http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog Your premium source for custom modification services for phpBB Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:06:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some hosts overload their servers. No, really, it's true. :P I know some of you know this, but many people don't and are quite surprised when they ask me see what I can do to improve the performance of their board. One of the first things I do before taking ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/28/a-public-service-announcement-some-hosts-overload-their-servers/ In the first three posts of this series I went through the feature list comparing phpBB2 with phpBB3 from the list posted at phpbb.com. I then included notes discussing which new features for phpBB3 I had covered already by adding MODs. At this point the score is 2-1 in my ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/25/smackdown-round-iv-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/ I had a post scheduled to come out a few days back that was supposed to contain an IRC conversation with DavidMJ, one of the developers for phpBB3. For some reason that post was not the latest revision. I have corrected that now and it contains the full conversation, which ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/24/um-oops/ In a word, or rather, in an emoticon: :-P I am a creature of habit. I've been using IE6 for many years, and my client (in real life) uses it as their corporate standard. Yes, I know there are security issues that can occur. But with the corporate firewalls and various ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/22/yeah-i-use-ie-wanna-make-something-of-it/ Through some sort of technical glitch most of this post was missing. I've updated it with the rest of the content. My apologies. A few days ago I posted Part III in my ongoing series where I am comparing phpBB3 to phpBB-Dave (my customized phpBB2-based board) from a feature perspective. I ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/21/phpbb3-caching-strategies-for-30/ I recently rewrote my banner management system for one of my boards. The board is fairly active (in fact we're averaging over 100,000 page views daily now) so with multiple page views per second taking place during the busiest times of the day it would make sense to be concerned ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/20/building-a-better-board-banner-system-part-i-efficient-accuracy/ Some people wonder just how bad the spammer problem is with phpBB2. I can answer the question posed in the subject of this blog post in one word: Very. As part of an experiment and a desire to capture more seed data for the upcoming relaunch of the bbProtection service I ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/19/just-how-vulnerable-are-unprotected-phpbb2-boards/ In the first two posts of this series I went through the feature list comparing phpBB2 with phpBB3 from the list posted at phpbb.com. I then included notes discussing which new features for phpBB3 I had covered already by adding MODs. At this point the score is 1-1, based only ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/18/smackdown-round-iii-phpbb3-versus-phpbb-dave/ The media team for phpBB Londonvasion 2008 has posted the videos from the public day of the conference. Yay! :-D I'm going to be hosting my own talk here on my site soon, but the entire group of presentations are available at vimeo.com. Here is my topic: The talk includes a ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/16/phpbb-spam-talk-from-londonvasion-2008-now-available/ The IP address information for a poster is stored in the phpbb_posts table in phpBB2. In my Checkbox Challenge MOD it's also stored during registration attempts. The IP address stored after being converted to hex and is then stored as an 8 character string. This is then decoded on the ... http://www.phpbbdoctor.com/blog/2008/08/13/decoding-ip-addresses-from-phpbb2/