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phpBB 234 valid and the MOD can be successfully installed on a vanilla phpBB installation. [52] The latest version of AutoMOD is 1.0.0-RC4, released on April 28, 2010. [51] AutoMOD can be downloaded from the AutoMOD information page [53] and support can be obtained in the AutoMOD support forum. [54] AutoMOD is the successor to EasyMOD, a tool for phpBB2 which was also developed by the phpBB MOD Team and performed essentially the same task. The latest version of EasyMOD is 0.4.0, released on June 30, 2008. [55] Support and downloads for EasyMOD can be obtained in the EasyMOD support forum. [56] Unified MOD Installation Library (UMIL) The Unified MOD Installation library is a library designed to simplify the installation and uninstallation of the database side of MODs., [57] It is designed to be useful for configuring the forum for the new MOD, performing database actions such as adding and removing tables and columns, and purging the forum's cache. UMIL is GPL licensed [57] and the latest version is 1.0.1. It can be downloaded from the UMIL page. [58] To create a UMI-file automatically, a MOD author can use the Unified MOD Installation File creation tool. [59] phpBB Portals There are more than 15 different Portal options designed to work within the Administrator Control panel of phpBB 3.x. There is no official Portal created or authorized by the creators of the phpBB. Security In December 2004, a large number of Web sites were defaced by the Santy worm, which used vulnerabilities in outdated versions of phpBB2 to overwrite PHP and HTML pages. [60] Although these were the result of outdated versions of PHP and phpBB, incidents like these have caused the security of phpBB to be disputed. There have also been a few times where new releases of phpBB have come out a few days apart, although the last occurrence of this was in early 2005. [61] However, the phpBB Team usually responds to security reports as soon as possible, and releases a new version quickly. The phpBB Group, attempting to learn from previous failures, performed a codebase security audit before the release of 2.0.18. [62] The phpBB3 codebase received an external security audit in September 2007, which was done by SektionEins. [63] The sixth release candidate of phpBB3 was published following the results of the security audit. [17] Additionally, many things have been changed in phpBB2 to avoid problems in the future, including many features backported from the phpBB3 codebase. Among those is a re-authentication system for the administration panel (introduced after a cookie verification issue allowed attackers to gain administrator access). [64] In November 2005, the phpBB Group announced a new Incident Investigation Team (IIT), a sub-team of their Support Team, which is responsible for assisting users in the cleanup and repair of an attacked phpBB installation and investigating reports of new exploits. [65] The team announced a tracker the following January where administrators of attacked bulletin boards could report an attack and receive support from the IIT. The CAPTCHA system in phpBB2 has proven vulnerable to automated registrations, with numerous phpBB-based forums being swamped by spam registrations. Due to the feature freeze, the antispam solutions have to be installed separately. The phpBB team has published recommendations [66] on protecting the boards from spam. At the moment, the best method is to use a question-answer challenge, implemented by Textual Confirmation or Registration Auth Code MODs. phpBB3 has a much stronger CAPTCHA system, however during the phpBB3 development/beta phase it was frequently criticised for being difficult to read. [67] The development team has been working on improving its readability prior to phpBB3's final release. Additionally, the teams have announced that each minor release of phpBB3 (3.0.1, 3.0.2, etc.) will be preceded by individual release candidates in an effort to prevent instances where subsequent releases would be only days apart (as happened a couple of times during the 2.0.x line). [68]

