Quick update on the phpBB 3.x module

As I mentioned previously, on November 5th we moved all our websites ( http://mac1.no, http://linux1.no, http://kreativ1.no + a few others ) to Drupal 5.3 / phpBB 3.x. The module has actually not caused a single problem since then, but there were other things that kept me busy*. This weekend we upgraded to RC8 by applying the diff directly, and that worked flawlessly too. I have updated the module, but not had a chance to test it properly. Unfortunately, the version we use on our production sites depends on a lot of code you don't want, so the code released here comes from a different branch and QA has to be done separately.

Hopefully this release, in addition to updating the prepatched files to RC8, will fix five things:
1) RC7 and below had a bug where the flag signifying a phpBB 2.x hash would not be reset when a password was changed. The module emulated this part too, so the same bug had to be fixed. The hash is now replaced on the first login, and the flag reset.
2) The bug reported by Sheli_11, only relevant if you use the second block (http://groups.drupal.org/node/6429#comment-21268)
3) At some point during the RC process phpBB dropped having default values for certain columns, at least for the mysql 4.0 schema (I think it happened later to the MySQL 4.1 one). I really don't understand why phpBB's schemas have to define things like "user_website blob NOT NULL," and then have the code set them to '' on every insert, but either way, it's part of the code now and in dire need of testing.
4) Similarly, Drupals user table will not accept picture = NULL, so functions_drupal.php sets it to '' instead.
5) The access right "administer phpBB" is no longer being used and has therefore been removed.

So if you have some time to spare, please grab the latest version from http://kepp.net/phpbb3 and let me know what you find.

• We have made some changes that let multiple domains access the same database, but with forums sorted differently and respecting each user's site preference when sending out notification emails. We also let users pick categories and subforums a la carte. Some of these systems didn't get exercised properly before launch, so things were pretty intense for the first couple of days.