimagesize() function need to be enabled
• These optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
  
  • zlib Compression support
  • Remote FTP support
  • XML support
  • Imagemagick support
  • GD Support

The presence of each of these optional modules will be checked during the installation process.

Security

Security issues found should be reported to our security tracker in the usual way.

Available packages

If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" or "patch" method for updating. We do not recommend the use of the code changes tutorial - this is meant for professional users and support teams to help assist users having problems while updating.

You can of course find this download available on our downloads page. As per usual five packages are available to simplify your update.

• Full Package
  Contains entire phpBB3 source and english language files.
• Changed Files Only
  Contains only those files changed from previous versions of phpBB3. Please note this archive contains changed files for each previous release.
• Patch Files
  Contains patch compatible patches from previous versions of phpBB3.
• Automatic Update Package
  Update package for the automatic updater, containing the changes from previous release to this release. Able to update modified installations without loosing these.
• Code Changes
  Contains the changes from previous release to this release in MOD template and MODX format.

Select whichever package is most suitable for you.

Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!.

Download/Documentation

• phpBB Downloads
• phpBB3 Documentation
• phpBB3 support forum
• phpBB3 bug tracker
• phpBB3 Coding Guidelines
• phpBB3 Sourcecode Documentation
• phpBB Code Forge

Have fun with the release,
the phpBB Team

As of this post, exactly 10 days (240 hours; 14400 minutes; 864000 seconds) remain until the start of Londonvasion, the first ever live phpBB conference. If you are planning to attend and have not yet registered, then you should do so as soon as possible. Do not wait any longer!

bertie_badges.jpg

[Click here to register]

What is Londonvasion 2008?
Londonvasion 2008 is the first ever live phpBB conference. We are very excited to present you with this unique opportunity to meet fellow community members, as well as the phpBB team.

The conference will be held on Sunday July 20th in a hotel across the street from London Heathrow Airport (UK). Doors will open at 9:00 AM and the event is scheduled to end at around 17:00 (5 PM). Presentations will be made throughout the event, and time will be provided for live Q&A.

Where is the event being held?
The conference will be held at the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel which is located directly across from London Heathrow Airport (LHR). There are around a dozen other hotels in the area, so you should have no problem finding a room if necessary.

If you plan on using the London Underground for transportation, the closest station also happens to be at LHR. Travel from the airport and Underground station to the hotel is available via a £4 shuttle bus which runs every 15 minutes. The shuttle also stops at the other hotels located on Bath Rd and can therefore be used to travel between hotels ? make sure to confirm this when booking. Alternatively, taxi fare from the airport is around £7.

Community members who reside in London may be able to provide travel tips, so please feel free to ask in the discussion topic.

Advertising
Several methods of live advertising are still available. If you are interested, please contact me for more information via any of the methods listed in my profile.

What should I bring?
Wifi will be available, so you are welcome to bring any portable internet capable device. Cameras (photo, video) will be allowed.

If you bring your Bertie, make sure that he is marked in some recognisable way and differs from all the others.

Parking
On site parking is available for a fee of £10 per day. This price may differ slightly depending on the amount of space.

Food and beverage
The hotel will be setting up a cafeteria with very reasonably priced options in the 3rd floor atrium. Items will include sandwiches of various fillings, tea, coffee, pastries, desserts and other snacks.

Updates
Important updates will be posted as replies to this topic and also emailed to all confirmed attendees. You may also wish to see the discussion topic for answers to specific questions.

Register?
Please read this post in its entirety before proceeding with registration.

There is a registration fee of £10 per person for the event. This is an unavoidable measure to prevent bogus bookings and the reselling of tickets, which is strictly prohibited. To further prevent "ticket scalping", each paid registration will have an id, name and email associated with it. All proceeds will be used to offset the cost of the event.

You can register for the event by filling out the following form: http://www.phpbb.com/londonvasion/. Upon submitting the form, you will be redirected to Paypal where you can pay the registration fee. You will receive a confirmation PM when your registration has been processed and confirmed. At this time, you will also see a confirmation page in place of the form. If you do not receive a confirmation PM, then your registration has not been confirmed. The system will only accept one registration per username, and the username will be linked to the ticket.

[Click here to register]

Please do not hesitate to contact me in private if you:
1) are unable to use Paypal.
2) need to register multiple tickets or a ticket for someone else.
3) do not receive a confirmation PM after payment.
4) experience any other problems.

Thanks, and we hope to see you in London,

- The phpBB Team

Hi,

On June 22, 2008 at 4:00 PDT (2300 UTC) the server will possibly go offline for a short period of time due to a necessary RAM Upgrade on the DB server (provided by OSUOSL).

Thanks,
the phpBB Teams.

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