I think I’m getting up to a little speed with PHP and the phpBB source.

As I’ve said elsewhere, I can now receive trackback pings and they’re automatically incorporated as preformatted posts. Also, I’m including RDF comments which allow Movable Type-compatible weblogs to autodiscover the correct URL to ping.

Today I included an option to type all phpBB pages; you’ll see a line like “Page generated in 1.561 seconds, 12 queries executed” at the bottom of every page. This will help me get a measure of the load on the server.

Also, to help browsers and RSS aggregators preformat a page, images generated by [img] tags will now include the proper height and width values at a cost of a slight slowdown. As a side effect, non-existent images will spill several error messages over the page’s header… I’m still working on failing more gracefully in this case without slowing things further. Anyway, missing images should definitely not happen a lot.