UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] Newbie Folder Hack 1.0 Release

Ok here you go, this hack will show a blue folder if a member's first post is a new topic. Will revert to the normal folder color after member makes a subsequent post. Works on closed and hot topics as well. I included some blue folders for you to use if you want, as the ones on my forum are Van Halen-ized and wouldn't be appropriate for 99.9999999% of you.

Instructions: http://www.vhlinks.com/pages/ubbhacks/newbiehack1.0.txt

Newbie image files:




[ March 21, 2001: Message edited by: Slurpee ]

Kewl nice work slurpee
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off the subject a little could you tell me how to add message icons plz
like the ones on this board tnx........

Great job bye the way............

Great work as always, Slurpee! I'm going to give this one a whirl tomorrow!

Oh yes. The newbie and newbie lock folders don't appear to be transparent so I took care of it.

Couldn't resist fiddling with it.

Okay, here's a couple of minor things I wanted to bring up.

In the instructions:

Look for:
$yellow_hot = qq!(border=0 alt="$vars_wordlets{hot_topic}"> $vars_wordlets{more_than}
$vars_display{HotCount} $vars_wordlets{replies})!;
}

Replace with:
$yellow_hot = qq!(border=0 alt="$vars_wordlets{hot_topic}"> $vars_wordlets{more_than}
$vars_display{HotCount} $vars_wordlets{replies})!;
$newbie_hot = qq!alt="$vars_wordlets{hot_topic}"> $vars_wordlets{more_than}
$vars_display{HotCount} $vars_wordlets{replies})!;
}

You'll notice a missing opening ( here:

$newbie_hot = qq!(before the
Lastly, as for the functionality of this most excellent hack, it appears to function perfectly, except the images are not showing up. They are in my noncgi dir, but its only getting as far as "http://www.domain.com/ubb/"

Any ideas?

Oops fixed the first typo, sorry about that.

With regards to the images, did you go into your control pane andl into your template settings and put the names of the Newbie folder graphics in? You have to do that or it won't work.

Hey.

Whammo! That fixed the problem.

Ack, I should have seen that! That should teach me a lesson about installing hacks when I'm about to collapse from exhaustion!

...but it probably won't.

Excellent job, and excellent docs!

Cool beans man.

Nice work Slurpee, I love this hack. I was wondering if someone could add a Flame, and Lock one of this folder.

Again, nice work!

Great hack! I've run into a problem though... beside the image of the newbie folder, I can't get a description to come up, and there are no wordlets I can change for this. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. All it shows is just the image, and no description, and then in brackets it shows the newbie hot folder and says more than 15 replies. Anyway I can change this so it says First post after registration or something like that? Thanks!

Woops sorry forgot one step Degen, my bad here it is:


Sorry about that, updating directions right now.

[ March 22, 2001: Message edited by: Slurpee ]

Heya Slurpee,

I did notice one minor problem. It appears when I close a newbie topic, it's bringing up the reguler locked folder instead of the newbie locked folder.

Hmm. Can anyone confirm?

Thanks Slurpee, that did it!

Might want to change the instructions to read:

Look for:
thanks_for_topic_delete => "The post has been deleted.",

Add this underneath:
newbie_topic => "A new member thread",

As far as I know, the q~ is no longer used there, or am I missing something?

I changed the instructions Alien. Can anyone confirm Alien's problem? What happens when you close a new member thread people, does the blue lock folder show?

Alien found the problem, typo on my part!

In PUBLIC_FORUM_PAGE.PL:

Replace:

Replace it with:

Sorry about that, directions corrected!

Confirmed! Bug squashed!

Thanks a bunch, Slurp!

nice work slurpee

Guys someone pointed out a problem to me today. If you make a new template, you would get an error because of the newbie graphics. I have corrected the problem, all you have do is edit the code of the file below: (My .txt file has been updated to note this)


Sorry about that.

Nice hack, but as I understood it's only for the first post. Can you add it to the Control Panel, so I can change it to more than 1 without changing "if (($TotalPosts == 1) && (closed_topic == "X"))" and and all other ifs there?

hey if someone has some free time on ther hands would you mind looking at this hack and see if you can get it to work.
i have tried this hack over and over but i still can not get it working for me.
if someone will take a look at it and fix it if ther is something worng with it it would be very nice of them.
thanks clankiller