Hello I'm trying to fathom a way to hack phpBB to integrate more smoothly with a website which has another login system. I want to be able to login through the main website and then pass-through authentication tokens (e.g. a common user_id) to phpBB contained within and link to it's auth tables. Has...
Using phpBB 2.0.17 and PHP 4.3.11 on Linux. /usr/sbin/sendmail on my box points to a postfix mailserver. Found that my version of PHP seems to insist on a 5th parameter in the mail() function. The only way I can get phpBB to send email is via the following hack to includes/emailer.php (lines 212 and...
Discovered that the 'check for new versions' function in the phpBB admin section (version 2.0.14) needs to access the web. As my server is behind a firewall and requires an authenticating proxy to get to the web, I needed to comment out all the code in /admin/index.php (roughly lines 563 to 627). Ot...