SMF 2.0 with PHP 7

SMF does not officially support running version 2.0.x with PHP 7.0.  This is due to PHP removing the mysql library in favor of more secure MySQLi library.  To get around this if you have root access to your server, you could manually build in the old mysql library functions.  Or you know, build compatibility functions.  I’m …

iRedMail on Nginx

This is my experiment to get iRedMail to work with Nginx. In the end I got everything to work other than awstats, although with some caveats. I don’t like awstats very much and it seemed quite troublesome to get it setup. There is a mode to run awstats in that lets it just generate static …

Pastebin rewrote

I have taken my original code I wrote for my SMF powered pastebin and rewrote this script. This was a massive rewrite from the original code and hopefully it works out well for anyone else who is looking into using it. I wrote it so it should be plugable with different databases, user information and …

SMF in WordPress

For some reason, while using WordPress and including SMF’s SSI.php, it would not detect my logged in SMF session. Baffled and almost thinking this was a SMF bug of some sorts, I began to debug this process. Well it turns out it is sorta a SMF old PHP support issue, but the problem lies in …

SMF Package Manager Generator

Hello, Originally I had wrote my original SMF Package Manager Generator a few years ago. It was sloppy coding, poor JavaScript and relied heavily on the server. Not my absolute best work, but was something I was proud on at the time from my efforts to dive into JavaScripting. However, todays times are different. So …