UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] Avatar Hack Release

ell, everything works now.. but when i press the view/update profile button.. it slowly goes to a connection timed out.. what the hell?

Balbanes: Wouldn't setting 755 give the following permissions?

Owner - RWX
Group - RX
Other - RX

But I don't want to execute any files inside the Avatar and/or the Custom Avatar directory right? Perhaps a UNIX guru can clarify for me here!

qasic

P.S. The Preview All Avatars is in the thinking stage ... I got some school issues to deal with first.

Yeah I really have no idea about that kinda stuff. All I know is my av directory was fixed when I chaqnged to 755.

Am I the only unix user dude here?

Thx for the reply Balbanes.

Chaos and I did some testing on his server and it seems that:

Custom Avatar and Avatar directory must be CHMOD 755 at the very least. If you want to use the managment options available in the Control Panel, these directories have to be CHMOD 777. If you want to be able to operate on the graphics too, each graphic must be CHMOD 777.

Thanks for all your help everyone!

q

I've tried your avatar hack, and I installed it correctly. But, me and everyone registered on my forum can not see where to edit their avatar. We can't even see it on the registration forum. Can you tell me if I did something wrong, and how I could fix it. (I reinstalled it twice and it still didn't work)

if installed correctly there should be NO problems!

But there is no way I could of installed it wrong. I even checked it over, both times.

Will this work with 8.4

Read the docs. York, AIM/ICQ me for personal support. kalokf/10488369.

qasic out

qasic, great hack, it works great, but i cant see the fields in the avatar sections of the hack. Everything works, custom avatars, etc.. but i want to edit it in the control panel. Im using the latest version of you hack.

Can you post a picture of where your avatars are not showing up? Or perhaps a link to a test account to your UBB?

aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh everytime i try to enter my manage avatars page it gives me this prob


Content-type: text/html
Software error:
Undefined subroutine &main::AvatarManage called at cp.cgi line 347.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.


someone help please...

o everythin else is working

That error usually occurs when you didn't hack the cp.cgi correctly. Are these lines present in your cp.cgi?

if (($ubb eq "manage_avatar") && ($status eq "Administrator")) {
require "$vars_config{CGIPath}/avatar_control.pl";
&AvatarManage; exit;
} #end manage_avatar

LMK.

q

Ok qasic as you can see below this is what is happening:



As you can see there are no formfields there. ....WHY?

you gotta update!

Is the template cp_vars_avatar.pl inside your templates directory and CHMOD 755?

q

whoops thanks works now

That's the problem with people ... not reading the docs (j/k)

Anyways, how did you fix it? Was my guess correct?

Current Version: v0.0003
What's New:

• Now confirms delete via Javascript (cp_manage_avatars.pl)
• Now supports unlimited image size (width & height (vars_avatar.cgi, cp_vars_avatar.pl, avatar_control.pl)
• Made the determination of Avatar image within avatar_list.pl instead of public_topic_page.pl
• Updated documentation to properly reflect UNIX CHMOD permissions (docs)
• Took a suggestion from Jigga-Masta and included an upgrade docuemnt

Still Thinking: Preview All Public Avatars
Download: http://www.qasic.com/ubbhacks.html

As always, bug support on THIS FORUM, NOT BY E-MAIL.

qasic

[ March 13, 2001: Message edited by: qasic ]

Don't do these little upgrades and patches. Release the full version and stick to it.

Don't do these little upgrades and patches. Release the full version and stick to it.

i think v.0003 will be the final hack, it workes perfectly, i somewhat helped qasic.. and everything works perfectly fine

so use this one, and it works on 8.4 so upgrade people

Oh don't get me wrong the hack is friggin great man, easy to install and a nice cp layout to boot.

I just want a final "offical" working version. Then any not needed add ons should be named as such.

For example the all avatars feature, I think part of the fun of having your own avatar is finding a good one. When you have 300+ of them the harder you look the betters ones your likely to find. If you add the all avatar feature only the most popular 20 or so will ever get used.

I duno is anyone with me on this one?

I dun understand what you mean CG...

I rather like these little addon thingies. With the upgrade instructions, its easy.

Another idea would be some sort of upload your own hack. CP definable, it would let people upload there own avatar. You could set it so the avatar is resized auto to the avatar size setting you set in the cp. If this feature is activated, then the avatar pulldown would be replaced with the avatar upload field. And all goto a separate dir like uploadavatar.

Hehe heh if you do this than all the other avatar competition would be eliminated.

Yup the upgrade instructions are great it makes upgrading so easy

I never said it was hard to upgrade it's just a pain the the ass upgrading every 2 or 3 days just because the hacker wanted to add in some little unimportant feature.

Right now the avatar hack is perfect I think, letting users add anything to your server is just a security risk, even if you are able to make it secure users might upload images you don't want on your forums like porn images or a big fat hairy **** do you really want to have to be moderating that stuff out?

Not to mention the fact that the images might be huge like 30k+ if the person wants it to be. I already have 300+ avatars thats more than enough I think....

Does anyone want to swap avatars btw? I have around 100 custom ones I made myself from dvd screenshots...movies like T2, The Matrix, Transfomers, Star Trek(s) ect...

CG, thank you for your opinions but I will disagree with them. It's your choice as to whether you want to use my hack or not. If you don't, fine but don't whine here. This thread is for bug support and feature suggestions, that's it

Balbanes, I don't think I'll be implementing that upload thing - just because 1) it's a security risk and 2) I want to make this a pull down hack. If someone would like to revise my code to do what you suggested, I'll be more than happy to consider it adding it into the main code though!

As of v0.0003, ONLY ADMINISTRATORS CAN UPLOAD AVATARS. Your normal user cannot (every avatar mangement function is authenticated if you exame my code.) Also, the avatar program right now automatically blocks any files greater than a certain size.

qasic

qasic

yea that was the problem. I didnt see in the doc that i had to put it in the template folder.

Sorry

No problem. I added a note for that problem in the FAQ part of the document.

q

What about modérators ? Usually they are the ones that do the job on my board

You can hack that in if you like.

q

i personally think this hack it one of the best, it is possably the best i've seen for the beta's

good work qasic

I agree with you there. In fact I think this hack should be sent to Infopop for immediate release in the next version of UBB!

what beta is this for?

It works for beta 8.5 :-)

8.4 and up

I have a 8.0 (im not upgrading again till it goes outa beta)

It works fine on mine but I needed to tweak the stupid dhtml menu so I could set the avatar CP.

as soon as ubb6 final is released you should rename this hack to version 1

is there an avatar hack for beta 7.9?

there you go
http://banco.jogosonline.com.br/ubbmods/listavatarsubb6.txt

rename it to listavatars.cgi, upload to ubbcgi directory, chmod 755 and add link to any template you like it to appear. it has not been tested, and all the options are inside the variables of the script. you can modify, release again, say u did it, whatever.