Posts by Dani

Hey there everyone. Thanks for all the well wishes! The surgery wasn't even close to as bad as I thought it would be - nevermind 1% of the pain of the first one. I was only in severe pain for about 2 days which I spend on percocet. After that, I was able to just take prescription-strength motrins and excedrins for the next couple of weeks. :)

I'm sorry for not being active in this thread lately. I have been very busy with back to school stuff ;)

To go back and see if I could answer everyone's questions ...

Polo => I don't experience DaniWeb being too slow - it might have been that you accessed it during a very busy time of day, or your computer connection? If others notice it too, I will look into it

aussie, I'm not sure if this is the problem, but the same way you start off your rewritten urls with ^ you should end them with $ ... Unfortunately, I only have experience with phpBB2 and vBulletin3

Nkisberg, I'm actually a bit confused by your question :( Not sure what you're asking.

The .htaccess file will make the clean URLs redirect to the real ones when you load the clean URLs in your web browser. They will not change the way the forum behaves at all, or where links in the forum point to. You change the forum links by editing the vBulletin templates and the php files.

1EightT, what do you mean? I understand what you mean if there is a : in the forum URL, but the thread title is not affected by this hack?

Hey vicec64 - no, you're definitely not! Glad to see your involvement with DaniWeb! Welcome triple7 ... sjr, post your question in the Networking forum if you could. And hey there OpenPress! Thanks so much for the kudos!

First of all, when you do a link: query in Google, you don't get the pleasure of seeing all of the backlinks that Google knows that you have. It's just supposed to be a "sampling." Not only that, but this "sampling" has been acting screwey lately. It used to only show those pages that have a PR of 4 or greater, but now low-PR pages seem to be included as well. In addition, only a small percentage of pages from one domain or from one IP block (think of this as all the domains on a server) are shown.

Definitely. What you're suggesting is what the book reviews forums are there for. They are not meant to be a place to simply post links.

The amount that your reputation increases is based on the reputations of the people who gave you comments. If people with reps of 10, themselves, gave you kudos, your rep won't increase by much.

Not that I know of, unfortunately. But, hey, I'm from L.I. ;)

Oh that's an interesting idea. :)

Nope, sorry. Have you checked out www.newegg.com? I'll usually buy from newegg or from www.cdw.com or www.buy.com

You would probably do good selling text links because people like to pay for a mass amount of sitewide links to help their search engine rankings.

You could also perhaps offer forum hosting for $5 / month for an ad-free version or to allow the forum owner to use their own AdSense client ID instead of yours.

Feature disabled. So we shall see :-D

*update* Don't mean to bump this thread, but just to add that I checked the link to software that is incompatible with SP2 and I'm not using any of it. I am using McAfee however.

Thanks! I'll take a look at that thread and I'll keep you posted. I actually have a DriveImage image of my drive from right before I installed SP2. So worst comes to worst, it will take 20 minutes to roll back to a clean, pre-SP2 machine.

I see you asked this question a few posts up already. Please don't double post - unfortunately, I haven't had time to look into the online.php as it isn't a priority for me.

When you don't use the space after link: then Google interprets it as the special signal to grab backlinks of jungo.com. When you do have the space, google just does a regular search query for the keywords "link" and "jungo.com"

Hey all!

Last night, I upgraded to SP2. Since then, random programs have been crashing saying "wininet.dll has performed an illegal operation". I click the okay button, restart the program, and everything continues to work fine. So far this happened to explorer.exe, msnmsgr.exe, and aim.exe all within a 10 minute span.

Please help an admin out :)
TIA, Dani

I didn't realize this was a duplicate thread. Thread locked.

I actually have my php backend manually adding the target="_base" to each URL throughout the site. However, you can declare this on a per-page basis as well. Within the <head> </head> tags, add:

<base target="_blank" />

This will use _blank as the default. Adding a target="_top", etc. tag to an individual href tag will override it.

I actually believe that the target tag has been depreciated in XHTML Strict though it is still valid with HTML 4 and XHTML Transitional. The idea is that this way everything opens in the same window *consistantly* for a surfer, and if a surfer wants something to open in a new window, they can simply right click and select open in a new window. This way, the open in a new window option is user-defined and not site-defined. :)

Thanks so much :) I'm really glad that you're enjoying yourself!

