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Re: Which do you prefer phpbb2 or phpbb3?
by Unknown Bliss » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:00 pm phpBB 3 by far. 1) Its still supported 2) It has a better style 3) Its more secure 4) It has Sub-forums 4) It has a much better permissions system 5) It has General features overall. 6) Its Banning & Warnings system is more advanced 7) It has Report Post/PM Features 8) The Compatibility is better 9) It has Custom BBcodes 10) It also has a better Polling system 11) And it has a much better System Changes (Topic Review, Post Drafts, Quick Reply, Attatchments) 12) It has a Caching system 13) It also has better searching and new/active/unread ect., posts pages. 14) It has much better forum features like forum passwords, style forum allocation, url redirect forums, subscrition to forums, bookmarks and email/print topics. 15) It has a better UCP managment 16) A decent Private Messaging System. 17) A much more advanced user groups system 18) Moderation System Improved to have a moderation queue, Global Moderators, Post Editing Locking, Changing Post Author, Merging posts/topic and User Notes 19) It has Nice ACP Changes 20) It also has Permission Roles, Bookmarks, Feeds and alot lot more |
Thunderbird wrote: |
1) Its still supported |
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2) It has a better style |
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3) Its more secure |
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4) It has Sub-forums |
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4) It has a much better permissions system |
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5) It has General features overall. |
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6) Its Banning & Warnings system is more advanced |
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7) It has Report Post/PM Features |
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8) The Compatibility is better |
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9) It has Custom BBcodes |
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10) It also has a better Polling system |
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11) And it has a much better System Changes (Topic Review, Post Drafts, Quick Reply, Attatchments)
12) It has a Caching system 13) It also has better searching and new/active/unread ect., posts pages. |
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14) It has much better forum features like forum passwords, style forum allocation, url redirect forums, subscrition to forums, bookmarks and email/print topics. |
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15) It has a better UCP managment |
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16) A decent Private Messaging System. |
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17) A much more advanced user groups system |
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18) Moderation System Improved to have a moderation queue, Global Moderators, Post Editing Locking, Changing Post Author, Merging posts/topic and User Notes |
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19) It has Nice ACP Changes |
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20) It also has Permission Roles, Bookmarks, Feeds and alot lot more |
Smee wrote: |
UCP & ACP are User and Admin control panels. |
Smee wrote: |
Future hindsight goggles on chaps |
Kang wrote: |
what i could do over the next month when i am able to is try and start a PHP BB3 board and see what i can try to do with some of the modules that are available |
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.. if Key does not object He can send me via email some of the Encoding that is currently used in IF and i can see if any of it can still be used with the php bb3 layouts .. if i find that they do work i can send let Key know and maybe send him or others that are willing to help out any encoding that i find that may be useful or that i have successfully tested |
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.. i dont anticipate this to be a smooth transfer but we can do is once we get a good seamless test board set up one person can take all of the topics and back them up on to a secure area and then try to interface the new coding over what we have .. but i would like to keep a copy of the encoding that we have in place backed up somewhere just in case we have to revert back to the old encoding and work out some bugs in the new encoding. |
Thunderbird wrote: |
And a point was made earlier that I agree with... how long will it be before we're discussing an upgrade to v4? Sometimes its best to play things out on the older version until the cutting edge has taken another step. |
Key wrote: |
Just as an FYI, here are the PHPBB2 mods we have in the current forum:
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Thunderbird wrote: |
However, to do it right, without destroying a great deal of the wonderful things we already have here (sometimes improvements aren't so very well improved as the programmers believed they were...), what we need to do is develop a thorough understanding of coding, both on the v2 and v3 sides before moving forward into an upgrade at all. We need to understand how to replicate what we're doing here from scratch, rather than being limited to the modularized modding others have developed for phpbb in general. |
