UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] ELY_M's Upload Modification

Name: Upload Mod for V6

Description: This is a easy to install modification that allows your users to upload files to your site. You configure settings from the control panel to disallow different types of files to be uploaded. Developed for 6.04c, your files may be slightly different.

Author: ELY_M

Demo: https://www.ubbdev.com/db/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=newtopic&f=20

Link: http://elym.tripod.com/ELYS_upload_hack.zip

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It would be nice if we could all see the demo!

Works great here! Opps, I see what you are talking about the DEMO, nevermind, sorry!

[ May 01, 2001 04:27 PM: Message edited by: Webdaddie ]

Well its there.. and CP works But when i click on the link to upload a file i get

Script execution error
Unable to execute script due to a configuration problem.
Please notify the webmaster of this error.

exec() returned: 2: No such file or directory

And the links in the CP are right

[ May 01, 2001 04:59 PM: Message edited by: Mikey ]

you have to set a folder up and give it 777 permissions for the uploads to go into

Here are a couple of things probably not mentioned in the documentation:

* The /uploads folder you create must be CHMODed 777.

* The wordlets modification was a little outta whack when I did it. Here may be a possible solution:

When it says to add lines like this:

upload_link => "Upload File Form",

ELY actually meant to add it like this:

upload_link => q~Upload File Form~,

Do these changes with each line in the wordlets to be included into vars_wordlets.cgi, unless you wanna just put these lines AS IS into vars_wordlets_mods.cgi, in which case you would have to add:

require "$vars_config{VariablesPath}/vars_wordlets_mods.cgi";

into the uploads.cgi file...

[ May 01, 2001 05:08 PM: Message edited by: Canis Lupus ]

Think we can get this running for 6.04c?

It is running on 6.04c...:) What are you having problems with?


CL, good suggestions. For the wordlets, I suggested using the vars_wordlets_mods.cgi file as well, to make upgrading the ubb a little easier, and to help with standardization for modifications.

This one is only a day old, we'll give ELY_M some time to work out the kinks...

I worked thru the code and switched the wordlets over to wordlet_mods

I also recoded some of code to add more control for header and footer.

I also added some new CP hacks that let you change the size of the popup window and placment (where you want popup window to appear on left and top)

I hope it is much better for you than yesterday.

I also added some information for people who use older versions of ubb.

I hope it is ok that I added the wordlet_mod dev kit for someone who is first time to hacking his/her ubb.

let me know if it is not ok.

The zip is updated

[ May 01, 2001 09:14 PM: Message edited by: ELY_M ]

Ely,

Good hack. Some quirks:

vars_wordlets_mods.cgi file should ALWAYS have the following line: mod_wordlets => q~Modifications Wordlets~,. Please have that line in.

Misc Settings: You accidentally placed:

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&RegField ("Illegal file format #1 ", "illegalfile1", "yes", "3", "3", "Type all file extensions you want to block from being uploaded by the users in the text boxes below. Only put one extenison in one text box. all file extenisons *.exe will be not be uploaded and blocked. Do not add "." before the extenison. as a example, you just put in "exe" in one text box and put "zip" in other text box. the script does this job already. Do not use quotes.

Leave those text boxes blank if you do not want to block any file extenisons from being uploaded by the users.", "$vars_misc{illegalfile1}");
---------------

three times in your instructions. Once will suffice in my opinion.

Those are my major quirks. There are others involving capitalization but those are minor.

Great job.

q

thanks qasic,

human mistakes do happen.

the new zip is uploaded. I did corrected mistakes that qasic told me about.

installed easily ELY, nice work

well ive uploaded the new hack it gose in very nice and its more understandable
thanks!!!!!

but i might be doing somthing wrong here but when i click the link for upload all i get is a window pop up that says
------------------------------------------
Script execution error
Unable to execute script due to a configuration problem.
Please notify the webmaster of this error.

exec() returned: 2: No such file or directory
-----------------------------------------

Now my dirs are correct and the chmod is 777

any ideas?

1) is your "zip" file incorrect ? i get no download !!!

2) if u have a "show me the pics" script.

show me the "gif" and "jpg" in a DIR (like ubb 5 - gallerie hack) in a HTML page incl. the file name.

... so u can add "avatar" or "smilies"

hope u understand >> www.chat-board.de
hope

Mikey: login there with your nick/password and enter https://www.ubbdev.com/db/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=newtopic&f=18

Melder: Don't use any download programs like Getright/DAP, because in Tripod you must click on something.

ELY_M: nice job

[ May 02, 2001 07:47 AM: Message edited by: LK ]

so i have seen the demo and it looks good

but mine is now installed adn i keep getting this error when i click on the upload link
_________________________________________

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Script execution error
Unable to execute script due to a configuration problem.
Please notify the webmaster of this error.

exec() returned: 2: No such file or directory
-----------------------------------------

May Paths are ok
************************************
/home/web/www.*******com/upload
and
http://www.*******.com/upload
**************************************
MY directorys are correct
and set to the right chmod 777
***************************************

But it still dont work

It works, just a few suggestions:

[*]Add it also to edit (which I believe it's just the same as in public_new_topic_form.pl/etc).

[*]Add an option that the administrators can remove files, by filename or by user number.

Thanks for this hack.

Mikey, what's your UBB's url?

