E-Blah 10.0 Released - Print Topic

E-Blah 10.0 has been released.

E-Blah 10.0 is considered a MAJOR release. This means that it is recommended everyone with older versions upgrade to 10.0. There are almost 50 new features that have been added. There are almost 15 documented bug fixes. This marks the most comprehensive upgrade in E-Blah history. A small summary of the new features are:

XHTML compliancy
Complete rewrite of the calendar (which includes an RSS view of upcoming events and searchable events)
Complete rewrite of the member database, which will allow for further expansion of member related activities
"Unread Posts" has been added as a new search option
Spam protection is now integrated via Akismet, which has protected thousands of Wordpress blogs from spam for years
Uploaded images are now automatically resized (requires GD on the server)
Brand new portal setup
Threads can now be "watched" instead of just e-mailed on new threads
Setup and upgrade scripts now run more efficiently (and are also XHTML compliant)

I recommend everyone go and download their copy today!

Download E-Blah 10.0 Today

REMEMBER TO BACKUP YOUR FORUM ... BEFORE YOU UPGRADE!

Haha, I'm uploading it right now :) Thanks for doing all that hard work.

Okay, the upgrade went fine, but I was wondering, do you need to get a new template when you upgrade?

Thanks Justin and everyone for all the time and hard work you put into it. I can not wait to get it uploaded!!

Hi, Great work.

However I am having an issue.

What's up with this?

E-Blah 10 is great! Can't wait to use it myself.

@Spirited: I don't think a new template is required. Just asked Justin, and he said you can use your old template with a few changes (mainly CSS).

@Cyberface: Look below at Justin's response.

You didn't upload all of the new language files.

Also, make sure you run Setup.

Quoted from Matrinix

E-Blah 10 is great! Can't wait to use it myself.

@Spirited: I don't think a new template is required. Just asked Justin, and he said you can use your old template with a few changes (mainly CSS).

@Cyberface: Look below at Justin's response.

Ah, thanks. And yes, it really is! I've had a play with some of the new things, and it's awesome! The smilies and text formatting options on the quick reply box are particularly useful :P

I've fixed a number of minor issues since release. Mainly with xx.png showing up for everything and replying to PM's not adding the TO line. I've fixed both of those, if you have those issues. :)

You're going to have to transfer the new CSS configuration to your forum.

Code

body {
	text-align      : center;
}

table {
	margin-left : auto;
	margin-right: auto;
}

/*
   Centering help:
   http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/
*/

td {
	text-align: left;
}

.loading {
	background-image : url(/blahdocs/images/loading.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	width            : 222px;
	height           : 19px;
}

.right {
	text-align: right !important;
}

.center {
	text-align: center !important;
}

.justify {
	text-align: justify !important;
}

.vtop {
	vertical-align: top !important;
}

.innertable {
	margin: 0px !important;
}

.leftimg {
	float        : left;
	padding-right: 5px;
}

.rightimg {
	float       : right;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

.centerimg {
	vertical-align: middle;
}

form, input {
	margin-top: 0px;
}

form {
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

.boardsearch {
	background    : url(/blahdocs/images/search.png) 3px 4px no-repeat;
	padding-left  : 19px;
	padding-top   : 5px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	width         : 90%;
}

/* If user has a color, specify the options for that user name to appear here */
.usercolors {
	font-weight: bold;
}

If you are upgrading, add that. If it's a new install, just install and enjoy! :)

It'd be really nice if this could be dugg:

http://www.digg.com/software/E_Blah_10_Forums_Software_Released

8)

Quoted from Justin

You didn't upload all of the new language files.

Also, make sure you run Setup.

Thanks for the USUAL quick reply.

I had uploaded all the Language files but tried it again and it was still doing the same thing.
Since it was member related I went to rebuild the member list (boards too for good measure) and it seems to have fixed the problem for me. I will see in the next day or so if it is ok for all users (should be).

Thanks again
PS* you guys by any chance writing a dating site? I may need a beter one than I have now in the near future.....

Quoted from cyberface

Thanks for the USUAL quick reply.

