phpBB3 RC7 update raised error
Thinking all would be easy, I decided to move The Music Tank’s forum data into its own database. Doing so, I noticed there was a new release candidate for phpBB3 and installed it at the same time.
While most of it is my fault because I overrode the templates and migrated the database manually, the update caused the following error to occur each time you submit a post :
The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.
On phpBB’s official support forums, there were mentions of about a gazillion manual changes to the board’s templates. I didn’t do them because I knew better and the side effects weren’t exactly the same as theirs.
Finally, all I had to do was to reset the “user_form_salt” from the “users” table to a valid hash value (ex: the one the Anonymous user has). It may not be the most secure thing to do though, for obvious reasons.