For the first time, Douglas steps off of the air on a phpBB Weekly episode and lets David take the helm. It’s probably risky, particularly after our excellent episode last week, but Coastal Cleanup Day in the San Francisco Bay Area and Douglas once again goes to do his part this year.
Meanwhile, David spends some time talking about how phpBB3 parses styles and how you can use certain styles only within specific forums in phpBB3. He then moves on to talk a bit about how you can integrate BBCode throughout your site and in your MODs, and then he talks a bit about how the module system works and whether or not a MOD should use it or not.
The next release (either RC-6 or final) of phpBB3 will include a new hooks functionality and a new DBAL tool, and what will this mean for MOD authors and how can they be implemented? This also means that MOD authors no longer have any excuse to not support all 8 DBMS types supported in phpBB3.
And for our weekly dose of MOD Team news, we talk a bit about MOD validation on phpBB.com and its importance, and we welcome Paul back on the MOD Team and also welcome Esmond Poynton (poyntesm) as the newest member of the MOD Team!
The MOD of the Week is ACP Add User MOD for phpBB3 by Highway of Life (that’s self-promotion for you!), and the Style of the Week is nDesign v2 for phpBB3 by Midnight Phoenix.
Additional links mentioned:
phpBB MODs Documentation
Geoffreak’s phpBB3 MODX Script Generator
Tags: BBCode, cleanup, DBAL, DBMS, Douglas, episode, hooks, MOD Team, MODs, modules, Paul, phpBB3, poyntesm, Styles, validation
September 24th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
How come now one told me my style was chosen!
September 24th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
We could tell authors if their MOD or Style was chosen, but people can easily misconstrue things as spam, and we don’t want to be seen as being spammers for ourselves. Still, congrats! Thanks for your contributions to the phpBB community!
September 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
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