Can anyone make a new description for the UBB Version 6.0? Please Please? Need Help!

I have test it but the Error was:
The Error came after the save the CP Settings!
All Files and dirs are correct and the chmod is 777!

And I can't see the Demo! The error:
FYI You do not have permission to enter this area.
» Please use your browser's back button to return.

It would be nice if we could all see the demo!
Please Help!

SkipperII

(Sorry for my terrible english)

[ May 02, 2001 02:14 PM: Message edited by: SkipperII ]

SkipperII: like I told to Mikey, login there with your nick/password and enter https://www.ubbdev.com/db/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=newtopic&f=18

http://www.cytek.uk.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

Its not ready yet just a few mwssages on there id just like to get this file upload working so i can let my cutomers use it for data file uploads.

where is your uploads folder ?

I seem cant find the folder uploads or upload

I tryied to type

http://www.cytek.uk.com/cgi-bin/upload

or

http://www.cytek.uk.com/cgi-bin/uploads


you have to create uploads folder

[ May 02, 2001 05:49 PM: Message edited by: ELY_M ]

oh I found it..

http://www.cytek.uk.com/upload/

try to move your upload folder to

http://www.cytek.uk.com/cgi-bin/upload

thanks for your help
This man is fantastic

did you find anything in my scripts?
pm me on my board
i will check later

hi there,
just a few questions: i'd like to use this upload-hack just for ONE single forum, is this possible..? and: is there any possibility to upload the files to another server..? because i would like to host the ultimatebb AND the files on two different servers to avoid a 'disk quota'error due the fact that we have a limited webspace for the forum-engine...:/
best regards and this hack sounds really interesting,
chris

sound great idea to add another CP hack to specific one forum to allow file uploading
it depends if the server is allowing external linking. it is possible. you have to try it.

Nobody can help me to install the Hack in a UBB 6.0 ????

SkipperII

I did some revising the upload hack.

I moved the toggle on and off for allowing uploads in to forum settings section in the CP.

Admin should be able to allow file upload in specific forum.

I added new CP hack for allowing File uploads in private messages.

Admin should have right to decide to allow the file uploads in private messages.

Im sure that some forums want to have users private message files and others want to block that.


The upload zip is updated.

redownload it again

I hope it works better for the users now.

Now you have an option with files wich are are not allowed, but I wat something so I can specify the files which must be allowed, how??

ELY_M: Bug: it isn't shown when I add a new forum.


Fix (not tested):
you can also move CHECKED to No, if you want it to be the default one

[ May 06, 2001 06:34 AM: Message edited by: LK ]

DO not put any extenisons that you want allow


If you leave all text boxes blank. you are allowing ALL kinds of files.

If you put in exe and you are ONLY blocking all *.exe files and allowing all others kinds of files execpt .exe
############################################


LK:

Thanks for advising me about that

[ May 04, 2001 08:04 AM: Message edited by: ELY_M ]

The zip is updated with the fix that LK mentioned

DO not put any extenisons that you want allow


If you leave all text boxes blank. you are allowing ALL kinds of files.

If you put in exe and you are ONLY blocking all *.exe files and allowing all others kinds of files execpt .exe
[/QUOTE]


I only want my members to upload .gif and .jpg! Now, I can't put al of the other extensions in my cp

Buzin: (untested)

***************
OPEN upload.cgi
***************


find
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if ( ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile1})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile2})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile3})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile4})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile5})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile6})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile7})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile8})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile9})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile10})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile11})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile12})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile13})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile14})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile15})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile16})$/i)
|| ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile17})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile18})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile19})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile20})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile21})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile22})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile23})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile24})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile25})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile26})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile27})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile28})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile29})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile30})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile31})$/i) )


replace with:
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unless ( ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile1})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile2})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile3})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile4})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile5})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile6})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile7})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile8})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile9})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile10})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile11})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile12})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile13})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile14})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile15})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile16})$/i)
|| ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile17})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile18})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile19})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile20})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile21})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile22})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile23})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile24})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile25})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile26})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile27})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile28})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile29})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile30})$/i) || ($Filename =~ /^.+(.$vars_misc{illegalfile31})$/i) )

The only difference is "unless" instead of "if".
Again, it's untested, so backup before.

LK

Edit: removed [code] because it messed the thread.

[ May 06, 2001 06:33 AM: Message edited by: LK ]

LK:

Cool idea

It look like It will work better.

I have to change the wording in the CP for allowing exact extenisons.


Thank you LK

somone fix this messed up thread please....


I re-coded the code to let "allow" files extensions instead of "block".

few new wordlets are added.

Please redownload the zip and redo the upload hack on your forum if you want the new way for the file extenisons.

Thanks to LK for ideas

It is helpful to listen to the users

I will get this installed soon on my boards.. I haven't had the time yet to take a close look at it, however I have one request.

How about instead of only being able to upload files on a particular post, create it so it's like a file upload utility. What I mean is can you modify it so that each user can access their file space through their profile where they may then upload/delete and manage their files through the web browser.. similar to free webspace such as geocities etc.

I hope you understood what I just said... and hopefully you'll go through with it, but anyway great hack.. thanks!

Bug:
There is no Upload in PM switch in Control Panel.