Can VB do all these things?

[theprof]

Hello. I am a very disillusioned UBB customer. I just checked out OT. Apparently the people at infopop probably got 200 for their SAT Math. (I'm referring to their pricing plan)

QUick questions:

Take a look at my UBB at http://www.adolescentadulthood.com/2/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

I would like to ask the admin some questions...

1)Is there a Top25 posters list for this software
2)How many moderators can you have per forum
3)Is tehre a way to remove the
Forum Rules:
Who Can Read The Forum? Any registered user or guest.
Who Can Post New Topics? Any registered user.
Who Can Post Replies? Any registered user.
Changes: Messages can be edited by their author. Messages can be deleted by their author.
Posts: HTML code is OFF. Smilies are ON. vB code is ON. [IMG] code is ON.

Its quite bulky.

4)Is there a way to ban certain email addresses?
5)Is there a PM system?

6)Can I have SSIs on the pages? In my BB, i sue that to handle advertising code and insert a random quote. If not, can something emulating SSI be done in php?

7)Is it possible to make the forums exactly identical to mine on the UBB (except for obvious differences, like no "view posts from 30 days" pull down menus? Also, can I have the submit and reply buttons on the same place as teh UBB?

Sorry I keep mentioning the other product, but I fell in love with it but now feel betrayed.

8)Are tehre Stats reports liek in OT?

9)How stable is the current version. Please answer me honestly.

10)I hear that styles etc are powered by templates. Does that mean If I want to make a few structural (eg table widths) changes, I need not worry about losing all my coding when I upgrade to a newer version?

11)Can the threads be divided into pages. If so, is tehre a limit?

12)How much less CPU/server usage does VB use combared to UBB?

Thank you for answering my questions.


[Edited by theprof on 05-16-2000 at 08:45 AM]

[wandrer]

12)How much less CPU/server usage does VB use combared to UBB?


From the 'real-world' testing of UBB and vbulletin (stats not published yet... will be once I get around to it) and based on the info from http://www.scriptkeeper.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000284.html , UBB uses 4x as much CPU as vBulletin to begin with. Once you get above 100K posts, the difference is greater (closer to 5x as much CPU). The greater the number of posts, the more CPU usage UBB uses compaired to vBulletin.

[Brian]

1. Thier is a memberslist hack that does this
2. Unlimited!!!
3. Yes just delete it from the template (this is easy to do go check out the control panel demo John set up)
4. Yes, you can also ban ip's etc.
5. Not sure, I think their is a hack for this.
6. You can include files via a php include easily
7. Yup all the files are easily changed via templates
8. Their are some stats but not that many, see the control panel.
9. I am using the first version so I do not know.
10. Yup easy as pie, when you make a change their is no "update threads" to worry about :)
11. Yes the threads in forumsummary can be devided into any number you specify! Your not limited to 20,25,50 by a pulldown etc...
12. CPU : On a properly configured server it will be much faster/less resource intensive.

[theprof]

Thank you for your replies!

I'll purchase it as soon as the admin get the logging in feature fixed. Right now it says I'm logged in but whenever I post a reply, i'm not recognized by the system.

Goodbye UBB.
Hello VB

[shri]

Hey Prof,

The hacks for top 25 posters is simple.

A simple SQL query would do it.

select * from user order by posts desc limit 25;

Shri