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How many database queries are shown to be running on each page load?

And is the problem of slow load times at the server, or at the browser? That is to say, does the page take 5 minutes to render at the server, as measured by the code displayed at the bottom of the page, or does it take 5 minutes to display in your browser when you view the page?

Helping you would be easier if it was clear what you were talking about.

Learn to form sentences.

'Sniffer' is one word. Another more common one is scraper.

HTTtrack will work fine. Just be careful to limit it to scraping the one site, not follow all the links off the site.

And be prepared to take the chance that the web site or forum administrator might ban you from accessing the site again if s/he detects you scraping hundreds of forum pages using a tool like httrack.

Most system administrators don't like scrapers. Including me. If I see something like that happen without my permission, it's a permaban from the whole server on the scraper's IP address/IP range, and the forum user too if I find them out.

Why are you using PunBB? From looking at your site, wouldn't blog software (eg WordPress, TextPattern, Movable Type etc) suit you better?

You seem to be trying to build another access control function on top of a forum that already quite good access control.

Just get more granular with the way you classify your users and then apply that to the way you set forum access rights.

Which search results?
Search results from an external search engine like Google?
Or search results from the internal Punbb search system?

Pic related.

Pls define your problem more clearly.

How does that work?

Does it have an impact on your SIU PunBB mod?

Hi Jacky:

Yes, pls do port your mod across to 1.3.

1.3 has an official CAPTCHA extension
http://punbb.informer.com/extensions/

but a mod like yours would be a great complement to it as it has a number of advantages over a graphical CAPTCHA.

One can never have enough firepower at the ready to deal with spambots. They are relentless, as you know, and attacks on 1.3 are far from unknown.

I do have some suggestions for alternative anti-bot measures.

1: put in place a simple text based question on the registration page like so:
http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=3439

or

2: (better) use Jacky's excellent text based antibot mod at:

http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=503

People have had success with both. They are also both pretty easy to implement.

ZIP file is broken again.

WinZip, 7Zip etc barf when attempting to open it.

SuperMAG, you are being too fussy, IMHO, and sweating on stuff you don't need to worry about.

Remember CSS and HTML/PHP aren't there to produce desktop publishing style layout and positioning results for the web.

I mean, heavens, the results your users will be getting will probably (and properly) vary wildly according to which browser and platform the page is being viewed from.

So IMHO: don't sweat the small stuff and don't try and achieve precise positioning effects. WAY more trouble than it's worth. Stick to default behaviours.

PS - seems like an awful lot of bot registrations on your board - about 1000+. Not good.