PHPmotion, code & design…
Finally after telling everyone on the PHPmotion forum I was working on an integration phpBB3/PHPmotion I can finally prove it with the demo now online here: phpBB3 test site.
Feel free to sign up & test! The quicker the bugs are found and fixed the quicker the addon will be released!
A few days ago I released an update to the seo pack available for PHPmotion v2 and everyone was happy. Then someone gave me a few suggestions for new features, so I thought why wait…
Since I didn’t even have time to post about the previous update I’ll give you a quick list of the new features now.
I started playing around with integrating phpBB with PHPmotion last week, and funny enough a few people started asking about it on the forum so I decided to speed up my work 
I’ve now finished the mod, which allows seamless integration between phpBB3 & PHPmotion v2. I’ve just got to complete testing then I’ll place a demo online for you all to see. Don’t forget to let me know what you think!
If you’ve been using PHPmotion v2 you’ll notice that it’s slow. No matter what your connection speed or who’s your host, I’ve never seen a default install load in under 10-15 seconds (for me the demo site takes 22.71 seconds according to this firefox plugin) that’s on 1mb adsl!
There are many reasons to this, huge css file (37KB), bulky code, javascript, etc… The solution? Optimization! For those of you who used the xhtml/css theme I recoded from the original templates for PHPmotion v1 you’ll remember the difference in load time & also how much easier it was to edit. I’ve decided to code up a new theme for PHPmotion v2, unlike with v1 this won’t be an optimized version of the original but an optimized completely new theme!
I’m not sure when they’ll be ready or if they’ll be free or not but one things sure, fast websites are better then slow ones so don’t forget to keep checking out for updates on the new theme!
The seo pack is now available I won’t go into great detail as it’s already explained here & here.
Hopefully I’ll be able to create some themes too as that’s another thing PHPmotion is really missing.
I’ve finally finished coding the mod & templates, I’ll be releasing the addon later today hopefully!
It’s still in beta but when you buy it there will be lifetime upgrades anyway so don’t worry 
Currently the addon works with v2 rc1, it’ll be updated for newer versions of v2 if there are any.
