WhereMurlocsDare.Com

Derky wrote:Um,

I've somehow trashed my own forum account during the install of a mod. Can you search my acocunt and change the password / create me a new one.

If no, ill have to trash the forum and re-publish it, not really an issue as we've not done anything.

joy...

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Just tried to manage your account and it said:

"You tried to manage a user with founder status. Only founders are allowed to manage other founders."

Don't think I can help...

Cardinal wrote:

Derky wrote:Um,

I've somehow trashed my own forum account during the install of a mod. Can you search my acocunt and change the password / create me a new one.

If no, ill have to trash the forum and re-publish it, not really an issue as we've not done anything.

joy...

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Just tried to manage your account and it said:

"You tried to manage a user with founder status. Only founders are allowed to manage other founders."

Don't think I can help...

Mother fucker.

Right ill need to trash the forum and rebuild it.

Bah, wont take long but ill do it tonight after the raid, hopefully install the portal page with it at the same time!

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I FUCKING HATE PHP.

Anyway, I've managed to get the front page working, i've made some slight adjustments to the normal installation as it looks shit in IE8, so this one should be IE8 compatable.

If you want to again make a forum account, ill give you permissions. Goes for everyone else, I aint fucking remaking this cunting fucking bastard thing again....

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When you go to register, if you select British English as your language, it poops on you with:

Language file ./language/en/portal.php couldn't be opened.

Telluria wrote:When you go to register, if you select British English as your language, it poops on you with:

Language file ./language/en/portal.php couldn't be opened.

Fixed

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Click on view new posts, takes you to http://wheremurlocsdare.com/search.php?search_id=newposts

Not Found

The requested URL /search.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I don't think it loves you!

Thats a fun one. That file doesn't exist in the install no matter which version. Sounds like a fucked release <3

Ill write my own.

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Should it maybe be fed with the raw stuff from a phpbb3 install and then have the portal thing applied over the top? phpbb3 definitely has a search.php!

Telluria wrote:Should it maybe be fed with the raw stuff from a phpbb3 install and then have the portal thing applied over the top? phpbb3 definitely has a search.php!

That part of the site is a PHP Block. (Mod basicly) its not part of PHPBB3. I am going to have to use the PHPBB3 standard Search.php file and edit it for the site. At the moment I am struggling as I don't have a PHP Editor installed on my work PC and its running like a dog, so ill probably do this when I get home.

The rest of the blocks are working correctly from what I can see.

Next job is finding a skin, any suggestions?

It will need to be PHPBB3 and work with PHPBB3Portal (Though 99% of them will)

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Or that would work !

Cheers Tell, I wouldn't of tried that unless you said it.

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Derky wrote:Next job is finding a skin, any suggestions?

Here are a few varyingly pretty possibilities...

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/subMerged (quite calm and deep blue)
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/WoWMoonclaw (WoW themed, and fairly clean looking)
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/green_vision (probably a bit TOO green)
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/Chronicles (wood/scroll sort of idea)
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/WoW%3A+Alliance+%28Green%29 (WoWish and brighter and greener)
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/AutumnsColor (if you want to hump your eyes)
http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/pro_MylCastel (light stone/castle sort of look)

http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/WoW:+Alliance+

Was my favourite of those, if we can change some of the artwork?

I'll look for more styles soon. Going to be away tonight though.

Changing artwork is a doddle, just find the relevant GIF/JPEG and amend to suit

I'd actually meant to point at the green version of that theme, but it looks as though the board decides the URL ends at the brackets.

This link should work better?

Telluria wrote:I'd actually meant to point at the green version of that theme, but it looks as though the board decides the URL ends at the brackets.

Make your urls browser proof: http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/charstxt.html

( = %28
) = %29

Edit: And bright/light colours please. Emo-charcoal forums are so.. -.-'

I've installed the alliance green.

Its needs some customization on buttons and BG colour in areas, but it looks ok actually.

I discussed this with Bal the other week regarding changing the pictures to be Murlocs and adding WMD logo, he said he could do it.And yes, that is Bal being useful

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On that note.

http://wheremurlocsdare.com/Gallery/main.php

These are the images that need editing to fit. The logo image needs to have the BG colour changed to either match the forum skin or what ever.

The logo's left and right are randomly added to the site during a refresh, so they need to be replaced. Murlcos maybe?

On a side note, don't use thi image gallery for anything important yet. once the skin is done ill be trashing it as its fucking shit. I have a better one but I cant be arsed to re-install it just yet


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Re: left/right images, instead of Murlocs... You said they were random on refresh? Is it a lot of work to add and remove the pictures in the rotation?

If not,could potentially be fun to have our characters displayed there?

Mnemo wrote:Re: left/right images, instead of Murlocs... You said they were random on refresh? Is it a lot of work to add and remove the pictures in the rotation?

If not,could potentially be fun to have our characters displayed there?

Ooo, interesting idea. I like that. I can change the rotation with ease, its all in CSS (THANK FUCKING GOD) so I can re-write chat.

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Bah, a bit late in the day here. Some option which had I gotten in earlier might have saved some heart ache.

When setting up a domain you can setup forwarding on the server which hosts the domain so all request so it are bounced else where. E.g you forward from http://www.wheremurlocsdare.com to http://wheremurlocsdare.omgforum.net. Everyone sees in their browser url bar the former, but everything comes from the latter, it's commonly used when you have multiple domains registered, but want them all to have the same content. Completely transparent to the end user. So you could have the domain you want, with the current site hosted on omgforum, and no one would be the wiser.

Joomla is shit, but then you figured this.
SMF is riddled with security holes, or was with new ones out all the time last I check.
PHPNuke, quite good I've seen it used more often were people put some effort into evaluating the different options, generally chosen over Joomla.

Drupal, hasn't been mentioned at all, but if you got with the latest 6.x is quite stable with lots of modules to plugin. Very flexible, but does have a bit of a steep learning curve for setting up.

D, if PHP IS SHIT, why were all those solutions written in it? Don't answer. PHP4 was shit, and there was plenty written in it that is shit, PHP5 is much nicer though, and people are finally copping on to the likes of XSS and SQL Injection stuff that have plagued it for years.

Hey Squeek,

I am well aware of the URL foward. I had that set in the DNS for a while before I built up the forum.

Me and Card wanted to build the site up from scratch thats why we are doing this.

I have Drupal, I don't like it. It doesnt suit my style.

You clearly know something about PHP and the software around it, so may bug ya for a second opinion

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Yeah, I know PHP, been using it on and off (mostly on) since around '95. Well versed with MySQL too, which most PHP apps that need a database use. So feel free to poke me and I'll try to help in anyway I can.

Edit: Holy cow! Didn't realise I'd been using it that long.

Just wanna post an apology as I am feeling a bit "Meh" at the moment regarding this.

I've not had time to do any work on the site today and probably wont for a couple more days. Work is insanely busy coming upto to exam results day (I work for Edexcel) and having a new kitchen fitted this week + trying to do the dinning room floor / walls / etc etc etc time is just getting away from me.

I will get something done this weekend, hopefull finish off the base of the site and get the forums working a bit better.

As before, if anyone does want to do anything that needs doing, I'am more than happy for you too, but I don't if no-one wants to aswell.

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Either its just me, or this skin doesnt contain a new topic button.....


Wtf?


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Just posted a test topic.

Marveen wrote:Just posted a test topic.

Thats because I am a bell end....

I've been staring at this error

"Imageset misses “en_us” localisation" since about 9am. Just realised that I was viewing the page in american English and the buttons didnt exist for that language.

>.< a two year old could of worked that out faster than me <3

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