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As we’ve said before, phpBB is getting hooked. Now, we need your help to determine at which points in the code hooks are required to make MODs easier to create and install. MODs are what makes phpBB work. Without MODs, it would not be the community or the software that it is. However, there is [...]

Good news everyone!As of 2 hours ago, I have taken over the formerly empty position of Operations Manager. My primary responsibilities will officially shift toward public relations, advertising management, event planning, and intra-team issues.My ... [More] former position of Support Team Leader has been filled by Noxwizard, a promotion from his previous position of Vice Support Team Leader.Nobody has stepped down and phpBB has a stronger, more focused Management Team. Please join me in congratulating Patrick on his promotion.------------------------------You may discuss this announcement in the [Discuss] New Support Team Leader and Operations Manager topic within the Discussion Forum. [Less]

The Modifications Team is proud to announce the availability of the 1.0.3 "Countdown to Libertyvasion Edition" of UMIL, the Unified MOD Install Library. UMIL is a library for MOD authors that enables them to easily create database installation and ... [More] update scripts for their MODs. It provides unified methods to access phpBB's API for adding modules, adding permissions, modifying the database, and more. We require MODs containing UMIL that are newly submitted to the MODDB to contain this new version. In order to update the UMIL release included with your MOD just replace the old UMIL folder with the new one. No other changes are required.How to get it: You can get UMIL and more information from the UMIL page. What's new: The following was changed in this release:[Fix] Correct table prefix #62118[Fix] Fix the create_table_sql for postgresql properly #61365[Feature] Ability to specify a custom table prefix to be used[Change] Remove the update check in stand-alone mode, it caused problems in some situationsBugs: Please report any bugs you encounter to the tracker. The Modifications Team [Less]

Following up OSCON 2010, we have opened up a new contribution type in our customization database called "Bridges and Integration." It is our hope that we will have a variety of officially maintained Bridges available as well as allowing the community ... [More] to create them too.Submitting a bridge will work just like submitting a regular MOD, but with some slightly different packaging guidelines. The code will then be checked for security vulnerabilities and tested to ensure it is functional. If a bridge you are creating is still in development, post about in the [3.0.x] MODs in Development, only add "[Bridge]" after the progress prefix, much like this example. You can view the complete rules and packing recommendations regarding the submission of bridges and integration here: http://www.phpbb.com/mods/rules-and-pol ... b/bridges/You can submit your own bridges here: http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/bridges-24Feel free to ask for assistance on the phpBB side of things in [3.0.x] MOD Writers Discussion or our IRC channel: #phpBB-Coding. [Less]

Following up OSCON 2010, we have opened up a new contribution type in our customization database called "Bridges and Integration." It is our hope that we will have a variety of officially maintained Bridges available as well as allowing the community ... [More] to create them too.Submitting a bridge will work just like submitting a regular MOD, but with some slightly different packaging guidelines. The code will then be checked for security vulnerabilities and tested to ensure it is functional. If a bridge you are creating is still in development, post about in the [3.0.x] MODs in Development, only add "[Bridge]" after the progress prefix, much like this example. You can view the complete rules and packing recommendations regarding the submission of bridges and integration here: http://www.phpbb.com/mods/rules-and-pol ... b/bridges/You can submit your own bridges here: http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/bridges-24Feel free to ask for assistance on the phpBB side of things in [3.0.x] MOD Writers Discussion or our IRC channel: #phpBB-Coding.Discuss this announcement [Less]

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention has been held annually since 1999, allowing students, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, and professionals to attend informative sessions and tutorials as well as visit the expo hall and mingle with others holding a ... [More] common technical interest. This year, for the first time ever, phpBB was among the exhibitors in the Expo Hall. [...] [Less]

Windows Azure is the Mircrosoft cloud computing solution. One thing that might come as a surprise is that is specifically intended to run php applications (well, it runs .net too, even java). Long story short, we got introduced to the azure platform during the JumpIn! Camp. The project to get phpBB running on the Azure [...]

Go record that handball violation. We made an error. Back in February when naderman detailed his vision for phpBB, he forgot to mention exactly how YOU could get involved. The missing piece was a description of Area51, which has scattered links around phpBB.com, the bug tracker, the code forge, and so forth. But its purpose [...]

Yesterday marked the announced feature freeze date for phpBB Ascraeus 3.1. We have postponed this date once before and we are still a bit behind schedule, but we will stick to it this time. We have picked a number of features with unfinished implementations or still in RFC phase which we believe to be very [...]

This article was written primarily for MOD writers interested in ways to optimise testing. Everyone has their own style of testing which works for them, and this is only one such style. A good way to test MODs is by using a local setup. A local setup is an installation on your own computer or [...]