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I have in mind a project for some of us who are interested, to learn the coding of our site inside and out. Only after we've achieved this understanding, do I feel we would be ready for an upgrade. |
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$template->assign_vars(array(
'TOTAL_POSTS' => sprintf($l_total_post_s, $total_posts), // Topics a user has started MOD, By Manipe (Begin) 'TOTAL_TOPICS' => sprintf($l_total_topic_s, $total_topics), // Topics a user has started MOD, By Manipe (End) 'TOTAL_USERS' => sprintf($l_total_user_s, $total_users), 'NEWEST_USER' => sprintf($lang['Newest_user'], '<a href="' . append_sid("profile.$phpEx?mode=viewprofile&" . POST_USERS_URL . "=$newest_uid") . '">', $newest_user, '</a>'), 'FORUM_IMG' => $images['forum'], 'FORUM_NEW_IMG' => $images['forum_new'], 'FORUM_LOCKED_IMG' => $images['forum_locked'], 'L_FORUM' => $lang['Forum'], 'L_TOPICS' => $lang['Topics'], 'L_REPLIES' => $lang['Replies'], 'L_VIEWS' => $lang['Views'], 'L_POSTS' => $lang['Posts'], 'L_LASTPOST' => $lang['Last_Post'], 'L_NO_NEW_POSTS' => $lang['No_new_posts'], 'L_NEW_POSTS' => $lang['New_posts'], 'L_NO_NEW_POSTS_LOCKED' => $lang['No_new_posts_locked'], 'L_NEW_POSTS_LOCKED' => $lang['New_posts_locked'], 'L_ONLINE_EXPLAIN' => $lang['Online_explain'], 'L_MODERATOR' => $lang['Moderators'], 'L_FORUM_LOCKED' => $lang['Forum_is_locked'], 'L_MARK_FORUMS_READ' => $lang['Mark_all_forums'], 'U_MARK_READ' => append_sid("index.$phpEx?mark=forums"), 'CATEGORY_TITLE' => "Storygames Home" ) ); // // Build the Ifquirer section // $sql = "select forum_id from " . FORUMS_TABLE . " where forum_name = 'IFquirer'"; if ( !($result = $db->sql_query($sql)) ) { message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not find The IFquirer forum', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql); } if ($db->sql_numrows($result) == 0) { $template->assign_vars(array( 'U_HEADLINES' => "#", 'L_HEADLINES' => "No IFquirer forum found" ) ); $db->sql_freeresult($result); } else { $row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result); $ifquirer_id = $row['forum_id']; $template->assign_vars(array( 'U_HEADLINES' => append_sid("viewforum.$phpEx?" . POST_FORUM_URL . "=$ifquirer_id"), 'L_HEADLINES' => "The IFquirer" ) ); $db->sql_freeresult($result); $sql = "select t.topic_title, t.topic_id from " . TOPICS_TABLE . " t where t.forum_id = '${ifquirer_id}' order by t.topic_id desc limit 0,5"; if ( !($result = $db->sql_query($sql)) ) { message_die(GENERAL_ERROR, 'Could not find The IFquirer articles', '', __LINE__, __FILE__, $sql); } while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) { $template->assign_block_vars('headlinerow', array( 'U_POST' => append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $row['topic_id']), 'POST_TITLE' => $row['topic_title'] ) ); } $db->sql_freeresult($result); } // // Build the Recent Posts section // if (isset($ifquirer_id)) { $where = " and t.forum_id != '${ifquirer_id}' "; } else { $where = ""; } |
HalfEmptyHero wrote: |
However, I think it would be best to find out what things people want out of If. I think we should interview the community, find out what features they would be interested in on a storygaming site, no matter how crazy or difficult they might be to implement. Then, take all those ideas, discuss what is possible, what isn't possible, throw out the bad ideas and go from there. |
Ingrothechundyer wrote: |
If we are going to upgrade then, as I understand it, Kang is offering to take the templates and see how much work is required to integrate them with phpBB 3. He will need the template folder with all files and images sent to him to see how much work is required to get them working. *HalfEmptyHero thinks that they will need to be "completely redone" *Obviously they won't look exactly the same as the current site as there are mods that will have to be ported over but it should be close enough to see if it is going to work or not. |
Key wrote: |
We're getting pretty far into a discussion of how we would upgrade, how hard it would be, etc., but I still haven't heard much about why. I have no doubt that phpbb3, or even MyBB, has features that we don't have, but until someone can say at a very specific level what those features are, we can't even begin to evaluate whether this would be a good idea.
If someone has looked at phpbb3 or anything else and liked something they saw, please say what it is in a way that's very specific, so that everyone can understand the benefit to the community (e.g. not just "better permissions" or "better search" but how it is better, what it allows you to do that the current site doesn't). |
Crunchyfrog wrote: |
An automatic welcome PM |
Crunchyfrog wrote: |
More sophisticated way of tracking how many new posts have been viewed by the user, including taking the user to the oldest unread post in the thread (and not always to the first page of the thread) - a forum I used to use back in 2001 was able to do this - I can't understand why it won't work here! |
Crunchyfrog wrote: |
Do we know yet how many of the things Stubby and Jnmrcs did for City of IF now come automatically with PHPbb3? |
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