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Phorum-5.2.13 released (no replies)

Phorum

We are happy to announce our latest stable release Phorum-5.2.13.

It is a bug fix release over 5.2.12 fixing some issues found, adds some hooks and events to the event logging module.

Some deep change involves the html module:

The bundled HTML module has been deprecated and removed from the distribution. We have done this, because that module was, by nature, very susceptible to cross site scripting (XSS) attack issues. We have been patching that module over time to get rid of reported XSS issues, but recently one was discovered for which we did not see a reliable way to…

Tags: bbcode, database, Phorum, release, test

Community Content System 1.0.0 Released

Invision Power Board

Community Content System 1.0.0 Released

Many clients have expressed interest in tools that would allow them to extend IP.Board’s traditional forum community functionality by providing methods of creating new pages within the IP.Board framework. Uses for such a system span from a simple custom portal all the way through to a complete website built utilizing IP.Board’s powerful backend codebase. When your community and site systems are truly integrated, single sign on and a matching website/forum theme become much easier.

Page Templates
If you are creating many pages for your website you will find that they generally follow a similar structure each time.…

Tags: bbcode, features, manage, modification, plugin, release, skin, template, templates

Smug Mug Video

vBulletin Add-ons

I am not a developer by any stretch of the imagination. I have a smugmug site that I needed to post videos from. So from reverse engineering other BB Codes I came up with a BB Code for SmugMug video

[indent]Title:Smug Video

BBCode Tag Name: smug

Replacement: [code]<object width="425" height="318">
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="movie" value="[url="htt ........

[b]For the full text, visit vBulletin.org[/b]

Attached Images

smug.gif (13.4 KB)

Tags: bbcode, vb, vbulletin

Phorum-5.2.12a released – SECURITY FIX (11 replies)

Phorum

This release has the regular fixes and improvements and also has a security fix for another obscure XSS with CSS expressions in size and color BBCode tags (thanks to Paolo Pinto for reporting these).

Therefore we urge all Phorum users to upgrade as soon as possible.

As usual you can download this version from our downloads page.

Edit: We did a quick bugfix round after the release, prompting 5.2.12a …

This is the excerpt from the changelog for 5.2.12a:

2009-07-22 17:54 ts77
* fixed event logging download issue (fixing #862, thanks to Markus
Fischer)

2009-07-22 17:44 mmakaay
* Fixed #858:…

Tags: bbcode, manage, Phorum, release, server, write

phpBB 3.0.5 released

phpBB

Hello,We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB “quite furry” 3.0.5 package. This release fixes numerous bugs since the 3.0.4 release, corrects style issues, fixing one very minor security bug as well as increasing performance and scalability again. We also decided to add a few new minor features.New features and important changes are:Added and refined CAPTCHA options to better protect against new version of CAPTCHA crackers.Added an option to the registration screen to allow users to refresh the displayed CAPTCHA.Performance improvements for native fulltext search.Added a new search option. The admin can define the maximum number of…

Tags: bbcode, database, features, installation, manage, modification, options, phpBB, plugin, release, server, template, templates, test, vb
Phorum

This release has the regular improvements for modules with added hooks and parameters, fixes quite a couple of bugs reported and also has protection for the more recent web threats like CSRF and Mime-Sniffing issues.

Therefore we urge all Phorum users to upgrade as soon as possible.

If you see problems with redirection after login to some other page outside of phorum please note this entry:

* Made allowed redirection URLs for the login a setting in general
settings (defaults to localhost and the phorum-url) and fixing
with it an "Arbitrary Redirection Vulnerability" reported by
Andrew Paterson
You will have…

Tags: bbcode, database, Phorum, release, server, template

Advertisers can now see their GAB stats

The vB Geek

This small fee add-on to GAB allows your advertisers to see their stats.

So how does it work?

You need to FTP the gab_stats.php file into your main forum directory. This is the same directory that contains the vBulletin showthread.php file. Go to the ACP -> GAB -> Banners and there you can add a new banner or edit an existing banner. In the userid box, enter the vBulletin userid for the member/advertiser of the banner.