Not too keen on the idea of a gmail-only forum because I only want to have forums which stick and stay around for the long haul. I don't really want to create something that is only because of the latest "fad" - it will subside once gmail goes public. If that were done, there would be a new forum with each latest Internet fad ;)

It was announced today that DaniWeb was featured on The Admin Zone (www.theadminzone.com) as the September forum of the month :) Everyone can check out a whole article allllllllll about DaniWeb and me on the TAZ homepage! Thanks Kathy!! Ya'll are superb!

Check this out guys and gals ... https://www.google.com/adsense/new

OFFICIALLY we can now have multiple ad units per page!
Ad units don't take up empty space when they aren't available

Sweet, eh?

So did that work? :)

I can only tell you how to do it if you have a U.S. PayPal account, as it seems that certain stuff on the PayPal website is switched around depending on what country you are in.

But here is what to do ... first, go to PayPal and login. Then click the dark blue Merchant Tools tab near the top of the page. There should be heading a lil farther down on the page that says Website Payments in bold, with mini credit card icons below it. The last line of that section should be a link to Donations. click on Donations, and then fill out the form. You'll then be presented with some custom HTML code to put on your site.

To answer your question about the navigation of the threads and forums that span multiple pages ... this can be done, but it's a tad complicated. Here on DaniWeb, I've done it to the forums but not to the threads. It involves editing the pagenav templates IN ADDITION to the forumdisplay.php, showthread.php, memberlist.php, etc. files - all of the pages which use pagination (i.e. spread across multiple pages) Multiple htaccess rules must be added as well.

On DaniWeb, I've only bothered to add rewritten multiple pages to the forum listings and not to the actual threads. This is because it's important for google to spider the multiple forum pages to find links to all of the threads on DaniWeb, but it's not important for people to find the middle of threads through google - I'd rather them get the full benefit and only find the first page - after all, that's the one with the google ad ;) and that's also the one that makes the most sense to initially read.

To answer your second question, this site has never used vBAdvanced CMPS. We used to use the very original version of vBAdvanced. Now, we use an index page that I developed myself.

The listing of recent threads on the forum index page are actually just JavaScript that reads from the external.php?type=js file built into vBulletin. For the code that was used to get this working, check out: - If you're going to use …

Hey Sonaul. Welcome to DaniWeb ;) Gee, what a thread to post a welcome.

Thanks for your suggestion :) By default, members are automatically subscribed to threads they post in. Not only that, but they receive e-mail notifications weekly. Most other forums send out daily notifications by default. However, I didn't want to do that because I think it would completely scare off a newcomer that they joined a forum on Monday, and on Tuesday suddenly received allllll of this e-mail from the site. Subscribtion notification can be changed in your profile anyways :)

I'll also say thanks. However, I'm not going to take one of the gmails. I have no need for gmail so I'm just going to leave them to the visitors :)

Hehe. A tad stressed out, Cain? ;) So from all of your comments, it seems I'm doing it right. Ooh goodie :) I'm happy.

Very confused??

Check out www.vbulletintemplates.com for some styles :) It's also a good community to mingle with vB designers ;)

Welcome bluzman :) I hope you enjoy your stay here.

Thanks so much nanosani. Yes, I work very, very hard on Daniweb - but so do all of the fantastic moderators and members who make the community what it is.

Hey there Unregistered Guest type-person. Welcome to DaniWeb :)

You're not imagining anything! The weekends always hit DaniWeb very hard. However, this weekend was worst than most probably because of all of the college students moving to their schools, into dorm rooms and apartments, etc. in preparation of the new school year. Not only that, but the summer always results in less traffic than other months, since most people are outdoors enjoying the good weather. Here in New York, we've had unusually nice weather ;)

I use Microsoft Entourage (the mac's version of Outlook) for all of my @daniweb.com mail. As you guys could imagine, I spend a lot of time sending and receiving mail with this account. A few days ago, I tried sending something to a forum member, and it just remained in my outbox. I tried something else, same thing. But I was receiving mail just fine. So later that night I finally had enough and called OOL tech support and they told me the news. To fix the problem, I set Entourage to use mail.optonline.net for my SMTP server for my @daniweb.com accounts, but I kept mail.daniweb.com as the POP3 server. It would have at least have been nice to get a heads up or notice that they were doing this. Or something - so that I didn't have to spend an entire day trying to figure out what was going wrong and then an entire night on hold with tech support.

