2.0.17 instead of .18 ?

[aegersz]

Due to my 100's of mods, 2.0.18 is quite difficult.

Can I stay on .17 ?

[shawnb61]

No.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Sure you can, one of my production forums is still at .17.  I've been too lazy busy to upgrade it, requires quite a few manual edits.  The big thing in .18 is support for php 7.4, but you should be able to use a lower version (I'm in 7.2) if you're on a decent host.

[Steve]

No.

Short and to the point. lol

Shawn is a developer so of course he wants you on the latest version with it's improvements and security fixes. It is always highly recommended that forum owners upgrade to the latest version as you know from being a long-time member here.

[aegersz]

Indeed, i get it.

to get the install to work on my system:

1. Need to permanently uninstall Automatic Attachment Rotation 3.8 as it won't go back on after 2.0.18 as the Post and PM Inline Attachments mod is too difficult to remove now. The newer mod also resizes now but there is a separate mod for that installed anyway. I don't really need the mod anyway.

2. Changes to ./Sources/Subs.php:

find:

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        $context['menu_buttons'][$current_action]['active_button'] = true;
        if (!empty($user_info['mod_cache']) && $user_info['mod_cache']['bq'] != '0=1' && $context['open_mod_reports'] > 0)
                $context['menu_buttons']['moderate']['title'] .= ' [<strong>' .$context['open_mod_reports'] . '</strong>]';


        if (!$user_info['is_guest'] && $context['user']['unread_messages'] > 0 && isset($context['menu_buttons']['pm']))
        {
                $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['alttitle'] = $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['title'] . ' [' . $context['user']['unread_messages'] . ']';
                $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['title'] .= ' [<strong>' . $context['user']['unread_messages'] . '</strong>]';
        }


replace:

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        $context['menu_buttons'][$current_action]['active_button'] = true;

        if (!$user_info['is_guest'] && $context['user']['unread_messages'] > 0 && isset($context['menu_buttons']['pm']))
        {
                $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['alttitle'] = $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['title'] . ' [' . $context['user']['unread_messages'] . ']';
                $context['menu_buttons']['pm']['title'] .= ' [<strong>' . $context['user']['unread_messages'] . '</strong>]';
        }

        if (!empty($user_info['mod_cache']) && $user_info['mod_cache']['bq'] != '0=1' && $context['open_mod_reports'] > 0)
                $context['menu_buttons']['moderate']['title'] .= ' [<strong>' .$context['open_mod_reports'] . '</strong>]';


3. Run the 2.0.18 update