Question for Sine:

[kali o.]

So that "Dyak/Too Human" post in GT - I can't access it as I get the following error:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/tows.cc/public_html/phpBB2/includes/bbcode.php on line 220

I assume it's a global bug, not just my machine (both because it's board error message and I tested it on my other box...but what do I know).

So two questions, since I've seen that bug before - what causes it and can I fix that kinda stuff from the admin panel?

Ya, I could google it and read through endless phpbb help boards/faqs, but I figured you'd probably know offhand.

[SineSwiper]

Yeah, I think it's caused by some weird mistype of a (quote) BB code. Like if you don't close it right, and in a certain way, it'll lock up the whole thread. The only way to fix it is to get into the database and edit the msg from there.

Yeah, here it is. It looks like it has a problem with improper use of the url BB code and Wiki links with parens in them. Unfortunately, it doesn't think () is a legal character for a URL, it doesn't work normally, either. Just be sure to never do this:

(url)http://www.blah.com/(/url)

That's not how the url code works. Still, it's a stupid bug, I know.

[Tessian]

I think what you mean Sine is don't have a URL with ( )'s in the URL itself. That's what the Wiki link I had in that thread contained and it broke the thread.

"blah.com/TheBlah_(Continued)/blah2" would be an example

[SineSwiper]

Well, technically, that's fine, but it's the combination of the () in the URL and the (url)http://blah/(/url) format (which actually doesn't work anyway) which crashes the thread.

In your post, I just replaced them with %26 / %27 codes and it worked fine.

[Tessian]

But I've always used [ url ] , never knew ( ) would work.

[SineSwiper]

No, not the parens, the fact that you don't actually put the URL -inside- the tags. You use (url=http://blah/)some text(/url). (url)(/url) doesn't work at all.

I'm only using perens so that it doesn't translate it.