E-Blah SQL Beta 3.5 has been released.

E-Blah SQL Beta 3.5 is now being labeled as "stable".  There are several forums that have been using the old Beta 2 version for some time now and have reported the bugs found in the version and they should now be fixed.

E-Blah SQL supports MySQL and SQLite databases.  It is a separate version from the current E-Blah 10 series forum software. Beta 3.5 version fixes many bugs that were found in Beta 2 along with many issues with installation have been fixed.  RSS syndication should be fully working now.

If you are upgrading from a prior version, please run the installer to upgrade your forum.  If you are unsure as to how to install E-Blah SQL, please read the documentation on Blahdocs.

You can download Beta 3.5 from the downloads page.

Quoted from Justin

E-Blah SQL Beta 3 has been released.

E-Blah SQL Beta 3 is now being labeled as "stable".  There are several forums that have been using the old Beta 2 version for some time now and have reported the bugs found in the version and they should now be fixed.

E-Blah SQL supports MySQL and SQLite databases.  It is a separate version from the current E-Blah 10 series forum software. Beta 3 version fixes many bugs that were found in Beta 2 along with many issues with installation have been fixed.  RSS syndication should be fully working now.

If you are upgrading from a prior version, please run the installer to upgrade your forum.  If you are unsure as to how to install E-Blah SQL, please read the documentation on Blahdocs.

You can download Beta 3 from the downloads page.

cool.  I will install it tomorrow.

Quoted from Justin

E-Blah SQL Beta 3 has been released.

E-Blah SQL Beta 3 is now being labeled as "stable".  There are several forums that have been using the old Beta 2 version for some time now and have reported the bugs found in the version and they should now be fixed.

E-Blah SQL supports MySQL and SQLite databases.  It is a separate version from the current E-Blah 10 series forum software. Beta 3 version fixes many bugs that were found in Beta 2 along with many issues with installation have been fixed.  RSS syndication should be fully working now.

If you are upgrading from a prior version, please run the installer to upgrade your forum.  If you are unsure as to how to install E-Blah SQL, please read the documentation on Blahdocs.

You can download Beta 3 from the downloads page.

Upgraded. That was the fastest upgrade I have ever seen ;D

what is the url to show all feeds (including all categories and boards) :)

Just the ?v-shownews/ ... make sure you've made all the boards news boards.

Quoted from Justin

Just the ?v-shownews/ ... make sure you've made all the boards news boards.

Thank you got it working ;)

Very nice Justin. I'll install it tomorrow and give you feedback. :)

There was a small bug when the forum is installed that made it so the default Administrator could not login.  This has been fixed.  Beta 3.5 also changes the way some of the stats are done, which makes it a LOT better.  You must run Install.pl and upgrade the forum before you can run Beta 3.5.  The upgrade is quick and painless (it's one step!).

Enjoy.  :)

Does the new E-Blah sql forum mean the E-Blah forum will stop having cgi updates? I hope not. Thanks for all the work guys.

SQL does not equal non-Perl.  E-Blah SQL is still powered by Perl, it just has a MySQL/SQLite backend driver.  And no, the normal version is not going to be stopped -- it has been discussed before.

Thanks Justin. Sorry for repeating the question I had a little look to see if it had been asked. Must have missed it. Glad you'll be continuing both versions, if you've seen my site it has a lot of boards. Had problems with other free boards before and E-Blah is the first that hasn't threw up weird problems when I add so many boards.
Thanks again

Wow, that is a lot of boards.  :P

Quoted from Justin

Wow, that is a lot of boards.  :P

And E-Blah laughs in the face of such volumous boards  ;D

Can we upgrade the flat-file version?

You sure can.  Just make sure that you make a backup first.

Just upgrades 10x to SQL, can't seem to login.
I've checked the database members and my old accounts are there. Could this be a password encryption issue?

Just investigated further. The old accounts are in the database. The board can't find the accounts or email addresses to resend the password.

