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 constants DEBUG and DEBUG_EXTRA in the configuration file but these can be defined anywhere. The only downside debugging information will only be available after the hook is included, however this is sufficient to get the page generation time, memory usage etc. in the footer which is what I was after. (more…)
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Another phpBB Hook
Sunday, April 5th, 2009phpBB Post Queue
Sunday, March 15th, 2009In 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 the board I administer which is primarily for university students who all have their own university e-mail address it penalises new users who I as the board administrator trust. To get around this, I will be applying a small modification to our board during the next maintenance period which I thought I will share with you. (more…)
Firefox 3.0 Address Tweak for SSL/TLS
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Since Firefox 3 scrapped the yellow address bar for SSL and TLS secured sites (i.e. https) and displays a nice green box for EV certificates I was hinted at a way to get a similar visual for non-EV certificates. You need to enter the FF configuration editor, pop about:config into your address bar, confirm you know there maybe dragons. Put browser.identity.ssl_domain_display into the filter box, double click on the result and then enter the value 2. Bingo! Job done.
Wordpress archives
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009I’ve been running my blog since late 2005 as such my archives had been getting a little bit unwieldy in the sidebar and stretching the page to extraordinary heights. I’ve reduced this clutter with some very small changes. First I dug around only to find out that Wordpress doesn’t support fetching the monthly archives for one year, so I had to apply some filter foomongery. I discovered somebody else has done something similar, not quite as nice personally but it works.
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