phpBB Weekly

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This episode of phpBB Weekly was recorded on Saturday, November 3–right after Halloween, so I guess someone was playing a trick on us. However, this episode was pretty much ruined when TalkShoe froze up on me in the middle of the episode, however I notified TalkShoe and they have since released an update which has seemed to fix up these problems.

David and I debated whether or not we wanted to release this episode, but we decided to go ahead and do it anyway. On this episode, Douglas continues the countdown to the final release of phpBB3 by answering a number of questions about phpBB3 from our audience, at least until TalkShoe got stuck.

Link mentioned: Simple Syndication MOD for phpBB3 (in beta)

The MOD of the Week is ACP Site Announcement Centre for phpBB2 by lefty74, and the Style of the Week is Halloween Style for phpBB3 by Echo. As we get closer to the holidays, we’re asking for people to recommend holiday-related MODs and Styles to us. Bookmark them on del.icio.us with the tag “phpbbwmod” or “phpbbwstyle”.

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Douglas missed this episode because his return flight from Long Beach the day before suffered a seven hour delay (read more if you’re interested), effectively turning it into a red eye flight, so he slept in during this episode. TalkShoe apparently wasn’t being cooperative, but in a fairly Official Podcast-esque episode of phpBB Weekly, he is joined via a Skype conference call by phpBB team members Paul and Techie-Micheal.

This episode, like about a third of our episodes to date, is all about MODs. David, Paul, and Micheal talk extensively about MOD Development, the MOD Database, and other things MOD authors may want to know. Finally, they talk a bit about the tribulations of giving support for boards with MODs on them, and what the Support Team can and cannot do to help you when a MODded board needs help.

The MOD of the Week is Prime Memberlist Filter for phpBB3 by primehalo, and the Style of the Week is Brushed Metal for phpBB3 by Robin Huurman.

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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