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BLOB just means that it's a text field. If you're using phpmyadmin, click on the edit button for the field. The entire text will be displayed in the edit field.

The color information is stored inside the style template embedded code - why not just use a transparent .PNG image?

You could have it log into the database and insert the posts directly... you'd need to pay careful attention to make sure you do it properly though.

ACP Modules can go into the ".MODS" tab. It's hidden by default because there's nothing on it.

MOD Title: Dice MOD MOD Description: A MOD to add a system of persistent dice rolls to your forum, in the form of a BBCode tag. MOD Version: 0.4 MOD Download: http://mtg.freeunixhost.com/dice.zip My provider hates the referrer header, so copy-paste the url into the address bar. Clicking the link wo...

Actually, I have a mod in the works right now!

It's almost done, too. I just need to finish writing the MOD file and figuring out the parsing semantics on forum descriptions.

Oh, and then add template changes.

Also, does anyone know what keeps tags like [quote] and [img] out of a forum description message?

Hmm... now it only works if I call it in the function it's used in. Any ideas?

EDIT: D'oh! globals $user!

How do I include a language file? The documentation says that I should call $user->setup('mods/file'), but that does nothing except cause a MySQLi crash later on. Looking at the code in sessions.php, it looks like it doesn't work that way. How am I supposed to do this now?