phpBB.com's MOD-DB is back!

igorw · Post by **igorw** » 30 Apr 2007, 04:39

It has finally retourned, and it's looking great! Have a look over [url=http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/]here[/url]. It isn't possible to submit your MODs yet, but SHS` said we can hopefully see that in a week.

What do you think?!

Krank · Post by **Krank** » 30 Apr 2007, 05:03

oh wow yayyy everything is getting back to normal (and even much better) i like it

Ash Hi Fi Zone · Post by **Ash Hi Fi Zone** » 30 Apr 2007, 07:20

Yeah saw that announce..... It is really great that they have fixed that problem...

Post by **paul** » 30 Apr 2007, 07:38

I think that iam tired now

Note that there still can change things in the layout of de modsdb, as I dont like some parts now.

Ganon_Master · Post by **Ganon_Master** » 30 Apr 2007, 15:57

Great! But why is there a MD5 hash on every Mod page? :\

Post by **paul** » 30 Apr 2007, 16:02

Ganon_Master wrote:Great! But why is there a MD5 hash on every Mod page? :\

its a MD5 of the file you can download. It needs a little bit more explained. And maybe a better place.

igorw · Post by **igorw** » 30 Apr 2007, 17:02

There is a function for this called [man]md5_file[/man], which (afaik) does the same as md5(file_get_contents()), it calculates the m5 hash of the file's contents. So if you download a file, to make sure it isn't broken, you can compare the md5 hashes...

Ash Hi Fi Zone · Post by **Ash Hi Fi Zone** » 30 Apr 2007, 18:24

Yeah md5 hash is used to check the integrity of a file.... Almost no two files can have the same MD5 hash..... There are some free MD5 checksum calculators for files out there too.....

igorw · Post by **igorw** » 30 Apr 2007, 18:37

I could write a script for that in PHP, for anybody who loves commandline tools, you can use this: http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/

DualFusion · Post by **DualFusion** » 01 May 2007, 13:05

MOD-DB!!!!

Sorry, I'm just happy, ask everyone i sent an IM to

lol. Cant wait for phpBB3 submition so that I can get my first MOD denied

Yes, I'm wierd

Reduced number of exclamation marks - evil

Ash Hi Fi Zone · Post by **Ash Hi Fi Zone** » 01 May 2007, 13:26

Lol - you made the page width go so long

Anyway I think they wont allow phpbb 3 mod submissions until the final release....

The phpbb 2 mod-db also I bet wont be open atleast till RC of the phpbb 3 is out since the team there have been pretty busy fixing the bugs here and there and if they open the MOD-DB submission too then they will have too much on their plate to eat...

DualFusion · Post by **DualFusion** » 01 May 2007, 13:35

I know i pulled the page width. And the mod-db will supposedly be open in atleast a week for phpBB2 submissions. But i agree in the part that phpBB3 mods will not be accepted in the db yet

drathbun · Post by **drathbun** » 01 May 2007, 15:18

Where's that "report post" button when you need it... :-P

igorw · Post by **igorw** » 01 May 2007, 18:28

It has been taken care of

In the docs i saw something about mod numbering, and it explained how to number for RC releases (if i remember correctly), so possibly we can submit MODs for phpBB3 when RC1 is out. Possibly.

And also note that the MOD team is not developing phpBB3, so they would have time to validate MODs. Perhaps they also want to reduce size of the queue before accepting new MODs, before the change to phpBB3 the queue was quite long, over 100 MODs.

DualFusion · Post by **DualFusion** » 02 May 2007, 19:49

Sorry

...Well cant wait for that MOD-DB to come up