[57north-discuss] Looking for help

[Calum Chisholm]

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On 17 July 2014 12:01, Rowan Evenstar <zenrhe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Peet,
>
> I know PHP, but I am no Guru. But I will reach out to my PHP friends.
>
> The concern here is its a very very outdated base, and there are security
> concerns with using old php (5.2 released 2010).
>
> It might be better to work out these 'custom modules' and see how they can
> be done with the current phpbb and php.
>
> I will let you know if I find someone who may be willing to help out.
>
> Cheers,
> Rowan.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Peet42 <peet42 at netscape.net> wrote:
>
>>  Hi again, everybody.
>>
>> I'm looking to find a PHP Guru with time on their hands who would be
>> willing to look at the code for my message board. (
>> http://www.paranormal.org.uk/mustardland )
>>
>> I tried asking on your IRC channel a couple of days ago, but I picked a
>> bad time to look in, as from what I could tell there was only one "real"
>> person there and a few bots keeping the channel open.
>>
>> A little back-story...
>>
>> Back in 2005, I set up this board with my friend Bob.  Bob customised the
>> PHPBB2 software extensively, *just* before PHPBB3 was released, and thus
>> we've been running that ever since.  But last September, sadly, Bob died,
>> and we haven't got anybody who can finish off the modules he was working on
>> at the time.  His complete lack of documentation or comments may also prove
>> a problem...
>>
>> If money is a motivation, several of our board's users have offered to
>> chip in to pay someone to sort things out.  If other things motivate you,
>> we may be able to organise trades... (We have everybody from published
>> authors to web designers on the board, just no PHP Guru at the moment.)
>>
>> If you're interested in helping out, or know someone else who might be,
>> get in touch, please.
>>
>> The board is a heavily customised PHPBB2 running under PHP 5.2. (It won't
>> run under any later version...)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peet
>>
>> (The reason for posting to the list rather than coming in and asking in
>> person is because I've just been given a string of medical appointments
>> that pretty much screws up my next two to three weeks...)
>>
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