Well, I was unable to save the users and threads. I did however discover what was undoubtedly causing a lot of the problems on the forum. When I unsuccessfully tried to dump the phpbb_users data into the table I took a look at the new table structure and compared it to an old one in a backup file I have.
The very first row that inputs data for the Anonymous user began with the value of 1,2,1 in the new file. However in the old file it is 1,2,359. The last number in both examples tells the SQL to insert it into the forum group it needs to go into. For the guests group this number is supposed to be 1 in a clean install, but when converting from phpbb2 to phpbb3 all user groups are assigned random numbers.
And so we are left with one option. Too start fresh as I stated in the last post I made. I plan on playing around with this on a new SQL database later to see if I can't figure out how to get the old threads back at least which I could link to for people who wish to view them. Like a cache thing you know?
Anyways, in closing the board is back up and all you have to do is register again. Hopefully now that it's a brand new clean install of the latest version of phpBB3 we won't have any more problems in the future. I will add the mods and the other templates over the course of the new couple of days starting tomorrow.
I'm sorry that I had to do this, but there were just so many problems with people not able to login or register and other stuff that it seemed like this was the only recourse. I hope that everyone decides to come back again and that I don't wind up losing anyone because of this.
OK I'm gonna start work on the board tonight, so don't try to access it. The rest of the site will still be available. I'll let you know when it's done.
The site has been totally redesigned. The index.html file no longer exists. Everything is ran in the portal now. Rocky found the template file for the internal page links which point to the site's content pages, such as the emulators and roms sections. This template is what is known as a DIV Style template which means everything that's positioned on it is done by DIV meaning that the position is absolute, so if it were viewed outside of the portal it would be messed up. EXAMPLE: http://pikachusparadise.com/main.html And unless I wanted to kill another several hours creating separate files for outside portal viewing I decided to just leave it all inside the portal. I might get around to doing it, but I'm too busy doing other things to do it anytime soon.
Besides that there is a new link in the portal menu and navigation bar. This will when clicked launch your installed mIRC application connecting you to the server and channel, so for those of you who hate to use a browser based mIRC app like I do can click that instead.
One other thing of note is the new 404 page. I've designed it to match the new site style.
Hope you all like the change. Enjoy the new Pikachu's Paradise. :pikapika:
You can now browse the site from within the portal itself by using the provided links under the Main Site block in the left column. Also if you want you can still browse the site outside of the portal by using the Back To Site link under the Main Menu block.
Thanks to the seamless integration of the mkportal system you can now easily and quickly change the styles available on the forum by selecting it from the skin menu in the right column. Not to mention the style integrates itself right into the portal itself. Man I am so glad I discovered this thing. And to think it was by accident.
Welcome to the new portal system. No need to update your bookmarks as going to http://pikachusparadise/forum will take you right to the portal. You can also get to it by typing in http://pikachusparadise.com/index.php
Anyways, I hope you like it.
You may have noticed the Reviews link. Feel free to post a review about the portal, the site, or anything else about the site.
Also I have removed the ajax shoutbox since the portal has it's own.
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