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Re: Best way to search thread metadata? - 4 years ago

This looks like exactly what I need. Are you still open to sharing your code for tagging? I'm okay with it requiring some hacks to build it in. I'd like to implement it on a buy/sell forum very similar to the way that you did.

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Error using SMTP module - 9 years ago

I was getting this error as well. Downloading the latest code for that module from the Phorum Github repo solved my problem.

by Simon King - Phorum Support

Re: Enhanced Private Messages - 9 years ago

I'm upgrading my forum and was just wishing that PMs had paging. Did a quick Google search and it's implemented in less than a half hour! Thanks.

by Simon King - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons

Re: Phorum 5.2.22 released - 9 years ago

I second that — the Stop Forum Spam service works very well against known spammers. It was instrumental for me in a recent fight against spammers and ends up blocking approximately 50 users a day.

by Simon King - Announcements

Re: Slow performance after forum upgrade - 15 years ago

Just to follow up on this, I ended up installing the Sphinx search server and using the Sphinx Phorum module. This has made searching dramatically faster, and in turn is helping with speed overall on my forum. Thank you to everyone that has provided code for the memcached and Sphinx capabilities of Phorum, these two options helped me limp along on my old hardware, despite having a large and activ

by Simon King - Phorum Support

Re: Module: Automatic HTTP Path - 15 years ago

Thank you very much for this module, it's exactly what I was looking for. However, I needed to modify it a bit to make it work on my site and I thought I'd share my changes in case someone else is in a similar situation. On my site (http://www.mopedarmy.com/) I have links to all my forums listed in a drop down navigation on any page. This is generated by Phorum, based on the user's

by Simon King - v5/v6 Modules/Add-Ons

Re: Slow performance after forum upgrade - 15 years ago

Sorry for posting in the wrong forum. I managed to get the performance issues under control by using memcached. I also think the site was overwhelmed by search engine crawlers, which didn't help the problems I was having. The primary performance hit was coming from MySQL. Hardware is a 3.4Ghz P4 with 3GB of RAM. I do have a specific performance related question: Is the performance hit of

by Simon King - Phorum Support

Slow performance after forum upgrade - 15 years ago

I have been using Phorum for about a decade now and recently upgraded my site (http://www.mopedarmy.com/) from Phorum 3 to 5.2.16. What surprised me is that after the upgrade my server's performance is terrible. It's running very slowly and has a significantly higher load than on the old site. The front-end code is much more optimized than the previous design and all the signs point tow

by Simon King - Phorum Support

Re: Cache generates THOUSANDS of folders and files - 15 years ago

Can you elaborate a bit more on why file caching isn't good for large boards? I recently upgraded an old Phorum 3 installation to 5.2.16 and I'm running into some unexpected performance issues. I enabled file caching, thinking that could help. It's a pretty active board with roughly 2.5M posts in the archive over a series of forums. Should I avoid file caching? I have not used memc

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Problems + fixes upgrading from Phorum 3 to 5.2.8 - 17 years ago

Thanks for the quick update, but as I played with this more tonight I realized that converting the script to work with the API requires a couple more changes to /scripts/phorum3_in.php. 1. The file data should not be base64 encoded before passing it along to phorum_api_file_store. This will be done later if saving to the db but it causes the attachment to be stored on the file system in the en

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Problems + fixes upgrading from Phorum 3 to 5.2.8 - 17 years ago

I am still working on my phorum upgrade. My main problem is that the script never makes it through all my forums, halting with different problems and at different points. I'm quite sure it has to do with system load or memory issues, even though I have included ini_set statements that increase the allowed memory. I'm proceeding with trial and error. I have over 14GB of attachments to

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Problems + fixes upgrading from Phorum 3 to 5.2.8 - 18 years ago

I also had some show stopping problems upgrading to the latest 3.x version. It's hard to say if it's the same issue but I fixed mine by changing that directory to run through PHP4 instead of PHP5. If you have both installed this can be done with a simple .htaccess command, just Google for the syntax.

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Problems + fixes upgrading from Phorum 3 to 5.2.8 - 18 years ago

I am the administrator for some very old forums running Phorum 3.2.11 which I am now in the process of upgrading to Phorum 5.2.8. This series of active forums has well over 1 million posts so I'm taking my time on the upgrade, testing it piece by piece until I'm ready to flip the switch and do it for real. As you already know it requires me to first upgrade to 3.4.8a and then to 5.2.8 a

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Design: Message Rating Module - 21 years ago

Also, even if it can't be built as a module I'm sure there any many people who would be interested in looking at and/or implementing your hack. Please keep us updated if you're willing to share. Thanks. Simon

by Simon King - 5.1 Phorum Modules / Add-Ons

Re: Best Forum on the market? - 21 years ago

I hate to dwell on this longer than necessary, but instead of asking you for a possible time frame maybe I should present mine. I plan on upgrading my copy of phorum in roughly 1.5 to 2 months from now. Given that information would you still say to wait? Thanks. Simon

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Best Forum on the market? - 21 years ago

I am about to redesign a site that has been using Phorum 3 for years and I plan on upgrading it to Phorum 5 when I do. Your comments about 5.1 in this post make me want to wait until that version is released. Seamless integration is the key reason I chose Phorum, could you possibly elaborate how this is enhanced in the upcoming 5.1? I understand that you may not know but is there any rough est

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Suggestion for 5.1 - 21 years ago

I would second this idea, it'll really make upgrading easier. Right now I use Win Merge (http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/) to compare the new language file with my modified one, which works but it's clumsy.

by Simon King - 5.1 Phorum Support

Other caching ideas - 21 years ago

I've been thinking a lot about caching and phorum. I'm interested in caching techniques such as those employed by PEAR::Cache_Lite (http://www.pear.php.net/package/Cache_Lite/) or ADOdb (http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/docs-adodb.htm#caching) where the result of a function or query is cached, not the whole page. Would it be possible or worthwhile to do this for certain phorum db calls? Si

by Simon King - Phorum Development

Re: Tree lines like Phorum 3 module! - 22 years ago

Awesome! Thanks a ton for this slick module. This is the number one feature I was looking for in Phorum 5. Simon

by Simon King - 5.1 Phorum Modules / Add-Ons