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A very common question about phpBB is how to display recents posts or topics on a separate page, such as a website homepage. It can be very handy to do this, as it allows visitors to your website a chance to quickly see recent activity. This blog post details how displaying a list of recent...

As the title already says, this blog post will describe how the MOD Team validates modifications and what happens to them before they come out at the other end of the queue. Enter the queue The validation queue is a page that lists all modifications ordered by date of submissions ascending. We...

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...

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 common technical interest. This year, for the first...

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...

Last week, some six dozen people, invited guests, interested users, and team members gathered in New York City’s Times Square to talk phpBB. I’ll steal one of Douglas’s moments of zen from his concluding talk. He posed the question Why are you here?, and received responses such as the...

Most of you have probably already seen the blog post regarding the RFC process for hook locations to be added to Ascraeus (phpBB 3.1). And many of you may not know what a hook system actually is, so I will take the time to explain it. In Olympus (phpBB 3.0) all new additions to the core must...

After the phpBB core migrated to GitHub earlier this year, most of the sub-projects have now been moved as well. The initiative begun during the Libertyvasion conference, where we moved the UMIL, AutoMOD and MPV repositories. After that the customisation database and the support toolkit...

As we enter a new year it seems like an appropriate time to look back at the history of the MOD Team. This time line focuses on how the team has evolved with regards to community projects, MOD Team sanctioned tools, meetings and more. MOD Team Timeline April 2002: - phpBB2 released - MOD...

One of the most important tools in open source software development is IRC. For those who are not familiar with it, IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and is a protocol for real-time online communication — chat. For historical reasons the development team was using a private channel until...

Millions of websites use phpBB to power their forums. These communities, ranging in size from just a few hundred to over 50 million posts, rely on phpBB’s efficiency, ease of use and level of customisability to provide a place for their users to come and talk about their unique interests...

Every now and then a question pops up in the discussion forums about which MODs are most essential for board owners to install. It’s difficult to answer this question for one key reason; what is essential for one admin may be trivial to another. It all comes down to personal preferences and...