phpBB Discussion • Re: What can other uses suggest for spambot defense.
We have some pretty tough Q&A's currently. I can try to beef it up or change them entirely until this bot tsunami subsides.It doesn't actually have to be difficult. It just needs some logical...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.2][3.3][BETA] Advanced Polls
Firstly this extension is excellent. If this question has been asked earlier, i havent found it. --> Is there a simple adjustment that can be made in the CODE to change the limitation of 10 topics...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.3][DEV] Stats On Index
I was playing around with the date format layout in another ext and came up with this little bit of code.$start_date = $this->user->format_date(date($this->config['board_startdate']));That...
View ArticleExtension Requests • Making videos non-downloadable
When I asked Meta AI about ways to make videos posted on phpbb websites non-downloable, I got this answer:QUOTE: Third-Party Extensions: Install phpBB extensions that provide video protection...
View ArticleExtension Requests • Re: Making videos non-downloadable
No. It is impossible.Statistics: Posted by Paul — Thu Feb 13, 2025 5:55 am
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[3.3.x] Support Forum • Excessive forum load time
Hello, For the last couple of months my forum has been running very slow due to a huge increase of "visitors". There are always over 1,000 users online permanently of which almost all are "guests"...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Excessive forum load time
By the way, my robots.txt file looks like this:Code: User-agent: *Disallow: /User-agent: BingbotDisallow:User-agent: GooglebotDisallow:Set to allow only Google and Bing bots, and blocking all the...
View ArticleExtensions in Development • Re: [3.2][3.3][RC] AI Labs with Midjourney,...
So i figured it out... When inputing your API key, remember to take out the < and > lolStatistics: Posted by Aragon Burner — Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:10 am
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: Purging sessions
IP's from AWS(and other hosting services) are usually bad bots scraping content. One exception for AWS is Duckduckgo. Check the user agent, if it's Duckduckgo or any bot identifying itself through the...
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General Discussion • Re: When will phpBB 4.0.0 final version be released?
With the extent to which my forum is customized, I think I may end up on 3.x forever mee to, maybe.Statistics: Posted by halil16 — Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:40 am
View ArticleExtension Writers Discussion • Re: use php to add extra css class to existing...
But there are other tasks where you can quickly and easily find a solution by directly changing the HTML output, which would otherwise only be possible with a lot of effort or not at all. At least...
View Article[3.3.x] Styles Support & Discussion • Re: Upgrading Font Awesome
Hi,I have upgraded FontAwesome as explained here viewtopic.php?t=2653354I have also a BBcode that allows to display an icon in a message :BBcode [fa]{SIMPLETEXT}[/fa]html <i class="icon...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: avatar's not available...
You original issue was likely related to the group/owner/permissions.Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:41 pm
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phpBB Discussion • Re: What can other uses suggest for spambot defense.
Thank you all for your insights. I think my problem was too many Q&A's with too many answer options and left unchecked for too long. After some great moral support i got in a PM i have modified...
View Article[3.3.x] Styles in Development • Re: [RC] Zeina - phpBB 3.3.14
Hi! Great style! I see how much time and effort you put into it. About a year of development?!One thing I noticed that will prevent the style from reaching the Style DB is that it doesn't have a...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • New Install First Sign In
HelloI've just installed phpBB using Ionos Web Server. My new Forum fires up ok but when I try to Sign in I get the You have specified an incorrect username error.The Credentials I'm using are:...
View Article[3.3.x] Support Forum • Re: New Install First Sign In
If you installed through hosting control panel you'll need to contact your host. We would have no idea what it is. Becaue of issues like this we recommend you install it by yourself instead of through...
View ArticlephpBB Custom Coding • Re: Board3 Portal: Recents Posts (Sidebar)
I posted there, but I didn't get any feedback.You received feedback on the 4th and 6th of February.Statistics: Posted by canam800er — Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:18 am
View Article[3.3.x] Styles Support & Discussion • Re: Notification and Private...
Thank you, it works but then I have only Notifications and Private messages in the navbar, i.e. Contact, ACP, MCP, ... are moved to the quick link dropdown list.I also use the header banner extension...
View ArticleExtension Writers Discussion • Re: programatically update yml file
I got it from the php manual. But it requires the yaml extension to be installed. But I found something else.Convert Symfony YAML configs to PHP Modernize Symfony ConfigsStatistics: Posted by wintstar...
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