Web site issues

[The Robman]

Thanks Rob! Looking good so far.

Thanks Dave, please check that you can log onto the Wiki too.

[wasiliysoft]

I might be writing something stupid, but what if you don't know about deepseek? It can be a great help when updating your codebase. I'm not very familiar with PHP, but if things are really bad and no one more experienced is willing to take on the task, I'm willing to give it a try.

[The Robman]

I guess I'm going to have to explore more anti-spam measures for the new forum as I've had more spam posts than regular posts, so far. Maybe the old VIP mod that I had before was better than we knew, that was the one that made people answer a question when they registered. I see that there is an extension that does something similar.

As for the PHP question, if anyone wants to help, the challenge is updating the following phpbb extension so that it is compatible with PHP 8.4 and phpbb 3.3.15:
https://github.com/orynider/pafiledb

While I haven't used Deekseek before, I made extensive use of Copilot to get the forum and the wiki back online, in fact there's no way I could have done it with it, and I will be using it to try and update pafiledb too.

[The Robman]

I've installed my first "extension", which is what we use instead of "mods" to add new functionality, and that ext adds a link to the wiki up next to the quick links. I've also updated the search restrictions so you can use the "*" wildcard in the Author spot to search for posts over the last X number of days.

Here's a link for new posts from the last 7 days, if you want to bookmark it. You may remember we used to have a "7 days" link in the old forum:
https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/sear ... mit=Search

[The Robman]

Does anyone else see the bold red line around the logo when you visit the Wiki? I expect the red lines that I see, in the screenshot below, are an artifact of when I was installing the wiki, but I haven't figured out how to get rid of them yet.

[HamburgerHelper1]

No I do not get them when i just logged into the wiki

[3FG]

Mine looks fine. I do see the same apparent shade of red for the animation of the IR signal.

[mdavej]

Wiki login worked for me, Rob. Just had to change password to meet the length requirements. Still have all my permissions.

[The Robman]

I just wanted to let you know that work on the File Section is continuing, and today I got the first page to successfully load, so I thought I'd give you a sneak peek. It has taken SO MUCH work just to get to this point, but there's lots more to go. Now, I need to click on all the links, see what the errors are, fix them, then keep going. And once I've got all of the MANY bugs sorted out, then I need to work out what differences there are in the database tables, so I can work out how to convert from the old database to the new one. I have to give a big shout-out to Copilot, because I couldn't have done this without it.

[MaskedMan]

So, Rob is there anything left of your original home screen, with origin story of jp-1, the photos of remotes and advanced code list?

[zaphod7501]

Stepping in here. Do you mean this one? The "more info" links to the wiki.
http://www.hifi-remote.com/

[MaskedMan]

Yes, that was it, thanks.

[alfalfa]

Thanks for bringing the forum back to life!

[The Robman]

Quick update on the effort to revive the file section. So far, I have the view category, view file, edit file and delete file pages working (the delete file one took about 3-4 days of work to get all of the bugs out). I'm currently working on the download file screen. Next up will be all of the admin control screens. Then, once all of the bugs have been worked out, I need to go through the screens themselves as I think the screens in the extension are not as good as the screens that were in the mod (ie, what used to be used here). To do that, I'm going to need to set up two computers. My current laptop is using the latest version of PHP, so I'll need to borrow my wife's laptop and install PHP 5.4 on it, so I can run the old forum software, which will let me see what the old screens looked like, so I can see them side-by-side with the new ones.

If I had to guess, I would say there's probably 2-3 weeks of work let to get the file section up and running again. Remember, there's no team here, it's just me, painstakingly going through each screen, each link, one at a time, listing all of the bugs and then working through them with Copilot.

[The Robman]

I have just created a temporary script which should make any links to files in the old file section work. You won't see the "view file" page, you will go straight to the download, but you'll get the file.

Here is an example:
https://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dloa ... e_id=26701

And that's a good example too, because it's a link to a list of files in the file section.