phpBB 235 phpBB Community phpBB is also home to large community of individuals who contribute greatly to the overall project. Full of members dedicated to the open source movement, the community's user driven content such as mods and styles available offers any phpBB user the ability the customize their board any way they see fit to do so. In light of the success of their London meetup and in an effort to help with bridging the gap between team members and community members, on October 12, 2008, NeoThermic announced the creation of a new board on phpBB.com, "phpBB Events and Meetings." [69] The phpBB community has been long plagued with members that have a lack of willingness to meet up like other projects such as Wordpress. Encouraging casual meet ups, the success of the board is quite debatable due to its nature and difficulty for people to get involved to make meetups work. The majority of meetups posted there never get past asking if there is any interest in meeting up, however there are some such as an OSCON meetup in San Jose California, Germany, Indonesia, and Scotland, among many others. See also • Comparison of Internet forum software • Comparison of Internet forum software (PHP) Further reading • Stefanov, Stoyan, Jeremy Rogers, 2006. phpBB: A User Guide, Packt Publishing. ISBN 1904811914 • Douglass, Robert T., Mike Little, Jared W. Smith, 2005. Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, Apress. ISBN 1590595629 • Stefanov Stoyan, Jeremy Rogers, Mike Lothar, 2005. Building Online Communities with phpBB 2, Packt Publishing. ISBN 1904811132 External links • phpBB website [70] • phpBB at OpenSourceCMS [71] — Demonstration of phpBB along with user reviews and comments • phpBB Review [72] — Review, live demonstration and screenshots of phpBB • phpBB [73] at the Open Directory Project • phpBB [74] at GitHub References [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3Alatest_stable_software_release%2Fphpbb [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3Alatest_preview_software_release%2Fphpbb [3] "phpBB3 translation pack downloads" (http://www.phpbb.com/languages/). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [4] "First phpBB 1.0 beta release" (http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?threadid=4914). Forums.devshed.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [5] "phpBB • View topic - what is the history of phpbb?" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=135543#135543). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [6] "phpBB • View topic - 2.2 Feature List [ updated 25 May ]" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=104463). Phpbb.com. 2003-05-25. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [7] psoTFX (2005-01-14). "phpBB • View topic - phpBB 2.2 is no more ... meet Olympus" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic. php?t=256072). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [8] SHS (2007-03-02). "March 2007 Server Maintenance Announcement" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14& t=523502). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [9] "New website launch announcement" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=526970). Phpbb.com. 2007-03-18. . Retrieved 2009-03-09. [10] "prosilver style: First Impressions" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=527019). Phpbb.com. 2007-03-19. . Retrieved 2009-03-09.

phpBB 235<br />

phpBB Community<br />

phpBB is also home to large community of individuals who contribute greatly to the overall project. Full of members<br />

dedicated to the open source movement, the community's user driven content such as mods and styles available<br />

offers any phpBB user the ability the customize their board any way they see fit to do so.<br />

In light of the success of their London meetup and in an effort to help with bridging the gap between team members<br />

and community members, on October 12, 2008, NeoThermic announced the creation of a new board on phpBB.com,<br />

"phpBB Events and Meetings." [69] The phpBB community has been long plagued with members that have a lack of<br />

willingness to meet up like other projects such as Wordpress. Encouraging casual meet ups, the success of the board<br />

is quite debatable due to its nature and difficulty for people to get involved to make meetups work. The majority of<br />

meetups posted there never get past asking if there is any interest in meeting up, however there are some such as an<br />

OSCON meetup in San Jose California, Germany, Indonesia, and Scotland, among many others.<br />

See also<br />

• Comparison of Internet forum software<br />

• Comparison of Internet forum software (<strong>PHP</strong>)<br />

Further reading<br />

• Stefanov, Stoyan, Jeremy Rogers, 2006. phpBB: A User Guide, Packt Publishing. ISBN 1904811914<br />

• Douglass, Robert T., Mike Little, Jared W. Smith, 2005. Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and<br />

WordPress, Apress. ISBN 1590595629<br />

• Stefanov Stoyan, Jeremy Rogers, Mike Lothar, 2005. Building Online Communities with phpBB 2, Packt<br />

Publishing. ISBN 1904811132<br />

External links<br />

• phpBB website [70]<br />

• phpBB at OpenSourceCMS [71] — Demonstration of phpBB along with user reviews and comments<br />

• phpBB Review [72] — Review, live demonstration and screenshots of phpBB<br />

• phpBB [73] at the Open Directory Project<br />

• phpBB [74] at GitHub<br />

References<br />

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3Alatest_stable_software_release%2Fphpbb<br />

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template%3Alatest_preview_software_release%2Fphpbb<br />

[3] "phpBB3 translation pack downloads" (http://www.phpbb.com/languages/). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09.<br />

[4] "First phpBB 1.0 beta release" (http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?threadid=4914). Forums.devshed.com. . Retrieved<br />

2009-03-09.<br />

[5] "phpBB • <strong>View</strong> topic - what is the history of phpbb?" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=135543#135543).<br />

Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09.<br />

[6] "phpBB • <strong>View</strong> topic - 2.2 Feature List [ updated 25 May ]" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=104463).<br />

Phpbb.com. 2003-05-25. . Retrieved 2009-03-09.<br />

[7] psoTFX (2005-01-14). "phpBB • <strong>View</strong> topic - phpBB 2.2 is no more ... meet Olympus" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.<br />

php?t=256072). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09.<br />

[8] SHS (2007-03-02). "March 2007 Server Maintenance Announcement" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&<br />

t=523502). Phpbb.com. . Retrieved 2009-03-09.<br />

[9] "New website launch announcement" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=526970). Phpbb.com. 2007-03-18. .<br />

Retrieved 2009-03-09.<br />

[10] "prosilver style: First Impressions" (http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=527019). Phpbb.com. 2007-03-19. .<br />

Retrieved 2009-03-09.

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