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i had changed to xenforo and began to dislike it, sorta messed up my db in the conversion and then when i decided to go back to ip board, i went head first at 4.x.x since it's rc days, sure it has it's issues, but it's in rapid production and released at this stage, it will have many versions in it's early days to patch up loose ends in the new core, but 3.x.x went through the same if not more issues. Once skins and mods get released, they will go into rapid production also, but you shoudl always start off with the default skin anyways.

i have to disagree also, why? ipb 4 is cleaner, fully responsive and mobile friendly. The core is more secure and the reason themes aren't out is the fact the filesystem was been tinkered with and devs have been holding on till it was changed. Most of the plugins will be the same issue, but there are lots out there already. The pages system and the navigation system is 100 times better in 4 You can even make your own tracker system and portal in the new pages, and that shows a lot. the ACP is good, and the theme manager and custom css options in 4 are brilliant. adding pages and plugins to the navigation and picking default page is much easier now also. my 5c worth!!

4.0.6 is the current build now, finally fixed the filesystem issues.

You can easily upgrade in a sub domain and test the waters,use a copy of your DB and work on a skin on that sub domain thus making your initial upgrade that much easier.

will do

i uploaded a few ipb 4 plugins a week or so ago, still waiting on them to be approved, probably be too old by then lol Thre are a lot of cool things about ipb 4 but there are also a lot of kinks to be worked out and 4 will likelt have a lot of quick sub edutions, 4.0.5 i think it's at already. pages is nice and offers a lot of customisation to even the novice.

ah i was trying to upload them since yesterday, kept failing with a unknown error, then a 403. it's all good, once they're up now it's fine, i'll put some more up later.

please?

sounds like a chmod issue then, make sure to run a permissions check on folders from with the ACP.

ok, which version of IPB? Ok, you should just create a php block, best thing to use would be using the application portal which is available for IPb 3 and 4, or if it's 3.x.x branch you could use (e32 Custom sidebar blocks) plugin for same results, and then you wouldn't need to add all the wrapping or the separate php files as it has the option to include that in the creation of a php block. IP Board won't let you just throw php anywhere in it's page but allows these mods to so they're your best option. You also would not need to separate the files, as you could edit the block from with portal settings in the acp. This way you can create a block and give it's header "video of the moment" and then just add the code to the block and save.. <iframe width="95%" height="95%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PhPSS8u5qHg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

are you uploading a xml file or the zip file file with the xml file in it?

there are plenty of mods for 4, just webflake doesn't allow the uploading of them it seems.

You couild try just echo 'hello'; since the php header is already set. Also your news.php and video.php files should not be trying to set a header that ipb is already setting also, that ambigious and will cause issues Also if you were wanting a youtube video you could just make an array of videos that read from an array that user could add to...the portal application allows php blocks. Example..this is just random youtube videos onload from a array of video ids (but you could read them from a database. <?php $yids = array( "hkPkz72ddJ0", "ZSvRjLOp08o", "O_j9uKBmUEk", "N4ony2r0QFs", "k5k-DphstxE", "N4ony2r0QFs", "jE785LNs2Nk", "c-_buBIfShs", "BzclS_TIDGk", "hg3eFbYag9E", "79xjgsBzFcE", "tHQiYPiNVEE", "zZfXF6uB3nQ", "xe1LrMqURuw", "QfOZWGLT1JM", "o4ZnwrpQTK4", "J4ls3xtcP1A", "ngElkyQ6Rhs", "W4D7TG-Vup4"); $video = rand(0, count($yids)-1); echo '<iframe width="100%" height="150" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/' . $yids[$video] . '" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>'; ?> You could do the same with a new block, either reading it from a news row and column from the database, that staff could edit and remove via a form like ninja suggested. You could also have a new thread and use the rss block available already to read from your rss feed. Using ftp to do something so minimal will cause you issues. Also when using forms, do not declare global variables when submitting post or get data, make sure to filter all data through filter_input() or trim() to prevent sql injection. You also should show us your news.php and video.php , as they seem to be causing issues and what path they're in.

i would imagine it would have to be in a section that allows raw php like blocks or content or pages..then it's as simple as.. <?php include('test.php'); ?> <!--some html--> <?php include('test2.php'); ?>