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IRT my Troubleshoot Greetings to Newest Member thread and Zanardi's reply, I've made the below attempt...needless to say it doesn't work, maybe someone can help me out.
1. Created LastMember.cgi file test is the last username registered.
2. In my Ultimate.cgi, created the print statement (sub-routine?) of 3. Encorporated the above in my $Memberline as so OK, it's no secret that I'm the creatively acquired type, above is my attempt, now need yalls help, ACK!
JR

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Let's start with a definition of "It doesn't work". Specifically what happens, and what are you doing when it happens.

2nd, make sure your open command is successful. add:

or die "Can't open: $!"

to it

--mark

Mark,
1. Greetings from a fellow DBMAN user.
2. LastMember.cgi is now 3. What I want to do is display the newest member registered on my FW board. I'd tried BOTH the Total-Welcome and Statistik mod's with no luck. So, my aforementioned Trouble Greetings to newest member post. Zanardi suggested I use a workaround and 4. So here I am,
JR

open(USER,">$MembersDir/latestmember.cgi") or &StandardHTML("Couldn't open latestmember.cgi for writing");
print USER "$UserName";
close(USER);

You'll want that code in one of the subs that actually adds the user. The in Ultimate.cgi

open(USER,">$MembersDir/latestmember.cgi") or &StandardHTML("Couldn't open latestmember.cgi");
@user = ;
close(USER);
chomp($user[0]);

$latestmember = qq(Welcome our newest member $user[0]);

Then user your variable $latestmember where you want to view that.

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Still having prob's guys ...
1. ubbmisc.cgi|sub GetBio is now 2. Ultimate.cgi|sub Intro below &GetTime is now 3. Note I changed $Members"Dir" to $Members"Path". 'Course you know the deal with pipes displaying here on the UBB. I commented the lines 'cause I'm now exactly sure whether I can simply delete them?
4. Still nothing printing on the board tho'. What should happen is it print the latest member "test", with hopes that next time someone registers it will write over test with that username. What am I STILL doing wrong, ugh.
JR

This message has been edited by joebagodonuts on September 30, 2000 at 12:14 PM

Mark/Zanardi,
Come back -- still need yr help, ACK!
JR

Do you have the memberslist? I know another way. I used it on my statics hack. It's just like the one at UBBH.com

[edit]
Why are you in the sub GetBio? I don't think that is the sub you are looking for. In the form where the user fills out there name they want, look for this line:



What ever the value it, copy it, and use the search option on your text editor to find that line near the top. It SHOULD be also be a sub. I hope any of that makes sense

If you have ICQ go ahead and message me[/edit]

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I moved from sub GetBio to sub RegSubmit (the value you ref'd) in ubbmisc.cgi and yes I have Memberlist.
I just tried to ICQ u, but dunno if this newfangled 2000 version is quite working right,
Over
JR