I got Savitar last December 22, 2009. Been scouting the web for the best place to get it and PinoyPS recommended Mr. Dynamic at Virra Mall. They had 120G PS3 Slim Asian for PhP14, 700. That just includes one controller, and the necessary AV cables and power cords. I don’t know why I didn’t get the US version. I usually buy my discs from Amazon anyway. But the Asian is cheaper and that’s the deal clencher for me. XD That still doesn’t include the HDMI cable. And no games. So I got Little Big Planet, Assassin’s Creed II, Uncharted II and God of War Collection. PinoyPS has this buy and sell of games section and over the holidays I was able to expand my game collection to include Resident Evil 5, Assassin’s Creed and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Now only Batman: Arkham Asylum’s lacking on my immediate games wishlist. Also, I’m now ready for Final Fantasy XIII and God of War III come March! Wooohooo!

( Open sesame! )

001. Sherlock Holmes | Jan 08, 2010 | B+
002. Enchanted | Jan 09, 2010 | A | Re-watch
003. Sherlock Holmes | Jan 17, 2010 | A- | Re-watch
004. The Princess and the Frog | Jan 19, 2010 | A
005. New York I Love You | Jan 22, 2010 | B
006. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Jan 25, 2010 | B+
007. The Princess and the Frog | Feb 05, 2010 | B+ | Re-watch
008. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief | Feb 12, 2010 | B+
009. Alice in Wonderland | Mar 05, 2010 | B+

001. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan) | Jan 08, 2010 | B+
002. Serpent Prince (Elizabeth Hoyt) | Jan 20, 2010 | B-
003. Missing in Death (Lost) (J.D. Robb) | Jan 22, 2010 | B +
004. The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan) | Feb 12, 2010 | B+
005. Born of Fire (Sherrilyn Kenyon) | Feb 23, 2010 | B+
006. Born of Ice (Sherrilyn Kenyon) | Feb 26, 2010 | B+
007. Let Sleeping Rogues Lie (Sabrina Jeffries) | Mar 03, 2010 | B+B
008. Don’t Bargain with the Devil (Sabrina Jeffries) | Mar 07, 2010 | B+B

the TFL fanlisting for the TV series, GLEE.

This hack works for phpList 2.10.10 and phpBB 3.0.5.

Download this file and rename it to functions_phplist.php. If you edit the file with notepad or any text editor, you would find this part:

	$database_host = "localhost";
	$database_name = "database";
	$database_user = "username";
	$database_password = "password";
	$table_prefix = "phplist_";
	$usertable_prefix = "phplist_user_";

Fill those in with your phpList credentials which you could get from your phpList config.php file. I didn’t want to include the phpList file as there might be global variables that could be overwritten. That’s the only thing you have to alter in that file. After editing it, upload it to the /includes folder inside your phpBB folder.

Now to integrate that function into phpBB core, you have to edit the /includes/ucp/ucp_register.php file in your phpBB folder. Look for these lines:

	$message = $message . '<br /><br />' . sprintf($user->lang['RETURN_INDEX'], '<a href="' . append_sid("{$phpbb_root_path}index.$phpEx") . '">', '</a>');
	trigger_error($message);

and insert the following lines before it:

	//Include phplist functions
	include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_phplist.' . $phpEx);
	//Subscribe user to phplist
	$phplist_user_id = phplist_subscribeuser($data['email'], 1);

Notice the “1″ in that last line? Change that to the id of the newsletter you want your users to be subscribed to. You could get that from your phpList admin page. After editing, upload it to your server overwriting the original ucp_register.php file. And that’s it!

Once a user registers in your forums, they will be automatically subscribed to your newsletter as well. But take note that this is very limited. For one, it won’t send a welcome message to the user’s email. Also, the subscribing process happens during registration. If you have validation of email addresses in your boards and you want the subscribing process to occur once a user validates his/her email address, you will have to tinker with a different file instead of ucp_register.php. Maybe ucp_activate.php, I’m not sure since I didn’t tinker with anything else. Also, since I didn’t provide the user with an unsubscribe option in their profile, they can only unsubscribe to the newsletter via phpList’s unsubscribe page.

Now, if you already have users in your boards and want to import them to your phpList newsletter, save this file as a php file and edit these lines to reflect the paths to your phpBB and phpList config files.

require("/path/to/phplist/config/config.php");

and

require("/path/to/phpbb/config.php");

Then find this line

phplist_subscribeuser($row['user_email'], 1);

and replace “1″ with the id of the newsletter you want your users to be subscribed to. Upload the file to your server and access it via your browser and wait for the script to finish running. When I imported 16,000 users it roughly took me less than 5 minutes to finish.

That’s it. Feel free to tinker it to your heart’s content. I just wanted to share this because making this work gave me a headache.