StarOS Forum user state

[angilberto]

Folks,

How does the Forum sotfware keeps track of users already read topics?

When I am at the office I see some un-read topics -- when I am at home I see others and when I came back to the office topics I have not read shows up as old !?

Any clues? Cookies?

Angilberto.

[tony]

It's a combination of cookies, and database management. When you log into the forums, regardless of computer the forums will show your unread messages. When you close your browser, and then go back to the forums, all topics will be marked as 'read', except for the new ones since you closed your browser. This is by design of phpbb.

[angilberto]

It's a combination of cookies, and database management. When you log into the forums, regardless of computer the forums will show your unread messages. When you close your browser, and then go back to the forums, all topics will be marked as 'read', except for the new ones since you closed your browser. This is by design of phpbb.

Ok -- Now I understand it!
Thankx, Tony.

Angilberto.

[lonnie]

Also, I have a Win2K problem periodically where I will have zombie iexplorer processes (there should be one for every browser, but sometimes you get 5 or 6 and nothing is even open) and it will clear all new topics as having been read.

It was quite frustrating until I figured out that it was dead processes that were still in th task lists.

[go.fast]

Hey
Maybe you ought to be daring and escape from the Microsoft bloatware.
Try Mozilla.

http://www.mozilla.org/start/

George

[lonnie]

I also run a FreeBSD workstation with Opera browser and although it is excellent, it does not have an email client as good as either Outlook or Eudora. To me that is the key application as I keep years of archived email which I can search through.

As bad as M$ is, that OS is still where the best user software is running. We would not have StarOS if we did not have Linux or FreeBSD to work with, so I guess it depends on the application.