Time Recursion

It’s more than one year from the official release of phpBB3 and there are still many forums running the older version, no matter the fact, that the beta versions of the third major release have been available for about three years already. And so, after a period of reasoning the pros and the cons of the upgrade, the time for switching to the new version came also for a forum I help to run, and with that a picnic basket of complications. Why a picnic basket? Because it usually looks very nice and inviting, and it holds an unimaginable quantity of various food, that is usually so different that it doesn’t go together well.

And so we strike right at the core of the issue at hand. The forum has a layout, that is optimised to work with both a joomla front-end and the phpBB2 forum itself, which is littered with php code for various modules, scripts and hacks. To sum it up, it’s not really a nice piece of code, that you can expect to work with everything you want. (continue reading…)