Phorum

Its the httpOnly Cookies support in the setcookie-call. Now that Firefox 2.0.0.5 supports it too (as mentioned here and here) the main browsers are supporting it. Internet Explorer seems to have been the first one supporting it, with Firefox now and Opera meant to support it in 9.5. Therefore it makes sense to use it now. Even browsers not [...]

Thanks for maurice’s pulling me into the db-layer I added my “own” mysql-mysnip-layer which handles the queries done. The change from 5.1 to 5.2 brought up a split db-layer with one file containing all the queries for mysql and calling a function for ... [More] actually running the query and (optionally) returning the rows. And that second part is simply [...] [Less]

For Phorum-5.2 we (or better Maurice ;)) are trying to get some more documentation for Phorum. Maurice does a damned good job in providing developer docs together with starting it all in docbook-format but, as usual, most developers aren’t good ... [More] documentation writers and therefore the documentation is lacking a lot of content. We were also trying to get [...] [Less]

So finally Maurice (who would see a link here if he had a blog ;-)) reminded be to talk about it … . Finally we had our first Phorum-Developers meeting when we went to the MySQL-Conference last April. Which was a great experience and I have to thank MySQL AB for the invitation to the DotOrg Pavilion. But [...]

We’ve (the folks from Phorum) been talking in the last days about using the new DateTime object in PHP for Phorum as it has a nice way to use timezones including their DST setting. Up to now we have just a setting where the user select if DST is current active or not as there isn’t [...]

Oh yeah, some people will remember me talking about charset hell when it wasn’t really that bad (yet). But in the near future I will surely have to solve some charset problems for MySnip.de. It is still running MySQL-4.0.x which didn’t support charsets like MySQL-4.1 did and even more MySQL-5 is doing now. But as MySQL-4.0 support has [...]

… another blog from one of these web-guys. Whats a web-guy? I see it more as developers active in the web-community or something like that or do you think thats something else? Actually it was Brian who brought me to blogging and wordpress alltogether and therefore that title … ;). At first, let me introduce myself: Thomas Seifert [...]

I think I have finished the initial visual changes to the Phorum 5.2 template. I still have some logistic changes (like making all URL vars exist in a URL array instead of vars like another_thing_to_link_url). If you have a second, please give it a run though. Give me your thoughts and see [...]

Thomas wrote the Sphinx search module nearly a month ago. I have just now gotten to looking at it. From the things I have read, Sphinx looks really cool. I am considering using it in some other sites. Sphinx is a “standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search [...]

As Thomas has said, we have started working on 5.2. I had wanted to redo the template for 5.1, but by the time that came up on the list, there was so much already done to the code, I did not want to hold it back. I know some of you went to [...]