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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Calum on 18 December 2002, 16:18

Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Calum on 18 December 2002, 16:18: hello, can you give me a few minutes to help me test my site please?

please go to

http://polytheismforum.tk/ (http://polytheismforum.tk/)

using whatever browsers you have on whatever systems you have and then please post to let me know if it displays alright, or if there were problems, and if so what.

Also please let me know what browser/system you were using when said problems ocurred.

Thank you. I have just upgraded from phpBB 2.0.1 to 2.0.3 and would like to see if there are any horrible and hideous errors.
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 18 December 2002, 17:13: Using Mozilla with a cable modem and OS X. Looked fine to me, although it was a bit sluggish when I entered a topic and especially when I posted a reply.
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Calum on 18 December 2002, 17:20: yes, it's slow as buggery, that's the host's fault, when i get some money i will upgrade to a better host.

it turned out that the 2.0.3 files would only show the forum to people using MSIE! it sucked so i found the offending file and swapped it back to the old version. no noticable problems as of yet.

here's the full lowdown on this problem (http://phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=62198&highlight=).

I will check the differences between the old and new versions of the file in question and see if i can't cut and paste to make the new one compatible with all browsers.
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Master of Reality on 18 December 2002, 21:05: other than phpbb being ugly and the colours suck ass, it looks fine. Its not nearly as good as the Bob and Discordian messageboard at www.cults.tk (http://www.cults.tk)
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: psyjax on 18 December 2002, 21:09: Chimera 0.6, looks perfect. Loads fast, but then Chimera is allways fast :D

iMac 333Mhz OSX Jag
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Fett101 on 18 December 2002, 21:29: Fine in IE 6. I'm sure that you'll be able to sleep easy now knowing this. :D
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Calum on 18 December 2002, 21:48: as i say, it was a particular file in the /includes directory causing the hassle. i have replaced it with the older working version of the file and will read through the file later to try and patch them together to make a working version of the new file.

as for phpBB being ugly, any ideas for porting it to some other type of board? i am very open to the idea of using a perl board with no database behind it for instance, or anything you care to recommend really but my stipulations are that it must be able to port the existing posts and existing users from my phpBB onto the new board. It should be totally transparent.

I know phpBB provides some tools for porting from other boards to phpBB2, but does anybody else do tools to change from phpBB2 to themselves?
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 18 December 2002, 22:30: You can convert your board to Invision Board 1.0 (http://www.invisionboard.com/?resources). As for phpBB -> YaBB SE...
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Calum on 18 December 2002, 23:53: well, is there any benefit of invision board over phpBB? they seem roughly equal, also as for phpBB2 to YaBB, what? i couldn't see any conversion utilities on their site...

is it just going to be impossible to convert a MySQL forum to a file based one?
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: zooloo on 19 December 2002, 04:33: Opera Win 98.

Page didn't load. 40 seconds +

zooloo
Title: Help! browser testing please!
Post by: Calum on 19 December 2002, 13:37: yeah, it was down last night. :( i need to find better hosts that will give me a mysql database and have php installed.