As I said, my plan was to update our forum board to the latest version... which I did... and I even made a new QFMG skin for it.
However, I soon discovered there were some unpleasant compatibility issues even while using Internet Explorer (tested on 3 computers), some things worked, some things didn't work well and some didn't work at all.... in other words I figured, our old board works better than the new one.
So I decided to roll back to our old version (the one we are using now). And then the drama with the MySQL database begun....
Since the database was updated with the new board, I had to delete the database and import the backup from the old version. Which at the end came out to be impossible, because: 1. The SQL file was too big in memory size and the import limit that our host set was a lot smaller (no suprise there if you followed the previous issues we had in the past). 2. I made the mistake of using Extended Inserts while exporting the database backups and because of that, I couldn't even split the files in smaller parts so I could import them, and the only script I found for supporting large files, couldn't support Extended Inserts!
So after a lot of stressing and headaching, I decided to upload the backup SQL file (our database backup) on our webspace, and mailed the host and asked them to import the SQL file themselves.
Meanwhile I found a solution for fixing the extended inserts into an SQL file. It required using a text editor and manually editing "some" of the lines. And I say "some" because our database loaded in Microsft Word, came over 21 thousand pages
Anyway, I did "some" editing the same night our host decided to import the SQL backup file. The next day, I woke up and our board was back on!
I made 3 backups on the spot before going to my morning class of truck driving (WITHOUT EXTENDED INSERTS!!) and then last night after finishing my real life things, I got back into working on our current skin cause I saw some things were missing, put em back on...
Now all I need to do, is figure out how to fix the posting screen cause the editor's color is not what I remember it to be
And the skinning guide I used back when the board was the latest version is no longer around it seems Anyway, considering I managed to make the darn skin in the first place, I should be able to figure it out
I was even thinking to make a new QFMG skin with textures and stuff
It might seem ironic, but I have a mild nostalgic longing for the old-timey look of some websites.
