[kh99]

apleschu has been kind enough to share his additions, but I haven't had a chance to release them yet. But I will.

Regarding the banned ip lookup, I don't really know what to recommend when it comes to that kind of thing. But I remember a few years ago we tried this thing called zbblock which automatically blocked IPs, and the way it works is to ban one it appends it to a file (separated from the preceding one by a comma). Then to check an ip it does file_get_contents, then uses the php function substr_count. Anyway, just another idea. Edit: ...but now that I think about it, that was probably done because zbblock doesn't use a database at all. Although it does have the advantage of being able to do it's work before vbulletin does it's initialization.