Shmups forum PHPBB Upgrades

robivy64 · Post by **robivy64** » Thu May 21, 2009 8:45 pm

nZero wrote:

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu May 21, 2009 9:37 pm

robivy64 wrote:
nZero wrote:

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu May 21, 2009 9:57 pm

This is why we can't have nice things.

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Fri May 22, 2009 4:16 am

Sonic R wrote: LOL
Until about a month ago, I was using Windows ME for the last 9 years! Yeah I got my worth out of that PC

Sheesh, and I thought the 4 year old system I replaced last year was old as dirt...

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri May 22, 2009 5:59 am

A Windows ME machine survived 9 years?!

With how many complete OS reinstallations (or more likely "System Restore" uses)?

I had a broken and pirated XP installation on our ME box in no more than five years. Turns out it had bad RAM of course. Part of me wants to do something with that machine - 1.2 GHz Athlon, pretty nice at one time (certainly seemed very fast when we got it, coming right off a 500MHz Pentium III). Probably should just donate it somewhere already, of course.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Fri May 22, 2009 7:23 am

c:\win

It's c:\windows\win newb!

skins and avatars. hmph. you rascals get off my lawn!

If it ain't broke don't sodomize it beyond all recognition

FTFY.
(posted from win3.11 on Versa V/50)

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Fri May 22, 2009 8:20 am

fun fact: win3.1 paintbrush doesn't let you paste an image larger than the viewport

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri May 22, 2009 9:08 am

Dayum. I've posted a few times from a Win98 laptop, won't be beating that unless I can figure out how to post from my HP-95lx or a Japanese computer

Is that a SX or DX revision?

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Fri May 22, 2009 5:00 pm

PHPBB3 doesn't allow the quote vortex. That one could go either way.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri May 22, 2009 11:55 pm

Icarus wrote:As far as I know, the archaic phpBB2 setup doesn't allow much flexibility, as it is still based around the old HTML table structure that was prevalent not long after Y2K. As a result, it is extremely hard to add new features to it, as you often have to edit core HTML in order to implement these features, and if you're using customised templates (like this eight-year old Space Pilot 3K template) it's impossible. Forum software nowadays runs with CSS-P and XHTML.

It's actually not hard at all. There are loads of mods out there with good instructions, and take less than 10-15 minutes. The problem is, our fearless leader is busy as shit. I know of another site that uses phpBB2, and won't make the upgrade since the one person that can do the work has loads of other things on his plate.

In the case here, it's not that much work to upgrade to phpBB3 if you're not married to the template. If you are, and it's custom, then you're basically working from the ground up. Or maybe halfway at best.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Sat May 23, 2009 12:22 am

Although admittedly from a more modern OS than Win 3.1 (AmigaOS 3.9).

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:27 am

That's cool. How do you take a screenshot on Amiga? or is that from uae?

@Ed - it's a DX2. Maybe you can find Lynx for Human68k...

cools · Post by **cools** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:34 am

FIL wrote:PHPBB3 doesn't allow the quote vortex. That one could go either way.

It does, but not by default.

Maximum nested quotes per post:
Maximum number of nested quotes in a post. Set to 0 for unlimited depth.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Sat May 23, 2009 3:35 pm

ED-057 wrote:That's cool. How do you take a screenshot on Amiga? or is that from uae?

There are a number of programs that will do it; the one I used is called SView.

dpful · Post by **dpful** » Sat May 23, 2009 8:31 pm

I love everything about the forum but the search.

Post by **system11** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:11 pm

Hello.

I actually did migrate the data into a test PHPBB3 install some time back. It does have new functions, to be quite honest none I personally give a shit about, but it would at least put us on something with regular security updates. Having said that, it's been a long time since any big PHPBB2 forum got hosed by script kiddies anyway - too old for them to care about perhaps?

The problem came with themes.

To put it bluntly, every PHPBB3 theme I saw was ugly as sin. I find this one very easy on the eyes, I think quite a few people do actually, and sadly it doesn't exist for PHPBB3. I don't have time to learn enough about PHPBB2 and PHPBB3 themes to try to port it, so I went to the authors site. Rather tellingly, there was already someone there who posted a note offering to PAY him to port it. I've been meaning to make the same offer.

