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How to setup Gmail in phpBB 3.2.x in 2019?

2019-04-10
In: phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: 534, 535, error, G Suite, Gmail, less secure, phpBB 3.2.x

I wrote a post long time ago about how to use Gmail with phpBB 3. Now it is 2019. It may get error with the same settings. It is not because my guide is wrong. Actually Google add more security protection on its Gmail facility. Let me review the settings.Continue Reading

SphinxSearch WARNING: word overrun buffer, clipped!!!

2017-05-29
In: L.A.M.P., phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: "search engine", chinese, CJK, index, phpbb, Sphinx Search, warning

It is a warning information when the cronjob running every night.  This cronjob is used to update or re-index the phpBB powered forum, which is a Chinese forum. The whole error is a kind of a list of warning with same problem. How to solve the problem with the overrunContinue Reading

How to use Sphinx Search Engine on phpBB 3.1.6

2015-10-26
In: L.A.M.P., phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: Centos, how-to, phpBB 3.1.x, Sphinx Search

This how-to is made on Centos6.7 64bit. It is a phpBB forum in Chinese with more than 680K posts. If I use phpBB native Fulltext or MySQL Fulltext search, the search tables are over 1.4GB. Too big. And it is very slow when do the search. Now, my solution isContinue Reading

Dirty Hack: Add CDN support into phpBB 3.1.6

2015-10-17
In: phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: CDN, Code, hack, how-to, Keycdn, phpBB 3.1.x

It works for phpBB 3.1.x, not just phpBB 3.1.6. For a national forum or global forum, it is a must to have a CDN support. The way I used is not a formal extension or plugin. It is a hack, actually a dirty hack. If you have no experience forContinue Reading

The way to fix the problem when Upgrade phpBB 3.1.1

2014-11-04
In: phpBB Mod & Tips, Web & Network
Tagged: Apache, error, limit, URL

It is so fast, phpBB 3.1.1 released. I did meet the problem when I tried to upgrade my phpBB 3.0.12 to 3.1.0 or 3.1.1. Same problem here. One is mentioned in the previous post. Request-URI Too Large when updating I copied the URI when this error came. I found theContinue Reading

Errors when upgrade phpBB 3.0.12 to phpBB3.1

2014-10-30
In: phpBB Mod & Tips, Web & Network
Tagged: error, phpbb, upgrade

I am going to upgrade my forums which are powered by phpBB.  The package I downloaded is automatic upgrade package. phpBB-3.0.12–3.1.0.zip One is small forum, with most of the default settings. When I upgrade it as old way, the error came as below: Fatal error: Composer dependencies have not beenContinue Reading

How to Install a Mobile Style on phpBB 3

2013-02-13
In: phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: "phpBB 3", how-to, installation, mobile, PHP, style

It is based on phpBB 3.0.11. I checked the Google Analytics report. There are about 20% users using cellphone or iPad. To accommodate these users, I installed a mobile style on it and added the Mobile device detection facilitate. There are 4 steps to install it. Very easy. Step 1Continue Reading

Add Advanced BBcode Box 3 for phpBB 3

2010-10-25
In: phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: "phpBB 3", editor, mod, modify

I have a forum powered by phpBB3.0.7 PL1. It works great. Even I added so many mods and some my customized changes on it, it still has room to improve. Last week, it took me about two hours to add Advanced BBcode Box 3. You can find it and downloadContinue Reading

When phpBB 3.1 release

2010-08-21
In: phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: "Open Source", "phpBB 3", expect, release, upgrade

Right now, latest version of phpBB is 3.0.7 PL1. The features of the next version 3.1 freeze on July 20, 2010. So what is the exact date to release it. The following are features or changes on phpBB 3.1 Merged: * Coding Guideline Modifications RFC Ticket * Autoloading & ClassContinue Reading

How to upgrade phpBB 3.0.4 to phpBB3.0.5

2009-06-15
In: phpBB Mod & Tips
Tagged: "phpBB 3", backup, guide, how-to, upgrade

To upgrade phpBB properly without problem, I make a detailed upgrading plan. I would like to share it with you. 1. Disable forum board. It is important to make the board clean. And keep resource usage low. 2. Backup The most important part is backup. 2.1. Database backup 2.1.1. phpBBContinue Reading

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