UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Smilie config cp-addon fully working now!

The Smilie cp-addon (http://ubbcodehacking.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000025.html) is fully bugfixed now; I've tested it thorougly and found no errors. Instructions: http://feyenoordmb.virtualave.net/ubbhacks/smiliecp-instructions.txt
Smilies.txt: http://feyenoordmb.virtualave.net/ubbhacks/smilies.txt

Follow the instructions very carefully and don't forget to chmod the smilies.cgi to 755

This is a wonderful hack .. and well instructed (I'm a newb and I was able to do it no problems)

My one question would be ... on the left where it says Smiles Legend, how could I get that to link to the new Smiles Legend with the new codes and smilies?

Or do I need to manually edit that in the html document?

Thanks!
~Kat

Anybody had any luck with this in v5.43d?

I got it all set up, but when I go to the smilies settings in cp, I can't do anything.

It shows the form, but there's not way to add a new smilie. In fact, the only boxes available to enter anything are Delete?, Code and my Account and Password... No place to enter the icon graphic... when I put in a :), it just refreshes and nothing changes.

has this happened to anyone???

la

lalley, I just installed it on the latest version of UBB (5.43d) and it works like a charm!

Do you see a box that says add or something like that? I can't remember what it says, but you need to check the add box and state how many you would like to add ....

If this isn't the problem, I'm sorry I probably can't help since I'm very new with this sort of thing.

~Kat

lalley > e-mail me your link to your control panel, so I can see what you mean. ilj@quicknet.nl

Ack!

I blew away my changes in order to get the smilies back to normal...

The "Add" check box did not exist. I saw the tag line telling me to check it to add one, but there was no field for me to check.

I will try it again today, and If I have the same problem again... I'll send you the link so's you can check it out!

Thanks!
la

can someone please tell me where to get all the simlies.
The Rock

I just installed this hack and....

When smilies.cgi executes I get an Internal Server Error.

I ran the smilies.cgi from a unix prompt and got: Undefined subroutine &main::ReadParse called at ./smilies.cgi line 27.

You can access my cp @ http://www.thecollector.com/Ultimate_BBS/cp.html

Any healp would be great.

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The Rock,

When you see the icon you want, just save it to your local computer.



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Micah Kritzman

Actually when I viewed it.. I get a page can not be displayed message...

You are correct, when viewed in IE it gives that error message.

When viewed in Netscape, I get the promature end of script header.

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Micah Kritzman

I know this isn't the place to ask.. But what happened to the STAR RANK hack???

Thanks for all these GREAT HACKS!

confused > Is it working allready? Because I think it's a misconfiguration you get there: Make sure you upload in ASCII, the smilies.cgi should reside within the ubbcgi directory and it should be chmodded to 755. The subroutine ReadParse is called from ubb_library.pl so it should work

Working fine for me.. Only trouble I have is with the Smilies Legend Script...

As far as the one who posted before.. Have no idea what his problem could be... I'm as as ever

I got both of these new smilie hacks installed. The smilie legend thing isn't documented very well. If you refer to the original thread of that hack you should scroll down and read the "mod" Mutt wrote up. I also found that Mutt left something out...

smilies.cgi

add:

require "Styles.file";

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Blizzard Domain - http://go.to/blizzdomain

Kut,

Where should we add that line of text at? I read that somewhere but never added it, because I was not sure where to stick the require "Styles.file"; at..

Thanks.

In postings.cgi and smilies.cgi look at the top of the file. Near the top there will be a couple lines that say:

require "ubb_library.pl";
require "ubb_library2.pl";

Below that add:

require "Styles.file";

The styles should now work for the smilies legend. Be sure to remember to add the require to both postings.cgi and smilies.cgi.



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Blizzard Domain - http://go.to/blizzdomain

Thanks,

Smilies legend still will not work off the MAIN POST NEW TOPIC button??? It only works when I've read a message and either reply to it or if I post a new topic there.. it's really strange, any other suggestions?

That is... I'm having to disable the javascript.. and adding a direct HTML link to the smilies.cgi.. It's weired. They work off of reading a message...

I added the require "Styles.file";

but my smilies legend comes up blank,

I get Icon name - Icon and Close window......

Any ideas

Mas*Mind,

Thanks for the help. I had the incorrect directory structure set for:

require "ubb_library.pl";
require "ubb_library2.pl";

It's all working now.

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Highlander,

Try putting the smilies files into the newly created smilies directory.

I did that.... still nothin...g

I cant find:


Im running 5.34..is that a problem??


Thanks,
Me

me > It's highly unlikely that those lines aren't there...Try to search for substrings

(this piece of code generates the cgi/ubb/members path/url -textfield in the control panel..)

Ok..I think I found the spot but it is not in CGI form..it is in html...how would I frase it??