I had uploaded all the Language files but tried it again and it was still doing the same thing.
Since it was member related I went to rebuild the member list (boards too for good measure) and it seems to have fixed the problem for me. I will see in the next day or so if it is ok for all users (should be).

Thanks again
PS* you guys by any chance writing a dating site? I may need a beter one than I have now in the near future.....

Make sure you also rebuild the boards too, since that error you were getting was somewhat related to that.

Quoted from Justin

I've fixed a number of minor issues since release. Mainly with xx.png showing up for everything and replying to PM's not adding the TO line. I've fixed both of those, if you have those issues. :)

Is that the bug which puts a number in place of a username in the to line? I still have that one. Which bit do I need to reupload to fix it?

You were quick off the mark finding that, though. I wouldn't have noticed ::)

Cool. I downloaded it.
But is there a step by step of how to upgarde like the one you guys have for P9 to P9.x in blahdocs.com?
If not, is there going to be one soon? What are the files that I need to upload for the upgrade?

Thanks for your help! :)

Got the email announcing version 10 with a link to the documentation, but that seems to be for version 9, and I cannot find any information in the eblah 10 download on how to upgrade from version 9 to version 10, as we used to get in previous version.
Thanks for all your hard work.

Think I will wait a bit, would love to upgrade now but I have no idea what files I need to upload or overwrite, I found the setup script, thats a good start for me.

So all I need to know is, do I upload, overwrite all it asks to be overwrittne and run the setup or are there only certain files to be uploaded for an update from 9

cheers and well done you all, hope it goes well

Quoted from kennyod

Think I will wait a bit, would love to upgrade now but I have no idea what files I need to upload or overwrite, I found the setup script, thats a good start for me.

So all I need to know is, do I upload, overwrite all it asks to be overwrittne and run the setup or are there only certain files to be uploaded for an update from 9

cheers and well done you all, hope it goes well

You need to look at page 12 of this http://www.blahdocs.com/installnew/ :)

Upgrade seems to have gone smoothly for me ;D

Will the mods from 9.x work with 10?

Ta

James

Not yet, I'm working on them :-/

If you follow the basic upgrade preceedures from the help docs, you should be good to go. Just make sure you upload any new directories and CHMOD them 777 (such as the thumbnails directory under uploads).

AWESOME release...Thanks everyone. Installed without a single problem (just had to remember to rebuild all boards). Kudos to you guys. This is the best thing going on the web.

Hi !

I am just testing and translating the new E-Blah forum on my backupspace. If I click the "Upcoming Events Feed" link in the Calendar, I receive following message:
(I have replaced the real address with xxxxxx because it is only backupspace)

Code

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
  <title>ATEG Forum</title> 
  <link>http://ategforumbackup.xxxxxx.de/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?</link> 
  <generator>http://www.eblah.com</generator> 
  <description /> 
  <language>en</language> 
  </channel>
  </rss>

edit:

...and I have just noticed that I cannot remove modules in the portal. :(

Will upgrading wipe my current template? Boards?

I havent done a update before.

Downloaded the files what do I need to upload?

White:Knight

In one of my forums new users have to validate their account through e-mail and Administrator. I created a test-user, and was able to read all posts and even create a new thread without any validation... :o

Check your board permissions, make sure validating users is not checked

Ok, I have testet it in 2 forums. Guests are not allowed in both forums, I created a user test with email [email protected] and PW test. He could login the forum and read everything. Then I enabled Registration Human Verification and tried to register: I always get a white page with nothing then...? ??)

Quoted from rulaman

Ok, I have testet it in 2 forums. Guests are not allowed in both forums, I created a user test with email [email protected] and PW test. He could login the forum and read everything. Then I enabled Registration Human Verification and tried to register: I always get a white page with nothing then...? ??)

Under Boards and Categories, make it so your boards have it where Validating users cannot see them or whatever you want to do.

Quoted from WhiteKnight

Will upgrading wipe my current template? Boards?

I havent done a update before.

Downloaded the files what do I need to upload?