You probably didn't convert to MD5 before converting.

Congratulations Justin, awesome news.

Do you have an estimate on how many more betas before Final?
I'm holding off releasing my E-Blah SQL converters and mods until then - when I'll also move my forums over to E-Blah too.

Thanks!

No idea.  I've not heard of many bugs.

Thanks!

My biggest problem right now actually is the uris.

MyTopix has rather nice and human-friendly URIs like
?gettopic=56
?viewforum=83

I think it's safe to say that eblah's are rather crufty, even when rewritten.

I'm using a rewriter, just trying to decide whether I should redirect my old MyTopix URIs to this schema or mask these behind my old schema..

I'm also considering just releasing a "power pack" converter that makes them even easier:

forum/topic/34
forum/inbox/2
forum/outbox/3
forum/board/12
forum/members
forum/onlineusers
forum/......

I'm just not sure. The problem is that the base eblah ones are really messy with many possiblities that make it near impossible to get them all.

Whereas I might have post.php?id=30&action=edit I now have
/forum/v-post/b-cc/a-modify/m-1176407008/n-19/

makes it a bit difficult.

Quick question: is it safe to assume that the DB hasn't changed since beta 2?

Quoted from Computer Guru

Quick question: is it safe to assume that the DB hasn't changed since beta 2?

No.  It has.  The Installer upgrades it for you.

The URIs are mainly for search engines.  The post page isn't for search engines, hence it's doesn't matter if it's messy.

I dunno, I find that search engines no longer care what URIs look like (my own CMS uses stuff like dl.php?id=1 and changelog.com?prog=4&version=8) - just a matter for the eyes :)

Thanks for the info, I'll get updating :)

Hi
I am using Eblah forum software 10.2.5 and its up todated.
I have read  E-Blah SQL Beta 3.5 - released .
Can you tell me what are it's advantages than the current version I am using ?
I have 50 un used mysql accounts with my hosting account .
But Wondering why !!If Its something good I can also do it  ;D

SQL is a different way of storing data. The most important thing about it is that it's size-agnostic.
Whether you have 5 users or 5 million users, the software should perform just the same (provided the same number of requests/second of course). Having more doesn't mean it needs to be slower.

Look up RDBMS on Wikipedia for more info.

Ok Guru
Thanks for your Update ,Actaully My profession is Accounting  ;D ;D ;D But I aways like computers and technologies
My hosting is with heart interent , their hosting package come with eblah and it istall the old version automatically .. I hope in future they may set up with sql  8) 8) 8)

E-Blah keeps getting better and better. The latest version (and the style) looks very professional and well thought out.

(drummer)

awsome now we just need a php version

A PHP version of E-Blah? E-Blah has been built from the ground up with Perl. I doubt there would ever be a PHP version... Personally I don't see any benefit over Perl...

sigh i can;t get the perl ver to install

Doesn't your host support perl?  :'(

well it has cgi-bin the host is x10hosting

Quoted from iCONICA

A PHP version of E-Blah? E-Blah has been built from the ground up with Perl. I doubt there would ever be a PHP version... Personally I don't see any benefit over Perl...

PHP is so much easier to code in, web wise.  I started a new job a few weeks ago and work solely in PHP development with MySQL database.  Needless to say, I'm really liking PHP5.  :)

Oh.. Does that mean a PHP E-Blah is on its way?

I'd stick with the perl version myself though..  :-/

I'm installing the SQL Version on another domain i just bought.

When future releases of the SQL version are released, Is the upgrade procedure built in? or like the flat file where files and folders need to be replaced and fiddled with?

Thanks!

ps. no other forum software will do...  ;)

An upgrade is done on the forum.

No, I'm not planning on releasing a PHP version.  :P  The market for PHP forums is already somewhat crowded.  On top of that, I just don't have the time -- I'm working about 30-35 hrs a week plus taking classes.   ;)