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I was thinking of grabbing the date of the earliest post and then when short stats counts the total posts the number could be divided by the total days that have elapsed since the earliest post. This would give a daily average. One could also divide by 7 days for a weekly average too.

The numbers generated could be stored in short stats' cache field so the queries aren't run with every page load too. I will get this in for IIP 6.0

Dave,

How does the "last seen on" work?

I set this up for somebody... and they noted that It doesn't seem accurate. When does it "see you"? At login? or Logout? what if you don't logout?

This pulls the unix timestamp from the U_Laston field of the user. This field is set and updated by .threads itself while users use the forum. I believe the only script that updates this time is the addpost.php script and ubbt.inc.php when a user logs in.

I know it's not accurate and this is compounded by the fact that it gets cached. A new field would be needed for the users table and one extra query would be needed during the send_header call to update this field with a timestamp to provide accurate "last seen" information. I don't know if such a modification would be wanted by all but I'll add the directions for the next release as an option for those that do.

I thought about porting your IIP to UBB.classic, but I've just noticed the number of features you have and I have to say it's gonna take me years!!!

LoL many sleepless nights and lots of caffine should cut the time down considerably.

(more features have been added to the next version... btw)

One quick note, last seen shows people that have chosen to be invisible to all users. Please consider this in the next update.

Yes I did this because the information is cached. An admin should be able to see invisible users but in order to display both there would need to be two cache fields for the each set. I didn't think it mattered that invisible users were "last seen" because the information is not accurate nor up to date when assembled. Also, I believe if I do change anything I'll be hidding various boxes from invisible users since they don't want to be seen they shouldn't be able to see anyone else.

Hey Dave, I was just poking around for no reason and saw spiderfood.php in the pals dir. I'm asuming it has to do with web spiders and such, but curious as to how it works in relation to IIP, and what the values were you entered in there and if they should be changed or left to what you have or what not.

The Profile Index section of IIP can optionally use spiderfood.php to generate bogus email addresses to be displayed to unregistered users which should cover spam bots. (though I have seen bots trying to register as a new user around here so I'll be some day someone will have programed them to be able to actually accomplish such a feat) LoL

You can change the values in the arrays to what ever you want in the spiderfood script or add more. I intend to work spiderfood into any IIP scripts that would display users email addresses as time goes on.

nevermind, i fixed the problem, you can delete this post, thanks.

Is it possible to make polls shown on the index-page "votable" at that page, instead of having users to go to another page (the post with the poll) to put his/hers vote? Would be cool!

Love this Mod! It´s the best I´ve used! And my users loves it too!

The Poll Pal does allow them to vote directly. If they have already voted, they will see the results.

I'm getting this error.

SQL ERROR: Unable to do_query: SELECT Bo_Keyword,Bo_Title,Bo_Write_Perm,Bo_Reply_Perm,Bo_Read_Perm FROM Boards WHERE Bo_Keyword != '' AND Bo_Read_Perm LIKE '%-4-%'
Table 'filam.Boards' doesn't exist
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/filambasketball/www/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php on line 83
SQL ERROR: Unable to do_query: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Users WHERE U_Number > 1
Table 'filam.Users' doesn't exist
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/filambasketball/www/ubbthreads/mysql.inc.php on line 83

I'm running 6.0.2 Do I need an earlier version of IIP?

Plus do I need to remove my Calendar Mod?

Please help.

I think for 6.0.x you need IIP 4.6 (was the most current).

Somewhere in this thread.

How would I change the title on main page to something else that "at the entrance" without changing the online wording

thanks

That may be a problem. The same wording from the online.php file in your language section is used in both places. I believe you can add a title in the send_header call when the index page is generated.


In your index.php page try changing this:

$html -> send_header($config['title'],$Cat,0,$user);


to this:

$html -> send_header("some other title here",$Cat,0,$user);




Hope that works for ya.

Could something like this be included into IIP? https://ubbdev.com/threads/php/...ew=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

I do think it's a neat feature as far as bells and whistles go. I myself don't intend on creating or porting such a feature for IIP though. Perhaps at a later date when I have covered all of the standard *nuke features I may give the map display a try. After this next version of IIP I'll be working on allowing external modules to be loaded and give an example module so others can add features that I don't plan on doing such as stock quotes and weather information. My main reasons for not doing so is that such features often, if not always, require an agreement between the content provider and the end user and I do not want to create tools to allow users to circumvent such agreements.

Is there any way to show the number of replies in the frontpage?

In what box? Top Threads, Current Threads, Top Rated?

It's probably possible with some editing. I'm just not sure what you have in mind specifically.

