I think anyone who knows of me here would view me as being suspicious :oS
When I joined in this community with my ubb 5.10 board, AllenAyres suggested I should move to a newer free board software, as I just don't have $200 to splash out on a newer UBB :o(
I've found out my board was released by Aloha (warez group), my mate downloaded it and passed it on to me as a retail version :oS So that has kinda enforced the decision that we need to move to phpbb.
The catch 22 situation for me though is if I upgraded legally, I would either of have to stick with UBB 5.10, or wipe 3 years of history and community and start fresh. The conversion scripts to phpbb or any other free boards requie you to start with ubb 6, which isn't available for less than $200? It turns out I could only do it by downloading a warez copy of 5.47 (which was needed for 5 minutes!) and then recieving another warez version from a friend. It's not really a proud situation for me :oS
I'm not sure if it's a problem, there can't be many people left in the world using ubb 5.x anymore? But if there are, how are they going to upgrade legally for free?
Oh well... I can't say I belong here anymore, I'm going to try learning the workings of phpbb from a (legit) friend @
www.xskins.net, and hopefully add to their mod collection.
I just wanted to thank you all, either who helped me out directly with assistanc, and everyone who has written and helped with the excellent mod tutorials, simple enough for me to have done quite successfully.
I hope to give a little back in return, this friend got halfway through making me a couple of handy tools.. one of which to sort out Y2K bugs (not really applicable anymore).. but the other I'll post up for you all when he's done it. It's just a simple search tool, but unlike notepad, you'd be able to search through a whole directory for the piece of code you're after, very handy for me when I was chasing up variables seen in the templates, and wanted to trace their definitions back into the cgi files. Hope it's of use to other wouldbe hackers :o)
Thanks.. :o)