Friday, November 30, 2007

phpBB3

I've been helping someone I know with their website, and they have phpBB3 setup as their forum - and I have to say I absolutely hate it!.

phpBB3 is so god damn crap its unbelievable, trying to make a theme for it is almost impossible!, I thought I had created a new template set as the list said "prosilver" and the theme I was working on, but while editing the templates it was updating both themes.

Then when it came to do the CSS I said to myself "Who the hell did this" they are adding the same things over and over, and over, for example they had

(top of file)
.example {
    background: #ffffff;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
}

(middle of file)
.example {
    padding: 4px;
    background: #ffffff;
}

end of file)
.example {
    border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
    padding: 4px;
    background: #ffffff;
}

Seriously, who the hell codes like that? I ended up saying screw it and just put override values at the end of the file - I couldn't be stuffed searching the whole file for every-single-part that had the color I wanted to change on the same element.

Would I recommend phpBB? Never.
Would I use it? Never.
What would I rate it? -500 out of 10.

0 comments: