How would i go about making something were i click a link saying "Check Status" and it does the stro status check again? any ideas

not so hard.

first if you have any expirience with vB3 coding, i dont think you'll have any problem with it.

the main idea is, to get this "check status" button, to be linked to some file (you can create a new one, or add it to postings.php), to check the status again.
TV's lockdown table is keyed by "threadid", which can make your life easier.
you can do something like status_checker.php?do=checkit&threadid=$threadid.
then inside "$_REQUEST['do'] == "checkit"", just select the row from lockdown table, where threadid equals to the wanted threadid.
select all the necessary values you need from it (if im not mistaken its ip,port cause it just pings the server), and run the "Check Status" function, which you can find in his files.
after that, just do update to the wanted row, and you are done!

another option will be, that you'll make it check, each time someone gets into that thread.

TIP: if you are going to add this manual checker, i would add "Checked date" or "How long has it been since last check", just add another column to the lockdown and add to it TIMENOW. that way, you'll save even more BW cause if someone, got into that thread, after 2 minutes it was being checked, he'll probably wont recheck it

Hope its helping you out

Greetz, Fury

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Thanks man, is there anychance of you create it ? as i have no knoladge of vbulletin's coding system. Cheers

why make a board if you dont know **** about programming?

this is something that still amazes me sometimes ...

plenty of wannabeeeeeeeeeeeeeees about m8
best way to learn is to play with the code

We all gotta start some time
and iam sure we all need help of others @ times aswell

Mate, try to make it yourself, its very easy, if while you are installing the hacks you'll read the code, and not just "find bla, add above.. bla" you'll be able to understand how this system works, quite simple i'd say.

Before diving to the deep water, try the shallow once meaning, make a test board, then make a fresh new installation, after you managed to fix all the bugs etc'

Greetz, Fury

P.S we'll try to answer to any question you got, besides "How can i write it?!"