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phpBB2 is not very "friendly", as a portal/CMS backend for users and groups handling, since it's old school with no generic OO design. With Olympus this has changed (somewhat), and portal/cms coders have tons of resuable code to hook up with their own standalone apps. My point is there is ...

Thanks Paul. Not only phpBB itself, but also all 3rd party MODs and phpBB groupie projects (eg my own, mxBB Portal) salute all your spent time and shared talent. Thanks!

He's using SAJAX, or at least a derived version.

JPSpan seems more feature complete, but Sajax has a great user community (but hte author himself has vanished)

true true, my point is several native phpBB functions (used all over in main code and MODs) could be turned Ajax, without modifying every single tpl file out there...

I agree with drathbun, a standard ajax class would be awesome edit: I think I'll start using JPSpan in my webapps insted of sajax, seems like ti can do more stuff not so sure anymore, from reading announcements and progress reports over in the SAJAX user forums http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/for...

Yes, and hopefully the Olympus gurys will consider this during their redefinition of the phpBB world - i mean since they are objectifying most of good-old procedure based code, some nice Ajax support would be "easy" to implement ;) Another easy example: the native phpBB message_die() funct...

A...i realize you went for the SAJAX lib actually, i would i chosen JPSpan, seems more up-to-date, connects to native phpBB classes and is under offensive development ;) Here's two articles describing differences between JPSpan and SAJAX: http://blog.joshuaeichorn.com/archives/2005/04/12/building-ri...

Being excited when realizing wGEric has done some Ajax experimenting with some phpBB posting methods, i open this general Ajax discussion thread. nice work eric we are currently implementing ajax (or at least trying out different ajax approaches) for our mxBB portal adminCP. So i have evaluated JPSp...

nice work eric we are currently implementing ajax (or at least trying out different ajax approaches) for our mxBB portal adminCP. So i have evaluated JPSpan, Sack and RICO. http://www.ajaxpatterns.org/AJAXFrameworks May I ask what are your approach for this ajax addon (sure i could study your code, ...

cool mod...thumbs up

why store it all in the db anyway, since this info is only of interest for individual users a cookie (or a _SESSION is cookies are disabled) should be enough

or do you want to do some fancy stats with all this info?

a....you're a multilang character

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modding the native posting will not be done quickly, that's why there are several alternative MODS out there for more customized "posts". for example: - knowledge base MOD (with plain phpBB posts comments) - linkdb MOD both features custom fields, ratings, and comments there are other mods...