White:Knight

If you follow the upgrade documentation pretty loosely, you should be good.

Quoted from rulaman
Hi !

I am just testing and translating the new E-Blah forum on my backupspace. If I click the "Upcoming Events Feed" link in the Calendar, I receive following message:
(I have replaced the real address with xxxxxx because it is only backupspace)
Code
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> 
- <rss version="2.0">
- <channel>
  <title>ATEG Forum</title> 
  <link>http://ategforumbackup.xxxxxx.de/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?</link> 
  <generator>http://www.eblah.com</generator> 
  <description /> 
  <language>en</language> 
  </channel>
  </rss>
edit:

...and I have just noticed that I cannot remove modules in the portal. :(

You don't have any upcoming events, thus the RSS feed is blank. :)

As for the modules ... hmm. Are you able to use Quick Edit in messages?

One other thing I wanted to point out ... the upgrade MAY take a minute or two (I did an upgrade yesterday that took about 30 seconds to finally finish). DO NOT refresh or use your browsers back button durring that time, though. You could screw your forum up!

Quoted from Justin

Under Boards and Categories, make it so your boards have it where Validating users cannot see them or whatever you want to do.

Thanks, now I nearly got it... I had to uncheck all except All Registered Members. But a small problem seems to be left: I use the option Validatation through e-mail and Administrator because I don't want anyone to use a fake email address. But the forums Administrator gets the validation link for the new member before this member has validated his email address. So I don't know if his email address is fake or not when I validate him?

Quoted from Justin

As for the modules ... hmm. Are you able to use Quick Edit in messages?

Yes! This works fine.

Quoted from Justin

Make sure you also rebuild the boards too, since that error you were getting was somewhat related to that.

Did it!

I now have 2 other issues. The portal shows nothing at all and PM's don't work unless I input the user name myself. I have noticed that the PM's don't input the username but only thier number!! I saw that in the members file all the members were now numbers too. Sup with that?

Just PM'd you as well and it did the same thign here with the User number and not the name.

Quoted from cyberface

Did it!

I now have 2 other issues. The portal shows nothing at all and PM's don't work unless I input the user name myself. I have noticed that the PM's don't input the username but only thier number!! I saw that in the members file all the members were now numbers too. Sup with that?

Just PM'd you as well and it did the same thign here with the User number and not the name.

Redownload and reupload PM.pl.

Quoted from Justin

Redownload and reupload PM.pl.

Same! Did not change anything.
Still no user names in PM's and No Portal info at all.

Quoted from cyberface

Same! Did not change anything.
Still no user names in PM's and No Portal info at all.

Reuploading the new PM.pl file fixed it for me. However, I notice it also uses the numbers when quoting someone. It allows you to quote them (unlike with the PM) and converts the number to a username upon posting, but newbies to BBcode could find it confusing. Although that's not really very helpful... mmph.

Oh, but the portal; have you gone to "Portal Setup" in the admin panel?

Quoted from spirited

Oh, but the portal; have you gone to "Portal Setup" in the admin panel?

Thanks Spirited. I did not realize I had to set it up myself.
Duh on me......

Yeah, the Portal isn't setup itself. :)

Quoted from rulaman

So I don't know if his email address is fake or not when I validate him?

...of course... I can see this in his profil.

;D

So..., no more questions left. ;)

Quoted from vjs (Guest)

Got the email announcing version 10 with a link to the documentation, but that seems to be for version 9, and I cannot find any information in the eblah 10 download on how to upgrade from version 9 to version 10, as we used to get in previous version.
Thanks for all your hard work.

There is now a new install and upgrade guide for E-Blah 10.0 on Blahdocs.com. I pushed this out quick, so let me know if there are any problems.
-Craig.

Quoted from Craig

There is now a new install and upgrade guide for E-Blah 10.0 on Blahdocs.com. I pushed this out quick, so let me know if there are any problems.
-Craig.

Sweet! ;D

Quoted from Justin

You're going to have to transfer the new CSS configuration to your forum.

