How to run phpBB 2.0.12 on Phalanger

Configuration

Download configuration file Web.config.txt, rename it to Web.config, and place it into the phpBB root directory.

Fixing phpBB bugs

Unfortunately, there are some bugs in phpBB which generate errors with Phalanger.

• db/oracle.php, around line 372: function sql_nextid($query_id = 0)

  The method is declared twice in the class. Comment one of its versions (both are the same).

• index.php, around line 123: Insert array_pop($category_rows); as follows:

  $category_rows = array();
  while( $category_rows[] = $db->sql_fetchrow($result) );
  
  // removes the last item which is bool(false):
  array_pop($category_rows);
  
  $db->sql_freeresult($result);
  if( ( $total_categories = count($category_rows) ) )
  

• includes/usercp_avatar.php, line 257: Parameter $email specified twice. Rename the first e.g. to $_email:

  function display_avatar_gallery($mode, &$category, &$user_id, &$email, &$current_email, &$coppa, &$username, &$email, &$new_password, &$cur_password, &$password_confirm, &$icq, &$aim, &$msn, &$yim, &$website, &$location, &$occupation, &$interests, &$signature, &$viewemail, &$notifypm, &$popup_pm, &$notifyreply, &$attachsig, &$allowhtml, &$allowbbcode, &$allowsmilies, &$hideonline, &$style, &$language, &$timezone, &$dateformat, &$session_id)

Replacing Features not Supported by Phalanger

• Recursive regular expressions are not supported.
  

  In file viewtopic.php, place the following code on the beginning (after inclusions):

  
  /*
  Phalanger: this function replaces regular expression matching HTML inner text '#(\>(((?>([^><]+|(?R)))*)\<))#se')
  */
  
  function ReplaceHtmlText($str,$callback)
  {
    $tag = false;
    $t = 0;
    $result = "";
    
    for ($i=0;$i<strlen($str);$i++)
    {
      if ($tag && $str[$i]=='>')
      {
        $tag = false;
        $result .= substr($str,$t,$i - $t);
        $result .= '>';
        $t = $i+1;
      }  
      elseif (!$tag && $str[$i]=='<')
      {
        $tag = true;
        
        $result .= $callback(substr($str,$t,$i - $t));
        $result .= '<';
          
        $t = $i+1;
      }
    }
    
    if (!$tag)
      $result .= $callback(substr($str,$t,$i - $t));
    
    return $result;
  }
    
  function WordsReplaceCallback($str)
  {
  	return preg_replace($GLOBALS["orig_word"],$GLOBALS["replacement_word"],$str);
  }
  
  function HighlightCallback($str)
  {
  	return preg_replace(
  		'#\b("' . $GLOBALS["highlight_match"] . '")\b#i', 
  		'<span style="color:#' . $GLOBALS["theme"]["fontcolor3"] . '"><b>\1</b></span>',
  		$str); 
  }

  And make changes in the following piece of code (around line 1103):

  //
  // Highlight active words (primarily for search)
  //
  if ($highlight_match)
  {
  	// Phalanger replacement:
  	/* $message = str_replace('\"', '"', substr(preg_replace('#(\>(((?>([^><]+|(?R)))*)\<))#se', "preg_replace('#\b(" . $highlight_match . ")\b#i', '<span style=\"color:#" . $theme['fontcolor3'] . "\"><b>\\\\1</b></span>', '\\0')", '>' . $message . '<'), 1, -1)); */
  	$message = str_replace('\"', '"', ReplaceHtmlText($message,"HighlightCallback"));
  }
  
  //
  // Replace naughty words
  //
  if (count($orig_word))
  {
  	$post_subject = preg_replace($orig_word, $replacement_word, $post_subject);
  
  	if ($user_sig != '')
  	{
  		// Phalanger replacement:
  		/* $user_sig = str_replace('\"', '"', substr(preg_replace('#(\>(((?>([^><]+|(?R)))*)\<))#se', "preg_replace(\$orig_word, \$replacement_word, '\\0')", '>' . $user_sig . '<'), 1, -1));*/
  		$user_sig = str_replace('\"', '"', ReplaceHtmlText($message,"WordsReplaceCallback"));
  	}
  
  	// Phalanger replacement:
  	/* $message = str_replace('\"', '"', substr(preg_replace('#(\>(((?>([^><]+|(?R)))*)\<))#se', "preg_replace(\$orig_word, \$replacement_word, '\\0')", '>' . $message . '<'), 1, -1));*/
  	$message = str_replace('\"', '"', ReplaceHtmlText($message,"WordsReplaceCallback"));
  }