To find the vBulletin userid of a member, go to the ACP -> Users -> Search for Users and there you can search on…

Tags: bbcode, template, vb, vbulletin

Near-Final List of Widgets

vBulletin Fans

vBulletin.com Blog Entry: Near-Final List of Widgets
Author: Edwin Brown
Published: 7th May 2009 02:05 AM

We’ve been doing a lot of work with widgets, and I have something that is close to the final list that will ship with vB 4.0. I can’t guarantee there won’t be something change, but it looks right now like we have.
Static HTML: This allows you to enter any static html. That means you can put a remote page in an i-frame, or an image, or a google gadget, or a lot of other things.
Static BB Code: This gives you the BBCode editor and…

Tags: bbcode, google, options, vb, vbulletin

Near-Final List of Widgets

vBulletin Fans

vBulletin.com Blog Entry: Near-Final List of Widgets
Author: Edwin Brown
Published: 7th May 2009 02:05 AM

We’ve been doing a lot of work with widgets, and I have something that is close to the final list that will ship with vB 4.0. I can’t guarantee there won’t be something change, but it looks right now like we have.
Static HTML: This allows you to enter any static html. That means you can put a remote page in an i-frame, or an image, or a google gadget, or a lot of other things.
Static BB Code: This gives you the BBCode editor and…

Tags: bbcode, google, options, vb, vbulletin
Phorum

The first release candidate of Phorum-5.2.11 has been released today.

Its a bugfix release fixing a couple of issues unfortunately also a couple of security related issues, most of them being CSRF (also noted on Secunia).

Even though its a security release there have been A LOT of changes in the core to fix those and therefore we want to have a release candidate first.

As usual this release can be downloaded from our downloads page (development releases).

Please let us know any issues you might encounter with this version so the final release of 5.2.11 can be as bug-free as…

Tags: bbcode, database, Phorum, release, template
Phorum

The first release candidate of Phorum-5.2.10 has been released today.

Its a bugfix release fixing a couple of smaller issues.

As usual this release can be downloaded from our downloads page.

Please let us know any issues you might encounter with this version so the final release of 5.2.10 can be as bug-free as possible.

This is the excerpt from the changelog:

2008-12-09 08:52 ts77
* added experimental attachment support to the smtp-mail module

2008-12-06 10:56 mmakaay
* Close the database connection explicitly at the end of the Phorum
script, to prevent lingering MySQL connections from overloading
the MySQL server.…

Tags: bbcode, database, Phorum, release, server

[TGW] One Confused Menu or BB Code

vBulletin Add-ons

[TGW] One Confused Menu or BB Code

This mod allows your choice of:
Several new navbar css base menus with many different styles.
Simply a new menu if you wish to keep your current navbar.
Custom Download BB Code
Custom Multiple Download Formats BB Code
You think it up, create it and go!

[b][color="Red"][SIZE ........

For the full text, visit vBulletin.org

Attached Images

BBCode.PNG (51.7 KB)

NavbarCode.PNG (147.9 KB)

Attached Files

TGWOCMOBBC.txt (8.8 KB)

Tags: bbcode, vb, vbulletin

Phorum-5.2.9a released (10 replies)

Phorum

This (sub-)release fixes two issues: the bbcode module settings were not completely working and attachments import in the phorum3-conversion wasn’t working at all.

The security fix from 5.2.9 is still important, therefore we urge all Phorum users to upgrade as soon as possible.

You can download it from our downloads page.

Tags: bbcode, Phorum, release

Weblog Tools Collection: Plugin Review: Simple:Press Forum

Wordpress

We’re kicking of our plugin review process with a feature rich plugin labeled Simple:Press Forum. This was also the first plugin review request that we received.

So what is Simple:Press?

Simple:Press is a feature rich forum plugin for WordPress. It fully integrates into your WP based site utilizing the same user records and database and displaying on a single WP page. It is fully customizable and comes with a number of skins and sets of icons to get your started. Current users have shown it to be fully scalable whether your site membership numbers the tens or the thousands.

Through it’s powerful…

Tags: bbcode, database, features, installation, options, plugin, seo, skin, skins, template, Wordpress, wp

BB Code Edit

vBulletin Add-ons

Before vBulletin I use phpBB, and some BBcodes I found in past, working very good in vBulletin. This BB code is modification from http://www.phpbb3bbcodes.com

All thanks go to them , I just make it work on vBulletin.

www.pijanitvor.com/forum
If you like it, click install and say Thanks

This BBcode is good when you or moderator must edit some user post!

Title: Edi ……..

For the full text, visit vBulletin.org

Attached Images

edit.jpg (109.1 KB)

Tags: bbcode, modification, phpBB, vb, vbulletin



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