If you want to allow your users to make use of HTML in posts you need to do two things. Firstly enable HTML in Admin -> General -> Configuration. Secondly to need to make sure that the tags your users will post are in the Allowed HTML Tags field (again Admin -> General -> Configuration). If users post using tags not on this list they won't be displayed as HTML! eg. to enable someone to post Flash you could add the embed tag to this field. Be careful which tags you allow, it is very easy to break the boards own output if the wrong tags are used in posts.
-Yes you most certainly can, phpBB 2.0.0 is now feature frozen and only bug fix releases will be made from this line. However, work has already started on the next release of phpBB, phpBB 2.2. We already have a number of features in mind and these are listed on our task manager:
+No, the feature list for phpBB 3.0 is now frozen and no new features will be added to that list. You may however add requests for the next release after that, 3.2, in our feature tracker:
-http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?group_project_id=13524&group_id=7885&func=browse.
+http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=580201&group_id=7885&func=browse
-Some of these features will also be discussed on forums at http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/.
- -To suggest a feature first consult the task list mentioned above, if your idea is already listed then the chances are good that it will appear in 2.2. If your suggestion is not listed please submit it to our feature request tracker:
- -http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?group_id=7885&atid=357885.
- -Before submitting please read through the already present suggestions, if one matches or is similar to yours please add to it rather than creating a new entry.
+Before submitting your idea please ensure you have read through the entries in that list. If your idea is similar to an existing one please feel free to add a comment to it. Please do not submit duplicate suggestions!
We make no promises to the inclusion of features but we will endeavour to introduce the most requested or most interesting ones.
If you wish to follow the progress of phpBB 3.0 you may like to visit our development forum to see how things are progressing:
+ +http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/
+ +Please note that this forum should NOT be used to obtain support for or ask questions about phpBB 2.0.x, the main community forums are the place for this. Any such posts will be locked and go unanswered.
+The original phpBB 1.0 saw a very large decrease in page generation times from version 1.0/1.2 to 1.4. This was achieved by rewriting many of the SQL queries and splitting the database. These changes came about from work on phpBB 2.0. With phpBB 2.0 we have introduced numerous additional functions and features, not least of which is full templating (the separation of page design from code). This results in a slowdown from phpBB 1.4, we suspect though that the new features will outweigh the small difference in page generation times.