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This is a very quick 'n' simple vBulletin SEO hack. It's easy to apply and it's the one I have been using here on DaniWeb for the past couple of months. I was going to wait until we went vB 3.5 to release it but I might as well do …

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Hello everyone, I've looked in several forums but can't find an answer. In excel I want to place a picture in a cell, that's no problem. Then, I want to display that picture in the header with VBA code. I know vba can link to a directory to display a …

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Hello Guys, I have a asp site. and Now i'd like to install forum(Xeforo or Vbulletin) is it possible or not? I can use separate database and site | code but in the same root domain? Is it stable? Need your solution Much thanks Leon

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I am looking for a script which will allow me to place a vbulletin login box on a non vbulletin page. There are couple of scripts, but they are for older versions. I am using v3.6.8 Does anyone know where to find one for 3.6.8? The closest I could find …

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The Forums page (the first item in the footer toolbar) has gotten a huge overhaul today that hopefully will make it a lot more useful ... plus it brings back a bit of nostalgia from our vBulletin days. Enjoy. And let me know thoughts. https://www.daniweb.com/forums

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Have been surfing around forums for forum owners tonight, and an ENORMOUS problem seems to be bot spam. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself and all of the custom tools that I wrote to keep bot spam at bay since switching off of vBulletin. :) It's really seeming like we …

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Who thinks that vBulletin providing a cloud-based offering is going to restore any type of faith in their product? http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2476015#post2476015

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Can the database of a phpBB forum be transferred across to run under vBulletin, without losing memberlists, post history and so forth?

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In light of vBulletin getting hacked due to hackers gaining the ability to log in as a moderator, we are being proactive and changing our method of storing and checking user passwords. Although we are no longer on the vBulletin platform, and are absolutely not susceptible to being hacked in …

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The popular [MacRumors Forums](http://www.macrumors.com/) site has confirmed that it was successfully hacked on Monday this week. The vBulletin powered forums fell victim to what it describes as a similar breach that hit the Ubuntu forums earlier in the year. "Our case is quite similar" says MacRumors founder Arnold Kim who …

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Ever since 2008, Google has been figuring out which content are forum discussions, and showing the number of posts, authors, and the last post timestamp as meta information within the SERPS description. They're pretty accurate when it comes to any vBulletin forum, and even StackOverflow (which is a unique Q&A …

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Community activity has been WAY down since we switched over to our new proprietary platform and off of vBulletin just over a year ago. There was literally a night and day difference in activity from the day before the switch to the day after. I thought that it would just …

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Hi Guys! I want to know about Forum Software Development,(Vbulletin for Example) i want to Build the Popular Software like Vbulletin,how can i Develop it? Please Help me,what i should know to Build it,Basically i don't even know C,C++. Would it be Difficult and how much and yes i am …

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Hello everyone. A group of us who are into Battlefield 3 gaming have started a new clan/community to support the game and we are looking for someone to help with designing a basic but professional looking website for the group. We would like to run a vbulletin forum on that …

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I want to post an ad to sell my license of vBulletin 4.x in Webmaster Marketplace (at least I think that is where it should go), but it doesn't fit any of the type categories in the dropdown list. How (or where) can I post this? >I have one vBulletin …

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HI Everyone. I am not new to programming, but I have just started to work with vB. I have been around vB.com and vB.org and neither really have a good how-to on starting your our hacks and using the vB page shell. Maybe, I missed it... But, I want to …

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As of the last crawl of your website, you appear to be running vBulletin 3. One or more of the URLs found were: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/c/threads/242548/1063562 http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/java/threads/326935/1395062 http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/threads/26614/134458 Google recommends that you update to the latest release. Older or unpatched software may be vulnerable to hacking or malware that can hurt your …

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Hello Everyone, On two/three forums, I activated my account and i got logged in. After contributing in forum i thought of updating my profile and get a profile link than i tried to confirm it whether its visible on not but then i saw got this message: > **USERNAME**, you …

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Hello all I am trying to find a menu tree that I can use on my vbulletin site in my left column. I have looked at [URL=http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/switchmenu.htm]DHTML Switch Menu[/URL] I like it but, it doesn't remember what you had open (if you were in a sub folder) when you get …

