http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/ Wed, 13 May 2026 23:13:49 +0000 MyBB http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=970 Sat, 14 Aug 2021 04:44:33 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=970
I came to the site to play around with some scripts and noticed anything that wasn't straight html was broken. It's pretty obvious technology keeps advancing by leaps and bounds, but at least one thing hasn't changed much: I still work a high stress job for too many hours per week and because many tech jobs are salary, I still don't get paid for overtime! Yay, capitalism! 

Anyway, I fixed up some of the php scripts I built long ago and upgraded the newer forum to the latest. There are still a lot of template errors here and there, but it kinda sorta works. The old one still doesn't load and I'm not sure I want to get it running. Eh, maybe I will. We'll see.

I guess this is a 20 year anniversary for the Holy Buffalo! ]]>
I came to the site to play around with some scripts and noticed anything that wasn't straight html was broken. It's pretty obvious technology keeps advancing by leaps and bounds, but at least one thing hasn't changed much: I still work a high stress job for too many hours per week and because many tech jobs are salary, I still don't get paid for overtime! Yay, capitalism! 

Anyway, I fixed up some of the php scripts I built long ago and upgraded the newer forum to the latest. There are still a lot of template errors here and there, but it kinda sorta works. The old one still doesn't load and I'm not sure I want to get it running. Eh, maybe I will. We'll see.

I guess this is a 20 year anniversary for the Holy Buffalo! ]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=765 Sat, 21 May 2011 09:30:35 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=765 AmandaKaT came back to reminisce in 2010. Her post made me nostalgic and inspired me to upgrade the forums...

I looked up some of the current systems and decided I liked MyBB's look and features. I also liked that it uses MySQL to store data (I'm a fan), had a decent plug-in system and that it's all open source. Yay!

Getting messages from this old hacked up board into MyBB was going to be a challenge and at first I thought about writing some PHP scripts to read the files and insert records into the database. Luckily, I found an upgrade path already designed for me.

What I did was install an old version of phpbb that was happily sitting on the sourceforge phpbb site, waiting for me to download. Then I found a step-by-step guide with scripts that could read and parse all the ikonboard files and insert thread, posts, user records into the phpbb database. The scripts weren't perfect, but after I made some modifications and several database purges and re-runs later, they finally ran cleanly. So far so good.

Now I was even more fortunate that MyBB had a merge system that could read the phpbb database and insert all the records into the MyBB database. This part ran very cleanly; just a few clicks and everything was imported. All of this was accomplished in a couple days after my consistently long days at work.

Now I tasked myself to use the template and theme system of MyBB to re-create a "classic" Holy Buffalo theme. This was the most tedious and difficult part because I needed to review all the different templates and modify the HTML and CSS by hand. I didn't copy everything exactly as I hoped to make some improvements to the look, but I think I've come pretty close to capturing the old feel. Most of the lingering problems lie with the images as JuggleFoe always came to my rescue in creating the artwork for the old forums.

The last thing I did was some cleanup on the threads and posts since there were some artifacts left in the records during the conversion. I've fixed most of what I could find with some update statements against the database. I've been building databases for the last 10 years, so this part was easy!

I'm pretty happy with the result thus far and will continue to work on the forum settings. I'm also glad that there's a database behind all this because now I can update some of the older scripts to read from it and build some new data-driven pages for the site.

Oh yea, happy 10 year anniversary Holy Buffalo!]]> AmandaKaT came back to reminisce in 2010. Her post made me nostalgic and inspired me to upgrade the forums...

I looked up some of the current systems and decided I liked MyBB's look and features. I also liked that it uses MySQL to store data (I'm a fan), had a decent plug-in system and that it's all open source. Yay!

Getting messages from this old hacked up board into MyBB was going to be a challenge and at first I thought about writing some PHP scripts to read the files and insert records into the database. Luckily, I found an upgrade path already designed for me.

What I did was install an old version of phpbb that was happily sitting on the sourceforge phpbb site, waiting for me to download. Then I found a step-by-step guide with scripts that could read and parse all the ikonboard files and insert thread, posts, user records into the phpbb database. The scripts weren't perfect, but after I made some modifications and several database purges and re-runs later, they finally ran cleanly. So far so good.

