UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 Mod Questions Plus sign at the end of the post

Hi everyone!

Me again!
A user posted a plus sign [+] at the end of his post right before a new page was supposed to be created [his was the 35th and last post on the page] when the next user posted, their post came through but page 12 came up as file not found.

I looked in the CGI file and the + because it was the last thing in the post came right before a pipestem. Editing the plus out of the post brought the next page up, so that's fixed; but can someone please explain to me how I would restrict users from posting restricted characters at the very end of their posts and signatures?

UBB 5.45c

Thanks.

Why don't you censor a + sign? That is the only way I can think of.

That's a good idea Lord Dexter, but I think it's too restrictive. It won't affect anything if posters use plus signs in their posts - it is only a problem at the end of the post.

*sigh*

Well I think you have a problem, I don't think there is any way of censoring the + sign ONLY in the last post....

Yeah, you're right - I've been racking my brain for how to do it, but it doesn't seem feasible as there's so little control over the post itself in PostMess

If I censor it, it will show up as a little star, right? And I'll probably need to do the same for the minus sign - what else can cause problems before a pipestem?

I'd say these would: + - _ =.

I'm curious if this was fixed in a later 5.4* series or not. Anyway, you could do a simple regexp for messages that end in a + or - like this for example:

$Message =~ s/(-|+)$//;

You'd need to modify postings.cgi and do this for new topics, replies, and edited posts.

[ 09-23-2001: Message edited by: treszoks ]