Greetings, This is the first time I have used nextBBS, personally being an IPB user, a client requested a forum on their site, and being bored or rather dissapointed with other free forum softwares such as phpBB which sucks, and SMF which seems to like randomly having problems.

After some investigation my partner decided to go with next BBS, I was quite impressed with the software, however I have encountered a number of problems in the final preparations.

First and foremost being that whenever I, my partner or any of our testers play an arcade game, regardless of what score they get, they simply get a message when submitting the score which reads

ERROR
Good Try

[go back]

Screenshot: img.soopermuse.com/nbbs-arcade.png


After searching this forum, as well as checking the files themselves, I do believe it has something to do with preventing cheating, however, what I cannot understand is why, it happens to myself, my partner, and others when we are clearly not cheating.



The other problems we have encountered so far are:

-Calendar CSS, regardless of which css i modify, the main skin, the css in the calendar template files, utils or any css, the calendar doesn't change its appearance apart from minor instances, such as text color, and empty cells are the correct color, I have even taken all of the class names from the view source, given them css properties and inserted them into the css files to no avail, this only made the minor changes stated above.


Screenshot: img.soopermuse.com/nbbs-calendar.png


-Coppermine Integration Module

One of the clients wishes was to have a gallery, although personalyl Im not the biggest fan of Coppermine, the fact that nextbbs had an integration feature made it a plus, however even after multiple install attempts of integrating, when a user would try and access Coppermine through the integration link do=extcpg or something like that i believe, they would receive a fatal error regarding one of the Coppermine files, I would post the error itself however we hae since removed the Coppermine bridge, or rather given up on trying to get it to work.

There were a few other minor problems, but they have been corrected.

Is there any known fix for the problems above?


(cactaurs..... nice)

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Hello and thanks for your very detailed post.

Let's see:

soopermuse wrote:

After searching this forum, as well as checking the files themselves, I do believe it has something to do with preventing cheating, however, what I cannot understand is why, it happens to myself, my partner, and others when we are clearly not cheating.

Hmmm maybe the code is a bit too touchy. Cheating is a real problem with online games, and as long as there is a mix of html and flash, it will always be possible to cheat.
First question that comes to mind is: did you setup the server's url in the admin cp?

soopermuse wrote:

-Calendar CSS, regardless of which css i modify, the main skin, the css in the calendar template files, utils or any css, the calendar doesn't change its appearance apart from minor instances, such as text color, and empty cells are the correct color, I have even taken all of the class names from the view source, given them css properties and inserted them into the css files to no avail, this only made the minor changes stated above.

Definitely a bug. What version of nbbs are you using?

soopermuse wrote:

-Coppermine Integration Module One of the clients wishes was to have a gallery, although personalyl Im not the biggest fan of Coppermine, the fact that nextbbs had an integration feature made it a plus, however even after multiple install attempts of integrating, when a user would try and access Coppermine through the integration link do=extcpg or something like that i believe, they would receive a fatal error regarding one of the Coppermine files, I would post the error itself however we hae since removed the Coppermine bridge, or rather given up on trying to get it to work.

In hindsight, our overall feeling is that we'd rather have integrated with Gallery2 than Coppermine. Not that Coppermine is a bad product, just that I find its interface very hard to understand.

Can you paste the actual error here?

soopermuse wrote:

(cactaurs..... nice)

Obviously it is hard to imagine writing a program that accepts smileys without integrating cactuars

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chris wrote:

Hmmm maybe the code is a bit too touchy. Cheating is a real problem with online games, and as long as there is a mix of html and flash, it will always be possible to cheat. First question that comes to mind is: did you setup the server's url in the admin cp?

Fixed this, apparently since we dont bother using www as a domain prefix on the site, and it was set as www. in the acp it was being silly.

chris wrote:

Definitely a bug. What version of nbbs are you using?

0.5.0 the latest version, tried every possible way around it and it just doesnt like it.

chris wrote:

In hindsight, our overall feeling is that we'd rather have integrated with Gallery2 than Coppermine. Not that Coppermine is a bad product, just that I find its interface very hard to understand. Can you paste the actual error here?

Unfortunately I am unable to, since we decided to remove the coppermine bridge and all, it would be too inconvenient to reinstall the bridge and potentially mess up the gallery and the db.

chris wrote:

Obviously it is hard to imagine writing a program that accepts smileys without integrating cactuars

We put Tonberries on ours, since our clients request was for a forum for an FFXI Linkshell we thought it was just unacceptable to not have tonberries too.

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I will research the calendar issue. It's weird, to say the least.

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Another very minor issue that is easy to correct is the quick reply background, only reaches half way across the actual box for me, i use 1280x1024 res, and i would imagine this same problem would occur in 1024x768 as well. Unsure if it is a problem in 800x600 but nobody really uses that res anyway these days, unless they have really bad eyesight.

ALSO: Is there any way to remove, or at least switch off, websnapr. It annoys me a great deal, and do not wish to have it on my clients board.

Thank You.






EDIT: I have fixed the css problem, the reason the calendar would not properly accept the css in the main css file is because it was being conflicted with by the css in this file: /helpers/ac/data/css/nbbs_wide.css

To fix this, i cut out all of the css from that file, and replaced my own placed calendar css with it in the main css file, to retain all of the sizing for the cells, then modified it to my preference.

This problem is now solved, you might want to considder removing all the css from /helpers/ac/data/css/nbbs_wide.css and placing it in the main skin css in the next distribution.

Last edit by soopermuse on Jan 12, 2008, 10:44 am

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