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Hello, this maybe a obvious. But i'm new to all this and i really need some help! :). I was wondering if someone knew how i could turn off email verification (being emailed to confirm the account) As i feel it is not necessary to have spam stopper, being an …

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I am trying to display my vbulletin usergroup ids for each user who posts an ad in my photopost classifieds. in doing this I can execute my code based on that usergroup id. I have been working on this for 3 days now and I just can't get it to …

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Hi all! This is my problem about Dev Express! I have a VGridControl. I bind a table with one column(20 records). When I load this table to VGridControl. It always shows 20 records in one rows. I want to divide into 4 records/rows. Please help me. THanks a lot. Nancy

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Hey, I was just wondering if you guys miss having article views? Is it an incentive to see how many views your article received? Or can you live without it? vBulletin's view counter was always just a simple increment counter everytime a thread was fetched from the database. However, that …

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Every once in awhile I get email from my web site vBulletin that there is an error on MySQL. Below is the most recent error message. Looks like it might be caused by a hacker to me, what do you think? I've asked the technicians at iPage and they have …

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So i'm trying to make a script that reads from forum last post first word and displays it on my site vBulletin forum http://www.forum.com/showthread.php?85788&goto=newpost it uses javascript, so I can't get any info :S My script so far <?php header("content-type: text/plain"); $myurl = 'http://www.forum.com/showthread.php?85788&goto=newpost'; $curl_handle = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, …

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I have started a new vBulletin site and one of the forums is going to be for adults only, over age 17. Right now when a new member registers he/she can put whateve age he wants. Before allowing access the the adult-only forum I'd like to verify that the person …

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One feature I missed with the previous version of Daniweb was the ability to do an Advanced Search. In other forums using vBulletin, I was able to search for posts by, say, username, in a particular forum, in the past month, etc. The present incarnation of Daniweb doesn't seem to …

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I copied/pasted the html code for my member badge into my vBulletin web site but it doesn't work. All I get is the html code and not the badge image. What's wrong?

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Is there any way to get the token so i can continue to POST on the Vbulletin forum when logged in? As login security Token = Guest but when logged in its a long code. I need this to POST string If it saves it to the cookies how can …

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Hi Everyone, I have built my own forums and currently they are displayed in the order of newest posted (id DESC). What I want to do is keep this order however, if there was a topic which was created months ago that is not on the first page for example, …

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I run a web host along with a forum which is powered by vBulletin... What iss the best way to bring people to the forum and start them posting and making new threads. Many thanks Paul Central-Host.net

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Hello Everyone I Installed vbSeo And Everything I Think Is Ok The problem I Faced Is That The Old Links Does Not Redirect To The Same Topic Thats The Old Link Style [COLOR="Red"]www.almsmk.com/thread/263356[/COLOR] Thats My Htaccess File [CODE]RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.almsmk\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.almsmk.com/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} …

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Guys and Gals i have a vBulletin forum and I am having some issue with our tag clouds. currently the tag link looks like this [url]http://www.site.com/tags.php?tag=green+data+center[/url] But we want to get it like this [url]http://www.site.com[/url] /tags/green-data-center.html So I have used this RewriteRule ^tags\.php\?tag=(.+)$ tags/$1.html but there seems to be no …

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Hi Dani, Glad to see you managed to get your site fixed after a Panda hit! I too own a modest forum and it also has been hit. I have see your video interview and read your posts here and there and have been implementing similar changes to avoid Google …

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Iam Coding A Small Portal And Need Help This Is My Code [CODE]echo "<div class='posterdecoration'><img src='$row[scr1]' width='640' alt='$row[name]' /></div>"; echo "<div class='posterdecoration'><img src='$row[scr2]' width='640' alt='$row[name]' /></div>"; [/CODE] When I Put Scr1 + Scr2 From Site Panel It Show On The Site I Need To Use <If Condition> On The Scr2 …

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I've been programming a web crawler for a while, I'm almost done, it works perfectly but when it crawls vbulletin forums i get weird urls example: forum/index.php?phpsessid=oed7fqnm9ikhqq9jvbt23lo8e4 index.php/topic,5583.0.html?phpsessid=93f6a28f192c8cc8b035688cf8b5e06d obviously this is being causes by php session IDs what can I do to stop this? I tried using cookies with HTTP::Cookies …

