Icy Phoenix

I have this problem...
some members in their "user menade" have in:
rank 1 title - Automatic ranks by posts and others have
rank 2 title - Automatic ranks by days

so to some members ranks above avatar is shown (to this who have ranks by posts)
ant to others it not show (to this who have ranks by days)

i dont know why this is becomed different affter upgrading to icy....



so question is....
any way to made this for all members same...
i want that all members have "rank 1 title - Automatic ranks by posts" like default

i have 5600 members please dont tell me that i will have to do it manualy one by one :shock:

thanks

Hi All.

Here are some tips on how to reduce CPU charge on your server.

Remember that not all servers are configured in the same way... and not all are optimized.

Having said that, please note also that some servers don't like getimagesize PHP function and this slow down really much your page loadings when you enable thumbnails in posts on these servers.

Anyway, I'll try to list here some of the tips I've found useful so far on some servers, especially for large boards.

• Disable thumbnails in posts will lower CPU charge. Since Icy Phoenix build 022 (currently still under beta testing) GIF, JPG and PNG images will be cached and getimagesize isn't used to show thumbnails, so futre versions will be really fast with thumbnails images (even outside images will be cached). Only PHP images won't be cached, because they are dynamic, so there is no point in caching them.
  
• Remember to use maximum 75% as compression ratio. Higher ratios will require more CPU power.
  
• Some BBCodes requires long cycles and CPU charge to be processed, so if you have only one lang on your site, and you don't need to Disable links for guests and Hidden contents, then you can enable Post caching in ACP => Configuration => Posting section.
  
• Reduce the number of smileys.
  
• Reduce the number of topics and posts per page (this is really useful for large boards).
  
• Disable Autolinks and Acronyms.
  
• Limit permissions to access pages via CMS Permissions (this will avoid unuseful traffic by guests and CPU charge): remember that statistics, site history, referrers are really high resource conduming. On large boards some statistics pages may require higher CPU charge sometimes hanging the server.
  
• Disable extra statistics in Profiles (enable them only for admins).

That's all for now... I'll update this post when I have some extra tips for you.

Remember that configuration is really important to have the site running smoothly.

Use this topic in conjunction with this other one to optimize your Icy Phoenix configuration:

How To Reduce SQL Charge On Server

Hi all,
I'm proud to announce that the website has been updated to the latest dev package of Icy Phoenix (version 1.3.11.64).

I'm sure there are many bugs and glitches due to the DB conversion to UTF-8, please if you find something wrong let me know either by answering here or via PM.

There are also some new features, but I'll explain in another topic as soon as I'm sure that everything else is working fine.

Thank you very much.

Luca

Hi all.

I've noticed that many people don't verify which version of MySQL they have. Well this is really important for optimizing your Icy Phoenix.

Especially people who installed their boards years ago... I'm sure they are still running with Icy Phoenix configured for MySQL while they have MySQL 4 or above.

So what you should do to enhance the performance of your Icy Phoenix?

• Check your MySQL version: what is important is just if it is version 4 or above
  
• Download your config.php
  
• Open it and check this var:
  
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  $dbms
  
  
• If you have MySQL 4 or above, that var should look like this:
  
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  $dbms = 'mysql4';
  
  
• Otherwise it should be:
  
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  $dbms = 'mysql';

Please note that this is really important for your Icy Phoenix to run correctly... because in last versions I've optimized particularly the MySQL 4 or above version and you will notice some improvements if your config.php is configured properly.

Go immediately to check this. :wink:

Hi all,
here is the second patch of Icy Phoenix 1.3.0.53 which will upgrade your version to 1.3.0.53b.

The purpose of this patch is mainly to fix an XSS vulnerability kindly reported by Saif El-Sherei and also to fix a couple of bugs reported by users on CMS and KB.

How to install this patch:

1. Make a full backup, both files and DB
   
2. Download the patch from the link below
   
3. Extract the package on your hard disk
   
4. Copy the install folder in the root of your website
   
5. Launch install/database_update.php
   
6. Upload all files into your website by replacing old ones (please note that you may have customized some files like constants.php or lang_main_settings.php, and you may want to update them before uploading)
   
7. Enjoy your updated website!

There are two different downloads, one with only changed files since version 1.3.0.53a (first link below) and one with changed files since version 1.3.0.53 (second link below).





Should you experience any kind of error, please report in the support forum.

Thanks.