Thanks Allen.
I've stripped everything down and started from scratch. Instead of trying to re-invent the wheel, recently I've been trying to extract the codes and sub routines that enables the custom ranks. I'm using the Custom Title Rank's install instructions (in ubb_lib_posting.cgi); focusing on ubb_custom_status.cgi (all sub routines); vars_custom_status.cgi (for crankma, cranko & cstatus); and in ubb_lib_posting.cgi I'm primarily focusing on "sub create_topic" sub routine.
I apologize for not being any more specific but this is where I'm at currently.
Because the "$username", "$password" and "$user_number" codes are recognized I'm able to pull "$user_profile[8]" and "$user_profile[7]" in the Forum Summary...But as soon as I try to use "$user_status" and "$custom_status" (which both are from Custom Title/Rank hack) I get nothing. Even when I extracted all of the hack's sub routines in "ubb_custom_status.cgi" I don't get any results.
I'm going to experiment a bit tonight but seems like I'm running in circles.
