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How to display posts and topics on external pages
A very common question about phpBB is how to display recents posts or topics on a separate page, such as a website homepage. It can be very handy to do this, as it allows visitors to your website a chance to quickly see recent activity.
This blog post details how displaying a list of recent posts [...]
MOD Validation Workflow
As the title already says, this blog post will describe how the MOD Team validates modifications and what happens to them before they come out at the other end of the queue.
Enter the queue
The validation queue is a page that lists all modifications ordered by date of submissions ascending. We have a few statuses that [...]
Less significant modification team changes
As previously stated every team will announce in what way it will be affected by the significant phpBB development changes. This post will explain the effects on the modifications team.
Versioning scheme
Since phpBB will be using a new
How (not) to use request_var
Note: This post is targeted at MOD authors and contains many technical details.
Introduction
Amongst the great security features that phpBB 3.0 provides is the function used for processing user input, request_var. This function was designed
Setting up a community: checklist
This blog post outlines the key points you must consider if you are going to set up a forum. It is mainly directed to people who have not set up a forum before, but it might also be helpful to existing forum owners who are thinking about creating more in the future.
Feel free to print [...]
Developer Meeting
The phpBB Development and Management Teams met in Cologne, Germany last week for 4 days of exciting brainstorming and coding. We discussed future phpBB releases and worked on phpBB 3.0.6.
New Community Feature: Meet the Team
In an effort to increase our connections with the community at large, the phpBB Teams are glad to announce the creation of our newest community effort – a series of question and answer sessions entitled “Meet The Team”. This series is focused on helping you, the end user, learn a bit more about us, the [...]
3.0.6 CAPTCHA plugins and you
You probably have already heard about it: the next release will include a host of new features. This post will present one of them in detail, showing the idea and the impact on users, style and MOD authors.
Most admins are experiencing problems with spam, which is taking away lots of energy that would be better [...]
Guest Post: Why you need to fill out the SRT by JimA
In the Support forums hundreds of support posts are made daily. People who have a problem, or just a question they’d like to ask. It’s hard to answer all of those questions. Sometimes we need more information in order to get a better view of the problem to solve it.
What questions do we ask?
Have a [...]
Junior Developers
phpBB is continuing its process of opening up the development process. After an internal trial phase we have now opened up the Junior Developer Team to regular members of our community. An increasing amount of people involved in phpBB development