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I am trying to configure my phpBB installation to find the topic start number from the postid. This currently works with the following code:

The SQL:
$join_sql_table = ( empty($post_id) ) ? '' : ", " . POSTS_TABLE . " p, " . POSTS_TABLE . " p2 ";
$join_sql = ( empty($post_id) ) ? "t.topic_id = $topic_id" : "p.post_id = $post_id AND t.topic_id = p.topic_id AND p2.topic_id = p.topic_id AND p2.post_id <= $post_id";
$count_sql = ( empty($post_id) ) ? '' : ", COUNT(p2.post_id) AS prev_posts";

$order_sql = ( empty($post_id) ) ? '' : "GROUP BY p.post_id, t.topic_id, t.topic_title, t.topic_status, t.topic_replies, ...

Hello,

We have a phpbb 2 version board with a lot of seo mods added from here.

Wondering about the upgrade. Will that affect our current links structure to change?

Is there an seo problem our board could face by such an upgrade?

Currently we have phpbb 2 with mixed url mod, dynamic meta tags, and gysitemaps.

All help in upgrading to the newer version is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi all:
I am trying to add Google Analytics to a phpBB2 forum.
I added the code to all the templates that I found:

forums/templates/Igloo/overall_footer.tpl
forums/templates/subSilver/overall_footer.tpl
forums/templates/xand/overall_footer.tpl

In the Analytics reports I can read:

Waiting for Data
Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now.

but it's been like that for 3 days. Is there something that I am doing wrong?

Hey Guys,

So recently my indexed pages in Google has fallen from 17k to around 3.5k, its very frusterating and I know what the issue is but how to fix it is the problem.

If you take for example this thread there are 500 pages off content
-www.noluckneeded.com/casino770-fr-french-casino-770-poker-770-no-usa-t2042.html

However google has started recognizing the content as duplicate and the majority of the pages have been dropped as you can see here only two pages remain indexed:
Search in Google: 'site:noluckneeded.com casino777.fr french'

I have added the page number to each thread title to help reduce the duplicate content, but I'm ...

Hi,
I have the same problem but on phpbb2. When forum name or topic name is on cyrylic the link is viewtopic?f=1 , but when the forum is on english the link is test-f1.html. Please help.

Thank you and beer. :)