Code

body {
	text-align      : center;
}

table {
	margin-left : auto;
	margin-right: auto;
}

/*
   Centering help:
   http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/
*/

td {
	text-align: left;
}

.loading {
	background-image : url(/blahdocs/images/loading.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	width            : 222px;
	height           : 19px;
}

.right {
	text-align: right !important;
}

.center {
	text-align: center !important;
}

.justify {
	text-align: justify !important;
}

.vtop {
	vertical-align: top !important;
}

.innertable {
	margin: 0px !important;
}

.leftimg {
	float        : left;
	padding-right: 5px;
}

.rightimg {
	float       : right;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

.centerimg {
	vertical-align: middle;
}

form, input {
	margin-top: 0px;
}

form {
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

.boardsearch {
	background    : url(/blahdocs/images/search.png) 3px 4px no-repeat;
	padding-left  : 19px;
	padding-top   : 5px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	width         : 90%;
}

/* If user has a color, specify the options for that user name to appear here */
.usercolors {
	font-weight: bold;
}

If you are upgrading, add that. If it's a new install, just install and enjoy! :)

Not sure if I am doing the right thing, I upgraded to v10, but was following the old instructions as there were none for v10, as per my previous post. Install went well apart from some formatting looking strange. I went into the themes manager and replaced the main css template with the one above, but I then get no images or backgrounds. Can someone explain in simple english what needs to be done to get it looking correct.
Thanks.

In the new CSS file look out for things like

Quoted Text

url(/blahdocs/images/search.png) 3px 4px no-repeat;

Check that this is correct for your own forum and how you have it set up, you may find that if you have been running your forum for a long time, the images are not in a folder called blahdocs

Quoted from vjscorpio

Not sure if I am doing the right thing, I upgraded to v10, but was following the old instructions as there were none for v10, as per my previous post. Install went well apart from some formatting looking strange. I went into the themes manager and replaced the main css template with the one above, but I then get no images or backgrounds. Can someone explain in simple english what needs to be done to get it looking correct.
Thanks.

Quoted Text

If you are upgrading, add that.

Add, don't replace. :-/

Quoted from Nat

In the new CSS file look out for things like

Check that this is correct for your own forum and how you have it set up, you may find that if you have been running your forum for a long time, the images are not in a folder called blahdocs

My forum is in /public_html/forum and my blahdocs is at /public_html/blahdocs
I just moved the blahdocs folder into the forum folder as a test, but then got an error that the template is not found etc.
Do I need to change the url to the image files in the css file, and if so to what for my particular setup.
Thanks.

Quoted from Justin

Add, don't replace. :-/

AHH, thanks Justin, will do that now.
Cheers

Quoted from vjscorpio

AHH, thanks Justin, will do that now.
Cheers

That has done the job, thanks again.

Sorry , I am a bit confused.

we are to add the code to the CSS file I get that but which CSS file?
template.css?

My upgrade went fine.

But after that. I am unable to login as admin.

It says invalid username. Is there anyway I can get around.

Version 9.xx
we can login via username
but this version we have to login with Screen name right?

can user login using their username?

No, screen name only.

Also, make sure that BEFORE you run Setup.pl, you have uploaded the Code AND Languages directories. If you fail to do this, you're going to have issues logging in.

thanks for fast reply, what about the theme can we use the old one( verion 9.7x)

Hm..., I am missing the right borders in the PM center in all of my themes now. I can't find the mistake, any idea? (think)

This will be the template/css you are using. The old themes work some what but are not 100% compatible with Ver 10

Did you download it or create it yourself?

Most of my themes are modifications of the old Platinum Winter template. Do you think there is a way to "repair" this? ??)

You probably forgot a </table> somewhere. Try to validate your forum with XHTML 1.0 and find the errors you get.

Hmm... I could not find a missing </table>. I also tried some other downloaded themes from blahdocs, the same problem with the borders in PM center... :-/

Email me your complete theme including buttons and images and I'll take a look.

