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but for future, can't daniweb keep a pointer to lost accounts so that we can get them in any case ?

If you no longer wish to use your account anymore, you can simply log out, unsubscribe from receiving any emails from DaniWeb, and no longer visit the site. Then your account will be classified as nonactive.

Account deletion is for those people who really have a moral issue with having an account for life in our system, and want to permanently erase absolutely all traces of their account. If it were easy to recover deleted accounts, then they would be no different from what we were doing for the past 10 years that some people had major issues with.

For most of the past ten years, we had a policy of not deleting member accounts (because to comply with federal regulations, we are required to keep a history of everyone we email in our database to prove opt-in status).

We received many complaints from people saying that they thought it was a privacy threat that they should have the ability to wipe their account clean if they so choose to, and that they didn't want remnants of a long forgotten account permanently on the web. They felt like it was a privacy violation that once an account is created, the account exists for life and there is no way to make it permanently go away.

Therefore, we created the feature about a year ago for members who absolutely, positively no longer want any trace of their account to ever appear or be found anywhere again, and consider it an ethical issue that they are permanently tied to DaniWeb for life.

Therefore, while we still keep the pertinent details required to comply with federal regulations buried deep within our database, member profiles no longer exist, it's no longer possible to pull up a list of information about a particular member, even for moderators, etc. This way, we can make that promise to our community that for those of you who absolutely want your account gone forever, while some of it is still locked away in our database, we guarantee that no trace of it will be found on the web, and even the moderation team can't get in to see your profile anymore.

We really simply are unable to recover lost accounts from the database, sorry.

Sorry :(

I'm not even sure if I can.

What was the username of your deleted account?

At this time you can't.

Because you can post in the Microsoft Windows forum and then just tag your thread with ms-office.

The code you are showing looks fine. Where's the part in the Wordpress template that lets you set the <title>?

We haven't allowed rep in the Community Center for a very long time, as AD pointed out. While some people don't get too caught up on rep points, other people choose to take them more seriously, and I think it wouldn't be fair to those long time members to suddenly see their reputation counters seemingly arbitrary sliced. At this point, the "damage" has been done, and I feel it's best to leave well enough alone.

Press Ctrl+0 and see if it fixes the problem.

18 ... wow, I get all the big age milestones. 21 and now 18!

21

I already pointed out the benefit to them and the benefit to us, but the additional benefit to the actual poster is that their questions gain additional publicity and hopefully they'll get an answer quicker by having their questions posted on DaniWeb automatically syndicated to other forums and help sites.

after all there isn't any mention of Daniweb on their website?

I see this simply as rude, plain and simple, to not give credit, but I don't think it makes them "evil". After all, we proactively provide a way for other sites to syndicate our content, and IMHO, in doing so, we give up the right to complain when sites do so.

I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing because it's just one of the things that is "encouraged" with the promotion of our API. Funnily enough, it actually both makes their site more established and also establishes us as a content provider in Google's eyes, so it's a win-win for both websites.

So sorry about that!! That's what happens when I directly upload the file my designer gives me without double-checking it first.

C# can be used for both web development and non web development applications. To that end, while PHP is primarily used for web development, it can be executed from the command line as well. Basically we've adopted the tagging system as the new primary means of navigation here at DaniWeb, realizing that the category/subcategory structure is really not perfect at all.

You say you want to take an existing platform and modify it, but you haven't really given any details as to what language you want the existing platform coded in. For example, I'm a PHP developer, and so I can take an existing PHP script and tweak it to my needs. But I wouldn't know the first thing to do with a Java or .NET application.

On the other hand, if you don't have the development skills, you're going to need something straight out of the box with all the functionality you need, and just the ability to customize it. Is this what you mean?? If so, it's still important what language because it's not so easy to run .NET on a Linux server, etc. Do you have a language preference?

Oh, nevermind. My code isn't very elegant at all. I used brute force:

    foreach ($objectinfo AS $key => $value)
    {
        // PHP has a nasty habit of storing numerical AND string keys for associative arrays
        if (is_numeric($key))
        {
            unset($objectinfo["$key"]);
        }
    }       

Oh I had this problem with associative arrays in PHP myself recently. Let me see if I can find my remedy. Hold on.