Here is what I found:



I would guess I would put it there but I do not know CGi and I dont know how to translate

Is this it??


Thanks,
Me

almost:

I'm trying to install the cp add-on...
and stuck....

I have 5.42...and I can't find in postings.cgi (where you have to replace it with $message = &ConvertSmilies($message);):


I'm a dork when it comes to CGI... Where do I add that in the postings.cgi exactly?? I did a search...and its no where to be found...

Can you help out of dork with her CGI??

Thanks!!
RG

Read the doc carefully! It contains the answer...

Anyway; you have to find this one:

I don't have that in my postings.cgi file.


This may sound silly, as this is my first experience with UBB (I installed one last night to see if I could do it ), but..
Should I already have a smilies script installed for this? Mas*Mind, have you made a smilies script that goes with the control panel one?

Thanks!

Version: 5.39c
Problem: I tried installing this, people can post fine and everything, but when trying to use smilies it outputs this...(html code)

/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/agent.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/angrytounge.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/blueface.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/blushing.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/agent.gif"> )
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/agent.gif">
>/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/blueface.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/frowny.gif">
>/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/biggrin.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/blushing.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif">
/boards.gameglow.com/ubb/smilies/surprised.gif">





I did everything exactly the way it said except...

###Now open up your ubb_library.pl and search for:

sub VerifyAdmin

###if the name of the routine is 'sub VerifyAdmin' do noting
###else if the name of the routine is 'sub VerifyAdminCP' change the following line in your smilies.cgi:

&VerifyAdmin($UserName, $Password);

###to:

&VerifyAdminCP($UserName, $Password);

I couldn't find any of those strings or even substrings. But it still works fine other then what I said above. Thanks for the help!

I'm using v. 5.42a and I did the search for

and i don't come up with anything! help, anyone?

Mas*Mind:

I´m converting this great hack for the freeware.

I´ve added a sub VerifyAdmin and it works.

But I have problems with smilies that contain a "<" or a ">". If I edit the SmiliesDB.cgi on my own and write "<" as "<", it works. But in case I use your smilies.cgi, it converts it again to "<". Can you tell me, how to tell the smilies.cgi to save "<" as "<" ???

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Grüße aus Deutschland / Greatings from Germany
Leisure Larry

Homepage: Catan & Stonehedge - Multiplayerz vs. HTML
UBB: ALLinONE , the german UBB for Freeware-Hacks

I could not find the sub verify either but i installed the hack anyway without changing anything and it worked.
I am on ver 5.41a and have so many hacks that it may not matter

The sub is in ubb_library2.pl, NOT ubb_library.pl.

Just a thought

Can anybody help me with my above problem (wanting to save "<" as "<" in the SmiliesDB.cgi) ???

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Grüße aus Deutschland / Greatings from Germany
Leisure Larry

Homepage: Catan & Stonehedge - Multiplayerz vs. HTML
UBB: ALLinONE , the german UBB for Freeware-Hacks

Didn't test it but I think it'll work:

find (smilies.cgi)

$smiliecode = "smilie-" . "$i";

and add below it:

$smiliecode =~ s/ $smiliecode =~ s/>/>/g;

Done!

Note that the < > will allways be converted! Even if you turned html on. The problem is the disable html setting is configured per forum so you can't check it when you configure your smilies.

btw: I changed my doc cal, thanks for pointing it out

Anytime. Thanks for such a great hack. Have you made the #include modification as well?

Another thing I changed was to take out the sizing parameters for the smilie IMG tag in the legend - the confused smilie got crushed since it's bigger than the rest.

Just a thought

Didn´t work. Edited smilies.cgi like this:

sub submitSmilieSettings {
$number = 0;

open (SMILIEFILE, ">$SmilieDB") or die ("Can't open file: $SmilieDB!");
for($i=1; $i<=$SmilieCount; $i++) {
$smiliedel = "delete-$i";
if($$smiliedel ne "Yes") {
$number++;
$smiliecode = "smilie-" . "$i";
$smiliecode =~ s/ $smiliecode =~ s/>/>/g;
$smiliepic = "smiliepic-" . "$i";
$smilieline = "$$smiliecode" . "|^|" . "$$smiliepicn";
unless($$smiliecode eq "" | | $$smiliepic eq "") {
print SMILIEFILE ("$smilieline");
}
}
}
close(SMILIEFILE);
chmod (0777, "$SmilieDB");
&smilieSettings;
}

In my manually made SmilieDB.cgi had been smilies with "<". After inserting a new smilie, I had "<" instead.

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Grüße aus Deutschland / Greatings from Germany
Leisure Larry

Homepage: Catan & Stonehedge - Multiplayerz vs. HTML
UBB: ALLinONE , the german UBB for Freeware-Hacks

while working on my ubbbuttons, I've come up with a way to just click on the smilie code, name or pic and have the smilie code automatically inserted into the message window. when i get this 100% working, I'll post it. currently only works for one of the 3 post pages at a time, have to build a little sub so it works in edit, reply and post. will have it for yas this weekend

it's damn cool. i know i said damn and this ubb will censor damn, but it is damn cool and I have to say that whether ubb code hackers hideout likes it or not.

