How to enable debugging in phpBB3

Activating debug in phpBB

Does your forum not work properly or you don't know what happened to it after you installed some phpBB mods or/and themes? Activate debugging for your phpBB forum. To enable it and see the errors you should edit the config.php file located in the root folder of your forum's installation and un-comment (means remove two forward slashes) the following line:

// @define('DEBUG', true);
// @define('DEBUG_EXTRA, true);

Unable to see the errors output after you enabled phpBB debug?

It is possible that the feature that displays PHP errors might have been disabled by your hosting provider. In that case you can enable error repoting directly in your .htaccess file

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  1. Easy phpBB forum package details
  2. Why you should pay for the service?
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  4. Examples of our customers' phpBB sites
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“Clipboard01-hat.jpg” => “Let's share a joint”,
“Clipboard01-hat2.jpg” => “Frat boys”,
“Clipboard01-hat3.jpg” => “Toy story”,
“Clipboard01-hat4.jpg” => “Me on top”,
“Clipboard01-hat5.jpg” => “Sixth element”,
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“Clipboard01-hat7.jpg” => “I'd like to meet you”,
“Clipboard01-hat8.jpg” => “One BIG thumb up”,
“Clipboard01-protivogaz.jpg” => “Thumb up from the same life form”,
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“Clipboard02.jpg” => “I like your stripes”,
“crapper.jpg” => “Chat from the toilet”,
“eating.jpg” => “I eat and I chat”,
“family-2.jpg” => “Me and my GF”,
“freak-2.jpg” => “You look good on my iPhone”,
“freak.jpg” => “Les Jacondo”,
“fun.jpg” => “py St. Patrick's day”,
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“spanish.jpg” => “What the …?”,
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);

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$i++;
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ChatRoulette Screenshot #$i

$value

ChatRoulette Screenshot: $value

“;
}

?>

Disabled functions in PHP and solutions to make them work

We know PHP very well and this websites is powered by that it (or Hypertext Preprocessor as many experienced developers call it). We can create almost any PHP application, as well as modify or fix any existing ones.

Server security configuration issues

In some cases hosting providers will disable PHP functions in order to protect their servers and the websites hosted on those servers. In some cases it is a legitimate practice but in others it can lead to the “overprotection” which will make it impossible to run common features on your sites.

We listed most of the functions that can be disabled. If you click on the name of the function below you will see some ways of how to make things work. Most of the solutions are similar to each other. Keep checking back for the updated list.

List of PHP functions that can be disabled

How to configure Outlook to work with your email account

by Alex Benko, 2by2host

There are 3 pieces of information needed when configuring Outlook to work with POP and SMTP email.

  1. Your POP and SMTP mail server address
  2. Your user name and password
  3. Make sure your ISP (Internet Service Provider) doesn't block port 25

Follow these instructions to configure Outlook

  1. Open up Outlook
  2. Click Tools – Account Settings
  3. Click New… this will launch the configuration wizard, choose Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP option and click Next
  4. At the bottom of the screen check the “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” box and click Next
  5. Make sure “Internet E-mail” is checked and click Next
  6. Fill in your information; name and email. For account type make sure POP3 is selected
  7. Use mail.your_domain_name.com and the same for the Outgoing mail server (SMTP)
  8. Type in your username (should be full email address ex: user@domain_name.com) and your password
  9. Click Next and Finish

Note: If your Internet Service Provider blocks outgoing port 25 do the following:

  1. Click the More Settings… button from your account configuration page
  2. Click the Advanced tab and change the Outgoing server (SMTP) value to 587
  3. Click OK

If you are our cPanel hosting – GoEasy plan customer, then it's possible to download the email settings directly from your hosting cPanel.

How to optimize performance of your site

How to optimize performance of your site and why it is important?

How quickly your site loads is directly relevant to how long a user will stay on your site. Slow sites are frustrating and can be also putting a large load on the server.

Follow the steps below to go over all important checks to determine where the problem is.

  1. Check your error logs. You will see what pages have problems or are no longer available. Fixing those errors will decrease the load on the server and will prevent search engine from indexing your errors. All these will make your site works faster
  2. Check your database. If your site is using a database look for very large tables, tables with errors and error log tables. It's amazing how much junk you can find that is slowing down your site
  3. Check the size of your files. This especially applies to graphics files. Their size should be as little as possible w/o the quality loss or at least noticeable quality loss.
  4. Check what external scrips your pages are loading. Some of your pages might have code in them that calls and loads information from external resources. If the external resource is slow or down then it will affect the loading of your page. See if this information can be cached. This would drastically improve the page load.
  5. Check how you send your emails. Why put an email load on your site when you can use another external service and in some cases even a free one like Gmail or Yahoo. This will also cut down on your bandwidth usage

    6. You can always ask us to do a report for your site for $75 that will show the areas that need improvement. We can also make the necessary changes for you for an additional estimate.

How to clear FireFox 3.5.5 cache

Cleaning the cache in FireFox

There are three ways of cleaning FireFox's cache:

1. The fastest way

Use the Ctrl-Shift-Del hot key combination to clear the cache.

2. Quick and Easy cache clean

  1. Click on Tools in the menu
  2. In the drop-down menu opened click on Clear Recent History

3. Hard cache clean

  1. Click on Tools in the menu
  2. In the drop-down menu opened click on Options or Preferences
  3. Select the Network tab
  4. Press on the Clear Nowbutton