Update: copied & pasted the "old" 3.2 poll-code in my current 3.3 index.php

Poll is working now again.

So I'm available for support, but only for version 3.3 or matters that are not dependant of version.

leechesss, you should upgrade to 3.4. the code was improved, especially the articles query.
upgrade and turn off the options you dont want. it will run faster then 3.3
however, the poll code never changed, except a little for the query. make sure you insert the $ipollperms the way they are now.

just skip the member.php and template related changes.

Yea, sorry man, I was a little unclear about what to do. Didn't want to mess up all the work I had done to this point by making a silly mistake. BTW, I will gladly help anyone that needs it here, at least to the best of my ability. Teck has been more than accomodating, and it's the least I can do. Not an expert by any means, but I'll do my best. :)

Don't worry TECK. I will upgrade eventually, it's just that I don't have the time to keep up with you :) :)

And my current setup works, so I won't bother to change a winning team until there is serious reason to do so (eg. security issues).

i will not make a new release for a while. maybe next month, after i finish my forums.

I'm looking forward to your forums :)

Upgrade to 3.4 went well.

Question about avatars. The journalist group or whatever group I pick, by default has access to these avatars I upload, right? Now, this avatar that they pick only shows on the main index page, next to the news they post, right? Not in the forums postbit? The avatar in the postbit remains the one they uploaded, not the one from the jounalist group? Confused.........about this.

no, the avatar will be displayed also the postbit. the idea hiding them is to prevent other users to use the journalist avatars.
but they will work the same way like regular avatars. it's kind of a private avatar section for your staff only. the staff will have their predefined avatars that they select (the best way is to use pictures, it looks cool... look at sitepoint website). the rest of users can upload their custom avatars the usual way.

i did it this way to save a big JOIN, since the "default avatar" table will be alot smaller then the "custom avatar" one. the result will be a faster search onto the database, since the default table will have only few id's, instead of 10,000 for example, in the custom one.

also, if you disable the uploads, your custom avatars will not work, but the default ones, will.

btw, your no. of queries looks good now. :)

ok. i wrote in a better way now the poll query.
i need few beta testers with v3.4 installed to upload the new vbHL index.php file before i release it...