August 2007

Place the code below in the .htaccess. PLAIN TEXT CODE: RewriteRule ^t([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ showthread.php?t=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^lastpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^newpostinthread([0-9]+).html$ showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^f([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ forumdisplay.php?forumid=$1 [L] Edit the functions_forumlist.phpSearch for: PLAIN TEXT CODE: $forum['statusicon'] = fetch_forum_lightbulb($forumid, $lastpostinfo, $forum); and below that add PLAIN TEXT CODE: $forum['url'] = strtolower(str_replace(" ", "-",str_replace("/", "-", $forum['title']))); $forum['url'] = strtolower(str_replace("'", [...]

This simple hack is meant as a replacement for the default CAPTCHA system in vBulletin. There are two main reasons one might want to do this: firstly, new technology is constantly being developed to crack CAPTCHA images and make spam accounts anyway, and secondly, the more secure the CAPTCHA, the more difficult it is for [...]