If anyone has the skills and spare time to port Spacepilot convincingly to PHPBB3, I'll give you $200 or a mostly complete Mushihimetama kit, your choice. Don't take it on unless you know you can do it though, I'd hate for someone to waste their time shooting for some cash, only for me to say "sorry that's not going to cut it".

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:36 pm

It doesn't look like anybody's going to take you up on your offer, bloodflowers. I would still like to see a forum upgrade (in some form) though.

cools · Post by **cools** » Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:30 pm

I could do it but I don't have the time. It's near enough a reskin of SubSilver2 (which is part of phpBB3)

Post by **system11** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:44 am

I may have found someone now, I need to check back with him, he's never done it before and was looking into how much trouble it would be. Certainly it's not a very complicated template compared to many.

Cools: in your estimation how long does a task like that take?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:59 am

I started to change gamengai's theme to PHPBB3. I gave up when I couldn't see any of the changes take... I was then told you have to refresh the theme within PHPBB3 somewhere. Ugh. It's on my list of things to do... it's a long list though.

The trick is going to be that PHPBB3 themes have a lot more color definitions. I assume they could be filled in only colors found in this one, but who knows. Easiest is to take a pre-existing PHPBB3 theme that you like (you'd want the same format, basically) and then gut it.

cools · Post by **cools** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:05 am

GP has the right idea. And yeah, its bloody annoying the way phpBB3 requires the cache to be manually updated.

The AstroCity theme (love it or hate it) on ArcadeOtaku took me the best part of a week hacking up ProSilver. ProSilver is a bit of a pig to mess about with though - there's a lot to it.

SubSilver2 (http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/subsilver2) is to all intents and purposes the same format as Spacepilot - I can't imagine it'd take much more than half a dozen hours to modify, since all the graphics and colours are already done.

Post by **system11** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:42 am

Between Ghegs and myself (and Twyst) it's .. nearly done now. God what a nightmare, at this point the combined effort is past 48 hours of actual work.

I posted to the PHPBB forum trying to get help and offering to pay, and a kindly moderator failed to approve my post and warned me because it was 'solicitation'. Sure enough, it's there in the rules, and also counts as spamming. They must not like new users, what with that approach and the total lack of anything that resembles documentation.

Yeah well - fuck them in that case, I don't think I can be bothered to upload the theme when it's finished now, we'll be sending it to the original SpacePilot author only.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:11 am

That's real shitty of them. Sorry that didn't work out.
We appreciate your work guys.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:44 am

Can't wait.

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:25 pm

bloodflowers wrote:Between Ghegs and myself (and Twyst) it's .. nearly done now. God what a nightmare, at this point the combined effort is past 48 hours of actual work.

I posted to the PHPBB forum trying to get help and offering to pay, and a kindly moderator failed to approve my post and warned me because it was 'solicitation'. Sure enough, it's there in the rules, and also counts as spamming. They must not like new users, what with that approach and the total lack of anything that resembles documentation.

Yeah well - fuck them in that case, I don't think I can be bothered to upload the theme when it's finished now, we'll be sending it to the original SpacePilot author only.

Good job guys. Your continued work is appreciated.

Yeah, I've been having fun working on a custom Wordpress template and planning something for namakoHQ, so I can understand that stuff like this often takes forever and is a pain. It's a nice feeling once it's finally done and you see the fruits of your labour, though.

And phpBB is a pile of shit, in form, function and support. Thank god there are better alternatives. :p

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:50 pm

upcoming updates:

-twiddle banned from offtopic
-shoe banned from all forums but strategy and hi score

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:43 pm

Twiddle wrote:-twiddle banned from offtopic
-shoe banned from all forums but strategy and hi score

Make it so.

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:41 pm

IGNORE ELIXIR FUNCTION PLS

THANKS!!
XXX

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:19 pm

ban everyone from the UK function

cheers

Post by **nZero** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:30 pm

Elixir wrote:ban everyone from the UK function

cheers

I don't think bloodflowers would go for that, mate

Cheerio

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