One thing I am curious about - the Menu module and the horizontal menu on ARRSE don't seem to match up - is the top menu static?

btw, I'm thinking of tidying up the Emporium (shopping) module. I have had it functioning a very long time but left it hanging coz it was a coding, compliance and query nightmare - apart from those trivial issues it's pretty good

Phoenix wrote:

One thing I am curious about - the Menu module and the horizontal menu on ARRSE don't seem to match up - is the top menu static?

We're in the process of changing the themes - only ARRSE_normal uses CPGmm at the moment. All the rest are hard coded .... but not for too much longer.

BadCO wrote:

We're in the process of changing the themes - only ARRSE_normal uses CPGmm at the moment. All the rest are hard coded .... but not for too much longer.

aah, I understand - I had switched to Light because the dark theme had some issues with font colouring, but I see that has been remedied.

Good to see the efforts going into sorting out the site (Site Update) - your members will love you for it

For an extra income stream, you may find BizStore handy for income from amazon.co.uk - it is essentially a zero query module, templated and tableless.

There is one side-effect, in that search engines love to index it, so you would see additional activity - since it is queryless, it can't affect your sql server too much but may place load on other resources e.g. it uses mod_rewrite for the links since LEO can't really provide suitably friendly translations of typical amazon links. That's not given me any grief, but then my sites don't have your level of activity.

Interesting - we may well have to give that a go.

We run ARRSE off two servers (1x Apache + 1 x MySQL) and normally the MySQL server is the one that feels the pain. Since we upgraded it to a beast and did lots of work to remove slow queries (see threads on DF) the pain has moved to the Apache server. We've got a plan to upgrade that but in the meantime are trying to reduce the load on that too - our 4000 coppermine photos doesn't help though!

We're also working a script to automate PHPAds onto our DF sites - see here for work in progress. Currently it works by writing direct to the PHPAds db and providing the customer with a username and login - admin has to give it the final ok for activation! Obviously once we can get this to work we'll release the code......

serves you right for providing useful services to your members - there's always that risk that they'll use them and stuff everything up.

hmm, can't see that module but I am familiar with phpads. I do have a program I use to generate text ads (gave up on banners long ago) so that I can place them as horizontal, vertical etc, much akin to googleads. It's fairly basic but at least rotates the ads and, more importantly, operates from a database/website independent of my other sites.

I used to just include the external file but these days frequently have to resort to file_get_contents - on the occasional host I can't even use that function, so I use a modified version that uses curl.