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[Dan]

Originally Posted by Pumazooma

phpBB2 got hit by spambots just like every other forum software did. A simple 2 line edit could stop them dead. I didn't get a bot for well over a year on my old 2x board.

3x has built in antispam measures that are very good and will be adding more in a couple of weeks. I haven't had an automated bot registration now since about 2006. They're very easy to prevent.


There's a very dedicated bug fixing team for phpBB actually.

Ah that's brilliant, thanks Pumazooma for that info.

[MrTWS]

Originally Posted by Hexosphere

You know, it's taken me ages to think of when I used a web wiz forum lol - I knew i knew the name but couldn't place it, I used to use soop portal as well a long time ago, it was one of the first domains that I set up, and yeah the forum side of it was based on the web wiz forums. Re-reading your post in reference to ASP, made me think, I remember when I moved the site, and had to re-look at what was running it due to being on linux web hosting.

Web wiz is also very customisable from what i remember, and one look at your site (which looks good btw) reminded me of what it was like.

Thanks Hexosphere for the thumbs up
I have used Web Wiz for a few years now, and have become quite adept at making modification changes to the software, which I know some mods too have been created by another much better user than me, but I have learnt my fair share of finding my way around the software as well
I think V-bulletin looks good, but I'm such a loser at PHP or maybe it's just because I've never tried to learn the coding language, who knows?

[Hexosphere]

Originally Posted by MrTWS

Thanks Hexosphere for the thumbs up
I have used Web Wiz for a few years now, and have become quite adept at making modification changes to the software, which I know some mods too have been created by another much better user than me, but I have learnt my fair share of finding my way around the software as well
I think V-bulletin looks good, but I'm such a loser at PHP or maybe it's just because I've never tried to learn the coding language, who knows?

Yeah so I've seen, looked around your forums the other week, you've got a very good layout and colour scheme going on. You can tell that some works gone into it.

As for php, join the club, I understand more than most, but not enough to call myself a programmer per se lol. A good source of reference for beginners and intermediates is Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache, as they are written in a style that even my other half can pick up and start learning, without falling asleep lol. My thing seems to be that I can read through others code, though when it comes to doing it myself, I get a little lost on the logic, it's the same with perl.

Someone once advised me to start to code, construct a sentence, then break it down into the usable parts, this is how you figure your while loops, and if/ifelses.