| | I've gone to some IPB forums were it seems they allowed file attachment options, even music and videos files. Like this one!  Does phpBB or SMF have this option? Because so far, I've only been able to upload pictures in the avatar gallery. |
| Nov 22, 2009 |
Invision beats phpBB in unusual situations IPB vs. phpBB I have unending trouble posting to a phpBB hosted board via my dual WAN router on two different ISPs. I'm continually being kicked out unless I disable one of the WANs before logging in. I notified phpBB.Com and they blame me for not configuring my router properly for locked user sessions. Excuse me, but locked user sessions would interfere with the load balancing. I like the speed when both ISP signals are combined into one pipe.Invi...
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Yes...i think SMF has this option. i dont know abt phpBB though. maybe trekkie can help.
SMF definately has this, there are two good ways to do it, one is to upload the files as an attchment and install the download center mod which will be on the SMF soon or is but a little hidden, but to download itm, the authors own page has it http://eggheads.gen.tr/index.php?load=mods
A better way if you depend on downloads a lot more, is to get "Coppermine" the Photo Gallery software, you can with that use it for a complete downloads system for any file types, you dont even need the photo bit, its pretty cool and very easy to integrate the two, literally one line of code you copy and paste and then you are done its so simple. I believe the auto-install package is even done. phpBB dont do feature requests for 2.0.X updates and 3 is still quite a bit off. So SMF can do it just aswell if not better than IPB is. 
Ok, thanks. Thats nice to know.
The standard phpbb 2.x does not have file attachment.
Although, there is a mod available which allows files to be uploaded. Some "free" phpbb forums have done this too, and give you limited upload space for your board. Whether they let you upload music/vid files I'm not sure The new phpbb 3.0 (Olympus) will have file attachment as standard - though you'll have to wait for it to be released regards snowcrash
lol if it ever comes.......and phpBB arent hacked major again......
phpBB 3 doesnt actually look all that good, from my CVS copy.
phpbb has one major advantage: it's free! to use ipb for more than a short amount of time, they've turned it into payware...
SMF is free too and it rocks!!
As long as you know how to edit files, phpbb is the best. The mods available from http://www.phpbbhacks.com and the ones from http://www.phpbb.com/mods are very good, however the best mods are already included in phpbb 2.0.14. (well at least some of them).
I tried SMF and it is too clustered. The layout of the admin CP is awful. At least with phpbb it loads in a simple frame on the left and opens in the main window. One good point about SMF is that it appears as though you don't need any knowledge to install addons. If that was the case for phpbb.  phpbb 8/10 SMF 6/10
phpBB 2.0.14 is NOT modded, it is a vanilla install, none at all, its just phpBB not a modded version, no different to the rest of the 2.0.X series.
Clustered? uh huh, how long did you spend with it? Theres a line between power and bloat, SMF provides power at an acceptable cost, wait until you see phpBB 3, youll see what clustered means and youll learn the meaning of bloat.....Hands up who likes frames? SMF 9/10 phpBB 5/10 Latest Entries
Invision beats phpBB in unusual situations
IPB vs. phpBB I have unending trouble posting to a phpBB hosted board via my dual WAN router on two different ISPs. I'm continually being kicked out unless I disable one of the WANs before logging in. I notified phpBB.Com and they blame me for not configuring my router properly for locked user sessions. Excuse me, but locked user sessions would interfere with the load balancing. I like the speed when both ISP signals are combined into one pipe. Invision, on the other hand, gives me no problem whatsoever. As far as "mods" and "themes" are concerned, well, putting pretty polymer siding on a house with a rotten foundation is imbecilic, no? -gridsleep
I use and like Quicksilver Forums over all others, why? It's quick, simple, easy to mod, easy to customize!
It's faster than PHPBB and SMF. xboxrulz
While on the subject, is it possible to offer an RSS feed of new topics posted to users who want them thru phpBB2?
I read on the SMF site in the features section that one can "Export data in RSS format" QUOTE Export forum data using XML/RSS * Latest members. * News. * Recent posts. Is this functionality possible or available in phpBB2 or via an additional mod/hack ? QUOTE (madcrow @ Apr 22 2005, 10:55 AM) phpbb has one major advantage: it's free! to use ipb for more than a short amount of time, they've turned it into payware... FREE it's for me! Nuff said "Steve DeMarcus" NukeXtra I tried the IPB/Nuke...only works with one version of IPB and only offers PHP-Nuke 7.4 (Lazy or understaffed or both) |
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