Icy Phoenix

Hi all,
I have installed here what will be the new Icy Phoenix.

There aren't big changes regarding the features... but some new core variables and constants have been introduced, and nothing of the old mods will work with this.

This change was unavoidable to continue developing this product.

Let me know if you encounter problems here.

Great news luca

Mighty Gorgon wrote: [View Post]

New core variables and constants have been introduced, and nothing of the old mods will work with this.

A small price to pay for improving upon an already great product.

Just to add some other informations on the changes...

The main reason because I changed all the core constants in Icy Phoenix is security.

The second reason is that there are some phpBB 2 mods which have been "badly" ported to Icy Phoenix, so they won't work correctly... and creating a brand new structure (hopefully I will be able to provide a documentation soon) it may helps people in a better understanding in how Icy Phoenix works and a better understandin on what they are doing.

Anyway, here are the core vars / constants which have been changed:

• $phpbb_root_path (VAR) converted into IP_ROOT_PATH (CONSTANT): which means an higher level of security (constants values cannot be changed once defined), and there is no need to specify the GLOBAL scope when used within functions or classes.
  
• $phpEx (VAR) converted into PHP_EXT (CONSTANT): which means an higher level of security (constants values cannot be changed once defined), and there is no need to specify the GLOBAL scope when used within functions or classes.
  
• IN_PHPBB (CONSTANT) converted into IN_ICYPHOENIX (CONSTANT): just changed the name... we have moved far away from standard phpBB...
  
• PHPBB_INSTALLED (CONSTANT) converted into IP_INSTALLED (CONSTANT): just changed the name... we have moved far away from standard phpBB...

Other informations will follow... stay tuned!

MG wrote: 

The second reason is that there are some phpBB 2 mods which have been "badly" ported to Icy Phoenix, so they won't work correctly...

Yes, I must stop doing it too, and at least get someone who knows a L.O.T more than I do to check the MODS I play with before releasing them.

But I do look forward to the Coding Guidelines, as it will probably help a lot.

Lopalong wrote: [View Post]

But I do look forward to the Coding Guidelines, as it will probably help a lot.

Yes... Good Documentation is the first thing in a good product.

We need to fix this.

Well, I still need to learn alot, but when you said "it's more secure", then it's reasonable to update it. Hopefully, i can tryyyyyyyyyy to catch up . Anyway, when i view it on my company 15 inch monitor, then i get this very hard to read.

@ xmenfile,

Thanks for the feedback and I've PM'd MG about this problem.

Can you tell us what browser you were using that showed this problem please?

Thanks.

It's company computer and it 's IE6.

I'm beginning to think that people who still use the most insecure and out of date browser, and who are reluctant to use something else for whatever reason - - - -

Deserve everything they get.

I know there are Applications that company's use that were designed to work with IE6 - But I don't think that is a good enough excuse not to update.


@ MG,

I didn't find those code changes too difficult to apply to the Mods I've just updated in readiness for the new release, and only played "Drop the Dot and find it" once.

Not to say there wont be any more changes - But at least they are up and running with the latest from SVN.

Many companies still use IE 6.

I know some which still use Windows NT 4 with IE 5.5.

The best thing to do is stopping developing things for IE 6.

Just like I'm doing.

So my themes will only look fine into Firefox, and hopefully IE 7+ and Opera... or at least I hope so.

Try to use Aphrodite if you need an IE 6 template!

Luca for president

Another big update has been applied here... I have changed some other core functions... please report if you find bugs.

I love IP updates, lol.

I need to update my site. Any time frame for the release.

No hurry just curious.

Thank all of you for your hard work.

I only noticed this today!

All the descriptions are missing from the threads, and the description window is missing from the Editor?

Apropo: what is release date for the new IP (expectedly)?

Only when it's ready and finished being debugged etc. And you can't put an estimate or a date on that.

alephlg wrote: [View Post]

Apropo: what is release date for the new IP (expectedly)?

vote here: http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=4772

Lopalong wrote: [View Post]

All the descriptions are missing from the threads, and the description window is missing from the Editor?

I have added a switch to remove them...

On this site Descriptions are not used... so I have removed them... by the way now topic title can be long up to 255 chars.

Just forgot to mention that I have updated the version again... bots and bithdays have been recoded.

New site update... please let me know if you notice missed images since I have renamed some of them.

Thanks.

Thanks Luca, and great work!

Interesting, very cool and loads faster than before!

Mighty Gorgon wrote: [View Post]

... please let me know if you notice missed images since I have renamed some of them.

Hmm, I would help you by renaming the images... but you are faster than me

Anyway, thanks Luca