Now I was even more fortunate that MyBB had a merge system that could read the phpbb database and insert all the records into the MyBB database. This part ran very cleanly; just a few clicks and everything was imported. All of this was accomplished in a couple days after my consistently long days at work.

Now I tasked myself to use the template and theme system of MyBB to re-create a "classic" Holy Buffalo theme. This was the most tedious and difficult part because I needed to review all the different templates and modify the HTML and CSS by hand. I didn't copy everything exactly as I hoped to make some improvements to the look, but I think I've come pretty close to capturing the old feel. Most of the lingering problems lie with the images as JuggleFoe always came to my rescue in creating the artwork for the old forums.

The last thing I did was some cleanup on the threads and posts since there were some artifacts left in the records during the conversion. I've fixed most of what I could find with some update statements against the database. I've been building databases for the last 10 years, so this part was easy!

I'm pretty happy with the result thus far and will continue to work on the forum settings. I'm also glad that there's a database behind all this because now I can update some of the older scripts to read from it and build some new data-driven pages for the site.

Oh yea, happy 10 year anniversary Holy Buffalo!]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=684 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:36:49 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=684 - Added some javascript to the top menu to allow loading multiple frames on a single link.]]> - Added some javascript to the top menu to allow loading multiple frames on a single link.]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=683 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:06:11 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=683 http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=682 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:12:43 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=682 http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=681 Tue, 09 May 2006 00:45:38 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=681
- Fixed an issue with the avatar viewer in the register script displaying an error message instead of displaying the avatar.

- Fixed several graphical or layout problems in the register script.

- Many miscellaneous HTML fixes to post, topic, and forums scripts.]]>
- Fixed an issue with the avatar viewer in the register script displaying an error message instead of displaying the avatar.

- Fixed several graphical or layout problems in the register script.

- Many miscellaneous HTML fixes to post, topic, and forums scripts.]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=680 Sat, 06 Oct 2001 07:43:49 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=680
- viewavatars.cgi & Avatars -  Reorganized and renamed many avatars. Cleaned up avatar name display by removing the underscore in the code.]]>
- viewavatars.cgi & Avatars -  Reorganized and renamed many avatars. Cleaned up avatar name display by removing the underscore in the code.]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=679 Wed, 03 Oct 2001 04:29:11 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=679 http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=678 Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:21:59 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=678
- ims.cgi - Rewrote some of the code for the Instant Messenger so it works again. Also altered the way it handles and displays messages. Fixed some of the attributes used to call it, so it should work in more browsers.]]>
- ims.cgi - Rewrote some of the code for the Instant Messenger so it works again. Also altered the way it handles and displays messages. Fixed some of the attributes used to call it, so it should work in more browsers.]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=677 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:04:28 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=677 http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=676 Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:21:26 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=676 http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=675 Fri, 14 Sep 2001 06:11:39 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=675
- Misc. modifications - Modified several scripts in some minor way. Added the ability to choose your channel in chat.cgi. Cosmetic change to viewavatars.cgi. Correction of a typo and post count in memberlist.cgi. Updated code with a better fix to sort topics.]]>
- Misc. modifications - Modified several scripts in some minor way. Added the ability to choose your channel in chat.cgi. Cosmetic change to viewavatars.cgi. Correction of a typo and post count in memberlist.cgi. Updated code with a better fix to sort topics.]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=674 Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:30:38 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=674 http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=673 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 05:02:43 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=673
- Top banner frame - Wrote some javascript for the top banner frame that will randomly select a banner graphic. The current banners (3) were created by JuggleFoe.]]>
- Top banner frame - Wrote some javascript for the top banner frame that will randomly select a banner graphic. The current banners (3) were created by JuggleFoe.]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=672 Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:37:27 +0000 Robb Force]]> http://holybuffalo.net/mybb/showthread.php?tid=672 - News - Replaced the news html file with a cgi script that displays the 5 most current topics from the new Articles forum.

BBS:
- Articles forum - Added Articles forum for feedback on news posts.]]> - News - Replaced the news html file with a cgi script that displays the 5 most current topics from the new Articles forum.

BBS:
- Articles forum - Added Articles forum for feedback on news posts.]]>