*New* Need ideas for pre-modded phpBB3

[socrboy24]

Not sure if this is the right forum. If not please move.

Alright everyone I am in the process of hopefully trying to make a custom phpBB3 board. Kind of like ModphpBB or fullymoddedphpbb3. It will have mods pre installed but I don't want to go crazy with 40+ mods. I want to hear what you as a forum owner would like to see on the forum in terms of mods. Like i know standard will be quick reply, last post titles, rep(maybe), cash(maybe) and support for like 2-3 popular styles including prosilver and subsilver2.

So my question, what mods would you like to see pre installed and please list like 2-3 styles as well.

 

[Lee Lawson]

Re: *New* Need ideas for custom phpBB3

SOund cool mate, i would probably like to see Chat, good tags(bbcodes) installed. I can't think of any more.

 

[socrboy24]

Re: *New* Need ideas for custom phpBB3

yeah here is what is planned right now for the first release

• Quick Reply
• Last Post Titles on Index
• Instant Redirect after posting
• Portal (maybe)
• subsilver2
• prosilver
• CA Gen2
• BBCodes

 

[Murder he Wrote]

Re: *New* Need ideas for custom phpBB3

Hi PixelDemon.

Just a word of warning before you dedicate too much time to this project. phpBB.com do not offer to support to those users have installed Modded boards. So assuming are to release a pre-modded phpBB you'll have to be prepared for all kinds of support requests from Parse errors to crashed databases.

Another thing worth considering is that when phpBB 3.2 is released they are retiring $phpbb_root_path string and $phpbb_ext strings, which are at the heart of most decent MODs. This will require most MODs to be re-written, so you'll need to keep your platform on 3.0.4 or 3.0.5 - whatever the most recent release is before 3.2 .

Thirdly, most of the good MODs require SQL queries to be executed. Do you have the knowledge to implement the queries for these MODs alongside the phpBB installation?

Finally, each time phpBB is updated each style is also updated. Therefore can you guarantee you'll be committed to updating the styles as phpBB is updated?

These are all things you'll need to consider. Making a pre-modded phpBB isn't as simple as installing a few mods, zipping it up and putting a download link on your website. You'll need to have a dedicated and knowledgeable support team (as phpBB staff won't give support for pre-modded board instrallations) and you'll need coders yo update styles and update MODs as the style authors / Mod authors update them.

By all means don't stop what you're doing. I think it's great that you want to start a project of this scale, and I fully encourage it. Just make sure you're ready for what I mentioned above.

Good luck! ~smile~

 

[socrboy24]

Re: *New* Need ideas for custom phpBB3

Thanks MhW I have been considering all of this a bit(my idea is only brainstorming right now) not official with what I want to do. I forgot about the 3.2 updates and such but there won't be too big a difference right between 3.0.4 or 5 to 3.2? And I am still in the process of getting some people together for the project who can help me with coding, support, etc.

 

[socrboy24]

Well so far I have gotten the following mods installed on the forum:

Prime Quick Reply
Last Post Titles on Index
Instant Post Redirect
Who was Here?
Welcome PM on First Login
Announcement Center
PM Spy

Over the next few days I will be working on getting some more useful mods installed and then will work on installation. If you want to help with the development then please contact me.

 

[CyberFreak]

Re: *New* Need ideas for custom phpBB3

I forgot about the 3.2 updates and such but there won't be too big a difference right between 3.0.4 or 5 to 3.2?

There will be a huge differences between phpBB 3.0.X to phpBB 3.2 which as MhW said it will break all mods.

 

[socrboy24]

yeah but besides mods the difference isn't that major right?

 

[CyberFreak]

Yes... There is alot of code changes with alot of new features and enhancements on current features.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Though I speak for myself, I would highly suggest not doing this. This is the reason why SMF is under the current license (cannot redistribute). Not only would it have to comply with new updates, but there are security issues that you would have to handle. For example fully modded phpBB has 2 vulnerabilities on milw0rm, and there are probably more.

 

[socrboy24]

Though I speak for myself, I would highly suggest not doing this. This is the reason why SMF is under the current license (cannot redistribute). Not only would it have to comply with new updates, but there are security issues that you would have to handle. For example fully modded phpBB has 2 vulnerabilities on milw0rm, and there are probably more.

Thanks for your input but this is something I have aspired to doing for a long time. I won't have to release a new update for it for a while once 3.2 comes out since not many people update right a way.

And all forums will have vulnerabilities to them. I will try my hardest to make sure that security is always updated.

 

[commentBB]

I'd say HTML codes.

 

[Dave V.]

Hi PixelDemon

It might be worth thinking really hard before you start a project like this. Before you get in to deep you must decide on wether you really want to go ahead with it. It will take an alarming amount of time to construct such a project like what you are putting together. Additionally should you ever decide to stop delevoping it you are going to cause problems for everyone using your modified script. It is similar to people setting up new hosts. If you ever decided to give up because you are bored or whatever you do leave all your users in a bit of trouble.

 

[socrboy24]

Thanks everyone for the comments and before getting into this too far I have decided to hold off on this. I figured I am just going to open a normal phpBB3 modding forum like before I started thinking about this.