phpBB Weekly #013
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April Fools Day brings the announcement that Bertie has conquered Olympus on Mars! A very cute photo, in Douglas’ opinion. The prosilver theme has been uploaded to CVS, and Douglas highlights the major changes between the to-be-released prosilver and the phpBB.com prosilver. However, along with the prosilver theme comes a new backend theme to the admin panel which is kind of dark, with a lot of grey, and Douglas doesn’t really like it.
Because of prosilver, a number of users are asking for a beta6 release. Douglas reviews their arguments, and the possible pros and cons of releasing beta6 or going straight to an RC-1 release.
Last Wednesday, April 4th was the 5th anniversary of the release of phpBB 2.0.0!
The MOD of the Week is the Simple Subforums MOD by pentapenguin, which is a very simple way for adding subforums to phpBB2 assuming you don’t have to go more than one level down (which most boards shouldn’t have a problem with).
The Style of the Week is the Macinscott 2 theme by Scott Stubblefield (view demo), a really nice theme that does a great job of emulating Mac OS X. A must-have for Mac forums!
Finally, Douglas introduces and covers all the features of the new phpBB Weekly website.
Correction: During the episode I indicated that there was some limited use of AJAX in the ACP. While the ACP does make use of some Javascript, it is not AJAX. AJAX is a much more complex technology which is not utilized in phpBB3. (It is undecided whether AJAX will be used in future versions of phpBB.) Thanks to lachlan for pointing this out!
