…you can probably guess - FORUM

Published by Dazza_13 on Apr 12th, 2007 in Forum, FrozenHaddock with 14 Comments

Right, after origianly seeming pleased with simple:press, it only allows for 1 admin and is very restricted in terms of configuration, permission setting etc. So that is now dead

FORTUNATLEY I got on to Streamline (our host) and after 2 or 3 days of sending tickets back and forth we finally got phpBB3.0.1 on so HUZZAH’s are in order.

Configuration, shouldn’t take much longer, soon as though I don’t have the podcast to worry about(although I do have to edit it) and it’s my birthday tomorrow then MFL orals day after (with drum lesson and music coursework catch-up after school). So hopefully, when  Tom registers I’ll admin him to help me.

Sorry for any problems, but I shouldn’t be much longer now.

Thanks - Dazza_13

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14 Responses to “…you can probably guess - FORUM”

  1. -Radio- Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 8:30 am

    Sorry you had difficulties with Simple:Press Forums.

    However, I read what you posted above, and I know that you are not talking about the same Simple:Press Forums, because the statements are simply UN-TRUE, specifically:

    “it only allows for 1 admin and is very restricted in terms of configuration, permission setting etc.”

    SPF respects the WordPress User Levels and any admin on the blog can administer the forum. If you are speaking of the one named admin, you have to remember that SPF is page based and only one author can be listed for any one page. That page author is the Named as primary Admin. Other blog admins may be assigned to the Moderator User Group (with fully customizable Permission Settings)

    Speaking of Permission settings; Restricted? I can create over one million user types with just the MEMBER options, Moderator and Guest options aside.

    Restricted in terms of configuration? What is it you want to do that SPF can’t do?… I’ve been using it for a while and quite frankly, I can’t find much it won’t do as far as configurations.

    I have even seen newbie website owners self install Wordpress simply to be able to use the SPF plugin as an alternative for other, more complicated and less capable Forums available. (such as phpBB which you point out required multiple days and multiple tech support tickets just to set up.)

    Seriously, I am sorry you wont be using SPF (and if you stick with phpBB, your users will be too) … but don’t lie about SPF, especially in a way that shows….

    -Radio- (Volunteer Moderator - http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com - Home of Simple:Press Forums)

  2. Bobathon Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    Look what you’ve gone and done, Daryl!

    You’ve ticked someone off!

    Use SMF, anyway.
    =D

  3. -Radio- Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    SMF is Simple Machines Forum… different software… and I agree … totally impossible (ok not impossible, but really tough) to setup and integrate into wordpress… (still a touch easier than bbPress Forums from Automatic, though)

    SPF is Simple:Press Forums … it’s seriously so easy my mother can set it up (yea, mom… who hunts and pecks in alphabetical order, all over the keyboard and points to the letter she wants 3 times before she sees it… drives you nuts cause she wont look at the screen cause she’s looking for the button you want her to click, on the keyboard … and even then she scans the alphabet just one more time cause she knows there’s an O and a K on there someplace… The one that was mad at you for two years because she thought the FBI was going to arrest her after that computer you bought her performed an ‘ILLEGAL OPPERATION’ … yea, that mom.)

  4. Tazzydevil XIII Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 1:25 am

    We know SMF and S:PF are different packages, and SMF would seem to be pretty easy to setup (integration aside), as Bobathon above you has demonstrated with his site. It’s definitely not the bad software you make it out to be above.

    As for S:PF I shall say nothing on the matter as I wasn’t involved with the setup, and barely looked into the Admin panel for it, however I will say that the forum was a damn sight more active on phpbb3, and even our integrated forum with PHP-Fusion. Now, I know that the switchover will have contributed and all that but I found myself not wanting to use it as much either, and that’s not good.

    I appreciate you defending the software, but we’re shopping around, and anything said above is Daryl’s opinion. Apologies for any offense caused, but if he’s finding issues with it it may well be worth looking at. There’s a strong support base for most forum packages, and it just so happens you guys found us during our pick and choose stage.

    As for phpbb3 taking a tedious back and forth with our hosting company, it was something their end anyway, chalk it up to a cheap and nasty hosting package that we’re tied into.

    And again, no offense intended, but in terms of wide use, which forum system are people most likely to come into contact with, and therefore be used to using? I know I’d never seen S:PF before you linked us to it a few posts ago, yet I’d been an Admin, a Moderator and a general user on various Phpbb based boards, and I feel completely comfortable with it.

    I know of a few other blogs that have used Wordpress and phpbb3 together very successfully, a flash blog I (and many others) are regular readers of does just that, and has a good community already built up. This would be emanueleferonato.com just in case you didn’t know.

    Thanks for your input, and we’ll continue trying various packages before deciding on one to stick with.

    -TDxiii, Admin.

  5. Sunil Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    phpBB rules. Although, phpBB3 has no styles currently so it looks a bit bland.
    (@fh admins:Are you up for a link exchange?)

  6. Tazzydevil XIII Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    There are no -official- styles, you can find ‘em if you look.

    As for link exchanging, sounds good, email me or catch me on Skype (tdxiiifrozenhaddock).

  7. Tazzydevil XIII Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Infact, to make that comment a lot more helpful:

    http://www.phpbb3styles.net

  8. Sunil Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    I don’t have skype - what’s your email?

    And wow! I never knew about this!!!! You’re a legend.

  9. Tazzydevil XIII Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    you can reach me at alternateaccount[AT]frozenhaddock.co.uk

    :D

  10. Bob Says:
    April 25th, 2008 at 1:00 am

    FORTUNATLEY I got on to Streamline (our host) and after 2 or 3 days of sending tickets back and forth we finally got phpBB3.0.1 on so HUZZAH’s are in order.

    Configuration, shouldn’t take much longer….

    That was 12 days ago….

    Yea… works MUCH better…

    If you were in S:PF … you’d have your configurations up… you could have you conversations running… and you could share e-mail addys and Skype Names in private messages.

    oh… and an extra … hmm … 12? 13? days worth of conversations in the forums to increase your content on the site…

  11. Tazzydevil XIII Says:
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Forum not-configurated-ness is down to laziness on Daryl’s part, not time difficulty.

  12. HSCharles Says:
    November 14th, 2008 at 3:32 am

    I have a flash website
    i’m looking for the script who of google adsense on flash.
    do you know this script?

  13. HSCharles Says:
    November 14th, 2008 at 3:33 am

    I have a flash site
    i’m looking for the script who shows google ads in flash.
    how can i get it?

  14. selleriee Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    i know http://flashsense.t35.com/

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