Quick education for vBulletin.org users....

[HMBeaty]

If you use/download/install/etc a modification from any of the coders here, and it won't install or suddenly stops working or you can't get it to work after installing, don't just post "it doesn't work for vB X.Y.Z"!

As an example, I'm going to show 2 posts that were made in one of my modifications threads earlier (both in the same day, today)

I tried this for 4.0.3 and it didnt work. Any chance this may become available?

Not compatible with v 4.1.4

Now ask yourself "what does this tell the coder the problem is?"

Can't answer it can you? How do I/we know what's wrong with a modification if you don't tell us the problem(s) you're having?!

Just telling me/us "it doesn't work", tells us absolutely nothing. A better example of explaining an issue would be this....

when importing xml I got

"
XML Error: Invalid character at Line 608"

THAT at least tells us SOMETHING.

Also, the same applies with database errors. If you post just saying "I'm getting a database error in vB 4.1.0! HELP!" ......you might as well not even post. We NEED to know what the error is in order for us to help you. A few ways to find this is via the email you should be getting with the database error in it (check your includes/config.php file to ensure your email address is entered correctly), your error logs if you have them set (AdminCP > Settings > Options > Error Handling & Logging > Log Database Errors to a File) or, while you're on the database error page, right click > view source and you should be able to see the database error you're getting.

I hope this helps a good bit of you and most of all, you actually read this! lol

/rant