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bunch of questions (modding, update, etc) [message #28721]

Mon, 07 November 2005 13:21

devnull

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Hi,

I have FudForum running for quite some time now and it works just fine. Very Happy

I'm thinking of doing some heavier mods now (perhaps together with an update). Perhaps someone could drop a few lines to my questions/ideas/observations?

- Concerning an update: I'm running a 2.6.something (about a year old now). Could I do a blank default install and simply replace the GLOBALS.php to get it working with the old database? (after I copied msg_1 and the nntp files back).

- The biggest part is the index table (4GB for myd/myi) and it takes ages (literally) to rebuild it. During that time, the board is offline, so I wonder if there's a script which would rebuilt the index into an sql file. That's just an idea, not a must-have Smile

Talking about the index: I assume the optimize table runs over the index too. Would it be faster to do a "DELETE FROM prefix_index" before and then rebuild the index?

- Could the script for rebuilding the msg_1 file be edited so it also does replace certain characters with their html code? Like &, < or > for example, or umlauts. That script has to update the database with the new file offsets, but I'm not sure if it would notice that the length of the message has changed.

- I noticed that sometimes several posts are added as new topics, although the subject are like "Re: whatever subject". Shouldn't the slow reply match option put them together in one thread? Can those posts be joined automatically? This is just a curiosity question to get a nicer look for the user. Nothing really important.

- About the modding: I would heavily edit the main parts of the board, like index.php, thread.php and msg.php. I thought about removing everything from the source that is not needed, but I don't know if this would cause problems elsewhere (in case some of those files are includes from others).

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		bunch of questions (modding, update, etc) By: devnull on Mon, 07 November 2005 13:21
		Re: bunch of questions (modding, update, etc) By: Ilia on Fri, 11 November 2005 15:10
		Re: bunch of questions (modding, update, etc) By: devnull on Tue, 22 November 2005 12:37
		Re: bunch of questions (modding, update, etc) By: Ilia on Tue, 22 November 2005 14:44

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