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Any plan to move us to phpBB3 any time soon? If so, could we also do the openID mod?


--Donnie

Honestly, I would love to upgrade to PHPBB3 but I just haven't had the time to look into what it would take. I think it will happen, but just don't know when. I also need to read up more on OpenID. It sounds like a good idea. I think the #1 request we have had is to have a version that is more mobile friendly and that may be the first thing I look at once we move to PHPBB3.

Richard

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Richard Casto
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Sounds interesting- I'll have to read up more on OpenID myself as well.

A few questions come to mind, though:

1. This seems like a requirement for any auth system so I'm sure it does, but I assume OpenID provides the ability to keep non-members out and remove access from expired members?
2. If we went to OpenID for authentication, would that be in addition to or instead of the current login scheme?
3. Assuming it'd replace the current login system, would PHPbb3 also be able to provide the identities, or would folks have to go somewhere else for that? Some folks, especially those (I'm guessing a fairly small minority) who don't read this or any other forum regularly might find that to be a major inconvenience.

If anyone knows the answers to these questions I'd be interested in knowing. I've only done a few minutes research on this, so please forgive my relative ignorance.

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Carl Fisher

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My understanding is that OpenID would only provide the mechanism for verifying your password. It wouldn't really take the place of ANYTHING else. So when you "register" instead of providing a password you'd simply check a "use OpenID" box and then enter your OpenID account information. Then you have a "single sign-in" whereby if you're already authenticated against OpenID and you visit the forum, it logs you in automatically (assuming you had the cookie set to keep yourself logged in from that browser).

So think of it more as remote password storage rather than account management. The admins would still have complete control over which accounts were actually active and all that, just as they do now.

That's my understanding, anyway, which could be completely wrong and somewhat limited. I don't actually even have an OpenID yet...I've been waiting until there was something "else" that could use it. Right now the only thing I have an account on that would is Blogspot, though I can see it possibly taking off.

What I'd *really* love is the next extension to that where you had a central repository for forum "profiles" instead of having to fill all that crap out and maintain it on every forum. Don't know of anything like that yet, though.


--Donnie

Any work happening on an upgrade of phpBB? I ask again because I've got a small problem with the forum occasionally. It seems to have a cookie corruption problem or something where things stop getting shown as read even though they have been (even "Mark all topics as read" doesn't work). I log out, clear THSCC cookies, and log back in and all is well for a few weeks. Then it happens again.

It's now happened on both the Mac and PC with Firefox v2 and v3. I'm sure it COULD be a Firefox bug that's been around for a long time in all platforms, but it seems more likely it's a phpBB thing. *shrug*

It's not killing me, but it made me curious enough about it that I thought I'd ask.


--Donnie

It's on my to-do list, but unfortunately I don't have the time right now to work on it.

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Richard Casto
1972 Porsche 914
2013 Honda Fit Sport
2015 Honda Fit EX
http://motorsport.zyyz.com
Money can't buy happiness, but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.

Just had to log out, kill cookies, and log in again. Ugh. I'd be willing to help with the upgrade, especially if we can add openid support.


--Donnie

Just happened again.


--Donnie