UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? user titles

Hi Scream,

I purchased the PHP version last week and installed it on my domain. It's working beautifully, but I am having a problem getting the user titles to display. By default, the title "Stranger" is assigned to people with 0-50 posts. I tried changing that to something else, but what shows up under the username is "O" instead of the text. I didn't do anything but backspace to delete the word "Stranger", so I don't see how the tab could have gotten deleted. Is that what happened or is something else wrong?

Thanks,

Eugene

It's possible that the tab got deleted, or maybe if you edited remotely that you didn't transfer in ascii mode? You might want to double check the tabs and then retransfer the file in ascii mode.

Hopefully this won't be a problem too much longer as the admin area upgrade will allow you to edit these files online.

same here.... any solution found already?
I am sure I uploaded ASCII not bin mode....


Carl
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Hi Scream,

I rechecked it, and my text editor was set for spaces instead of tabs. However, once I fixed that and downloaded the file again, ensuring that tabs were present instead of spaces, the problem persists. I was incorrect about it being "O". I looked more closely, and what appears is "()" -- opening and closing parentheses.

I can fix the problem by manually changing the user titles in the profiles, so I will do that until the next version is released.

Thanks,

Eugene

Ahaaaaa - TABS are maybe the magic word. I'll checkt that here. Thanks.

Carl
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I guess I misunderstood how this feature worked. After I changed the username file to eliminate the spaces and replace them with tabs, I thought it still wasn't working because on new posts, existing users still had the "()" below their names. However, I discovered that for new users added since I updated the username file, the title was displayed properly.

So, fixing the username file did correct the problem for users who registered after that point. But for users who registered before I fixed the file, I had to edit their profiles to insert the correct title.

So, the mistake was mine. As a software engineer myself, I have found that many user problems are misunderstandings of features. Same is true for me when I'm the user. []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/]

Eugene

I made an important discovery regarding this feature.

As was noted earlier in the thread, if you change the names in the list, existing users may not advance corretly. I found out why...

Users must have the correct "from" title listed in their records to go from one title to the next, and capitalization matters. So if you change the spelling of a title, you must go to all your users who have that level and change them to the new spelling. For example, the original file has these first two levels:

0 stranger
25 newbie

I changed a bunch of levels in mine, and in doing so changed the capitalization of the first two categories to:

0 Stranger
25 Newbie

What happened is that when a "stranger" got to 25 posts, they did NOT advance. But if I first edited their title from "stranger" to "Stranger", they were then allowed to pass from one level to another.

In addition, the original file was not saved as a text file (as I noted for other files in a previous thread). If you open the file with Wordpad, then save it, it will be correctly saved as a text file.