Archive For July, 2008

It seems that more people have problems configuring vBulletin’s config.php to work on GoDaddy’s servers more than anything else. Here are the instructions on how to do that and get vBulletin installed as quickly as possible.

Please note: vBulletin only works on GoDaddy’s Linux based servers. If you currently have a Windows based server, then you will need to contact GoDaddy to have them convert your account to Linux.

Get your GoDaddy Database Information.Go to www.godaddy.com and log in with your account ID and password.
Click on My Account
Click on Hosting Account List. This should open a new window.
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New languages packs have just been released.Deutsche Du (German Du) for 2.2.3Deutsche (German) for 2.2.3Portuguese Br for 2.2.3Polski (Polish) for 2.2.2Chinese for 2.1 (updated)Russian for 2.2.1Suomi (Finnish) for 2.2Please visit Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or or Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!!  You need to or to download them today!Language translations for YaBB have been slow lately, so please help us out by sending us your translations of YaBB to another…

Londonvasion 2008 is now over, and we all had a blast!This was a historic event for phpBB as it sets precedent for future plans. We would like to thank all those who attended the conference for their support, and the community as a whole for providing us with the resources necessary to make such an event possible.As promised, the entire event was recorded and we have already begun working on editing the video. A new Londonvasion page will be added within the next week with videos, photos and detailed descriptions of what went on. Keep an eye on the Londonvasion…

Forum Usability – Make member’s life easier

Although this guide focuses primarily on vBulletin usability and using example directly from the vBulletin forum software, it can be applied to most forum software.

Ask yourself…

When setting up your forum, you need to ask yourself, what is it purposes and who’s the target audience. Determine the goals of your forum/community.
It doesn’t matter how cool your site looks, if users find it impractical they will head to your competitors site, which is only one click away.

Help your users

Users are impatient. They hate having to learn new site navigation. Make your navigation obvious…

Members usually missuse the visitor messages feature, if someone left them a message on their profile they by wrong reply to it in the same profile and not in the other member’s. And then wouldn’t count as a conversation and the other member won’t be notificated that you replied to him. That’s why I thought about a solution to hide the editor from your own profile so you don’t post on your profile and be able to post on others with a very simple template edit.

In memberinfo_block_visitormessaging

Change the first line:

HTML Code:
<if condition="$show[’quickcomment’] AND $show[’post_visitor_message’]">
to

HTML Code:…

MyBB 1.2.14 is a security and maintenance update to MyBB 1.2 fixing a low HTML Injection vulnerability. This release is also intended to fix the rest of MyBB 1.2’s outstanding bugs and provide a stable platform for those of you who wish to stay with the the MyBB 1.2 platform for a while after 1.4 is released.

This security update fixes:
[Low Risk] HTML Injection vulnerability

These vulnerabilities affect MyBB 1.2.13 and previous releases of MyBB 1.2. Older versions of MyBB may also be affected.

Information on upgrading, template changes and language changes can be found in the posts below.…

Hello all,

Our server crashed this morning. Additionally, the bind name server service failed to restart, so even while the server was restarted, the domains wouldn’t resolve properly.

Initially we thought it was a dns propagation problem, and were waiting for it to propagate, hence the big delay in getting back online. Various hours later we found out it was the bind problem.

Apologies for the downtime.

vBulletin Project Tools 2.0.0 Beta 1

After running Project Tools 2.0.0 Alpha 1 here on vBulletin.com since last month, we’re ready to do the first public beta release. Any customer with an active Project Tools license can now download the beta.

We’d like to thank everyone that has provided suggestions and feedback or reported a bug for the Project Tools. Many of the new features in this version were added specifically because of your requests. We’re sure you like the improvements.

Some of the new features in Project Tools 2 include:Project Subscriptions
Notification of Issue Assignment
Persistent Read Marking /…

vBulletin Project Tools 2.0.0 Beta 1

After running Project Tools 2.0.0 Alpha 1 here on vBulletin.com since last month, we’re ready to do the first public beta release. Any customer with an active Project Tools license can now download the beta.

We’d like to thank everyone that has provided suggestions and feedback or reported a bug for the Project Tools. Many of the new features in this version were added specifically because of your requests. We’re sure you like the improvements.

Some of the new features in Project Tools 2 include:Project Subscriptions
Notification of Issue Assignment
Persistent Read Marking /…

Hi,

This is my first Tip submission (not sure if it should go here)…

I have wanted a YouTube search box on my board for a while now, but if you search your YouTube account for such code, or buttons, etc., (not the searching for buttons in the YouTube searchbox; that would result in some odd things, I’m sure) you will be redirected to the Google API documents that tell you all sorts of wonderful things, but nothing simple as the HTML form code for a YouTube seachbox…

I believe I can help, somewhat…

I’ve stuck this HTML code into…

Manage more details about your vBSEO licenses directly from your downloads page.

Full details available here:
http://www.vbseo.com/f55/vbseo-custo…enewals-25158/

I (Sam Bauers) will be speaking about bbPress at WordCamp UK in Birmingham this weekend.

I’ll be going through how to integrate bbPress (0.9.0.2) with WordPress (2.5.1) as well as talking a little about where bbPress is heading at the moment.

There is lots of other great stuff going on, full details are available via their blog.

Or just buy tickets here.

I hope to see some bbPress users there!

I am deeply honoured to be chosen as WordPress.org core committer. That was a very nice surprise on the eve of the 2.6 release

Thanks a lot guys. I’ll do my best (and try not to mess anything up on trac).

Just 5 weeks after the last release, we are proud to announce Yet another YaBB update!

We are pleased to announce the opening of a phpBB Blog. This blog will be written by the phpBB Team on various topics related to phpBB and communities. The blog will provide an inside look into the phpBB Teams while benefiting the community.Be sure to check it out: http://www.phpbb.com/blog