Upgrading 3.8.7 & PHP 5.4+

[Don Z.]

Can someone help? Sorry if this has been covered.

I'm a 3.8.7 PL6 user with PHP 5.3.29. I want to upgrade to 3.8.9 but I see I need PHP 5.4 or better.

What is the best procedure...

[Don Z.]

Hi,

I want to prevent new users from registering their email address as their username. The best method I can think of is preventing the character "@" from being used.
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[Don Z.]

When you go to the vbulletin.com home page content is contained in a vBulletin style page. When you click Features it shows several text boxes within the same template.

How can I do that???...

[Don Z.]

Thanks Steve but when I run it I get this error:

"Rebuilding options
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: build_datastore() in /home/.sites/28/site1/web/forums/includes/a...

[Don Z.]

Steve, sorry to restart this old thread but when I run the query I get this error:

"An error occurred while attempting to execute your query. The following information was returned....

[Don Z.]

That seems to have fixed the problem. At least the diagnostic email is now being delivered.

Thanks!!

[Don Z.]

I've just moved my vB installation to a new server and all email notifications are being rejected by the receivers because they don't recognize the sender domain.

The emails all come from...

[Don Z.]

OK, I found it now. Between that and the move thread function I am able to do almost everything I need to.

Thanks for the guidance!

[Don Z.]

I've looked over and over but I can't find either "Thread Tools" or "Split Threads" anywhere on my vB3 Admin or Mod control panels.

Where are they?

[Don Z.]

How do I move posts into different threads or Forums? People regularly post replies in the wrong thread or in no thread at all. As moderator I have to be able to relocate these messages.

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[Don Z.]

How do I edit the "Welcome to..." text ("If this is your first visit...") that logged out visitors see on the index page?

I can't seem to find it in any of the templates...

[Don Z.]

Hi everyone,

I just set up my vB3 board and want to add a selection of generic avators for my users.

Where can I get a nice basic collection of avators suitable for this? I've...