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I was just wondering how those of you with large communities handle site searches? With very large forums, even MySQL fulltext isn't good enough, nevermind the search feature built into software like vBulletin or phpBB. Anyone play with [url]www.sphinxsearch.com[/url] or something similar? Or are we all switching to Google's CBE …

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Hi all I'm Leo, and I live in Australia, west of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. I've been playing with computers for around 25 years (48 years of age), and it seemed a natural progression from my electronics studies. I'm currently studying IT at TAFE (college), and never …

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Hi All, I am very new to Perl and trying to practice a bit. I am rebuilding my website and decided to take on a project - convert an Simple Machine Forum database into vBulletin database. At the present stage my script successfully converts users and topics, but I am …

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I have started my own little site ([url]www.geocities.com/willpull22[/url]) i made it with dreamweaver in about an hour. But i wanted to add a forum page(probably wont be added until i get a paid for site.) and i was looking around and saw that most complex forums are made with VBulletin …

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Hi, I modified my postbit_legacy template in vbulletin for my forums, [url]www.talkjesus.com[/url] The problem is the css tooltip hover is messed up in IE7, but works fine in Firefox 3. In IE, it shows a blank wide space after the icon hovered on, as if its showing a blank alt …

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hello, i have a small hard question , i really wish to find the answer soon here because iam look for that answer for 3 days and i got no success , well , iam not a professional in the php programming but iam trying to be good as i …

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I installed a vbulltein in my pc during installation everything goes fine but, when viewing the pages i can't see the text only the numbers are showing up I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and i got the same problem an image of the problem is attached any help will appreciated

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Alright, I was looking through vBulletin and I am deciding to get it. But where can I get some vBulletin skins. I heard it was a tough challenge to create one and I cannot build a great one. So I am looking for one right now. Anybody have any references …

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Hello :) I have a quick question with a script I'm making; It's a php script used to add data to pages (there are 5 in total and an index page), and I just restructured the database for more efficiency :o . It used to look like this: +-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+--------+ | …

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Hi all, just found this site while searching Google for a vb related search and bumped into "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread22840.html"]vBulletin mod_rewrite for vB 3.0.7[/URL]" followed by "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread35147.html"]The quick 'n' dirty ultra simple vBulletin SEO hack[/URL]" looks very interesting, I may give this a try. The site looks great and I wondered if …

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Hi all, Basically I'm banging my head against the wall recently trying to get a list of checkboxes to pass variables to a SQL query. If the checkbox is ticked then I wish for the a certain SQL query to be passed. This is my code at the moment that …

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I'm a member of a large gaming community that is currently split among three different sites. We are now gaining sponsors and need to consolidate our presence to one site. I'm the head of the team that will design the change and implement it. After looking at all the major …

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By default, the vBulletin forum system has support for Paypal, NOCHEX, Woldpay, Authorize.Net, 2Checkout, Moneybookers, and CCBill. I'm not familiar with any of these other than Paypal. What are their differences and which do you recommend for accepting credit/debit cards globally?

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I Started Installing it and i am getting this error Step 2) Connect to the database Attempting to attach to database Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/www/tropical4.freefronthost.com/Vb/Vb/includes/db_mysql.php on line 140 The database has failed to connect because you do not have permission to connect …

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Hi, this is my first post I am running a phpbb3.0.0 forums[stable release] i planned to convert it to vbulletin 3.6.8 i gathered some info from the internet that to import all my forums data from phpbb to vbulletin i need a script called "impex" So, i downloaded the impex …

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am trying to make my forum work but it wont work I try to edit the config php but I get stuck any help guys I got the information but i just don't know were to put it [code=php]<?php /*======================================================================*\ || #################################################################### || || # vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 2 …

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I am trying to add a email sign-up module to my bulletin board. The email is powered by Windows Live (they are kind enough to give me the proper codes to add it). But I don't know which file it is suppose to be added to so that it appears …

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Hey Gurus, My goal is to build a website outside of Vbulletin, but use Vbulletin's power and ability to supply the content for the website. I want to be able to run news, articles, reviews, photo galleries, etc that are all managed through vbulletin and plugins like photopost, but displayed …

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I am posting this thread because I am getting tired of seeing htreads being started called stuff like "is phpbb free" or "Which is better IPB or Vbulletin". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So basically what I would like to do is build up a thread of lots of information about each forum. If …

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Dani, How did you make your home page come up when you type in [url]www.daniweb.com[/url] The forumhome page in vbulletin is stored in /forums/index.php so how did you avoid that and have your homepage come up when a person just types [url]www.daniweb.com?[/url] -Jay

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Hi, I've recently migrated my forum from YaBB to vBulletin and would like to implement a 301 redirect (if it's not too late), in order to preserve PR (it was PR4). Old URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl[/url] New URL: [url]http://www.mysite.com/forum/[/url] Can anyone help me with what exactly to put into the .htaccess file? …

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I need to know how much advertising revenue I could be getting or should be getting compared with what I am getting. I run a vBulletin-only forum website and get 8,000 to 10,000 unique viewers per day, a little over 100,000 page views per day and as a vBulletin forum …

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Well to start off, I'm new to javascript. I've been reading books and tutorials for the last week or two and trying to get a hold on things. So my concept of the lingo is still fairly new. I have, however, managed to create a very simple drop down menu. …

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[B]İ did my own header in Microsoft Publisher. [CODE]http://diziler.di.funpic.org/header2.htm[/CODE] Please look at my header.And problem is: "How can I put my header to vBulletin?" Please i really need that badly.[/B]

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This has been a long time dream of mine.I read a lot of books, sometimes really old and out-of-mainstream books. I want to build a forum where likeminded people would propose book ideas, review them etc and others can talk about that book. I also wanted to expand this to …

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Somebody help me plz... each time i make a reply on a topic, there are 2 same posts.... does anybody how to fix that? I am using vbulletin 3.6.8.

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Hello, I really need your help in vbulletin forum .. I am owner of vbulletin forum designed for arab and it's specialised in html and php tutorial how can I highlight code like daniweb forum ?? I dom't know if administrator can help me or not but I hope !! …

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[CODE]I've just installed vbulletin 3.6.7 about a month ago, and am an admin on a small forum. I performed the backup of the phpbb board we were on, and the install and import into vbulletin. My background is completely technical and computer related (electronics, building/maintaining PC's, Novell CNE way back, …

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I had setup a web site for a game I was playing a while back. Some time later the forum started getting hit with spam ranging from vitamins to pleasurable company. I was curious about how much effort goes into keeping a site like Daniweb clean of garbage and spam. …

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How to optimize a vBulletin site? After the very good "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread35147.html"]Vbuleltin SEO hack[/URL]" Best sitemap solution, or other good hacks...

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