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When searching for answers to code-related questions, I frequently find the solution (or at least a resolution) to my troubles on someone’s blog. They went through some trouble and decided to share what they found out with others. I figured that I should start posting these types of entries as well in case they are of assistance to anyone, so we begin with something I did yesterday.

First, the backstory: In 2004, I hosted a phpBB2-powered medium-sized forum. It eventually died off, only to be revived this week. I decided that instead of dealing with the extremely-hacked old phpBB2 code, I would start over with a new forum system. phpBB3 is only in beta 4, but its feature set won me over immediately. I wanted a way for users to be able to get some credit from their participation in the old forum - specifically: their post count, registration date, and old username. I also wanted to add them to a certain usergroup for original members and make it their default group, as well as log their actions during the import process.

A second task was creating a way for users to be able to access the old forum archives through a forum-level redirect that only specific users could access but that the archives did not require them to login… but how I did that is outside the scope of this post.
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If you’ve never been to Firefox Flicks, I recommend you check it out. It’s got some great user-submitted Firefox commercials - some of them are hilarious. 4 of them (Billy’s Browser, This is Hot, Web for All, and Daredevil) are going to air a bit in Boston and San Francisco on cable networks. See the full press release here.

Also, I don’t think I mentioned it before, but my name is in the Firefox 2 credits. It’s over a minute into them, so I took a screenshot for you because you’re impatient. Yes, you. It’s sorta interesting that I actually know who most of the people in that long list are and met many of them at the summit.

I have some other stuff to talk about, but I’ll make a different post on that later.