Five Months ago, I published the PHPBB Signle Sign On Plugin.

It’s now time I use it on my own website.

As you may have noticed, I made a new design on the website for the occasion.

So now, Instead of sending me an email through the Contact form, or replying to a post.

You can directly post a new topic. isn’t it amazing ?

The reason it took me so long to publish this forum is because I had a conflict with a plugin.

I had to replace it by another plugin to make it work.

But now it’s waiting for your feedbacks ;-)

It’s been a long time !

I’ve been busy on an exciting project these days. I’ll tell you about it as soon as it is released.

But let’s talk about the main subject of this post : The new Single Sign On plugin !

This new 0.6 version took me many hours to get it to work.

The new functionnalities are :

• Bugfix : Captcha problem if the user makes 3 errors in his password in phpbb (reported by Ramon Fincken http://www.ramonfincken.com/)
• Bugfix : op_userexists function doesn’t exist (patch proposed by Brian Pan)
• Bugfix : Blank user creation when logging in the first time from phpbb (Brian Pan tracked down the bug and I made the little fix)
• Added options to the control Panel
• Now Compatible with Onepress, totally new function names.

Again, the Control Panel was redesigned a bit.

Now You have the installation instructions that are integrated within the configuration panel.

When the module isn’t correctly configured, you have an information bar on the top of the admin. (like akismet)

So you won’t forget to configure it.

Some functions didn’t work correctly and there were a few glitches. Now it’s much better.

For the next version : Compatibility Tester

This function will check if all your plugins are compatible with phpbb.

And this, no matter if you created a new plugin yourself.

It’s a dynamic function that is not based on a static list.

See you for the next version

This time it’s another way of doing it that I will present to you.

Aaron Gustafson Author in A list Apart and many other blogs and webzines.

Created a sort of “browser plugin”. presented in the form of a Javascript script.

It will parse the CSS in your page. and apply the styles that are not supported by your browser.

Even better. you can create your own extension. This means you can create your CSS rules as you want.

No more problems with browsers, and we hope the community will quickly create some new extensions to CSS.

First, to support CSS3 and then to support some new ideas.

My Contribution will be a new Wordpress plugin. As you understood, I love Wordpress for it’s plugin abilities. And I’ll create many new plugins these next months.

To obtain more informations, you may visit the official website :  www.ecsstender.org

This worked very well and I was happy with this solution.

But one day, the version 2.8 of wordpress showed up. and the plugin didn’t work anymore.

I don’t remeber when it was, something like february.

But these days I was angry. The team of the original plugin didn’t release a new version of the plugin that was working with wordpress 2.8.

So, I was determinated to create thsi plugin by myself. I read many documentations in the Wordpress Codex. Many Tutorials and other websites.

In 20 days, I got it working again. but for my own use, and I made many ugly modifications to the source of phpBB.

I didn’t know that there was no official plugin anymore. When I saw it last week. I knew that I could make the new plugin.

And now it’s done. The plugin is in the official Wordpress repository here : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpbb-single-sign-on/

Or you can search for “phpbb single sign on” in the admin area of your Wordpress blog to add it.

Don’t forget to run the installer and to set the path to phpbb.

The phpbb folder has to be within the wordpress folder, preferably in “forum/”.

You need to add the slash at the end of the path.

For support, you can send me a mail with the contact form or just post a comment.

A support forum will be created soon (with this new plugin ;-))

P.S. the contact form had some problems lately. they’re corrected now, I ask to the person who sent me a message to send it again. or I won’t be able to answer them.

Everytime that we make a nice effect or a nice design. It turns out that IE 6 doesn’t support it.

For a little example, who tried to create a position:fixed element on a page. and gave up because he didn’t want to put some javascript in his page?

Yeah I know, that’s scary. By the way, put down your hand, you look idiot by raising your hand behind your computer.

But that’s enough !!!

The guys from Virtuosi Media made a Best Practices Guide for IE 6.

A guide that helps to avoid the most commons problems of this browser.

Here is the link to the Tutorial : http://www.virtuosimedia.com/tutorials/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs

No existing plugin does right what we want it to, the integrated features are not the best working ones.

But the solutions exist !

Here’s a tutorial on how to create a gallery like on Matt Mullenweg’s website un of the main creators of Wordpress.

http://www.phase2.net/2008/07/23/wordpress-gallery-tutorial/

First it didn’t work at all.
And then it worked but showed a debug line at the top of the screen.

Now it’s all fixed, so there is the version 0.6.2

With the fullsize in version 1.1.1 from the official website : http://www.addfullsize.com/

You can change all properties in the wordpress options.

Sorry for the inconvenience, and enjoy this great plugin !

As you’ve probably seen it, there are now two little buttons for the language.

This is for many reasons :

• I couldn’t decide if my blog would be in English or in French.
• I wanted to reach a bigger public. And because of my wordpress plugins, it would have been good to do it in English as for almost every website treating of wordpress plugins.
• Increase my English skills is a good point too !
• And for the poor French people out there that aren’t comfortable with English, there are French translations.

So all my future posts will be in the two languages.

Although the purists will say that’s useless, there are many icons implemented in Facebook.

For some of them, you didn’t even think they could exist.

Here is the list

As a bonus, there are text markups too :
For making a text bold you can surround it with stars ( * )

And to underline, just add “_” at the beginning and the end of the wished text.

Source : http://www.messengeroo.com/facebook-chat/use-facebook-emoticons-chat-shortcut-keys-symbols/

Smartgestion needed an identity for the web.

Design creation from the flyer.