Yes, very important. I have a post nearly ready on it all.

I have customised the phpBB convertor and built my own convetor so I can handle all garage systems to phpBB <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> However in doing that I think you could use the existin UCF to convert a MOD, I needed to do some p...

If you are adding lots of tables or new field i HIGHLY recommend you look at create_schema_files.php in the /develop folder in the CVS. In there you store the schema as an array and then let the script generate the schema files. This is better than editing the schema files as datatypes can be differ...

If the phpBB update system was changed to support MODs would you use it? Briefly you provide two sets of files . the from and to version ... and then the diff engine does the work. You need a database_update.php but thats pretty easy. Just wondering would you use the updater or just provide edits vi...

Welcome... as with the others great forum name!!

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Possible - Yes.
Effort & Time Required - Very high

Welcome cool dude!!!

Welcome Paul.

Hmmm..been wondering this myself recently. If you edit the conversion script you can only help those as they convert not after they convert. So I think you are best to have a upgrade script that is not part of the convertor...just my €0.02 I will be working on my upgrade script very soon as I am n...

Welcome along. Always loved your avatar by the way.

2.x will still be updated even after 3.x is out. This has been stated many times.


Edit: Evil removed double post.

Mon - Fri : 10 - 11 hours.. depending on how busy work is
Sat - Normally ~1 hour, unless its a coding day then... 10 hours
Sun - ~1 hour

Hi all, I am 27, and I work full time in IT. I used to work for IBM but currently work for HP. Been working fully time since I was 19 and dropped out of college. I got a summer job in IBM and was hired permanently within three weeks!! I do what is called enterprise systems management. It basically i...

We all start somewhere!! I know no PHP/SQL/HTML before I started to write my first MOD.