Update to phpBB3

[palmboy5]

I've finally updated the forum to phpBB 3.0.11 (from phpBB 2.0.9).

Everything seems to be working for me, anyone see issues?

The host emailed me saying they were deactivating MySQL 4 (it's old) which the old forum was still using so I took this as an opportunity to finally figure out how to update to phpBB3.

The old forum, now at www.mylilsite.net/bwp1/, has the database now pointing to a new copy using MySQL 5 so it will still work too. The two forums are not synchronized though so don't actually post there unless you can't post on this forum.

[palmboy5]

The shitty part of the migration of the database to phpBB3 was that it would crash on every post we've done that hit the post length limit (64KB) so each time it crashed I went to the original database, did a DB query to make the post text short (and back up the original) to let the migration continue and then restore the original text afterward.

Also my host has limits on max processing time for a single operation so it took a while to find migration execution settings that the host server wouldn't eventually crash the execution for.

[Directive]

Looks a lot sharper. So far I like it. No problems so far but I am only the average user doing average things. Hopefully there isn't as many spam posts, kinda irritates me.
PS - I figured the name would change. How about "BP2 the sequel".

[palmboy5]

There shouldn't be as many spam posts because from what I remember in the Admin panel is that now you actually can turn off registration. In phpBB2 all I could do was block any username that matched wildcard (so, everything) except the forum somehow didn't match non-English characters so all those Russian ones got through.

There should be no way for spam bots or any sort of spammer to be able to post now.

[Directive]

Awesome