The Energon Pub

by **Rijie** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:05 pm

Yeesh, I have to pay attention to the news more. Glad to see all of this coming full circle.

::Drinks to Bill::

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:28 pm

Just a heads up for everyone ... I spent about 8 hours yesterday writing scripts and database queries to accomplish the following on my local test server:

1. Import the Transtopia forums into Seibertron.com's forums.
2. Database queries to undo the customizations I've made to Seibertron.com's phpBB.
3. Import all of the combined forums, topics, posts and users from Seibertron and Transtopia into phpBB3.

I was able to accomplish 1 and 2. It seems that I ran into a brick wall with the phpBB3 imports which is where I got stuck yesterday. I will continue debugging phpBB3 throughout this week to figure out what I did wrong with my imports of Seibertron and Transtopia. My goal this week is to get both sites imported into phpBB3, upload the new files and new database to a test server and then have all of you guys help me test it out. I will keep you guys posted of my progress later this week.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:43 pm

OK and good aciving your goals!

by **Tramp** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:04 pm

There might be another bug Seibertron, I can't sign in anymore over at Transtopia, something happened to my account there. It could be a result of the merging of accounts, I don't know.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:24 pm

Tramp wrote:There might be another bug Seibertron, I can't sign in anymore over at Transtopia, something happened to my account there. It could be a result of the merging of accounts, I don't know.

It has nothing to do with merging the accounts. I haven't done anything to the live servers yet. Everything that I've done is with my local test copy on my laptop.

by **Tramp** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:33 pm

Can you have one of the Admins look into the problem then? IF that isn't the cause, then I don't know what is. :???:

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:54 pm

Tramp wrote:Can you have one of the Admins look into the problem then? IF that isn't the cause, then I don't know what is.

Have you tried contacting Devastator at Transtopia? I would recommend sending him a private message. You can also do that via the private message system here since he's signed up for it.

by **Tramp** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:57 pm

I sent Ramrider one. He's also a site admin over there. If you want, I'll PM you the message I get every time I try and sing in.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:37 pm

Tramp wrote:I sent Ramrider one. He's also a site admin over there. If you want, I'll PM you the message I get every time I try and sing in.

If you could PM me the message if you don't receive a response from the powers-that-be over at Transtopia, that would be very helpful. Thanks!

by **Tramp** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:49 pm

PM sent.

by **Ramrider** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:40 pm

I haven't got the power at Transtopia that I'm credited with, but I've PM'd Dev over there, so hopefully he'll be able to shed some light...

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:21 pm

Ramrider wrote:I haven't got the power at Transtopia that I'm credited with, but I've PM'd Dev over there, so hopefully he'll be able to shed some light...

Thank you for looking into Tramp's situation further, Ramrider. I really appreciate it during these "crazy times".

by **Tramp** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:23 pm

Yes, thank you very much. Everything is fixed and I can sign on again now. :grin:

by **Tramp** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:48 am

Well, it was fine for a while, but it's happened again. :-x

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:47 am

Tramp wrote:Well, it was fine for a while, but it's happened again.

Have you tried clearing the cookies out of your browser yet? Are you going to http://tfmaster.com/forum (no www) or http://www.tfmaster.com/forum ? The site is setup so that you need to go to http://www.tfmaster.com/forum in order for the cookies and sessions to work properly.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:01 am

I'm getting closer! Here's a teaser pic.

Please keep in mind when looking at the screenshot above of the combined Transtopia and Seibertron forums, that the staffs of both sites will be going over the overall forum structure to see what stays, what goes and what gets merged together. Obviously we don't need two General Discussion areas.

The color scheme is also not finalized yet nor is phpBB3 integrated into the layout of Seibertron. It will be contained within the header and footer of the site.

News Credits: 12 · by **Mulla** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:13 am

Ooooo, that looks freaking sweet! As much as I love the current purple colour scheme (I lurve purple), I am loving the scheme in that pic. Very crisp. Nice.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:34 am

Mulla™ wrote::shock:

Ooooo, that looks freaking sweet! As much as I love the current purple colour scheme (I lurve purple), I am loving the scheme in that pic. Very crisp. Nice.

That's not the color scheme of what the final version will look like.

News Credits: 12 · by **Mulla** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:36 am

Seibertron wrote:
Mulla™ wrote::shock:

Ooooo, that looks freaking sweet! As much as I love the current purple colour scheme (I lurve purple), I am loving the scheme in that pic. Very crisp. Nice.

That's not the color scheme of what the final version will look like.

Just so long as you know it still looks hot regardless. :grin:

Can't wait to see the new look.

Like Bad Wolf on Facebook · by **Bad Wolf** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:00 am

love it ^^
i just recently converted over to phpBB3
and its nice .. cant wait till the finished product

:mrgreen:

by **TK-225** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:46 am

NICE...... :shock:

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:43 pm

Sorry Boss, but I gotta say I don't like it.

It's too... bland.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:00 pm

Skowl wrote:Sorry Boss, but I gotta say I don't like it.

It's too... bland.

As I mentioned in my post this morning, I said that the colors aren't finalized yet. I'm currently using the default phpBB3 color scheme. It also hasn't been integrated into the Seibertron.com "shell" (i.e. header, footer, navigation, etc). I'll worry about all of that stuff after I get all of our posts, topics, forums and users from Seibertron and Transtopia integrated into phpBB3. That's the important part. I'll worry about making it look like "Seibertron.com" later. :grin:

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:08 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Skowl wrote:Sorry Boss, but I gotta say I don't like it.

It's too... bland.

As I mentioned in my post this morning, I said that the colors aren't finalized yet. I'm currently using the default phpBB3 color scheme. It also hasn't been integrated into the Seibertron.com "shell" (i.e. header, footer, navigation, etc). I'll worry about all of that stuff after I get all of our posts, topics, forums and users from Seibertron and Transtopia integrated into phpBB3. That's the important part. I'll worry about making it look like "Seibertron.com" later.

Ok, cool, I'm much more hopeful now