UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications [6.7] [beta] ubb.links v2.5

Thank YOU, Ian!

So did all the bugs ever get fixed allen? Like the not being able to edit the categories and such.

Nope, not there yet... it's a bit over my head, but I hope to plug away at it in the next week or so

Besides not being able to edit categories, what other bugs have you guys found? I'll work on getting them fixed

go Allen go... I've been waiting ever so patiently for this mod to get a little more polish, it will be very useful on my site someday! plus I'm about sick of members constantly asking if I'm ever gonna have a links page.

a small suggestion from way out here in left field for future enhancements (after bug fixes), it would be really REALLY cool if we could somehow have ratings on the links managed by this mod just like we have on member profiles.

Many thanks to LK, the file has been updated with fixes for the categories problems. Please check and let me know if they work for you

ps: made the 'add link' page require login, eventually the link will only show to those logged in.

other misc. bugfixes

Allen, you could just add around the link

really? that works on ubb.classic's in general?

ah, cool

Will update files once I get a couple other things done - those that 'need' it now can add the spans around the 2-3 spots that have:

$vars_wordlets_links{links_add_afile}

Files updated for (v1.6) - breadcrumb bugfix/patch done and (Go!) links added for category view.

file updated (v1.7) for search-engine-friendly links.

To upgrade, just upload links.cgi

how and where could i stick an if() in this script to politely screen out a particular link that i want to block folks from adding?

One thing the script does need is to run entries through the censored words filter. If your link is entered in the banned words list it should block it then.

hmmmmm... never thought of doing that, and that would actually solve several problems. thanks!

shuckz, i'm getting the following error with this mod on my 6.7.1 site

http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/links.cgi

i swear i never get anything right the first time

did you make sure to upload vars_wordlets_links.cgi?

its not in the zip currently on the download link (page 1) ?

Files updated to 07/18/2004 - (v1.8.5) Censor check added to add/edit link pages and using ubb-based verification for the same pages Anything (including url's) you have in your ubb's bad word filter will be filtered here.

I fixed some other misc. bugs, but don't remember right now. To update, just upload the links.cgi file. (zip contains the wordlet file now, please check it )

ok, I uploaded new links.cgi and wordlet file but now I'm getting a HTTP 400 bad request error?

http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/links.cgi

Very strange, you mind deleting the file and uploading it fresh?

still nada, and i reuploaded everything twice. Perhaps this is my problem...

What's the Win2k/NT translation for 777?

Full permissions for the IUSR_machinename and Everyone accts THO that should throw a 500, not a 400, but it wouldn't hurt to try it

so ok, write/modifiy wasnt on for IUSR in thelinks folder, but that didnt help any. And I see no W3SVC errors in the event log of any kind to lend a clue. even got in remotely and looked at all the files and it seems loaded fine, except maybe that db.cgi is 0K and the other stuff in links folder is 1K. any more thoughts?

Hey Allen, perhaps this will help...

I deleted everything, uploaded again. The very first hit to links.cgi to test it and I get a non-standard, plain-jane HTTP 400 Error page with a simple "Bad response from sever" message. Then I try to hit links.cgi?action=admin and I get standard HTTP 400 error page. Go back to the regular links.cgi and from there on out it's the standard HTTP 400 error page.

Exact same behavior as last night but I was tired and just thought I hit the link too quick the first time - first hit to the script looks to give a cgi generated error, and there after it coughs up 400 hairball

And still no web server related errors in the event log anyone else having trouble with the new v1.8.5 script?

couple shot in the dark grasps here...

• the .db files are supposed to be uploaded in ASCII mode right?
• In IIS the /ubb/links folder is inheriting read and execute rights (Scipts and Executables), I dont need to also turn on write rights as well do I?
• Is the zip still missing something thats maybe causing a problem for a fresh install: I have 2 files in cgi-bin and 7 files in non-cgi/links.
• Is the 0K db.cgi file supposed to have a little sumthin-sumthin in it to get started with?

Lemme check on your other questions, but the files will need write access to be able to update/edit/delete them, I'm pretty sure

I've got a Win2k box at home, I'll try to test it tonight if I get home before 1 or 2am from work

OK, I loaded the current files on my win2k box at home and for some reason got the same error

In using Beyond Compare, there's quite a bit different now from what I had a couple months ago, so I started at the top with plans to work down and see which section it was gonna choke on.

I changed the first line from :

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

back to the old:

#!/usr/bin/perl

and it works now

Try it and let me know how it works for you

good, thats actually a relief to know you got same error... I'm not a server person yet am my own host, so when something weird happens on serverside i get worried

off to test...

shoot... that fix didnt seem to help me but thanks so much for trying.

I'm running ActiveState Perl v 5.8.0.804 and php v 4.3.4.4 on Win2k SP4 server os, how's that compare to your machine where this fix seemed to help?

I using a newer version of perl .810 - not sure if that's the problem, but it's where I'm at. A good number of bugs were fixed and modules updated to the latest version.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePerl/CHANGES.html

My OS is win2k sp4 server, not sure about php but I don't think it should matter here.

hmmm... your perl is more than a year and a half old - millions of internet years, that's a long list of bugfixes there

YEAH - I'm good!!!! restarted IIS and loosing the -w did help! And I've seen IIS5 need semi-frequent restarts with custom non-asp web apps, so good to know it applies to my ubb stuff as well

thankyouthankyouthankyou. for both fix and perl update pointer as well.

(ponders whether to care enuff to go here. yeah why not..) i thought that dang perl declaration line wasnt supposed to mean anything on windows

latest perl loaded, script is atleast running now so no hurry here but we still got some buglets. Sorry Allen...

In admin page I tried to edit the canned categories and started adding new ones and it began to merge the first and second cat together, doubling up titles and descriptions and creating a nice little mess

http://dragboatalley.com/cgi-bin/links.cgi

More I tried to fix the more it doubled up, and delete cat doesnt seem to submit.

Click on a cat from index page and I get HTTP 404 page not found.

Add a link page is a really W I D E load, makes me scroll over sideway to get the Add button, and scroll way way way over to see my side bar

I think the SE-friendly page url's are causing the grief for the 404's. I'll see how ubb does it

The doubling part may be related to permissions, but I'll check it out later tonight.

Thank you Allen. Sidenote question on this mod for ya...

Once I get this working and load it up with a few popular links for each category that folks in my community frequent often before I surface it to the public; would it be possible to edit one of the db files so that I can assign those preloaded links to member names/numbers they belong too?

eg: I initially enter a link for a national magazine everybody in the sport reads, and since the editor of said mag is a regular on my site, I'd like to make it so that she can edit her own link if need be (and not bug me )

You should be able manually edit files without problem.

links.cgi file updated to fix url's that kept getting longer and longer with each click

Thanks Allen! add/edit categories working good now... but when I tried to delete last category it removed two cats, first and last.

correction - still a minor bugging on adding categories but it only starts showing up once you have more than 4 cats... add cat 5 or 6, and cats 1 and 4 gets combined/doubled up. Fix that up, go back to adding cats and get to my last one (cat 7) and again cats 1 and 4 get merged/doubled up.

(sorry allen)

No problem... tho I see you are still getting the 404's