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Friday night!
Y'all having fun? What are you doing tonight?
(Obviously we're in way different time zones but whenever your Friday night is/was. It's 9pm here.)
I'm still working on bugs.... endless bugs....
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So I'll vent a bit since this is the pub. ......Everything is such a problem. Everything you try to do, the simplest sh*t, can't be done without a stupid amount of effort. I've been creating websites with phpbb for over ten years. I've learned so much but it's never enough. Every little thing I want to do turns into days wasted searching and doing trial/error. It's all so damn convoluted and compartmentalized. And forget asking for help on the official support forums. That's a last resort. Lots of things come up in Google or the forums search, but a lot of it is old and doesn't apply to v3.3x. (For example, STK support tool kit, which was an official ext on v3.1 but cannot be used on v3.2+.) I really need to get my site open to the public but I have these lingering issues. Ya fix one and then find another. I want to fix these things first before going public. You know that saying... you have one chance to make a first impression. Anyway, nothing is an easy fix. And I don't need it to be "easy" but some middle ground between easy and almost impossible would be nice.
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Man.... this sh*t just gets me down so much.
Anyway my conversation-starter question to y'all is this.....
Do you also find yourself with endless bugs that take you forever to figure out?
Or do you find it pretty easy to do whatever it is you set out to do?
Happy Friday. I'm going back to the grind.
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Endless bugs... just me?
Re: Endless bugs... just me?
So true 
Closing in on 2 decades of running phpBB, been off for some years.
Maybe its the bugs that keeps us going?
STK 3.3 from phpBB Guru. I have used some of the functions, but far from all.
Ran the DB cleaner on this board last year before I opened it again.
Grab it here: https://www.phpbbguru.net/community/vie ... &start=360
Maybe it will introduce some more bugs
Closing in on 2 decades of running phpBB, been off for some years.
Maybe its the bugs that keeps us going?
STK 3.3 from phpBB Guru. I have used some of the functions, but far from all.
Ran the DB cleaner on this board last year before I opened it again.
Grab it here: https://www.phpbbguru.net/community/vie ... &start=360
Maybe it will introduce some more bugs
Re: Endless bugs... just me?
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Right on! I'll look into that, thanks! I kept seeing people talk about phpbbcli.php located in /bin, and there's supposed to be a tool in there to resync the left_id and right_id. That's my next thing, after this present bug. As for ^^ I get that it's a command line / terminal window situation. Maybe there's a command also in that help post. I may monkey with it anyway just to see how far I can get. Trying to figure out how to run it, maybe call it from a browser window (mysite/bin/phpbbcli.php).
Well I'll tell ya what, if you ever have a bug you can ask me.
I'm no expert but I've gone down quite a few phpbb rabbit holes. But all my info is so piece-meal, you see. I have trouble writing simple scripts. Like I've been 12 hours trying to write a simple script. Sigh. Still, by phrasing it out to someone you sometimes gain insight yourself, like the above phpbbcli thing for me.
ANYWAY, What did you think of my "bots list" reply? Had you already seen those resources?
Right on! I'll look into that, thanks! I kept seeing people talk about phpbbcli.php located in /bin, and there's supposed to be a tool in there to resync the left_id and right_id. That's my next thing, after this present bug. As for ^^ I get that it's a command line / terminal window situation. Maybe there's a command also in that help post. I may monkey with it anyway just to see how far I can get. Trying to figure out how to run it, maybe call it from a browser window (mysite/bin/phpbbcli.php).
Well I'll tell ya what, if you ever have a bug you can ask me.
I'm no expert but I've gone down quite a few phpbb rabbit holes. But all my info is so piece-meal, you see. I have trouble writing simple scripts. Like I've been 12 hours trying to write a simple script. Sigh. Still, by phrasing it out to someone you sometimes gain insight yourself, like the above phpbbcli thing for me.
ANYWAY, What did you think of my "bots list" reply? Had you already seen those resources?
Re: Endless bugs... just me?
Yes, I use this .htaccess block https://phpbb.hifikabin.me.uk/viewtopic.php?t=110
Re: Endless bugs... just me?
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That post had several (seemingly) relevant links. It's a little further down the to-do list, I haven't opened each one yet.
Excellent. I knew there was a way to block IPs through htaccess but hadn't gotten around to setting it up. TYStoker wrote: 12 Apr 2025, 17:38 Yes, I use this .htaccess block https://phpbb.hifikabin.me.uk/viewtopic.php?t=110
That post had several (seemingly) relevant links. It's a little further down the to-do list, I haven't opened each one yet.
Endless bugs... just me?
You always think as a hacker when writing code and put the bad first. Always think about what could happen or could go wrong. Bugs are easy to fix in general in your own code.
Hardest part is when you have to inject code into phpBB and you can't really do it or you are limited.
Hardest part is when you have to inject code into phpBB and you can't really do it or you are limited.
Endless bugs... just me?
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I'm using the term "bug" loosely.
In my situation it's not so much mistakes or broken things from a typo or conflict. For me it's more like there's a thing I want to do with the site and it's overly complicated to figure out how to accomplish this functionality I want. And looking at the code it's so damn convoluted and compartmentalized that you can't just copy one section and have it work elsewhere. (Obviously.) It's not that I expect it to be "easy" but everything I want to do turns into a days long ordeal, some things a week or more, to get to work or ultimately give up.
So a better way to phrase my question might be.....
Do y'all find yourselves constantly with mysteries that are a bugger to solve?
Things you want to do but are not succeeding in making it work?
Just conversation... I'm not complaining but remarking.
I'm using the term "bug" loosely.
In my situation it's not so much mistakes or broken things from a typo or conflict. For me it's more like there's a thing I want to do with the site and it's overly complicated to figure out how to accomplish this functionality I want. And looking at the code it's so damn convoluted and compartmentalized that you can't just copy one section and have it work elsewhere. (Obviously.) It's not that I expect it to be "easy" but everything I want to do turns into a days long ordeal, some things a week or more, to get to work or ultimately give up.
So a better way to phrase my question might be.....
Do y'all find yourselves constantly with mysteries that are a bugger to solve?
Things you want to do but are not succeeding in making it work?
Just conversation... I'm not complaining but remarking.
Endless bugs... just me?
Failing is learning.
Sometimes you have to fail a lot before the learning comes.
Coding is failing. Therefore it also is learning
Sometimes you have to fail a lot before the learning comes.
Coding is failing. Therefore it also is learning
Endless bugs... just me?
Totally agree. It's rough when you're trying to accomplish something though.Stoker wrote: 15 Apr 2025, 05:20 Failing is learning.
Sometimes you have to fail a lot before the learning comes.
Coding is failing. Therefore it also is learning