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| Symon |
phpBB robots.txtJust what would be a good one for a forum
would that work for a forum or do i need to add more or takem away anything |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
A bot comes in as a guest and hence won't see most of that anyway.
User-agent: * Disallow: /forums/groupcp.php Disallow: /forums/memberlist.php Disallow: /forums/posting.php Disallow: /forums/profile.php Disallow: /forums/privmsg.php Disallow: /forums/viewonline.php Disallow: /forums/faq.php is probably enough, good tip though as do not have this currently. |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Actually we do! | ||||
| Symon |
So i just add that to root then follow the guides that i posted below this called good idea 1 good idea 2 .
I fi add that to root would that cover the website as well as the forum ? |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Not sure what you mean about the rest of the site,as the entries seem only forum related. | ||||
| Symon |
hmm seems as if theres an error anyway when i do it i get an parse error in the index.php
just wanted a smiple mod to get me noticed on google as at moment assiejack just brings up myfreeforums one |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Where are you altering index.php? I cannot see the links you mention. | ||||
| Symon |
http://forum.myfreeforum.org/ftopic6366.php | ||||
| admin (no pm's please) |
What parse error do you get? and what is the code?
Do you really know php? |
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| Symon |
A little yes its a learn process
line 683 reads
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| admin (no pm's please) |
$last_post .= ( $forum_data[$j]['user_id'] == ANONYMOUS ) ? ( ($forum_data[$j]['post_username'] != '' ) ? $forum_data[$j]['post_username'] . ' ' : $lang['Guest'] . ' ' ) : $forum_data[$j]['username']; . '</a> ';
is more like it. |
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| Symon |
Just got to remove the rouge
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '.' in /home/symon/public_html/forum/index.php on line 683 |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
So you are saying my replacement line does not fix the bug? | ||||
| Symon |
No it came back with above error message | ||||
| admin (no pm's please) |
So there were two errors in the line!
$last_post .= ( $forum_data[$j]['user_id'] == ANONYMOUS ) ? ( ($forum_data[$j]['post_username'] != '' ) ? $forum_data[$j]['post_username'] . ' ' : $lang['Guest'] . ' ' ) : $forum_data[$j]['username'] . '</a> '; is probably what you need. |
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| Symon |
Well that solved that but i think this is one major bugging mod as there is now another parse error
So where i have edited it using the codes all seem to incorrect. I will look for a better solution as i know time is money
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| admin (no pm's please) |
That is an incomplete line, the line(s) above are needed to make sense of it. | ||||
| Symon |
buggy index
Click to download file working index before changes made in that mod 
Click to download file |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
In the new file you have inexplicably:
compared to the old:
I think you want to replace that bit which is a mess, with the old code. I can't see instructions for actually changing this bit anyway. The more I see of this, the more I believe what I have been saying all along about the dangers of applying mods without reading and understanding what each line is actually doing. |
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| Symon |
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| admin (no pm's please) |
Ok, though I can't easily relate before and after here, but what you have done is stuck an end of comment "*/" half way through a code line.
You may need
to fully comment out the line. What the mod is all about here is removing excess links from the last_post. |
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| Symon |
I agree i have had nightmares over some mods, viper was kind enough to show me the way at first. But here is the thing, a new person like me with reasonable brains finds a mod they like the sound of it and download it, now follow the instructions to the letter , double checking that all is what it says it should be. OK so now i have done it all, goes back to forum to find white pages with parse errors or sql errors ,, you fix one then another appears and so on. This is where a knowledge of PHP comes in shouts those in the know,, fair call, but when all i have to do is follow a few simple details you would expect it all to work. It is almost like buying a bunk bed form M(made)F(for)I(idiots) and following the instructions to find it fact they are all wrong and you have the wrong parts. Sites like www.phpbb.com should throughly test these mods before allowing them to be posted on their site, as to anyone like me there is nothing more annoying than spending the rest of the night trying to find a fix for an error in what is meant to be a working finished mod. Rant over |
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