I get an "Error on Page" in the bottom of the browser with I try to use Add to Favorties from my install. It seems to work on other sites i vist that have implemented IIP? Checked code in the munepal.php file as loaded and it appears to be the same as original file. Also tried upload to orginal file to confirm error. Running 6.1.1 and 5.1.1. under IE6.

Any ideas?

I mean in the news where after the post it says down how many views this post has, I wonder if next to it can say and how many replies has.
Its a common feature in all the news scripts

I believe it already does that. What's probably happening is that your using "force public" in which case the number of replies is not displayed because the "public" does not have access to reply. I'll change that over for the next version so it shows the number of replies even though they possibly don't have access to make a reply.

Nope not off hand. Possibly something getting in the way of the javascript? Open tag or something like that?

I updated the news script to include the reply information when using "forcepublic". Just download the IIP 5.1.1 zip file from the main IIP post and upload the modified newspal.php script. Remember to refresh your site's cache by using:

http://www.somedomain.com/index.php?RefCache=1

Then you will see the changes.

works great. Thanks
Just one minor suggestion

Instead of having for ex. 26 replies Reply, you can have just the first and when you click on it ,to be lead in the reply page

i followed the directions but i have NO link on the bottom to configure the index page.

what am i doing wrong?

I just had the same experience with a copy of IIP I downloaded last night. There's also no link. My setup is a new (functioning) install of UBBT 6.1.1. The pals directory is a sub-directory of my ubbt directory which is a subdirectory of htdocs. Index.php is in the top level of htdocs. My Ubbt config.inc.php is outside my web root.
Also, the cookie path has been set to "/".

Hope that's enough info for a diagnosis.

make sure you are logged in as administrator before going to the entrance.

I am logged in as the administrator. (There aren't any other accounts yet - it's a fresh install of ubbt.) I just realized though that IIP doesn't seem to recognize that I'm logged in since there are "Login" and "Register" links in the top horizontal nav bar. However, when I press the login link UBBT takes me to my Admin Home Page. So, for some reason, IIP is not recognizing my logged in status.

download cookie pal from www.tucows.com
erase all the cookies from your site
try to login again

is clearly a matter of cookies

Make sure your cookies are set site wide. That is usually the problem when the index page doesn't recoginize the admin's access.

Yes, Hal is right. It sounds like a cookie problem. As long as your cookies are site wide the index should recognize your status. Let me know how it goes.

Dave and Hal,

Thanks - it was a cookie problem but I'm not sure what caused it or how it was fixed. I had IE set to block 3rd party cookies, and when I disabled this (temporarily) I was able to see the link and configure IIP. I later went back to blocking 3rd party cookies and I can still see the link to the admin panel.

Thanks again for your help.

EdR

Doh. As many others I've been fooled by the cache... Didn't think a couple of the pals used the table wrapper, but it turns out they were just cached. Wouldn't it be a good idea to always load the wrapper dynamically and only cache the content? It shouldnät be that much of a problem though, since the wrappers won't be changed that often and the cache can be reread if I'm not mistaken.

I also wonder why Mozilla doesn't count as Netscape when setting text box width? Is it because the fields aren't as wide as in Netscape or something?

When I upgrade UBBThreads from 6.1 to 6.1.1 will I have to run the Initial Setup for IIP again?

What is the proper way tp upgrade IIP 5.1 to 5.1.1?

Also when setting the number of posts for past News Links IIP forces all three boxes (B1,B2,B3) to have the same number value no matter what number I chose.
eg;Choosing 3 posts for B1,2 Posts for B2,and 1 post for B3 update config will set them all to 3

Thanks for the help

Mozilla will fall under "other" when selecting size for text boxes. I intend on building up the browser detection to allow for other adjustments at some point. I'll try and keep Mozilla in mind though for 6.0

The main problem with not storing the table wrapper is when storing the news into cache. There is usually more than just one news box and since they all settle into the same storage field. I would have to set a specific limit on the news articles in order to create specific room for each in cache.

Yes you should load the configure panel into your browser and go over the new features and settings. Your old settings should remain in tact.

Going from 5.1 to 5.1.1 you will need to upload all files in the /pals directory except for the subdirectories, configpal.php and create-cache-table.5.1.php.

I have been playing with the number of news posts on my test site, using 3,2,1 and 1,2,3 and 4,1,1 and just about any other combination and I can't get them to do what your's is doing. Perhaps I fixed this in IIP 5.1.1? I dunno...

Anyone else have this problem too?

Forgot to add that you will need to upload the new index.php file also... sorry...

I have both username options [*] set to 0, but sometimes when a user who is not logged in comes to the page it is possible to add a shout, which becomes written by Anonymous. Once the first shout is added, the alert box comes up though. Any insight on this?

[*]Should we allow unregistered users to use the shout box? 1=yes 0=no
Should we allow unregistered users to specify a nickname with the shout? 1=yes 0=no