Category Archives: phpBB

Jump In! Camp

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Chris

I’ve been invited alongside two fellow phpBB developers to attend Microsoft’s Jump In! Developers’ Campnext month in Switzerland to learn about interoperability between Microsoft’s software stacks and PHP applications. For more information on how to attend this event read on … Continue reading →

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phpBB Hook to remove success messages

Posted on February 16, 2010 by Chris

Time for another phpBB hook, this time the aim is to remove the messages which irritate some people when a post has been made and instead redirect the user immediately to the default choice. A few considerations had to be … Continue reading →

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Another phpBB Hook

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Chris

Further to my entry last month about a phpBB Hook to disable the post queue for certain users, I’ve written a really quick one to enable phpBB’s debugging mode for founder users. Debug mode is usually enabled by using the … Continue reading →

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phpBB Post Queue

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Chris

In phpBB 3.0.3 we added the possibility to queue posts of users who had a post count lower than an administrator defined threshold, this works very well at keeping spam out of the public eye on your board. But on … Continue reading →

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Planet phpBB

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Chris

I have created a phpBB Planet you can find it at planet.phpbb.cs278.org. Currently I am only aggregating 15 blogs of current and former team members, there is room for expansion. I am quite happy to add anybody who is notable … Continue reading →

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Mah Pizza

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Chris

Thanks Will! and Kenny.

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phpBB 2.0.x Retired

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Chris

As of this morning phpBB 2.0.x has been officially retired, there will be one more month of security update support and after that time there will not be another release.

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Quiet

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Chris

So I’ve been fairly quiet for the past month, whoops. I’ve had a fairly relaxed holiday, not doing much of anything, its been the break I’ve needed though. I’ve got a while to go before I am back to university … Continue reading →

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Londonvasion

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Chris

So this time last weekend I had just arrived in London, after driving around the hotel twice and Heathrow once, for Londonvasion. Which was the first of its kind for phpBB, a conference bringing together not only the teams for … Continue reading →

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phpBB Developer

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Chris

It’s about time I wrote an entry about this amazing opportunity I have been given, I have joined the phpBB development team and I will be helping them with their journey towards the next major release, 3.2 or Ascraeus. Sadly … Continue reading →

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