whoever is the admin may want to check this out

[ccb056]

http://phpbbhacks.com/viewhack.php?id=2207

http://files.short-circuit.zapto.org/mod_rewrite.zip

http://short-circuit.zapto.org/robots.txt

[fliptw]

the robots.txt I get.

the mod_rewrite bit I don't.

The search function on the DBB works fine.

mod_rewrite is included in the standard Apache distrubution anyway, its just not enabled by default.

[ccb056]

the mod rewite will make the forums urls alot more search engine friendly

[MD-2389]

I just wish the Merge Topics mod was installed by default. It would make our jobs a hell of alot easier. Particularly when someone posts a thread on a subject that already has a thread. Means less closing of threads, and less clutter in the thread listings. The mod itself is a breeze to install and would maybe take 5 minutes to do...tops. I've already got the edited files locally. All thats required is for someone to input the SQL command into phpMyAdmin.

[Skyalmian]

They work, they're useful.

[Kyouryuu]

That would be my problem too. phpBB2 can be shaky as it is on a large forum environment. The mods only tend to gum up the works even further. For the sake of ease of upgrading in the future, I'd recommend we don't install mods.

[DCrazy]

Well, with phpbb there's more flexibility, because the pages and the data are completely separate, unlike UBB. I'd be much more worried about a mod that modifies the database structure than a mod that just added some lines to a PHP page. The latter will have ZERO effect on stability.

[MD-2389]

Jim, I've tested the mod on the test site. We've gone mod-install crazy JUST to see if something would break. As you can see, nothing has.

btw, our problem with the UBB was not because of the mods themselves, but from a certain host not allowing us to have access to the data which forced us to rely entirely on a backup copy. The combination of that, and mods pointing to data that wasn't there is what broke the DBB, not just having the mods installed.

Look Jim, I wouldn't even suggest a mod to you if it wouldn't vastly improve our experience. I'm not one to suggest a frilly nilly mod that does precicely jack ★■◆● overall. The thing with phpBB is that 90% of the mod installs are just simple text edits. Break something? Fine, just drag and drop the unedited copy back and you're good to go. I really don't think this will impact our upgradability at all.

[MD-2389]

Given what happened to the previous board, believe me when I say that I understand completely.

[Topher]

Why would we really need this? So people can search through the DBB from a search engine?

Google isn't smart enough to search php pages?

[Topher]

The mod itself is a breeze to install and would maybe take 5 minutes to do...tops.

Funny how it didn't work with the package you guys gave me?

[ccb056]

google isnt smart enogh to search through pages with session ids

[Lothar]

But then, do we really want google to be capable of searching the whole DBB? What possible benefit could that serve?

[Vertigo]

Note: MD isn't talking about a mod that enables google to search through the pages.
This is about a Merge Topics mod, wich would indeed be VERY useful to a Mmod, imo.

[SSX-Thunderbird]

I've worked with a couple different Merge Topics mods on a test phpBB of my own. The first one was in the ModCP only, and it came back with an Invalid_session error when trying to complete the operation. The second one, which was just a button worked, but it was very cumbersome to use.