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Hi Mark. Our forum relies heavily on a few custom PHP applications utilizing PHP code blocks. I see that is being depreciated. An entire rework of the site to make it fit Invision 5 isn't currently within scope for us. Do you have a rough estimate for how long you will be providing security updates for Invision 4? Like, 3 years, a year, 6 months? Will we continue to be able to purchase the license for Invision 4 to continue receiving those updates for that time period? Knowing roughly where we stand will let us better plan for our next steps.

I would ideally prefer to keep using PHP blocks as redoing the work would be a tremendous lift for our little site. I assume there won't be a work-around for this depreciation?

Thank you, would this work for heavily utilized PHP? We have custom PHP applications that access custom mysqli databases.

I have a notice in my panel that PHP Blocks in Pages will no longer be supported. We utilize these for important site functionality, how do we continue? Thank you for your time and assistance.

For anyone else that runs into this, I dropped this at the bottom of my custom.css to force a style on links in comments/posts. Currently, when they edit the format IPB uses <span> to do inline styling. This should override it. Not responsible for any issues this causes: .cPost .ipsComment_content .ipsType_richText a span { color:yourcolorhere !important; } .cPost .ipsComment_content .ipsType_richText a { text-decoration:underline !important; }

Apologies for the delay here. Posting HTML is off as far as we can tell for any non-admin group. Is there a way to force the formatting of any link? We just need to be able to spot it easier. I figure it's something I likely need to edit in the template? They will also format it to look like the inline text of the post. Any pointers or tips are appreciated. Thank you for your time and assistance.

Good Morning! I don't see the ability to cancel automatic renewals on my self hosted sites. Where can I do this? In the past I was able to pay as needed.

Thanks for your reply. We appreciate your help, however, we've often encountered new issues with each update, including the latest one. Consequently, we've come to consider updates as a last resort, and plan extensively for them due to these experiences. I managed to solve this specific problem by hard overriding any lazy loading functionalities. I'm sharing this solution in case others encounter the same issue.

After updating to 4.7.10 we're finding that YouTube embeds are failing, showing a blank box. Digging into the elements, the src is being set with "data-embed-src", if I change it to just "src" the iframe works. In one example, I used the wysiwyg editor to manually insert an iframe as follows: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" id="UIDREMOVED" name="fitvid0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/example?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;color=white"></iframe> As you can see the source is defined with "src". This is correct and works. However when the page loads, something is changing that tag to "data-embed-src": <iframe allowfullscreen="" id="UIDREMOVED" name="fitvid0" src="https://www.example.com/applications/core/interface/index.html" data-embed-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/example?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;color=white" frameborder="0"></iframe> Lazy Loading is turned off in the Admin CP. What is changing that embed link on page load? If I examine the source of the post by bringing up the wysiwyg editor for the post it shows the correct, first version, but it's modified on page load.

We're currently self-hosting two sites and I've been an IPB customer for five years or better. I'm a bit concerned seeing this pop up in my ACP. Anyone with the capability to self-host is already aware of the Invision Community hosting offer. This conversion opportunity feels more like a warning to me. Edit: The image isn't showing up. There's a "Upgrade to Cloud" button in the top right of the ACP. I've seen similar approaches to this, and the conclusion, even if it takes a couple of years, is the service eventually moves to "the cloud" being the only option. Do we have a guarantee that the self-hosted option will be a permanent fixture. More than just "we don't have any plans to remove the self-hosted option", but rather a future guarantee that we will always be able to self-host. It's possible I'm just being a bit paranoid, but I've seen this path traveled many times before. Thank you for your time.

Spammers appear to have picked up a new trick by undoing hyperlink formatting in their posts making it harder for people to report those spam posts. The links look like normal inline text. Is there a way to prevent users from changing the default <a> formatting on the forums so they can't mask hyperlinks?

Just to double-check, if I wanted to give away my site to a new owner. How would one do that? Do they need to buy a whole new license? What's the purpose behind this? I may need to transfer one of my sites to a new owner in the future, and it would be good to know what to expect. Thank you for your time.

@Kjell Iver Johansen I found the tool you referenced and this will save a lot of time. I'm not sure why they would remove something this useful from the software but I'm sure there was a good reason. Luckily I haven't updated yet. For anyone else stumbling on this, it's under "Get Support" in the ACP and then "SQL Toolbox" on the right.

Definitely, I do several backups a day. Ideally I don’t want to install PHPMyAdmin on my VPS. Is there a way to craft the query in IPB? I wasn’t aware of this tool I’ll check it out. Thank you.

We have a database with a bunch of entries, around 1300. I need to change the owner of all of those entries to another owner. How do I run a query against this database to easily do this? Is there a query window or terminal? What should the statement/code/format look like and where should I set this one-shot up? Thank you for any guidance.