Once again, I have to say this is one of my favorite hacks for the UBB, and like others have mentioned - I think it should become an integral feature of UBB 6.x+.
I had a few problems implementing this... I used a buggy Multihack version of the 1.6 release which I managed to get running...
The most recent 1.7 release... I tried to install it manually (hand editing all affected whiles as per the instructions in the upgrade.txt file) but the manual hack instructions contained several syntax errors. I succesfully hacked it (on our offline test board) using the 1.7 multihack file.
OK,.. that being said and again, this is a superb hack; for our Blues Music site, we hope to use it to post thousands of events, such as tour schedules for all key blues artists, birth and death dates of blues artists, etc.
We developped a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which allows us to rapidly enter Calendar information, and includes a cell with concatenated information in a format that works with the Calendar hack. I.E. seqserialnumber || a julian date || postedby || eventname || description etc... this works fine, and we paste it into the calender_events.cgi file.
Where trouble arises, is when we paste a large number of events (say 500 plus, with sequential numbers starting at 1000+) into the events.cgi txt file... they appear properly in the Calendar, but if we attempt to "prune" them (edit the event) using the UBB Calendar interface, it causes the server to go into a real panic state.... i.e. after a prune event submit, a blank screen and the server goes into a runaway state.
So the question is this:
Can the events.cgi file be externally populated, and if so, what should the sequential numbering be.
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