UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6 MultiHack Mods [6.1x] Dropdown Avatar Hack 1.0

Name: Avatar Hack v1.0 Public Beta

Purpose: Associates an icon (avatar) with user when he/she posts. Custom avatars are available. Many possible user management of avatars available (Moderators and Administrators only). User upload of avatars not available but easily hacked in.

Why Better than Built In UBB 6.1 Functionality?:

* users get to choose their own avatars from a pre-approved list
* security-conscentious

New Features:

* more XHTML compatible code
* WAY, WAY optimized custom avatar code
* ability to specify multiple graphic types (unlimited)

Download: http://www.qasic.net

As always, bug reports are appreciated here. Thanks to afterlab for reporting the custom avatar bug (it's now been fixed btw).

qasic

[ August 20, 2001: Message edited by: qasic ]

Great Job qasic, I am glad you released this for 6.1. I will probably be adding this to my forums when I upgrade.

Hi this is junhyok who already registered at your web site...

I can't get into your web site today.
Even I benned from your web site.

Can you help me?

Have you registered @ Qasic.NET?

qasic

I have, but I think I'm still on the list that you haven't approved =/ Anyways, I can't wait to install this!! ^_^

Hedwig, you've been approved. Just try every hour or so; you'll eventually be approved unless there is a problem.

qasic

Thanks q!! I'll add that now ^_^

Yes I'm already registerd at you website a month ago.

Do I have to register again?

Qasic.NET did not exist one month ago.

qasic

Great hack Qasic, I'll have to do WOL first on my 1,4 before I do this. Thanks for releasing it. ^_^

Nice job, Qasic. I will look into this whenever my site gets back up.

I'll send you the mail that you sent me for registration at your site...Okay?

Junhyok

Sorry, going to get beat with a steel bat if I ask my question here.

[ September 09, 2001: Message edited by: TheLizardKing ]

junhyok,

(If you haven't figured it out yet), you registered at qasic.COM not qasic.NET.

cool its on my list

I registered and got my password like 2-3 days ago. Still waiting for approval

I'm waiting for a 'Problem' to be sorted out.
Why do these have to be locked away?

All registartions have been processed except the ones relating to fordmoneo - I still need to make a decisin on that.

qasic

Sorted. Thanks Qasic.

You said that its easily modified to allow users to upload their own, do you have that code?

Qasic, I'm getting this error when I try to access a users profile to edit it:

And this one when I try to access the CP option to MANAGE Avatars:

And this one when I try to access the AVATAR SETTINGS option under CP:

Any thoughts?

I used the auto-install feature. I had to edit some stuff in there to work with the changes I made in my cp_common.pl file (to prevent other mods or admins from doing damage), and it worked great. If these are problems because of that auto-install, let me know. I plan to attempt a manual sometime today. I'll check back with info on that later...

Thanks for the great hacks!

You probably did not upload the avatar-related templates and cgi files.

qasic

OMG I'm retarded! For some reason, I thought the install program made those files.

Awesome hack Qasic, as usual!

Like I said in the ReadMe, auto install is not supported

qasic

ZIP file updated with a little bug fix inside the auto-installer.

Hack works fine on UBB 6.1 Pubic Beta 2.1.

qasic

hi
i install this hack and get

Undefined subroutine &main::GetAvatarImg called at /home/fatal/users/f-miigaik/public_html//ubb2/Templates/public_topic_page.pl line 126.


Please inform the board administration of this error so that they may fix the problem. Thank you!


(Caller: public_common.pl:570 -> sub main::Tracer)
(Caller: Carp.pm:139 -> sub main::StandardHTML2)
(Caller: Carp.pm:82 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::fatalsToBrowser)
(Caller: public_topic_page.pl:126 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp: ie)
(Caller: ubb_lib_posting.cgi:1014 -> sub main::topic_row)
(Caller: ubb_get_topic.cgi:72 -> sub main::create_topic)
(Caller: ultimatebb.cgi:569 -> sub main::get_topic)

Hi,

It looks as if you have not installed the Avatar-related CGI files.

qasic

Lut-)

thanks
great hack/........works super//////.....




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Amicalement, Eugene

Strange how many times Qasic,needs to say the same thing in the same thread

i have a small problem,everything works great but members are somehow using the picture field in thier profile to link to images.These now show under thier member titles.

if i disable the picture field,then the avatar field does not display,when i look in my own profile.

I hope that makes sence,basically some members probably new ones are getting the Your Picture option,and adding thier own links to pics not on our server.

I want to disable the your picture field,while still having an avatar field show at registration, and in our profiles.

i'm using 6.1.0 release

[ 10-23-2001: Message edited by: Sc0rpion ]

Hey Qasic..I'm having a rather odd problem. I'm SURE it's just me, because I haven't modded my board since July or so, and just started again now that 6.1 is out (well, remodding).


Basically, with the Avatar hack AND believe it or not the mod wordlets, I cannot access the Control Panel applets for them, they all tell me I don't have access..which makes no sense to me.

Any thoughts?

Sc0rpion: As stated at the top of the Avatar Readme, Avatars REPLACE the picture field so that's where you conflict resides

DGMayor: It looks as if you replaced your hacked cp.cgi with the original cp.cgi. Re-hack cp.cgi and you should be fine. For Mod Wordlets, I suggest you re-had cp_wordlets.cgi

qasic

As usual, Qasic to the rescue. New problem now. When I try to view my avatar list from the profile, it gives me the following:


CGI ERROR

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Can't locate UBBCGI.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./Modules . c:/Perl/lib c:/Perl/site/lib) at c:lmallaubbcgi2avatarlist.cgi line 17.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c:lmallaubbcgi2avatarlist.cgi line 17.


I haven't touched the beta/preview versions of 6.1, so the UBBCGI.pm deal is totally new to me..

BTW, you rock my world Qasic

[ 10-24-2001: Message edited by: DGMayor ]

Heya, have you just recently downloaded Avatar Hack for 6.1? If so, download it again. I think I added a line which fixes that for Windows-related servers. If not, I'll add it in for the next beta release.

qasic

downloaded as of two days ago. I won't be putting the 6.1 up for a bit, want to get it back in line to where my 6.05 is, so I'll just ignore it for now and wait for your next release.

Thanks Qasic.

Great hack.... a few suggestions though..

since i've got almost 10k members, uploading custom avatars for everyone would be impossible, and coming from the old hack, they expect to be able to have their own, not just supplied ones.

an upload tool in conjunction, like you said, would be dope. right now i've got to find something for them to use, but it also makes me wary about having people upload to my server.

For this reason, it would almost be cool to have both the option of using the supplied avatars as well as being able to link to their own on their own servers...

anyhow, good job once again. it's a nice hack..

Linking images from one server to another for an avatar is not a good idea. This steals bandwidth not only from your system but that of the server hosting the image. Most systems frown upon this behavior.

I personaly would love to have an upload feature that set specific file size and display image (able to resize)

Hola ! Qasic, you said this is easily hacked in, would you be so kind to give us instructions ?

Muc use Ely's upload hack

Man I know that upload hack but what I wanted to recommend is to connect it with the avatar mod, right now they are two complete different hacks, and thats not what I want. See, you should be able to upload your avatar from the profile, your solution is to let them upload a picture included in their posting, that's not the point.

Got it ?