OK rulaman

Take have a quick look and if you are happy I'll email it back. Now validates as xhtml also.

http://www.opportunitynowhere.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl

Login: Tester
Password: tester

Yes, this looks fine, better than my old one! Would be nice if you mail it back to me.
Thanks for your work! :D:clap:

PS: Sorry, I should try ro read complete posts... First I tried to register there, until I found the login data... :B ::)

Just sent it, make a copy of existing files before uploading, just in case.

it looks great

thanks

Nice! E-Blah keeps getting better and better, and v10.0 looks especially appealing.

Quoted from Justin

Add, don't replace. :-/

OK, I'm completely confused now. Where do I add the new CSS code? I go into my theme in the Admin Panel and I have a choice of Main CSS and Admin CSS. I've added the code to both, but my forum still looks the same. Do I just paste it to the end of the existing code?

You'll have to clear your internet cache, and then it should be fine.

Quoted from Justin

You'll have to clear your internet cache, and then it should be fine.

I did. It didn't change anything. Is it possible that I'm using a very old and hacked template? I decided to move the template over that comes with 10.05 and it looks fine--except that it's all wrong! ;) You know, wrong colors and all.

Are there any other themes available for 10.5 yet that you know of?

10.05 themes and 10.0 themes will both work fine, but I'm not sure any have been updated yet.

I was using an old theme. I've been running one of your boards for probably 5 or 6 years now. I just used the winter theme, replaced the winter template html with my original html, altered the colors in the winter css to match what I had, and bam! A shinier version of what I had yesterday. Thanks!

I'd like to see your forum. ;D

Quoted from Justin

I'd like to see your forum. ;D

Sure...

xmbb.net

This forum has been around over 10 years. I originally used WWWBoard, then a couple of others, YaBB, the finally I discovered eblah about 5 years ago or so. I geenrally stay about 3 months behind your updates just to give people a chance to debug!

If that's your site ... :X. I tried two computers, two browsers (IE7 and FF) and the thing steals all your RAM. You can't do anything until you exit the browser

Worked fine for me:)

I discovered this morning that somehow spam links were inserted into the code of my main html page (the page that redirects you to the board). I'm not sure how this can happen. So I fixed it (you should be able to get on now) and alerted my host. So everything should work fine now. All of it going to a site called "scorekazoo".

I still don't know how a static web page got filled with spam. That shouldn't be possible without an FTP account. Then again... if someone on the server has an insecure script that can modify files arbitrarily, it's possible that it was hijacked and used to add spam to every static page on the server. Or at least every index page.

The direct url is http://xmbb.net/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl.

Quoted from SuperGrover

I still don't know how a static web page got filled with spam. That shouldn't be possible without an FTP account. Then again... if someone on the server has an insecure script that can modify files arbitrarily, it's possible that it was hijacked and used to add spam to every static page on the server. Or at least every index page.

IE: phpBB. *sigh*

Quoted from Justin

You're going to have to transfer the new CSS configuration to your forum.

Code

body {
	text-align      : center;
}

table {
	margin-left : auto;
	margin-right: auto;
}

/*
   Centering help:
   http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/center/
*/

td {
	text-align: left;
}

.loading {
	background-image : url(/blahdocs/images/loading.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	width            : 222px;
	height           : 19px;
}

.right {
	text-align: right !important;
}

.center {
	text-align: center !important;
}

.justify {
	text-align: justify !important;
}

.vtop {
	vertical-align: top !important;
}

.innertable {
	margin: 0px !important;
}

.leftimg {
	float        : left;
	padding-right: 5px;
}

.rightimg {
	float       : right;
	padding-left: 5px;
}

.centerimg {
	vertical-align: middle;
}

form, input {
	margin-top: 0px;
}

form {
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

.boardsearch {
	background    : url(/blahdocs/images/search.png) 3px 4px no-repeat;
	padding-left  : 19px;
	padding-top   : 5px;
	padding-bottom: 5px;
	width         : 90%;
}

/* If user has a color, specify the options for that user name to appear here */
.usercolors {
	font-weight: bold;
}

If you are upgrading, add that. If it's a new install, just install and enjoy! :)

Could someone tell me where i'm supposed to copy and paste this.

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