I'm really glad you got it working Brian :) Very cool! I just went back and double-checked my original tutorial thinking maybe I left out about how the .htaccess has to go in your forum directory, but nope, it said that all along ;)

Also, the file includes/functions_forumlist.php creates forum URLs by taking the forum title, converting all letters to lowercase, replacing all slash characters with the dash character, and replacing all spaces with the dash character. So a forum called "Me and You" will be translated to "me-and-you" given those rules.

With a bit of tweaking to Step One of the tutorial, you can remove the word "and" from your rewritten URLs ... or basically remove / tweak / edit any combination of letters to be translated into how you want. I could even tweak it so that a forum called "Dani and vBulletin" could be translated to the URL "dani-and-vB" by replacing all instances of vBulletin with vB ... or translated to "dani-vBulletin" by replacing all instances of " and" with the empty/null string. As you can see, this is the same logic that is used to replace a space " " character with a "-" dash character.

Here's what to do. Create an .htaccess file and put everything from Step 5 only into it. Upload it to your forum's root directory. Then, manually type into your browser: www.yourdomain.com/forum/forum1.html or whatever your directory structure just happens to me. Then let me know what happened.

Board names are rewritten due to Step 1, editing the includes/functions_forumlist.php file - nothing to do with the editing of the .htaccess file.
Your sub-forums showing a bad link looks like you made a typo in the forumhome_subforumbit_nopost or forumhome_subforumbit_post templates. Just revert those two templates and try again - it looks like you have an added '/' symbol somewhere.
As far as why newpostinthread links don't work - that doesn't make sense. By looking at your .htaccess file they should. But let's take care of one problem at a time. And when everything else is fixed, then we'll look at this problem.

It actually took nearly a week of restless nights to set up DaniWeb and get the site running. DaniWeb was founded the last week of June into the first week of July 2003.

LOL! Let's all go blame Chainsaw!

I apologize for the fifteen minutes of downtime we just experienced today. :(

Hey there OboroNinja the teenage programmer :)

Are you sure? I was under the impression it will work for all files - php and html. In any case, the file that you would need to edit is the includes/functions_online.php file. When I have more time, I'll investigate it further.

In almost all cases, if a page contains no PHP code, it can have either a .php or a .htm extension. If a page does contain even one line of actual PHP code, it must have a .php extension.

To be perfectly honest though, anyone with a dedicated server can edit their Apache httpd configuration to allow any extension to be an alias for any other extension. For example, you can say that .htm and .phtml are both aliases for .php, and therefore all 3 can run PHP code. Doing this would take a system administrator / linux techie type person to make the appropriate change.

That sounds great! Welcome :)

Check out this website, along with others such as www.seochat.com, www.seo-guy.com/forum/, and www.seotown.com

Many SEO experts visit those forums, and you'll be sure to get lots of tips. What I would recommend doing is checking out those sites and learning from what you read. Try to do some SEO yourself. The best people to help you SEO your site are top posters from those big SEO forums - people who have a lot of knowledge that they're willing to share - seo techniques are no big secret. They're just time consuming and do take know-how and expertise - an SEO can act as a business advisor of sorts.

Personally I will only purchase a .com extension. It's not so much for SEO reasons as it is for ease of getting return visitors. To make a site sticky, you have to offer a name that people can remember to type back in - quite often, I will remember a site's domain name but will type it in wrong and not be able to find the site because it has a .net or .org extension.

Hehe I'm sorry to say you're both wrong. :) DaniWeb was founded in June 2003, making the site only 14 months old.

I registered the domain name in 1998, back when I was in high school, as a personal homepage. I posted pictures of my dogs on it - that sort of thing high school kids do for their first webpage ;) After that, the domain went unused for many years.

The reason my registration date on the forums, as well as some posts, date back to Feb 2002, is because back then, I started a hardware forum called techtalkforums.com (which unfortunately never grew much nor got popular). It used a very different system than DaniWeb does now - but when I decided to make DaniWeb, I copied over most of the data from the old techtalkforums site to give DaniWeb some content (though not much) to start with.

I got my idea after reading a bunch of other webmaster forums out there - and that was the gist of what I was hearing. Basically it would make sense for Google to try to lower the power that PR currently has in the webmaster industry. After all, like you said, they DON'T hold the patent for it - so now that they went public, it would be a good move for them.