phpBB QuickInstall

It is ideal for testing MODs, both for MOD authors and other users that want to check out a MOD before installing it on a live board.

The tool allows to automate some pesky tasks when installing a phpBB board.

What is new in this release:

• New Features:
• Show back trace on errors.
• Added a PHP info tab.
• Added MySQLi support.
• Supports both phpBB 3.0 and 3.1
• Added a easy way to get the cache purged when working on QI.
• Fixes:
• Need to set $profile before trying to use it.
• Ticket #63320 all left/right mentions in css need a ".rtl" equivalent that specifies the other direction.
• Ticket #63308 Combining language strings don't work in all languages.
• Ticket #EXTTOOLS-649 QI did not delete the DB when deleting phpBB 3.1 boards.
• Ticket #EXTTOOLS-650 QI did not populate migrations table.
• Ticket #EXTTOOLS-621 Always check that default language is available before installation.
• The button to see the configuration if the settings directory was not visible.
• Changes:
• Removed the cache usage. The cache directory is for now used to store file based databases.
• Had 'load_tplcompile' in several places, one should be enough.
• No need to add session and $user to only store language keys. Changed $user->lang[] to qi::lang().
• Removed "powered by phpBB" from the footer. That would no be true anymore.
• Suppress E_DEPRECATED from php >=5.5.0 to still work with php 4
• Removed CSS hack for Mac IE since the last version was released in 2003
• Added CSS hack for Opera.
• Removed the "Manage boards" tab and moved board delete to the main tab, which where renamed to "Manage boards".
• Made some modifications to the settings tab and changed some wording.
• Better error reporting and handling. For now only when AutoMOD is missing.
• Removed the ability to show passwords when the user hovers over the input.
• Changed background color for the time note on the main page, to distinguish it from a error box.
• Ticket #EXTTOOLS-654 Replaced phpBB Group with phpBB Limited.

What is new in version 1.1.8:

• Delay database connection until it is necessary.
• Cleaned up the JS in the main html file.
• Changed the changelog to have the same format as the rest of our tools have. A text file with most recent versions at top.
• QI pages are now in $page instead of $mode, need $mode for settings and it got kind of crowded.
• Only try to connect to DB when saving settings or creating/deleting a board.
• Removed version check from the About page and moved the changelog stuff a bit.
• Errors are stored as a array and imploded to a string on demand.
• The global $qi_config array has been removed and all setting/config are now handled by $settings.
• Deleted qi_config_sample.cfg since its not used anymore.
• The note about not removing the copyright is removed, as it is in phpBB.
• Removed some unused language strings.
• Added in-page links to the about page instead of big brother.
• Set class="radio" for all radio buttons.

What is new in version 1.1.6:

• [FIX] Rewrote some of the config handling, at least it looks nicer now. :)
• [FIX] Updated the install instructions.
• [FIX] Checks for the config file and gives a proper slap if it's missing.
• [FIX] Tries to correctly handle non valid chars in db names.
• [FIX] Make sure phpBB exists before trying to load it.
• [FIX] Changed $user->lang['DB_PREFIX'] To 'Database prefix'.
• [FIX] Allow localized usernames. Bug #62563
• [CHANGE] Removed AutoMOD from the QI package.
• [CHANGE] Moved QI's language file for phpBB.
• [CHANGE] Moved some AutoMOD installation to QI instead of MODding UMIL or AutoMOD.
• [CHANGE] Moved things in the settings and slightly changed the layout.
• [FEATURE] Added option so set how many users, forums, topics and posts that will be created.

What is new in version 1.1.5:

• [FIX] Set the new boards language directory as custom language path.
• [CHANGE] Moved to github.
• [CHANGE] Deleted phpBB from the sources/ dir. I now needs to be downloaded from http://www.phpbb.com

Limitations:

• phpBB QuickInstall is only intended to be used for local testing and should not be installed on a public/live server.