an internal reader for server stats?

Webalizer is doing it, so i suppose it’s possible to read these stats we have internally for each account created for a domain ?

transfers, trafic, bandwidth, space usage, etc… is there a way to integrate this in a block in the adminCP panel?

Signature Activation

By default: the forum deactivate the signature display when you have no signature created. if in the future you have a new signature, you will have to edit your posts by hand to re-activate that signature in your old posts.

This feature will automate this process by checking all your old posts and re-activating the signature display. the choice do the opposite too, because it’s a select that let you choose to alternately deactivate your siggy everywhere…

So when you edit your signature, you have a new choice:

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And as you see in the screenshot, you have a new checkbox to enable/disable the display of signature when you edit/create a new message…

As usual, this product is without any template or file edit, so you just have to import the product, and that’s it!

note: if you have a major forum, like millions of posts, i suggest to avoid this hack, as it will lock the posts table when editing the signature field of each posts from a member… it may be long for a member with 10 000 posts!

Style Designer for parenting site.

a french-speaking parenting community is in need of a complete style for the forum and main site.

it’s a vBulletin forum, with a home-made portal and specific design for each sections of the site, like Articles, Discussions, Games, etc… so the variations on the main style have to be minimal.

here are some places to inspire yourself in the level of design we need:

BabyCenter | Homepage – Pregnancy, Baby, Toddler, Kids
Parenting.com – The home of Parenting and Babytalk
Parents – Pregnancy, Babies, Baby Names, Pregnancy Calendar, Ovulation, Birth & More.
Pregnancy and Baby Club | Bounty
Magic Maman : Pour les femmes enceintes et les mères de famille. Suivi de grossesse jusqu’à la naissance de bébé, garde d’enfants, programmes scolaires, activités en famille, forum de discussion entre parents.

do not mimic these sites, i want that new site to have a better design than these 5…

my magic number for colors is 336699 if you go outside for the primary color, you will have to justify it.

we have a logo, typologo and tagline/slogan, do not bother with these, use anything to replace it.

the site is to be opened yesterday, you know what it means!

avoid at all cost what happenned to vbcredits.com

ok, the situation is pathetic… they are hosted in a minimal classic setup, a single dedicated server. what is pathetic? they got a deal, long time ago, where they had good host at low cost. that means all the time that the host can decide to raise the package cost or close the hosting due to over-usage of bandwidth…

that’s what they got yesterday. it’s beed 3 weeks since they were noticed by their host that they have to move the site to some other big service… they took the advice too slow and they were closed without further notice because their service is too big… checking licenses, load of guest visitors, etc…

i have nothing about the host, they had to choose a bigger one. what i hate is the gadgets vbcredits.com use for license checking… expandable and over-use of callback, this is pathetic.

their license check is daily, one when you enter the admincp, the other in the daily cron. you can not avoid it as the engine is encrypted and do not work without these files. i talk about vbCommerce here, as vbCredit is not encrypted yet.

so they have a solid licenser… John was proud of it, and i told him that it would cause a lot of trafic and troubles… so there it is, their site is down, nobody can use their vbCommerce in the last 2 weeks, because they can not check their license, so a ton of sites are dependable to their own…

i NEVER want a crap like that.

Strike for Banned User

Will block access to banned users profile and indicate a banned status in postbit.

It’s a strike, so it’s complete. Users will not have access to banned users profile, and will receive a notice instead:
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There is also an indication in the postbit that the user was banned. the online icon will show locked, and the personal infos of the user will not be displayed:
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All these details are configurable in the AdminCP >> vBulletin Options >> User Banning: Nexia’s Strike for Banned User menu:
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Flexible, simple, efficient. Banned users are not welcome anymore on your site?.. .this is the tool!

update: version 1.0.1: from [user]HiBEES[/user] bug report, the date of the unban date is now corrected … was showing the hours by error.

Pm on Report

On any report, will send a PM to moderators or admins, and can also deactivate email sending on setting. (post, album, image, visitor message)

Here is how you set it:

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This setting is located in the Infractions Options, here:

AdminCP >> vBulletin Options >> User Infractions & Post Reporting Options

And here is the PM you receive when a post is reported:

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As this is just a phrase, you can customize the text.

vbTech.net is now part of vbEnhancer.com

The former turkish support forum named vbTech.net, owned and operated by Mert Gökçeimam (aka Lizard King) is now merged to vbEnhancer.com to continue the service to the turkish community.

It’s not the first forum to be merged into vbEnhancer.com, we will also have some other sites which will be announced later this season. We’re not stealing databases, and we’re not dumping members, we’re actually trying to centralize the activities around vBulletin’s development so everybody find the resources in a single place, well balanced and well administered!

Welcome home!

i think the site is ready…

yeah, i had to evaluate a lot of things regarding this site, and today i dropped the last things i thought were to be dropped…

first, no more community help… people in need of help for their vBulletin will go to the .org or the .com… these are the official places anyway, so Jelsoft will never be able to complain about me.

then, the products… i’m mostly done with iTrader, the first product i wanted to show on the site re-opening… the whole thing was not complicated to recode, i’m not rebuilding it right now, i was just merging all the features and recode the PHP in it to fit the real vB protocol… i’m done then, and in the next hours i phrase everything.

i’m not waiting for the MTF, people will read about it even if it is not released yet… the MTF engine need to be perfect so we test for the time we need to test it.

i will continue to release 2 or 3 hacks per day in the next weeks, i suppose i can release 100 or more hacks in the next weeks, and this is just regarding existing codes. yesterday i coded a gadget that was not on the market, so i think i can continue with these too… makes this site the biggest non-vb.org related release website… 100% of all the others are related to vb.org, most of them are even leeching vb.org’s content to make a living of it.

that’s it for the « news ». … i finish restructuring the forums right now, and continue with iTrader… which i mostly forgot about in the last days because i wanted to do something else…