Eric Faerber returns for his second appearance on phpBB Weekly, and one which probably is a bit more informative than his first appearance was (and the blame for that can go directly to Douglas). It’s also the day after Douglas’ birthday, and so we do a short celebration for him as well. We also do our best to run the show while phpBB.com is down for “unexpected maintenance”, and we also launch a new feature on this episode: the phpBB Weekly Trivia Question. 
During the interview with Eric, David mentions a few more new Support Team members, and mentions that Acyd Burn has confirmed that there will be an RC-6 release coming. We also take a look at the new hooks system that was recently added into CVS and will be coming out with phpBB3 RC-6 and ask what it means for MODs, and Douglas reiterates his wish for a WordPressish plugin system for the MODding of the future. We also talk about other new things for MODs in phpBB3, and then ask Eric some user-submitted questions about the MOD Team. Eric also reveals a couple of details of the upcoming EasyMOD for phpBB3 (Codename: Blinky).
Since phpBB.com was down, we had to take our MOD and Style of the Week off of Star Trek Guide, which is probably the best alternative. Anyway, the MOD of the Week is PM Alert Layer for phpBB3 by angelside, and the Style of the Week is Aqua Glass for phpBB3 by Trent.
Incidentally, if you would like to send your birthday wishes to Douglas, the Star Trek Guide folks have already setup a topic for that.
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Tags: birthday, episode, Eric Faerber, guest, hooks, maintenance, MOD Team, phpBB.com, phpBB3, team members, WordPress
October 1st, 2007 at 4:22 am
I would love to have that bit of js that fixes png’s in ie 5.5 and 6. But does it have any problem with mouseover,mouseout, etc. and if it works with both ways of displaying images, img src and background-image?
By the way great show as always!
October 6th, 2007 at 7:30 am
I’m waiting for David to give that code to me too…
October 6th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Good news is, IE 7 will now be available to the masses without WGA or Windows Genuine Advantage built in so even the pirated copies of XP will have access to IE 7. The last time I checked, IE 7 supported transparent PNG files.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Yes jeff but IE6 still has the majority over IE7. But IE7 is coming up fast.