Miss_B

You can request one to be developed for you.

Yes, but only through a custom app.

Have you checked the contents of those files?

It's indeed weird. Email addresses should e unique. Meaning an user can't use the same email address for multiple accounts. For future reference, if you want to limit the number of registrations from the same ip, have a look at my plugin.

Most likely they are not compatible with your php and/or forum version. And yes, they will need to either be recoded or upgraded.

For future reference, before you upgrade your forum, make first a backup of the database. That would make it very easy to roll back to the previous version should you wish to do so. However, as mentioned above, all the new content from after the backup will be lost.

There is a donation app that has a group promotion. Provided you have made it group permission based the access to that gallery folder, it will do what you want imo.

Is it affecting new registrations or members who have been already registered? What was the last change/modification done to the forum prior to this happening?

Not in the current version.

It is based on the device that users will register from.

This app, as mentioned previously will add a unique cookie to users devices when they browse your forum. Its unique string associated with the users device will be saved to a table. So even if the user deletes their cookies, it won't matter. Anytime that an user will browse your forum from the same device, logged in from another account, i.e. as another user, his/her action(s) the unique key will be logged and it will display all users who logged in and what os system they used when a match is found. Let us take this scanario, user registers an account at your forum from his work pc and another from his home. Each time he/she does that, a unique string will be generated for each account and logged in the db table that the app adds. Now, whenever the user loggs in from either account, from both devices, the mod scans the table where the unique strings have been stored, and it will display the matched strings, a.ka.a the duplicate results.

That is strange. I can't reproduce that.

Can you please elaborate a little further on this? What do you mean by local and external ip's?

Thank you. I have replied to your pm.

Can you give me temporarily access to your admin panel so I can take a look?

Can you please tell me where do you get that error?

What was the latest change/modification done to the forum prior to this happening?

If your database is small or of a medium size, you can back it up through phpmyadmin in the cPanel of your host. You can also setup a cron to do this. If you have a large database, it is best to back it up through a SSH/Telnet Client, such as PuTTy. That is because most hosts have set a file size limit on their phpmyadmins and if the backup file exceeds that limit, it can result in a corrupt/incomplete backup. Regardless how you backup your database it is best to always check it to make sure that it is done properly. Backing your forum files can be done either through the File Manager section at your cPanel or a ftp program such as FileZilla. Hope it helps.

Upgrading Ipb is very easy and straightforward. Make sure to make a backup of your database and forum files too beforehand. Like that you can always roll back should you need to. Regarding the upgrade process have a look at the Automatic and Manual Upgrade sections at the following guide.

The first error points to a third party app/plugin as the cause. What apps/plugins do you have installed? The second error, it looks like it's happening when the database records from pages is syncing with a forum record.

You must upgrade the Blogs application too.