Lots of questions - Potential move from heavily hacked phpBB2

[filburt1]

My VB Tips are just static pages. My home page is a custom script that doesn't get anything from vB's database. WDF and my personal site are now completely separate, database-wise.

[Talisman]

If that isn't the page you were referring to with regard to vB, vbP, and P... which one was? If you had to upgrade those three products to a new release, how much rehacking do you have to do? I'd like to get to the point where my hacks are easily implemented to a new release of code if possible... otherwise you are exposed to security threats.

Hi. I have no idea what the turtle-thing is. I was referring to my Virtual Cup site (which is linked in my sig).

Once vB3 goes gold, I'll be a very busy admin. I have to upgrade vB two times .... from an antique version 2.2.6 to either 2.2.9 or 2.3.0 ..... and then up to the new 3.0 release. Then, upgrade the other two packages (vbP and PP) and hope I can get them integrated right. After that, I'd like to go back to using WebChat for our chat room (or as another set of chat rooms) because the older version I used before tied in so nicely with vB and my portal page, and the features were really nice.

Right now, I've got 80+ hacks installed. So the whole project is going to be a real mess. (And I don't want to give up all the customized features and details we've added during the last year.)

But I'm still looking forward to it. In the long run, it will be good for us to rebuild the site. My query count is too high on a few pages and some of the hacking isn't real tidy. I know a little more about this now, so I'm hoping to do a better job of it this time around.

[mccollin]

Oops... sorry I got you guys mixed up. Well, I think I'm in a similar boat to you, but on phpBB right now. I need to do an update if I stay where I'm at. Sounds like if I move to VB, I'll be doing another upgrade when 3.0 is there. Might be best to wait for that... in the meantime, phpBB is working on an integrated portal, but it may be ions before they ever produce it. Thanks for the help, although it isn't the answer I'm looking for...

[Erwin]

If you went to vB, you should go to vB3 Beta 4...

[mccollin]

Is that something that I could get if I buy a new license? I would likely buy the license through VBPortal's affiliate program so that I get the best price on the whole bundle.... so then could I get the VB3 beta code to start working with? Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

When you buy the license you can download either 2.3.0 ot the latest 3.0 beta. Note there are no import scripts for 3.0 yet. You would need to install 2.3.0, import, then upgrade to 3.0.