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I have a question. Who gives a flying **** what colour you are? At this point, we are all pixels ... which in cyber space means we are all 350 lb men, sitting in our underwear scratching our balls, while typing with one hand. Atleast until proven otherwise. ;)

I think at this point with no sleep and spending hours on this, you are your own worst enemy. Put it away ... get some sleep and come back fresh. Or if that is not an option ... work on another mod. Sometimes working with something else helps things to click.

Not sure if this will make a difference or not, but ....   $rand=rand(1,4) $traindef=((($rand * $p['level']) +$p['pet_DEFENSE'])/2);   I ran into this problem once before. I am sure that there are better (smarter) ways of fixing this ... but it worked for me.

Thank you everyone for your help and suggestions with this. It is greatly appreciated.

What you should have done ... and not sure if this makes sense for most people but it works for me ... If you hired him for $20 why didn't you just give hime $5 as a downpayment. That way if you are not happy with his work you can walk away and in all fairness the time he spent doing it he gets paid for it, whether you like it or not. Whether he is willing to make changes or not. I'm not saying that I agree with what happened here, not in the least ... but at best by doing it this way, they will work harder to earn that extra $15 or at the worst and it all falls through ... you are out only $5 instead of the $20. And no ... the customer is not always right ... not by any stretch of the imagination. Just remember ... buyer beware. If you are not willing to pay the money expected for good quality then in all fairness you should not expect good quality (in most cases) ... especially on a forum like this where there are any number of people that can do what you requested. And I'm quite sure that those same people will accept installments on the work they have done. If you want to hire someone that is untried then you are running the risk of things like this happening. People that want to earn the money will start by doing a "free" portfolio first so that the community can have the opportunity to critique what they have done and give them pointers in the right direction.

Just a heads up ... if you are with GoDaddy ... you can't use crons either, you would have to use timestamps instead.

radio ... If you still have copies of this for sale please PM me.

Very nice to see indeed. Glad to see that Skooda is making an honest attempt to erase previous mishaps. Nice going!

Leave it to you, SRB! *laughs*

It's not so much a question of displaying the times. It's more that there will be 13 individual time frames within the begintime and endtime that will be used for certain actions and tallies. It's going to take some time for me to figure it out, but if it does work the way I hope it will ... it's possible that I may be able to use it the way you are suggesting. So thanks for your suggestion.

I agree. What you name your fields really doesn't matter as long as they make sense. The size of your tables and the data type can both certainly be optimized in such a way that there is a definite improvement in the time it takes to call or alter data. Yes, it certainly does take time and effort and a lot of cross checking to make sure that the various queries etc are now referenced properly, however, in the long run ... I think it will be worth the effort. @SRB. I like your usage of the timestamp. I find it very interesting to learn new ways of calling data ... and in the long run eliminating useless fields. Thank you. I think the best thing about forums like this is that you are always learning, whether you are someone brand new to php or an old hand at it.

You just like scamming everyone for anything don't you? You would be a great character for standing on a corner in some big city on the grift. Seriously man ... how about making something of your own and selling it instead of trying to make a buck off of someone elses work. I feel a great deal of pity for anyone that has anything to do with you. They do the work and you try and take the credit. Nice business if you can get it, I guess. Too bad that more and more people are on to you.

Then I do apologize. I hope it works out.

Yes ... I got that after reading up further on the function, thanks.

I'll believe that if/when Cronus comes here and says that that is true. The last I read ... he had problems with you. I find this very hard to believe.

I'm not posting to get my posts up. I have an opinion and I chose to express it in the form of a question. We are allowed to do that, you know. Further more ... it's also a warning to others to take the time to research you before deciding to do this for you.

Thanks iExze. So the time() function works the same way as the unix_timestamp() function then?

Why would anyone want to have anything to do with you when all over this site you have been accused of being a scammer? What will you do this time? Charge back?

Say I want something to last 13 hours. 13 hours equals 46800 seconds. On my table I have a begintime field and an endtime field. Would this record the correct times? ("INSERT INTO table (begintime,endtime)VALUES (unix_timestamp(), unix_timestamp() + 46800)");

Happy Birthday to you, illusions. 42 ... that's nothing but a fond memory for me. *laughs* Enjoy your day ... and your beer!

Thanks Alain ... that sort of clears up some things for me. I have been cleaning up the tables that came with McCodes ... well atleast as much as I can with my limited knowledge. I know that alot of the mods need to be adjusted as well to accomodate that. I have also been trying to reduce the size of the users table as well. When I first started ... I dumped everything from mods that I was making/using into the users table ... as I'm sure most newbies do. Obviously I could start all over again from the beginning with another engine ... but with all that I have put into this one and my limited time ... I'll stick with this one. Once I have gotten the hang of all of that ... my next step is to learn about security and injections. Now then ... won't that be fun. I've heard that the latest release from McCodes apparently takes care of that. My issue with that is that I have modified things so much that I doubt that I would be able to use the new patches.

I download stuff all the time ... as long as you have good malware virus etc cleaners on your system ... there is no reason to get infected. Just be sure to check 'em before opening them. *shrugs* Works for me.

Okay ... this is something that I am trying to get a hang on. I have read the documentation that is available and I am still somewhat puzzled about it. For some examples. In the standard users table that comes with McCodes; The daysold field is using int(11) ... now it seems to me that that is a waste of storage because if you work it out value wise that equals 5,883,516 years. Where as if you were to use smallint it works out to 89 years. You can't use tinyint because you wouldn't get a full year out of it. The IP storage fields are varchar(255). When really all you need is varchar(16). And that's another thing ... if you were to use char instead of varchar ... the theory is that char is faster. The problem with this is that according to what I have read you have to use one or the other in a table. If you use char in one field, use it in all fields. Now I know that the number inside the () is for display purposes when it comes to numbers ... but when it comes to char and varchar ... it applies to both storage and display. Right? See where the confusion comes in. Any thoughts and ideas on how to make this clearer ... meaning explaining it in dum dum terms would be greatly appreciated.

Why would you do that? It might be just me ... but does that not strike you as less than ethical. How can you carry on any kind of business that way? I saw in another thread that you were offering your services to do security checks for people. I had seriously thought of using your services once I was ready. After reading this ... not a bloody chance in hell.

I was born in Germany, have lived in 5 provinces and one territory in Canada. Would love to travel to Europe and some parts of the States. As to which country would I move to ... I'll let you know when/if I ever get to travel to those other places.