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Hi, I used the code [code] <?php $con = mysql_connect("localhost","clickim_forum","thankyou1"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db("clickim_forum", $con); $result = mysql_query("SELECT userid FROM user ORDER BY userid DESC LIMIT 0,1"); echo "<table border='0'>"; echo "<tr>"; while(row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "<td style='color:#FF0000 '>" . $row['userid'] . …

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Hi, I have a forum based on VBULLETIN, now i know this is not a vBulletin forum, but what i need is a php solution. i have to change postbit's rateposts( thumbs up/thumbs down) mechanism from a GET to a POST because users were just copying the urland illegally raising …

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[B]Hi guys, Well I just reinstalled vBulletin 3.8.6, on top of the other. I tried to make a new THREAD, after posting it says:[/B] ___________________________________________________________________ Database error in vBulletin 3.8.6: Invalid SQL: UPDATE session SET newposts = newposts+1 WHERE NOT ISNULL(newposts); MySQL Error : Unknown column 'newposts' in 'where clause' …

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[QUOTE]Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8: Invalid SQL: UPDATE session SET newposts = newposts+1 WHERE NOT ISNULL(newposts); MySQL Error : Unknown column 'newposts' in 'where clause' Error Number : 1054 Date : Saturday, September 22nd 2007 @ 11:19:12 AM Script : [url]http://gjilaniforum.altervista.org/forumi/newthread.php?do=postthread&f=91[/url] Referrer : [url]http://gjilaniforum.altervista.org/forumi/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=91[/url] IP Address : 82.114.72.186 Username : …

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Hi all, I have seen below icon in thread listing. [URL="http://images.daniweb.com/vbulletin/statusicon/thread_hot.gif"]http://images.daniweb.com/vbulletin/statusicon/thread_hot.gif[/URL] I think it will be described on dani but did't find it. Just want to ask what does it means? Thanks.

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Dear experts! I want to following Technical Questions help. [B]Q1) Technical Questions [/B] a) In vbulletin where is the code to edit how items are displayed? b) Write, in pseudocode or PHP, a small program that calculates the sum of the first 540 natural numbers. Start numbering from 0. C) …

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Anybody know what version of vbulletin Daniweb is running? I help run a huge vbulletin forum and really like a lot of the features here so curious if we're running the same versions. Does seem like there is a lot of "custom" hacks being done though here. Danny

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I have problemes editing vbulletin from my cp , in the template interface , and i tried to edit the froum interface from dreamweaver 8 but i couldn't. i opened the index.php file of the vbulletin directory with dreamweaver and all i get is the php code and i couldn't …

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I Have A vBulletin Forum I Created Custom Fields Lets Say It Give User Gold Point User Id : 1 Posts : 150 Reputation : 1000 [COLOR="Red"]Gold Point[/COLOR] : 5000 This Custome Field Appear Normally In Postbit_Legacy I Need To Know How To Get This Field Data From The Database …

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I have a database which, because of a Vbulletin mod error during uninstall, has left me with a database I can't restore. It says there is a query for a table that doesn't exist and a username attached to the table. Is this fixable?

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I'd like to show the Zoints topic tag threadform when creating a new thread only in certain forums AND only to certain usergroups. What template conditionals would I use? And how should it be structured? Plus when both these requirements are met I need to show one of two threadforms …

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After being requested to write a tutorial a few times, I've finally found the time to create a mod_rewrite tutorial for vBulletin 3. What this tutorial will allow you to do is make your vBulletin forum search engine spiderable - for Google and all the others. [i]<< update >>[/i] [i][b]This …

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Reviving an old question ...... any chance of an [COLOR="Green"][B]ICODE[/B][/COLOR] button in the Daniweb editor? I use [COLOR="Green"][B]ICODE[/B][/COLOR] almost every time I post and on every occasion I think "still no button". I've read in earlier posts here that vBulletin is difficult to edit in this regard but I'm sure …

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I am not very familiar with mod rewrite rules except that they belong in .htaccess... so here it goes... I am looking to accomplish this: Currently I'm using "Basic Friendly URLs" which show a forum at: [url]http://www.domain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?44-televisions[/url] [url]http://www.domain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?96-cars[/url] I would like the above two forum categories to display as: [url]http://www.domain.com/forum/televisions[/url] …

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