Edit time expires, why is there an option?

[scrupul0us]

Seems to me, that if we aren't able to edit our posts after 50 minutes (which is a random time), that there shouldn't be an edit icon available after that time either...

 

[Von Pookie]

I believe that idea has come up before--however, The board is set up that way be default and I don't know how much work it would take to implement it.

Something to look into, at any rate (although to be honest it wouldn't be very high on the list of things )

 

[scrupul0us]

prolly as simple as modifing an existing or creating a simple little function within whatever function includef ile phpbb works off of...

there might even be a hack out there...

just thought i'd bring it up

 

[starl]

All those little MODS are actually more work and difficult to upkeep then people realize.

 

[scrupul0us]

Ive done some playing with Vbulletin to the tune of removing some buttons when a user was registered and so forth, and as stated required a little code snippet here and there... as for upkeep... If you properly comment and notate your site changes and upkeep (as ANY good website admin should) then its a snap to work with

 

[Von Pookie]

Ive done some playing with Vbulletin to the tune of removing some buttons when a user was registered and so forth, and as stated required a little code snippet here and there... as for upkeep... If you properly comment and notate your site changes and upkeep (as ANY good website admin should) then its a snap to work with

That's great, but this isn't a vBulletin board.

There is someone who handles the code for the board, but something like this is pretty low priority.

 

[starl]

vBulletin is used by the TOE site. It's a LOT easier to edit than phpBb is
I mean.. *I* can edit TOE.. I can't touch it here, tho

 

[scrupul0us]

I realize this isnt VBulletin, this is PHPBB... but I had no idea ( according to starl ) that manipulating phpBB's code would be that much different... six and a half dozen the other... theres an entire section of mods on the phpbb website... but as you said, basic functionality improvements are low on the priority list ::

 

[starl]

VBulletin gives you a VERY nice interface panel...think of it like the Windows of bulletin software (w/o the bugs).
PhpBB - sucks - think of it like DOS; It consists of managing topics and users; there's no template interface - not compared to VBulletin.

 

[NateO]

Scrupul0us,

PHP is a language:
http://perl.about.com/library/weekly/topicsub_phplang.htm

Not a GUI.

Want to modify your BB? You do something like the following:
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=197

Simple, eh?

And modifying your BB on a live, high-volume board does bear some risk:
http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article.php?article_id=175

I thank everyone for their efforts with maintaining this site.