Where to Download SMF 1.3

[ShoeLace1291]

I don't really like SMF 2.x and would like to install 1.3.  Anyone know where I can download it?

[mashby]

1.3 doesn't exist. There is a 1.1.3, but it's ancient. You sure you don't want to stick with 2.0? If I were starting a new site, I'd go with 2.0 personally.

[vbgamer45]

You can find SMF 1.1.x under
http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?archive;version=67
I do perfer the older version as well mainly the theme.

[kat]

Go for v1.1.16, though. 1.3, or whatever will have bugs. As in BUGS!

http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?thanks;filename=smf_1-1-16_install.zip

[kat]

By the way, if you mean that you want to keep your posts/members/etc. intact and go back to v1.x...

It's not possible, I'm afraid.

Unless someone fancies coding a converter...? (Is that even possible?)

[Arantor]

Converting the database is a massive amount of work. 2.0 also runs a lot faster in some areas.

To those who prefer the 1.1.x theme, you know that 2.0 comes with 1.1's theme, right?

[Biology Forums]

You can find SMF 1.1.x under
http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?archive;version=67
I do perfer the older version as well mainly the theme.

Wow, that's a bold statement coming from an incredible SMF coder, care to elaborate?

[Arantor]

Mostly because SMF 1.1.x is more lax about what you can do, especially regarding queries (since you're expected to do your own clean-up around variables, whereas it takes marginally more effort in 2.0 because you have to actually do it properly, curiously enough I have yet to find anyone who defends 1.1's query system because without proper care it's an SQL injection waiting to happen, while 2.0's is virtually bullet proof - emphasis on 'virtually')

A lot of people cite 1.1.x's theme as better... but it still ships with 2.0 as far as I know, it certainly did in 2.0 final, so I have yet to understand what the deal with that is when it's right there for the using of.

The one complaint I do hear is that SMF 1.1's themes are more imaginative, whereas most 2.0 theme authors do little more than reskin the existing layout, and that's certainly true, but mostly because people get frustrated when mods don't work, so very often themers do not change the code at all and just recolour it.

Oh, and there are more ways to make mods work more nicely in 2.0 without having to mess around theme editing - for, say, just putting a button in the menu unlike what you have to do in 1.1.x for the same.