Installing Mods VIA EasyMod and Database?

[BMR777]

Hello,

I was wondering, how would I go about installing mods onto my forum hosting? I want to use either EasyMod or the old fashioned method to install mods but I believe there may be a problem when it comes time to query the database. Each forum, while sharing the same PHPBB files has it's own space in the database. Would I have to query each individual user, and if so do I have to query new users once they sign up?

Also, anohter thing I can think of is I set up a forum beforehand and get it all modded the way I want. Then, however, how would I install the multiforums script?

Any help you could give me on installing mods would help.
BMR777

[Derek]

Hi,

I will have an article on how to do this our sometime today. I will also supply a script that will execute the mod queries on the existing forums. You can try modding a phpBB before installing the multiforums script, but I'm not sure if you will have any problems or not. I have not tried it before.

I will post back when I have the article posted.

Thanks,
Derek

[BMR777]

Thank You SO MUCH!

BMR777

[Derek]

BTW, I don't think you will be able to use EasyMod to install the mods. Just wanted to let you know.

Derek

[luky]

Easy mod will be unsecure. Very unsecure.

[Derek]

Personally, I don't like Easy Mod. Once when I ran a phpBB forum and used Easy Mod to install mods (because I was lazy to do the big ones), it totally crashed my forum and messed up my database. That was when it first came out I think, so I'm not sure if it's any better now.

[luky]

Well the chances are, 99% the chances are; your mod was not compatible with EasyMod so EasyMod couldnt follow the instructions properly. Now its alot more bugless and there are MANY more mods that are compatible. I think in order to get your mod into the mod forum on phpbb forums, it must be EasyMod compatible or you must say its not.

[Big_Red2009]

well, i came here to ask if this were possible but i guess it is answered.

so now my question is,

What script can we use to let the members upload mods? or will there be one in a later beta version?

[Cronos]

you can't let user to upload mod

you have only 1 version of the phpbb
you can't mod for 1 user and not for the other
( obivius, if you do something like

if ($board['modName'] == 'enabled')
-> put the edit here
else
-> put the standard code here

but this is a very huge edit, and i think you don't know how to do this :)
this is a very hard to explain to anyone don't know esactly what he are doing

so, for semplify

you CANT get a mod for a single forum
if you put an edit to ANY file in your forum this edit will be used by ALL the user, so, an user CANT make a mod, because this will edit ALL the used

and, another thing is that you should give some special access to user, and this is a VERY BAD idea

[Derek]

This would be a huge security risk. If your members know PHP, they can easily get your MySQL password and gain access to your multi-forums admin panel. They can also hack into other boards, etc. So giving them access to add mods would be a bad idea.

Derek

[luky]

Exactly. However is it possible to install easymod to one board only? So i can use it on my support forum to install mods and then it will install to all forums? Or is it better just to do it manually?

[Cronos]

just installa NEW phpBB board?

until the file are the same for all the forum, if you change the file for let a mod work, all the forum has the same file, so, all the forum has the mod

if you want a different one, you could make another phpBB forum on your host, and use it with all the mod you want