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by richey
Wed Jan 24, 2024 11:48 am
Forum: [3.3.x] Support Forum
Topic: update download fails
Replies: 9
Views: 661

Re: update download fails

I am using a legit, paid VPN that is known for good privacy features, but unfortunately the phpbb website seems to block it. So I would have to disable the VPN just to download the file - it's okay in this case tbh - but then, where's the borderline? I hate it when websites block me just because I'm...
by richey
Tue Jan 23, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: [3.3.x] Support Forum
Topic: update download fails
Replies: 9
Views: 661

Re: update download fails

Okay, so the actual reason was that the website doesn't seem to accept connections from the VPN I'm using.

Which is a bit restrictive, I'd like to say.

Open source software should support privacy.
by richey
Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:12 pm
Forum: [3.3.x] Support Forum
Topic: update download fails
Replies: 9
Views: 661

Re: update download fails

Thanks guys, strangely it worked when connecting with a different network.
This might have been the reason ... although the error message above indicated a server-side issue before.
I had tried it for a couple of minutes, but maybe not long enough. :?

Sorry for the trouble,
r.
by richey
Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: [3.3.x] Support Forum
Topic: update download fails
Replies: 9
Views: 661

update download fails

Hello, when I'm trying to download the current version (ex. https://download.phpbb.com/pub/release/3.3/3.3.11/phpBB-3.3.10_to_3.3.11.zip), I receive an "403 Forbidden Request forbidden by administrative rules. " error message. Hope this wasn't posted already, but when entering "downlo...
by richey
Tue May 16, 2023 9:43 am
Forum: Extension Requests
Topic: Anonymizing IP's
Replies: 3
Views: 746

Re: Anonymizing IP's

https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/ip_address_deletion/ this is pretty cool, thanks , but unfortunately restricted to when accounts are deleted. Actually, in most countries there is no requirement for board hosts to *delete* accounts and all posts on request, only a) information that migh...
by richey
Tue May 16, 2023 9:20 am
Forum: Extension Requests
Topic: Anonymizing IP's
Replies: 3
Views: 746

Anonymizing IP's

To increase privacy (and to comply with privacy laws in the EU etc.) it would be great if there was an extension that would allow to anonymize user's IP numbers after a certain amount of time. The code for it already exists: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2285331/how-to-get-the-last-digit-from-...
by richey
Mon May 15, 2023 7:54 am
Forum: Extension Requests
Topic: Anonymizing IP's
Replies: 14
Views: 2847

Re: Anonymizing IP's

Any new developments with this?

I am looking for a plugin or function to remove the last 3 digits of the IP number after, let's say, 3 months.
Is there a "phpbb native" way to do this (or maybe a "dirty code hack" that could help to achieve it?)

Any help appreciated...

thanks!
by richey
Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:12 am
Forum: Extension Requests
Topic: Passwordless authentification via Lightning Network
Replies: 0
Views: 628

Passwordless authentification via Lightning Network

Hello, it's now possible to allow passwordless and non-thirdparty authentification (thereby, avoiding countless privacy problems) through Bitcoin's Lightning Network (by simply scanning a QR-code). This would basically be quite easy to set up by advanced forum admins running their boards on hosted s...
by richey
Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:50 pm
Forum: [3.3.x] Support Forum
Topic: Finding out number of URLs in a post
Replies: 3
Views: 658

Finding out number of URLs in a post

Hello, what's the recommended way to find out the # of URLs contained in a post now? I found that many parsing functions have been transferred to s9e/text-formatter - as my own code doesn't work anymore, can I use one of these? My dirty temporary 'hack' is substr_count(this->message,"://")...
by richey
Sun Aug 15, 2021 4:15 am
Forum: phpBB Custom Coding
Topic: request_var with REQUEST_URI
Replies: 3
Views: 1777

Re: request_var with REQUEST_URI

Thanks a lot for your response, Alfredo!

I wasn't even aware that this function is deprecated already, there is quite little documentation about it on the web.
For the time being simply checking for SCRIPT_NAME is enough for me, I went that route.

Thanks very much again!
r.
by richey
Thu Aug 12, 2021 6:05 pm
Forum: phpBB Custom Coding
Topic: request_var with REQUEST_URI
Replies: 3
Views: 1777

request_var with REQUEST_URI

Hello, in one of my templates, I'm trying to find out the current URL and deliver content depending on that. I've tried it this way: <!-- PHP --> $url = request_var('REQUEST_URI', '', false, false, \phpbb\request\request_interface::SERVER); if (strpos($url,'ucp')===false) echo 'UCP called'; else ech...
by richey
Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:41 am
Forum: [3.3.x] Support Forum
Topic: Censored words throwing exception after update
Replies: 1
Views: 639

Censored words throwing exception after update

[Sat Jul 17 05:29:47.115940 2021] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 15339] [client 212.103.50.##:34138] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: Invalid BBCode name 'censor:tag' in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.at/httpdocs/pt-forum/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Plugins/B...
by richey
Sat Jun 05, 2021 7:17 am
Forum: phpBB Discussion
Topic: Old phpbb2-Forum and 'Umlauts' in database
Replies: 3
Views: 1760

Re: Old phpbb2-Forum and 'Umlauts' in database

Yeah, of course - but that's why I've posted it here and not in the actual support forums. I could imagine that someone (who simply retired a forum based on phpbb2) had similar problems and maybe could share experiences/tips on how to display all database content correctly. By the way, when I use &q...
by richey
Sat Jun 05, 2021 6:31 am
Forum: phpBB Discussion
Topic: Old phpbb2-Forum and 'Umlauts' in database
Replies: 3
Views: 1760

Old phpbb2-Forum and 'Umlauts' in database

Hello, I have an old read-only phpbb 2 -based forum on my website, and noticed that the German umlauts it contains (the tables in it are encoded in " latin1_swedish_ci " for some reason) are displayed as ugly black diamond-shape icon with a question mark in them. I have re-encoded the page...
by richey
Sat Feb 20, 2021 2:03 am
Forum: [3.3.x] Styles in Development
Topic: [RC] Aero for phpBB 3.3.11
Replies: 74
Views: 1640756

Re: [RC] Aero for phpBB 3.3.3

Does anyone else have problems accessing the dropbox link?
I checked if it's my VPN or ISP, but so far I couldn't access it anywhere.. :-( ('unable to connect')

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