The Pubb Message Board Software for Webcatalog Mon 09-06-2010 Current Version: v1.40

		v1.40 Insanely Large Update This update has been a long time coming. As such, there are tons of new features. Database structure HAS CHANGED however, so an update isn't as simple (but it is possible). The crappy HTML manual has been replaced with a beautifully formatted PDF manual. Rejoice! Please read it! IMPORTANT NOTES: (you'll probably skip the rest of this version history section, so at least read this)!! With this update comes a lot of changes. As such, old skins WILL NOT WORK with this new version. We apologize for this inconvenience, but we think you'll agree that the features we were able to add by breaking the old skin spec were well worth it! ALSO: Localization is the only original update item missing from this update. We are still trying to figure out the most optimium way to deal with Localization (in regards to program efficiency, readability, and ease of language conversion). Look for a new update including Localization support sometime within the next two weeks. The new skin format was designed with Localization in mind, but Localization may unfortunately force another change in the spec as well. MORE NOTES: Every page has had significant modification to it. Every page should be replaced in your directory when you update NEW FEATURES Infinite assigned moderators per forum (prior to this version, you were limited to one) Author Images (If you allow it). Users can choose an image that will be displayed below their name in posts Login Page (supports cookie and browser authentication). Now you can login once and not have to keep entering that pesty info. Cookie Support Allow user to always auto-login with cookies Stores last visit and shows a "new topic" icon for newly posted topics or replies Allows user to store their preferences User can select their timezone and all times and dates will be displayed in their timezone correctly Can sort topics by newest post or newest reply Can sort replies by newest reply first or oldest reply first Can specify their default Days Back view Decide how many topics and replies to see per screen (great for users with slower connections) Message Kinds have been redesigned. Now you can choose one for every message (either a new post or reply) Profile Editor - Users can modify all of their information (except username). If Email validation is required, if the e-mail changes, they will have to re-validate themselves by the e-mail All time is now stored in GMT format. This removes the problem some of our overseas users had with different date preferences. Jump To: Dropdown now displays forum organizations ReplyThreshold - when the number of replies for a topic exceeds the ReplyThreshhold for a forum, it becomes a "hot topic" and gets a new icon Forum Info - Display information on who can post and reply on every forum! Message Board Stats - Display how many registered users you've got! Date/Time Formatting Preferences Decide whether you like the Today/Yesterday substitution or not Format the dates and times however you'd like User Info in posts - You can optionally display any of the following information in every post User Level User Join Date User Image Number of Posts by User User Location Optionally Log IP's of all posts - If logged, all moderators and administrators will be able to easily view the IP's by hovering their mouse over the IP image for each post New home page icon link - for Users with homepages, provides a link from their post to the homepage Printer Friendly Page - link displays the thread sans graphics for a lightweight, printer friendly page MailFriend Page - users can mail the link of an interesting topic to their friends directly from the site! Signatures - users can set signatures that will automatically be added to their posts Registration even better! Now you have the option of requiring e-mail validation, or to just do away with it Anonymous Posting PER FORUM!!!! You can now specify, PER FORUM, if anonymous posting is allowed. EACH FORUM can choose a different name for those Anonymous people Forum Organization made easy The forum organization editor has been revamped to make sorting of the organizations easier. Changing one order value will change them all...Give it a try, it's FUN! Errors just go, go away!!! All pages that accepted user input were re-worked to remove any redirection code that used to be in there. All error messages are now seen inline with the problem area The malformed input is redisplayed for them to see what was wrong and fix it (passwords excluded) OPTIMIZATION!!!! Every single page of The Pubb was modified to increase efficiency Removed any potential future bugs with malformed user input by changing all non-numeric comparisons to URL'ize all arguments Cache-Be-Gone - No cache meta-tag code has been added to every page to prevent any cache problems users may have had Database Changes fixquotes.db New!! - used for fixing input that has quotes when being displayed in a text input box forums.db ADDED AnonName - the name for anonymouse posters is now set PER FORUM ADDED AnonPosting - is anonymouse posting allowed in this forum? ADDED ReplyThreshhold - how many replies for one topic are required for it to be a Hot Topic? ADDED StatusFlag - Allows you to hide a forum members.db MODIFIED AddDate - now stored as GMT DateTime ADDED Signature - automatically added to every one of their posts ADDED AuthorImage - ID referencing an author image ADDED Location - their location ADDED AIMHandle - their AIM name ADDED ICQHandle - their ICQ name ADDED NumPosts - total number of posts posted (more efficient then doing a bunch of searches on one page) ADDED AllowPM - Allow private messages ADDED PMBannedList- List of users that this member doesn't want to get private messages from messages.db REMOVED PostDate - information now contained in PostDateTimeGMT REMOVED PostTime - information now contained in PostDateTimeGMT REMOVED EditDate - information now contained in EditDateTimeGMT REMOVED EditTime - information now contained in EditDateTimeGMT ADDED PostDateTimeGMT - Time/Date GMT'd (total number of seconds in GMT) ADDED EditDateTimeGMT - Time/Date GMT'd (total number of seconds in GMT) ADDED LoggedIP - The IP, if logged ADDED TotalViews - Total number of views of this thread misc.db - Now stores AuthorImages in there too. prefs.db REMOVED AnonName - the name for anonymouse posters is now set PER FORUM ADDED YesterdayToday - substitute in "Yesterday" and "Today" where applicable? ADDED TheDateFormat - date format for all dates (except join date) ADDED TheTimeFormat - time format for all dates ADDED ShowUserLevel - show user level below name in post? ADDED ShowUserImage - allow authorimages in the messageboard? ADDED ShowUserLocation - show user location below name in post? ADDED DisplayStats - Display number of registered users ADDED DisplayForumInfo - Show required levels for posting and replying in a forum ADDED TheEncryptSeed - seed used in encypting the username and password for the cookies ADDED ShowUserJoinDate - show user's join date below name in post? ADDED ShowUserJoinDateFormat - format for displaying user's join date ADDED ShowUserNumPosts - show number of posts by user below name in post? ADDED TimeText - Describes in regular language the format of the dates ADDED ServerGMTOffset - Server's hour offset from GMT ADDED LogIP - Log IP for all message posts? ADDED CookieDomain - domain name used for setting cookies ADDED PrivateMessagesOn - if T, allows users to private message each other. timezones.db New!! - Stores the info regarding the timezones presented to administrator and to users (These are standard. If you wish to modify them, modify the db in a text editor) Page Changes ALL OF THEM New Pages customize.tpl - Allows user to set cookies with their browsing prefernces mailfriend.tpl - Allows user to send an e-mail to their friend with a link to their current topic printable.tpl - An image free, text-only version of a thread, suitable for printing profile.tpl - Allows user to modify their personal information (except for username) viewauthorimage.tpl - Displays all authorimages and their names (so that user can choose which one they want) New Editors aimageeditor.tpl - Edit the author images File that have been removed - These files were dead wood. Outdated and no longer used, but they were still there.... kinds.db - Kinds are stored in misc.db. This file should no longer exist update105.tpl - This was used in updating sites to v1.05. You don't need this anymore. View other histories: 0.01b     0.03     0.10     0.30     0.35     0.40     0.65     0.66     0.80     1.0     1.01     1.02     1.05     1.05.1     1.05.2     1.40