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Give me a couple of weeks to iron out the code.  I just may take you up on your offer

Yeah, I agree.  Its one of the 1st PHP tutorials that I found that actually works and gives you an excellent decription on how it works.  Fairly easy to incorporate into an existing authentication system, If you plan correctly up front.  Actually pretty easy to "punify"  I was looking at my version the other day, and it has inspired me to take a stab at making a mod/plugin.    It will have all its own MySQL tables.  The hard part is to get rid of the HTML tables and make it CSS-P.  The thumbnail and category listing part is easy to do with tables since you calculate the number of columns and rows needed based on a couple of static variable settings in the script.  I am not sure how to achieve this with CSS-P.  I guess it could be done by nesting divs within another div, and run the caluclation through a loop.  Each loop adds another "box". I am not sure how you get it to drop down a line.

Say you have set it to display 5 thumbnail images in each row.  When you get to the 5th thumb, it needs to drop to a new line and start the process over until all your thumbs are displayed.

Any ideas?

Let me play the Devil's advocate on this one. 

Let say I have a site, I am not selling anything, BUT I do generate revenue via advertisement campaigns, such as Google ads, or standard banner placements throughout the site.  So, in a sense you can no longer say that I am non-for-profit.

Now, some youngin? comes-a-browsing to my fictitious site, and decides to register and partake in forum discussion.  He/she come across some, let?s just say, inappropriate content for a person under 13, and shares this new found ?knowledge? with others.  Lets say they don?t really understand what they have read, and decide to ask someone older (i.e. a parent), the meaning of the content.   The parent asks where they heard this information from, and the good offspring tells the parent where they found the information.  The parent investigates and finds that this website has not clearly defined rules against minors viewing this site, or does not have measures in place to prevent their child from viewing this content.  The said content does not break any of the rules defined by the webmaster, but is indeed not appropriate for children. 

It?s just as important to secure a website from minors as it is from hackers.  Yeah the COPPA ?are you over or under the age of 13? check box seems kind of meaningless, but if the kid presses no I am not, then he is not allowed to sign up with the site, and furthermore, can view the content within.  If he/she chooses to check the box that they are over 13 years of age, and they are not, then, your ass is covered (in a sense).  The COPPA rules act as a deterrent.  Not a 100% foolproof device.

So, I can understand where people would want this to be added.  And it?s as easy as it seems to implement.  For instance, you would have to make it required to register to even see forum posts. This is not a big deal, because this setting is already there.  But, once you add COPPA into the mix, you can?t make this an option anymore.  It has to be closed to everyone but registered users.

Someone made the great old blanket statement that ?if a parent were doing there job?.  I am sorry, coming from a parent, that?s a bogus excuse not to implement these measures.  I do my job as a parent of 3 wonderful kids quite well.  But, I am not god, I can?t watch what they are doing 24/7.  With a dual income family, sometimes your kids have to be watched by a sitter, a relative, a close friend.  Yes, you can tell them they are not allowed to be on-line when you are not home.  Yes, you can have ?Net Nanny? preventions in place.  Come on I was a kid once, and I looked for ways to defy my parents, or be sneaky. It?s not the parents ?job? to tell their kids what the can and can not do.  It?s a parents job to explain why things are bad in the world, and why they should get involved with such acts.

Here is an example of what is wrong with the web.  This actually happened to me while I was supervising.  My oldest daughter at the time was 8 years old, and wanted to look up Barbie dolls on the web.  So she typed Barbie dolls into the search box, and found a lot that had to do with Barbie dolls made by Mattel.  She also found, when I was not quick enough to read what she was about to click on, a site that was meant, let?s just say, for gentlemen. (I.e. adult content) I can laugh now, but I can tell you I was a ticked off.  Now I had to explain to her why there would be such things in the world.

Bottom line, its easy to say that things like COPPA are rubbish when you don?t have kids.  As soon as you have kids of the age to go online, you be wishing that they would make an internet that only kids could access and one for adults.  Kind of like a new age right of passage.  (As soon as you are a certain age, you can get on the adult internet)

Ok, I ranted long enough.  It was hard to get this out between the phone ringing, and playing with my kids.

It?s not the fact that IE is bad, most of us here know that.  It?s the fact that we have to live with a broken browser that the majority of people still use and will continue to use that is the problem.  IE will not go away. That is a fact.  I don?t care how much better the other browsers are at the standards.  As long as IE is bundled with Windows, people will use it, especially the uneducated user.  Not to mention that major corporations that have standardized on Windows as the OS of choice, have custom versions of not only the OS, but IE as well.  IT departments within these corporations don?t care about web standards; they care about standardized loads of the OS, and keeping systems on their network as similar as possible. I remember when IE first came out, and NN was the browser most people used.  Once IE was determined to be a ?better? browser, I started to see more and more people use it.  NN6 spelt the death of Nutscrape.  I truly believe that if Netscape had done a better job at the time, IE would not have achieved the market share that it has now.  Competition is good; it keeps everyone on their toes.  The fact that MS basically eliminated their competition puts us in the boat we are in today.  Why would MS care about web standards anymore?  They stopped when they ?didn?t have any competition?.  Maybe with the advent of FireFox, and the fact that they loose market share on a daily basis to the Mozilla Group, will turn the light bulb on at MS. But I doubt it.  I guarantee that the ratio to IE and FF will plateau, and you will still see IE as the more dominate browser in use.  Just the fact the IE7 will only be security fixes tell you that web standards are not a top priority for MS.

Just incase the day does come when MS fixes its IE issues I use the conditional comments that only IE will see to reference an external IE only style sheet, to keep all my hacks in one place.  This way I don?t have to search through one style sheet to get rid of the IE hacks if and when they are fixed.

This is a topic all on it own.  the saga continues......

On that note what about Opera?s problems

Ever consider making your own homegrown version of a gallery?  Try this site as a resource: Go Here

Depending on the complexity of what you are looking for, a customization of this script may be the "thin" ticket you are looking for.

I used this as a basis for a gallery script I wrote for a client.  Never got around to adding a commenting system for it.  The client didn't require it. The version I wrote is not very portable at the moment, but I am working on it .  I will probably make it a plugin once I am sure the markup validates, and the login is secure.  Currently only lets admins add images to a gallery.  I am thinking of adding a registered user submit/approval option.

-buzzuh

Well,  When IE goes into quirks mode.  It messes up the translation of the markup and wont display properly.

are they closed with a /> or  just a >.

i.e.

this

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/Lithium.css">

needs to be

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/Lithium.css" />

Yes, the same lines are in the lithium style.  Try getting it to validate and see if the problem goes away.  I am sure Paul will chime in on this since he authored the markup.

bling

novel

You could make the changes to the punBB style sheets to meet your site needs, and make the punBB styles your site styles...  If thats what you meant by global css file (one for entire site).