Yuber - No problem. :)

ivanmcp - Looks good so far. Glad the venue thing is working well for ya.

Cloudrunner - Nothing with the cookies is actually handled in the myvbindex file - Everything is done in your forum/global.php file, so your index page should function the same way as your fourm's pages. Does everything work properly on both of your forums with the exception of your index page? What do you have your "Cookie Domain" set to in your admin options?

with cookies domain set to ".noblepagan.com", and the main site set to: "/forum" and the other board set to "/vbtest" (figure it out yet? lol), then both boards function perfectly, but the users are NEVER logged in on the vbindex page. Even after they login to the site via the vbindex.

If I change the main site cookie path to "/" then the main site functions as it should, but the secondary forum (the tester) has it's cookies overridden by the "higher" access board, the main site due to the higher level in the path.

I'm starting to wonder if there's something up with the way vB3 handles cookies... I tried a bunch of different combinations to get my test board and my live board to work, and finally ended up completely locking myself out of my test board. Then I ran a script that changed the options so I could get back in, and it's worked perfectly ever since (go figure). The only difference from my original settings is the cookie domain was blank. On my live board, I have my cookie domain set to ".plurplanet.com" and cookie path set to "/". Then on my test forum I have the cookie domain blank, and the path set to "/". That seems to work perfectly for me, so maybe that will work for you? If not let me know and I'll try to think of something else that will work. :)

Tried that... even rand the fix_login.php script which fixed the adminCP probs ;)

The only thing that comes close to working for me via tester on vb3 and the live forum is the way I've mentioned. and that effectively logges users out whenever going into the vbindex page....

I've kept it this way(.noblepagan.com, /forum, /vbtest), hopefully my users won't notice lol! At least til I can find a fix for it.

I've just installed this hack on my vB 2.3 installation on a Windows 2000 server. I've double checked and I can't see where I screwed up any steps. Trying to bring up:

http://10.100.136.15/myvbindex.php

...results in this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in D:\www\devforum.kmc.hhgroup.com\myvbindex.php on line 12

Has anyone run across this before?

Regards,

Sean McCormick
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Hudson Highland Group, Inc.
Knowledge Management Centre
Edmonton AB Canada

Can you quote the chdir(''); line that's around line ~8 for us please?

Sounds to me like you left off the semi-colon, or forgot the quotations.

Back to the cookies, The temporary workaround til I or tigga figures it out is to simply set all users to runwithout cookies for now, cus that works!

any further ideas tigga?

Cloudrunner - I just signed up on your board and it was doing about the same thing for me. It worked fine when I turned my cookies off, but of course it didn't when I was using cookies. The way cookies work is one field I'm not very educated in, but if you would like to make me a temporary admin of your forum I'll be glad to try some things and see if I can get it to work. I'm not going to promise anything, but I'd be glad to try. On a side note, that's the first time I've looked at your site. Nice site and blessed be. ;)

QCumber - What did you set for your path to your forums? I don't see why that would give an error on line 12, but (as long as you haven't made any modifications to your myvbindex file) then that should be the only thing that would produce an error like that.

Thank you

Tigger - couple of quick questions.

1. If I want to produce a fixed width for the three main columns on the homepage where do I do this. I've tried adjusting some and it produces some unexpected results.
   
2. The weather seems to update at rather strange times, how does this work and can it be changed. The force update doesn't appear to work either, just produces a blank page.

Thx. for any help.