Dave

This method could potentially make that users page load incredibly high, which you'd want to minimize at all costs. Unless you got that request from the user to open a process and run the script? Do you have any examples of what sort of things you can't decide to run through a cron? There maybe other solutions!

He's trying to promote his site, not have his skills examined. He could of paid another coder to complete work or collected free modifications! Keep it friendly please.

Depends on what you're using the crons for, if you're doing something like counting down time I'd suggest against using crons in the favor of using the actual time/time stamps. If you were conducting a clean up that you wanted to run every midnight then that is what a cron is designed for. I wouldn't really expect to see a cron running under an hour though.

Try adding this after your opening php tag: error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors','1'); http://php.net/manual/en/function.error-reporting.php http://uk1.php.net/ini_set Then it should produce an error, instead of a white page.

Welcome to the forums. As Ian has said it will be hard to find a coder to work for a % unless you have a really good idea and a great pitch. None the less, good luck I look forward to seeing what you create.

We use a couple of QNAP's at work and they work excellently. http://www.amazon.co.uk/QNAP-TS-412-Digital-Diskless-Multimedia/dp/B004LOCFUY/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1371213343&sr=1-6&keywords=nas

I'll get onto fixing the JS, and I have no idea if there are any social links so I may just remove them for now. Edit: The code highlighting blocks shall now work with the two new versions of the theme (fixed & fluid).

Are you just placing the website into a 'WebView' of an app? If so you can't really market this as an app, if you were to build a fully native app then it's a different story.

First vBulletin theme I've installed! Everything seems to be working, so far.

I'm on the 1GB plan, I used the coupon that's always on their site and bought a year to make it even cheaper. Really depends what you're planning on running on it.

I agree with Dragon Blade here, I've been using StableHost for a few years now and there support has been great and a general wonderful experience. Check out my review: http://davemacaulay.com/stabelhost-hosting-review/

Really good to see someone taking this forward, can't wait to see what else you upgrade.

Very good points, the rules have always been a bit distant from the community. As a board I'm wanting to overhaul as much as I can to improve the boards and make them more enjoyable for everyone who is involved.

I have limited time like the rest of us! Got a new shiny template coming which will be exciting. Also need to get my head around the wonders that is vBulletin.

Great suggestion, going to be making some drastic changes hopefully today so will try and add this to my to do list.

The reputation system is one of the bigger things I'm going to push for improvements on. I want the community to be more aware of it and to award members reputation where they deserve. The way we currently display reputation is awful, hopefully looking into ways of improving this.

Yeah, want to promote the use of rep a lot more on these boards, with rewards for the most reputable member every month or something similar. Needs to all be discussed but good things to come.

Just to give you a little update. We've purchased a new theme and I will be finishing it off over the next few days and implementing it. Should give the board a newer fresher look. Other changes to come.

There are numerous other designers. I'd suggest contacting Peter of W3Theory on here, he's got some threads about his services.

As you're aware the move to Vbulletin was already painful enough, it works well in my opinion. I've already got a couple of your other suggestions in motion but it will take me a while to act upon all of these ideas. Definitely looking towards taking a number of these forward to improve the board and hopefully drive the community forward.

This is in the PHP board so it might be for another script, I just presumed.

There's a number of reasons why games close, from being forgotten about to the owners not having financial assets to run and promote the sites. Every instance of a site closing is due to a different reason though. What are you researching? How to keep your game from closing?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pdo.php

I've never been able to spell that word. Thanks :) Post updated

They're MySQL functions. I'd suggest using MySQL as it'll be more efficient then having to pass everything through to PHP. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/miscellaneous-functions.html#function_inet-aton http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/miscellaneous-functions.html#function_inet-ntoa