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Hello everyone,I am most pleased to announce a community-organised New York City phpBB meetup.We have reservations at Fred's Restaurant starting at 8:00PM. The restaurant provides an extensive food menu and a full bar. Some of us will eat, some of us will drink and all of us will bask in the...

Hello everyone,I am most pleased to announce a community-organised New York City phpBB meetup.We have reservations at Fred's Restaurant starting at 8:00PM. The restaurant provides an extensive food menu and a full bar. Some of us will eat, some of us will drink and all of us will bask in the...

Hi everyone, The phpBB Styles Team is proud to announce that the Customisations Database now supports ColorizeIt! What is ColorizeIt?ColorizeIt is an online color scheme editor for forum styles, blog themes and website templates. With only a few simple clicks you can change the color scheme of...

Hello everyoneWe will be performing some server maintenance late Thursday/early Friday. The agenda includes doubling the memory in our servers, a kernel update and an overhaul of the database VM structure.To minimize the inconvenience, we are scheduling this as closely as possible to phpBB.com's...

Hi all,The Support Team is pleased to announce the availability of Support Toolkit "Bertie's lifeguard" 1.0.4. This fourth maintenance release introduces some small new features, but is mainly aimed at improving the stability of the Support Toolkit on various platforms supported by phpBB itself...

Greetings community,We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB "Bertie's off to the beach" 3.0.9. This version is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs as well as adding some minor new features. It contains two new caching backends: WinCache for Windows servers and a Redis backend...

Greetings,On July 26-28, phpBB will be exhibiting at OSCON 2011 in Portland Oregon, at the Oregon Convention Center. Visit our booth and bring your questions or just drop by to chat. Several team members will be there as well including me, AdamR, ckwalsh, dellsystem, Marshalrusty, naderman, and...

Hello all,Our friends at OSUOSL have notified us that one of the drives in the Schooner database server powering http://www.phpbb.com has failed and that the machine needs to be reset to complete the installation of a replacement.The maintenance will begin at 4:00AM UTC (3 hours after this...

Hi all,The Support Team is pleased to announce the availability of Support Toolkit 1.0.3. This release introduces a number of new features into the toolkit as well some major improvements to existing tools. This new release can be downloaded from the Support Toolkit page in the CDB.UpdatingWhen...

The phpBB Team are pleased to announce a North of England Community meet-up on January 29th 2011 in Manchester, UK.Meeting Venue: Starbucks, Manchester Picadilly Station 12:00–12:30 midday.Free Registration: Register your attendance on EventBritephpBB meet-ups are a great way to network with...

phpBB QuickInstall is a tool to install a phpBB3 board with a single mouse click. It is ideal for testing MODs, both for MOD authors and other users that want to check out a MOD before installing it on a live board.phpBB3 QuickInstall was originally created by Igor “igorw” Wiedler in the summer...

The Modifications Team is proud to announce the availability of the 1.0.4 "Paul Breaks Stuff Edition" of UMIL, the Unified MOD Install Library.UMIL is a library for MOD authors that enables them to easily create database installation and update scripts for their MODs. It provides unified methods...

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 the...

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 Team is...

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’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 a...

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...

As a Junior MOD Validator (aka “JMV”), it is my “job” to try and test each MOD as thoroughly as possible. What does this mean? Each modification (aka “MOD”) that goes through validation on phpBB.com is first run through MOD Pre-validation (aka “MPV”) which looks for certain items (licensing...

An easy way to add navigational links to your MOD is to use an inbuilt feature of phpBB3 called “breadcrumbs” (named because it leaves a trail back to the forum index). It only requires a few extra lines of PHP code to add a breadcrumb to your own MOD (or to your website if you are doing...

What is a Junior Validator? Junior Validators assist the MOD Team with the validation of MODs. They help the MOD Team validators with pre-validation and testing. Pre-validation involves running a check on MODs newly submitted to the MOD Database queue using the MOD Pre-Validation tool (MPV) and...