CBB 1.0 Final Release

After around 7 weeks' hard work, the First Public Relase of CBB is READY.

The CBB story
The CBB was intended to be a slim version of NewBB 2 as discussed at XOOPS CHINA Forum: https://xoops.org.cn/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2025
Since Feb 2005, I realized that I had neither capability nor inspiration/enthusiam to work for NewBB 2 project any more.
It was a hard decision for me to leave NewBB 2 Team and XOOPS Dev Forge,
but I am happy that I could focus myself so that I changed the CBB project to an improvement over NewBB 2 instead of a slim NewBB.
I appreciate the respect from my local community and my friends in English/French/German/Potitgual communities.

For my friends, although I could not offer my technical support for non-Chinese users any more, the CBB is made fully compatible with NewBB 2 and the English language package is done (You are free to correct my bad English).

-- D.J. (phppp, https://xoops.org.cn)


FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH NEWBB 2.0*
Technical support ONLY available at XOOPS CHINA

CBB XOOPS Installation:
1 Make a full backup for your XOOPS
2 upload the files to xoops/modules/newbb
3 add dropdow menu color CSS to theme/style.css (Appendix)
3 If upgrade from newbb 1.0, run newbb/update/newbb1_to_newbb2.php [NO need if upgrade from newbb 2.*]
4 update newbb from Administration Area
5 set module preferences and permission(!Important). Some suggestions:
-- Disable png hack and select gif for imageset if your server is not powerful enough
-- Make sure you have <{$xoops_module_header}> in theme.html header

Changelog over NewBB 2.02:
1 CBB uses the same DB stucture/data with NewBB 2, it is convenient to switch between current CBB and current NewBB 2.
2 bugfixes for NewBB 2.02
3 clean/correct NewBB 2 templates

Major new features ( most suggested by XOOPS CHINA users)
1 dropdown menu selectable for end users: SELECT BOX, CLICK, HOVER
2 multi-attachments upload
3 RSS improvement, individual RSS Feeds for each category, each forum and the global module
4 FPDF improvement, UTF-8 encoding is now working
5 user friendly time display, four types: Today, Yesterday, this year and longer than one year
6 block handler: recent posts, recent topics, most views, most replies, recent digest, recent sticky, most valuable posters
7 time periods for blocks, you could have most views in last 24 hours, most views in this week, most views in this month
8 new page: view all posts
9 "New member": an introduction thead will be posted automatically when a user logs on for the first time (if enabled)
10 adding dobr parameter


CBB
SITE: HTTP://XOOPS.ORG.CN
DEMO: HTTP://XOOPS.ORG.CN
SUPP: https://xoops.org.cn/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=17

Appendix
theme/style.css adding dropdown menu color as following: