As far as I know, vbCrons are triggered by someone visiting the forums (and for those that have access to crontabs, they could easily convert them over).

As for which is better: I can certainly see that there are pro's and con's to both sides. By having the expire check done on each user's visit would obviously require fewer queries over having to do an expire check for every user once every 24-hours.

Perhaps you could create a queue of userids (stored in a table) that the cron would run off? When a user logs in, the system checks to see if there is an item that can expire that day, if there is, add that user's id to a queue and then run a cron off that list.

Or scrap the cron idea entirely and do what you currently do, but against a table instead of a field in the user table. I just think that having an additional table for expirations would make the expire system much more robust. And while reverting a username would require numerous queries, reverting things like user titles probably wouldn't (I don't think anyway).

one more thing.. i know I said it before and maybe it got lost or you are totally uninterested.. lord knows your busy with everyones issues.. ;) but maybe you could add in one of your upgrades the ability to send a gift to a user from the drop down in the post bit, the drop down from the username in the posts. MUCH appreciated if you could :)

Even after clearing user history and rebuilding datastore, in the users profile it shows something different.

Item ID Item Name Item Cost
12 Sticky Thread 10.00
48 Can Modify Profile 8.32

After clearing user history, none of these options are buyable.

@CMX_CMGSCCC thanx for the update i love the new admin layout in CP,so far all is good and no errors,seems to have sorted the problems i had, cheers

I'm confused. Where do the forum rules appear after you have done the template edit?

I've found something else :) in the eStore Options > Manage settings > Administrator Usergroups & Protected From Options Usergroups

If you try entering multiple Usergroups using the coma like it says. It saves the first usergroup but doesn't save the 2nd usergroup ..


Also ... for the life of me I remember seeing a area to setup Thief ... but I can't find it anymore. I know if you go to Manage Options you can click thief. And at the bottom is the setup for those options .. but I swear I saw a place to use those ...

the bottom left corner.

for those who cant find where the rules are located see screenshot

Also for the forum rules part ... it's not showing the points. Just shows

Points Per Thread View:
Points Per Thread:
Points Per Reply:

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have a box at the lottery "Buy how many tickets?" ?

It's difficuilt to buy 5 tickets for the same lottery right now, because you can only purchase one ticket each minute (fllod control) and even if you disable flood control you have to go back and do the purchase 5 times. Just an idea...