UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.0x] UBBNews Hack: 'slashbb' alternative

Hi guys,
I've recently done the UBBNews hack which works exactly as 'slashbb' hack for UBB5. The new hack is compatible with the caching system and is completely configurable through the CP

Here it is .

Best Regards,

[ May 15, 2001 04:36 AM: Message edited by: JB007 ]

Do you have a demo?

I'm having two problems so far. First is that it seems to be using it's own Style template. If I select the template I usually use, I receive this error:
Can't locate c:/lmalla/ubbcgi/vars_style_2.cgi at c:lmallaubbcgiubbnews.cgi line 24.

Even if I change the standard template to my current colors, it still uses a different set.

Second problem is that if I select any other forum # other than 1, I receive this error:

Unable to open thread# 000145: No such file or directory at c:lmallaubbcgiubbnews.cgi line 72.

Thanks for your feedback DGMayor, anyway here is the fix:
1. Open ubbnews.cgi
2. Find:
3. Replace with:
4. Find:
5. Replace with:

Hop this works!

Demo please

Ok, here is a screen shot:


[ May 14, 2001 02:56 PM: Message edited by: JB007 ]

looking good JB, and thanks for the Arabic wordlets...

Two other minor problems.

First, If you don't use the Posticons, it leaves a broken image in it's place. Some code should be added to check if Posticons are allowed or not (I just removed that cell of the table).

Second, it doesn't want to post the Graemlin's correctly. Pretty sure this is a UBB issue, and not a UBBNews issue, but it bugs me

Basically for the Graemlins, it instead of showing up at www.lmalla.com/ubb/smile.gif it just tries to display it from www.lmalla.com/smile.gif.

Other than that I'm diggin it. Only reason I have yet to switch over to it from Newspro is because I like the fact that newspro archives my news. I'm still debating whether or not I want to lose that funcionality.

I also did some cosmetic edits here and there. If you wanna check it out, here are some links:

My Website Using Newspro
Testing the UBBNews (with similiar ...lso has the Who's online SSI at the top)
My UBB :), which of course is linked from the main website


Anyways, the more I play with it, the more tempted I am to switch to it Keep up the good work!

[ May 14, 2001 03:56 PM: Message edited by: DGmayor ]

I fond an error in the readme in cp_lib.cgi where you have:

## Find:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%;

## Under it add:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%; }
elsif ($_[0] eq 'ubb_news') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{ubb_news_settings}%;

it should be:

## Find:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%;
}

## Under it add:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%; }
elsif ($_[0] eq 'ubb_news') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{ubb_news_settings}%; }

otherwise it causes an error when you try to load cp.cgi in your browser

hey is there any way i could call this into like a public_news.pl so people can see it at ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=news

heres a demo if anyone wants it:

http://www.zeldaglitches.com/SSI/main.shtml

I have done some modification to it though btw.

I also seen that error and corrected it.

The options will load correct in the cp.

But when calling the ubbnews.cgi I still keep getting an error 500

it is not working for me, it is not putting the post there. See at that url
http://www.m2sc.com/

M2sc-com

make sure ur ubbnews.cgi is pointing to the right perl address. Mine wasn't showing up either until i changed the address.

the icons not showing up issue is is due to the vars_config variables NonCGIPath and NonCGIURL being different. in public_ubb_news.pl the icon is represented as:
when it should be :
for those who dont have the same url path as web server path.

excellent work mr. bond.

any chance of more features in the future? some sort of archiving would be nice, as mentioned above. this also is one reason i am hesitant. i like to keep (have/need) old news due to the way my site is laid out.

[ May 14, 2001 09:22 PM: Message edited by: DPK ]

ok love it, i forgot that i have to chmod .shtml files on my new server

Okay do I leave the -w in there

#!/perl/bin/perl -w

the -w executes perl so that it scans the lines of the script for errors carefully and prints them out if it finds any. sorta for debugging, shouldnt matter if you take it off or not.

nope, or at least i didnt

eh, DPK beat me to it

Nope by putting the correct perl in there I'm getting this error now:

Can't locate /data1/va/repomann/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum1/forum_1.threads in @INC (@INC contains: /data1/va/webs4free/cgi-bin/ /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at ubbnews.cgi line 26.

Ok guys thank you all for your feedback. I made a lot of errors in the script because I was too fast. Anyway I'll try to fix 'em all afternoon. Bye

Ok, I've updated the link , so go and re-download. The new release includes the fixes for the cp_lib.cgi and the template file. I've also added a check for the icons.

Best Regards,
JB007

Very nice work!

Quick question. Can you set the number of characters to be displayed on your news page or does it only allow you to display the full thing?

Just wondering, I'm going to install this later today

Still getting:

FYI
You are attempting to reach a page that does not exist.
» Please use your browser's back button to return.

where are you getting this at? the cp? you might want to rehack from clean backups

great hack bond....very nice..... worked for me except the images.. like when i put in a frown like this ( ) it shows as a broken link.. it doesn't show the image..

might want to download the new version he let out, he fixed that in the latest one

i downloaded it like 20 minutes ago..

A quick solution is too add add tag into the page that's calling your script. However, you've to type the FULL url for anylink that is not in your non-cgi ubb dir.

It's still now working . .

Even trying this it will not post.

(BOARD)

hmm dose not work for me and the debug is not giveing me nothing ??

Executable error due to invalid characters in the file – Suggest re-upload ubbnews.cgi to server via FTP and test again. reupload like 600 times

[ May 15, 2001 05:16 PM: Message edited by: indoe ]

I too am having an issue where it doesn't recognize the smilies still. This is after grabbing THE LATEST version as of the time of this post.

If I use the url "http://www.hourofhavoc.com/forums/ubbnews.cgi" it sees the smilies in the "/forums/smilies" directory.

If I use ssi and go to "http://www.hourofhavoc.com/Noname1.shtml" it shows the smilies as being in the "/smilies" directory.

As you can see this is incorrect, it should be /ubb/smilies. =) Hope that helps.

Hey guys i converted my newscript to UBB
the colors are using my old template "need changed" but everything is controled in the cpanel
not completed yet but heres a pic..
allso heres one of many sites using this script for an example..
DEMO IN ACTION



[ May 16, 2001 02:23 AM: Message edited by: hurricane rob ]

Funny, I'm not getting anything when calling the SSI, still shows up with nothing posted. I would assume it's calling up the ubbnews.cgi correctly because there are no exec error listing when calling up the ssi. But if you try to call up the ubbnews.cgi this way you will get a FYI
Other then that everything else is working 110%

Looking for suggestions on different designs tables for calling SSI. If you guys have any ideas please let me know please.

Check us out! The Wanderer's

[ May 16, 2001 02:12 AM: Message edited by: Webdaddie ]

The file is not a part from ultimatebb.cgi, it's called this way:
And about the smilies, as I said before, add a
in the SHTML page.

nice work !!
I will probably dump newspro now ...

An Idea:
Since templates are swappable, people should post some of the neat formats they make for their news up here so other people can just download and 'drop' them in.
as Cal would say 'Just a thought :)'

[ May 16, 2001 07:22 AM: Message edited by: freakscene ]