phpBB

ok… i hope i haven’t messed too much with the code and everything is still working.
Changes:
- Ascraeus now uses constants for the phpbb root path and the php extension. This ensures more security for external applications and modifications (no more overwriting of root path and extension possible through insecure mods and register globals enabled) as well as no more globalizing needed.
- A second change implemented here is an additional short-hand-notation for append_sid(). It is allowed to omit the root path and extension now (for example calling append_sid(‘memberlist’)) – in this case the root path and extension get added automatically. The hook is called after these are added.

Alright, this should give some improved performance :)

This is the end of random seek access to rows. If you have a compelling reason as to why they should stay, contact me. Else, they are gone forevermore…

The following API calls are deprecated:
acm::sql_rowseek() > no replacement
$db>sql_fetchfield($field, $rownum = false, $query_id = false) > $db>sql_fetchfield($field, $query_id = false)

Initial tests show that phpBB3 over four percent of memory against phpBB3.1 on an empty board. So far so good :)

Other cool things:
db2, MS SQL ODBC and MS SQL 2005 all use less memory because they do not need to reference the last executed query to handle random access seeks :)

P.S.
The crazy people using SVN: please report any issues with the new way we itterate through caches, I do not want to miss anything :)

- store sql_layer directly within the layer itself
- new method sql_multi_insert to circumvent db-specific hacks
(hopefully not introduced any parsing errors)

ok, sorry for this. :/
- cleaned up table names/constants

- changed SUPER_MODERATORS to GLOBAL_MODERATORS
- do not cache moderators having no allowed auth settings
- added fsock method to transfer class (this has been made by wGEric for us)

- removed unnecessary pm options
- added one option to clearly define email visibility