[spittingangels]

ok, i've messed with the code a bit and worked out some of the kinks. I have to say, while the concept is a very good one and the code is somewhat functional, it's very sloppy and the instructions are confusing and unclear in several places.

I put this code into it's own script and called it into my main page via 'include()' and kept getting header errors at random. While I'm not completely sure, I think removing the cd() and require() commands from the script itself and putting them at the top of the main page resolved this issue.

It hasn't resolved the dupe names issue though. I've commented out that section until a fix is found.

I also noted there were typos and inconsistencies in the code, particularly in the online users part of the code.

Also, in the PM part, instead of pasting an identical url in every else statement that the user has to change to configure the script correctly, the url should be inclosed in a variable at the start of the code like

$privateurl = "http://yourboard/private.php"

and have that variable placed in the rest of the code where needed requiring the user to only have to update the information once.

in fact, this could be implemented for all variables the user needs to update to configure this script to work on thier website.

overall, I think this is a good concept but poorly implemented with sloppy code and should still be considered a beta hack, not a full release.