December 2, 2006It will never be done…
I started developing my Page Permissions MOD in May, 2005. It was submitted and rejected in the fall of that year, and I stopped working on it for a while. I fixed the errors, added some new features, and I resubmitted it for validation a few days ago.
Then I resubmitted it again a few hours ago. 
To make a long story short, I don’t use the Admin Control Panel (ACP) option for database backups. I use my own backup process. But the Page Permissions MOD does add a table to the phpBB database. For whatever reason it occurred to me just this evening that I really should do my users a favor and include the “pages” table in the list of tables included in the ACP backup process.
So I added those lines of code to the MOD installation, and made a mental note to go back and do the same for other MODs that add new tables to the phpBB database.
Comments (4)
What?! I can’t believe they denied it for that! :O I mean it’s just sort of an “extra”, but i’ve never read that it’s required… This may also vary from validator to validator. But i’ll remember that.
Have you resubmitted it yet?
Comment by eviL<3 — December 3, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
No no no… I must not have written my post very clearly. Nobody denied it, and I don’t expect that they would. The issue was I submitted it and then – for some reason – thought to add it myself a few days later. My point was supposed to be humorous, actually, in that this MOD seems to always have “one more thing” that keeps it from being submitted and finally approved.
So the answer is “No” they did not deny it. As far as I know, they haven’t even looked at it yet. I did send one of the MOD Team a “heads up” letting them know a second submission was on the way, and to skip the first one.
Comment by dave.rathbun — December 3, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
Oh, okay. Then it’s an other story, of course. Oh, and could you point me to that article you wrote once (i think it was you) in the MOD authors at phpbb.com. It was about adding tables to the backup
Comment by eviL<3 — December 4, 2006 @ 3:18 am
Well, I don’t remember writing an article like that… and probably didn’t.
I don’t use the backup utility provided by phpBB, so I generally don’t think about it. All you have to do is open admin_db_utilities.php and find the line of code that sets up an array of table names and add your table. In a standard phpBB file (no changes applied) that line is on or about line 696 of that file.
Comment by dave.rathbun — December 4, 2006 @ 9:49 am