vb 5, does it include all previous versions?

[Skivey]

lovely jubberly!

[Skivey]

Possibly going to upgrade to VB5...

I own a vb3 license but I can only install up to vb 3.4 or something as it has expired.

Im looking on upgrading to vb 5 however my website...

[Skivey]

According to my host it was a "mirror image", but members arent getting notifications. I had this problem before where it was a mailqueue so that was the first thing I checked. Queue is on 0...

[Skivey]

have installed playthru - see how that goes. A free verification that gets users to play a quick simple game... Seems legit...

[Skivey]

Ok, thanks for the reply.

I originally did have Q+A but that didnt work so went to captcha.

Maybe I should do both, problem is a lot of the people on my site havent got a clue......

[Skivey]

and its getting increasingly frustrating. Is there anything more I can do to prevent this? Website makes no money atm so still looking at no/low cost options.

http://forum.rsclassics360....

[Skivey]

thats what I need to know.

They subscribed as stated above but paid through another account on paypal that didnt exist. I had to create the new paypal account. It didnt confirm it through...

[Skivey]

I had to change the cron job for email settings from 10 to 1000 and then run the cron job 2 times to clear it. It was the mailqueue all clogged up.

[Skivey]

The member didnt even get subscribed in the first place, I added him manually already.

I expired the already manually done subscription and recreated another but its still creating logs....

[Skivey]

Originally had the wrong email in the subscription for paypal, I edited it but lucky me I had someone pay for a subscription whilst I was doing this.

I had to create a new paypal, xfer the...

[Skivey]

This is for ALL members.

It seems to have happened once I enabled Subscriptions. I havent changed any of the user privilages as a user just has their usertitle changed when they subscribe....

[Skivey]

you sir, are amazing.

Thanks, this saved me hours of work im sure. I have the ability to turn something simple like this into a 10 hour process.

Matt...

[Skivey]

I wouldnt be anyway, my license that I have spare atm is for a forum that isnt online.

Thanks for your help though, im going to make him buy it faster as Ive actually set it all up, including...

[Skivey]

searching about a bit... if i create the forum, then upload all files for the new forum once i have the new license this will replace all the php files that have the old license number on. presuming this...

[Skivey]

just to add, I will not be making the forum live until a new license is bought. I simply wont let my friend have a live forum on my license! I purely want to set it up ready for impex

[Skivey]

I own 2 licenses and only use 1 atm.

Is it possible to change a customer number on a forum after installation? I want to build a forum for my friend and then change the forum to his customer...

[Skivey]

ill do a complete backup then try it, ill have a go tonight. My friend is scanning through all 50odd files to try and clean up some of the hacks first. Thanks for your help.

[Skivey]

ok, i might put that one on hold for now then.. how about 3.7 to 3.8? or is this the same answer?

[Skivey]

I want to upgrade it to 3.8 patch 2 but am woried that the hacks wont work.

Its really full of dodgy scripting.... I was told from a friend who is moving it to a new server: 'I have never...

[Skivey]

ALSO, the website is on VB3... how do I go about making sure the license is transferred to me?

Matt