[tgreer]

Hmm. I'm definitely a professional coder. I've made my living programming and teaching others to program, for decades. I wrote the printing industry's first complete eCommerce platform... I've been doing web development since there was a web - in fact I was a Compuserve Sysop prior to the 'Net. In terms of PHP and vBulletin, I've coded my own complete plugins, as well as re-written and fixed a few that I've found here. However, because I choose not to release my code to the community, with all of the attendant support problems that would entail, I'm not considered a "coder", and so cannot benefit from discussion with other vBulletin/PHP programmers?

That being the case, I hardly understand the raison d'etre of vbulletin.org!

The problems you describe can be fixed with proper forum moderation... the decision to hide the primary resource/reason for the forum, from forum members such as myself, based on an arbitrary classification, is not the right way to handle the situation.

Thomas D. Greer
www.tgreer.com
Professional Coder, Consultant, Trainer