Phorum-5.2.10 Release Candidate 1 released!

The first release candidate of Phorum-5.2.10 has been released today.
Its a bugfix release fixing a couple of smaller issues.

As usual this release can be downloaded from our downloads page.

Please let us know any issues you might encounter with this version so the final release of 5.2.10 can be as bug-free as possible.

This is the excerpt from the changelog:

2008-12-09 08:52  ts77
	* added experimental attachment support to the smtp-mail module

   2008-12-06 10:56  mmakaay
	* Close the database connection explicitly at the end of the Phorum
	  script, to prevent lingering MySQL connections from overloading
	  the MySQL server.

   2008-11-26 14:51  mmakaay
	* Oops...I fixed it again.

   2008-11-26 14:48  mmakaay
	* Straightened out the moderation thread hooks. The hook "hide" is
	  now called "hide_thread" to be in harmony with the other thread
	  moderation hooks. Thanks to Joe Curia for noting the
	  inconsistency.

   2008-11-23 23:50  brian
	* Attempted fix for #802, <hr> tag was not having newlines trimmed
	  after it

   2008-11-23 23:22  brian
	* Fix for #808, rebuild script not rebuilding all the threads

   2008-11-23 19:04  brian
	* Fixes for ticket #791, phorum 3 upgrade issues with character set

   2008-11-23 15:55  brian
	* Fix for ticket #766, Group moderation bug

   2008-11-19 15:05  mmakaay
	* Improved the JSON handling using the PEAR library on systems that
	  do not implement json_encode() and/or json_decode(). Thanks to
	  Phorum user "rasta" for the coding idea.

   2008-11-13 09:05  mmakaay
	* Reverted [3700]: allow_email_notify is a per-forum setting and not
	  a global settin. Therefore, the control center should not hide the
	  "follow+mail" option if email_notify is not enabled when loading
	  the control center page.

   2008-11-13 08:59  mmakaay
	* Hide the "follow + email" option from default follow mode
	  configuration in the user control center when email notifications
	  are disabled by the admin.

   2008-11-12 19:26  mmakaay
	* Removed content-type header from the smileys javascript code. It
	  is no longer needed now the javascript is incorporated from
	  javascript.php.

   2008-11-12 16:35  mmakaay
	* Suppress possible warnings from a file_exists() call in the Spam
	  Hurdles module.

   2008-11-07 12:39  ts77
	* ignore some more settings on inheritance (fixing #809, thanks to
	  _noe_ ) ...

   2008-11-07 12:29  ts77
	* fixed db-upgrade scripts for replicated setups (fixing #813,
	  thanks to Mathias)

   2008-11-07 12:23  ts77
	* added masterquery-flags to event-logging module (fixing #814,
	  thanks to Mathias for reporting and providing a patch)

   2008-11-07 12:03  ts77
	* removed the message about the closed thread in the read page in
	  case "reply on separate page" and added an error message in the
	  posting form instead of just redirecting (closing #817)

   2008-11-07 00:54  mmakaay
	* Obfuscate mail addresses that are displayed by the bbcode module.

   2008-11-06 21:50  mmakaay
	* Fixed the fallback-to-pear-json option in the JSON API code.

   2008-11-03 05:50  brian
	* Fix for #805

   2008-10-31 19:33  mmakaay
	* Fixed the PHP json extension detection code in case the json API
	  code was loaded from within a function. The fallback PEAR JSON
	  library would not be triggered if the json extension was missing
	  in the PHP setup.

   2008-10-26 16:08  brian
	* Added ability to add a user from the admin. Thanks to Azumandias
	  for the initial patch

   2008-10-14 07:40  mmakaay
	* Fixed a problem in the phorum_api_file_store() function call,
	  which could cause storing a file with a message or user to fail.
	  This had no effect on the existing core Phorum code by sheer luck,
	  but when using the API call, things might go wrong, depending on
	  the order in which the file info fields were stored in the $file
	  argument.

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Thomas Seifert

I'm probably not the 1st, but I just installed it last night. Perfectly.
I thought...
After checking the 3 standard themes and changing them 2 times from Emerald to Classic and back in defaults and root forum, it all went crazy. Can't get a normal template working anymore.
[www.creativesources.nl]

I'll give u admin-right if u e-mail me. What's the latest stable version and where can I get it or u fix it?
Coz 4 the rest it looks mighty cool...

First: stop doing that l33t stuff, it's really annoying. At phorum.org, we prefer English for communication. Thank you.

I opened the URL that you provided in your message. However, this URL looks fine to me. Are you still having issues or were you able to resolve them? If not, then please tell us where to look at.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Hoi Maurice,

Thanx, but it was something with a confused CSS-cache. It responded slow and Emerald worked good again after an hour. Don't know exactly what I did, sorry, I'm a designer normally, not a developer.

Two more things:
1. What the hell is l33t stuff???
2. I wanna integrate the forum now in my DevZone html page. Will take some time. I guess there are more ppl that want their house-style above and in the Phorum. Will keep the 'powered by' of course... Is there already a how-to for merging your template and users' pages? Else I'll write one for you guys after it's done. Then it should become the most popular board around. Lemme know!

Thanx 2 those who distribute free software and believe in evolving this self-destructive capitalist system into a fresh new-economy.

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1. What the hell is l33t stuff???

Using shortcuts in your language like "ppl", "this is 4u", "cuz", "coz", etc. Not 100% leet/l33t/1337, but just as annoying. Maybe "SMS language" would be a better description.

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2. I wanna integrate the forum now in my DevZone html page. Will take some time. I guess there are more ppl that want their house-style above and in the Phorum. Will keep the 'powered by' of course... Is there already a how-to for merging your template and users' pages? Else I'll write one for you guys after it's done. Then it should become the most popular board around. Lemme know!

Good luck with that, but please, use English wording and write sentences that carry a subject ;-) There's no a really hands-on guide for merging ones layout with Phorum's. There is of course the template creation docs, but that only describes how to create a custom template and how the template language works.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce

Thank you for bearing with me.

I have configured a 5.2.10 Emerald in a iframe at www.creativesources.nl/devzone/ (DB in /phorum-5.2.10/)I ne
I would appreciate our mutual benefit when you help me with complicated stuff and you can use the results as well for template or further development. Visiting and using it would be handy all tips after seeing it..

The current problems are:
1. I need to get the personal messages nicely behind the user-data and then on top of the logo banner. For Firefox.
2. Where do I give advanced search different color, specifically? Firefox as well.

For the rest I can manage I think. I like the experience with PHP and I don't have exxperience, but your Forum worrks very nice for me. Thank you. Let me know if I can do anything to facilitate you in helping me out.

Have a good week

What you really should do is start a new topic when you have specific questions. Please do so, so we can continue there.
Please, describe your questions a bit better, possibly accompanied with some Photoshopped mockups for clarification. I do not understand your questions right now I'm afraid. And note: we do not like iframes for integration, so I doubt that we would use your solution as a standard and advertised solution for Phorum.

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Maurice Makaay
Phorum Development Team
my blog linkedin profile secret sauce