I have a somewhat sucky problem with this (great) hack:

# 1 - Make sure the perl path is correct, this should probably be: #!/usr/bin/perl of #!/usr/local/bin/perl

- Okay - got that right!

# 2 - Make a new link in cplinks.html pointing to http://yourdomain.ext/yourubbpath/smilies.cgi?action=smilieSettings

- Did that correctly as well

# 3 - Make a separate directory for your smilies within the NonCGIPath eg: /yournoncgipath/smilies

- Mission accomplished!

# 4 - Go into your general settings and enter the SmiliePath and SmilieURL variables and submit

- Whoops! I have none of those variables in my general settings.
I see the link on the left, and it goes to the script - but as those variables aren't set I can hardly do a thing (not adding/modifying/deleting stuff). Does anyone know what this can be?

I placed my smilies.cgi in the ubb cgi dir, and chmodded it 755 - and created all of the other garble mentioned.

I use UBB version :
5.44a

Thanx in advance!

It seems to me like you missed a few steps while editing cpanel2.cgi.

Sorry to interupt you, but, in your instruction, you wrote cmod the smilies.cgi to 777, but here, you wrote 755. What's the right? I did install, but error 500.

I think that 755 is right.. I chmoded it to 777 too and got an error.. Works fine with 755

Does anybody know, how to prevent that the smilies.cgi saves smiliecodes with a "<" or a ">" in it ???

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Grüße aus Deutschland / Greatings from Germany
Leisure Larry

Homepage: Catan & Stonehedge - Multiplayerz vs. HTML
UBB: ALLinONE , the german UBB for Freeware-Hacks

Did it all. (but it realy needs a decent manual) and now I get this error.

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:
Unrecognized character 320 at C:Inetpububbsmilies.cgi line 1.

I used the smilie code on the test server (w98 + PWS).

The real server is IIS4. But I did not implement the smilies hack yet.

Just found a problem. If you install that hack, and specify that all smilies are in, say, ubb/smilies, than the smilies that were in /ubb will screwe up, since they won't be there any more. Even if you update threads, the location of smilie in thread won't change.

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Thanks for reading!
Ilya
Administrator of Ubb Code Hackers Hideout
Moderator of UBB Hacks Finished

I just uploaded all my UBB default smilies to ubb/smilies and then left the default ones in /ubb as well..

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*insert woosh sounds here*

I did that too, but it takes up extra web space.

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Thanks for reading!
Ilya
Administrator of Ubb Code Hackers Hideout
Moderator of UBB Hacks Finished

ok - i did the hack - i followed all the steps as far as i know. I seem to have two problems...

1. When i go into smilie settings on the control panel, it lists only the ones that have code like ':-o' or something. but when i go into to check the list - it lists all of them that are in my smilies folder. (the first time i opened smilie settings it listed them all, i didnt delete any, but after that it only listed the ones that had text codes.

2. when i go in to post either new topics or replies - the message icon still only includes the basic ones that are in my icons folder. the instructions dont say anything about what to do with the ones in the icons folder. do they get moved to the smilies folder too?

Icons and smilies are 2 different things! This hack lets you configure SMILIES (i.e. the ones that you put using : ) or ; D )

Icons are just included with the message, and to add more, you just put them into icons dir and name them icon 20.gif, icon 21.gif, icon22.gif etc.

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Thanks for reading!
Ilya
Administrator of Ubb Code Hackers Hideout
Moderator of UBB Hacks Finished

now i feel really stupid cuz what i wanted was to add smilies to the message icon list and didnt need the hack at all...oh well, lol. Thanks for the info...i guess i got it right after all.

Time to tackle another hack then...hehe

I feel so dumb. I can't seem to get this to work. I did everything as far as I can see. My two problems are as follows:

1. I get the smilies control panel, but when I click on View current Icons, I get:

The requested URL /smilies.cgi was not found on this server.

2. When I go to add smilies, I get user name not found.

Could anyone help?

Make sure you've configured the path to smilies.cgi in your general settings area.

Yes I did that. Still have the same problem. Any clues?

when i edit a post....,it should display £º£©
but now it give me a ubbcode,is it right?why?

Thanks for a great hack, Mas! It was my second successful hack install and worked like a charm. And the gals on my board are thrilled to death to have tons of cute little smilies to choose from.

Cheers,

Susan

Does anyone have installating instructions for the Smiles Legend?

The Database is broken anyways

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http://www.upnetwork.com/
http://bbs.upnetwork.com/

Jaxel, all I did to fix the smiles legend was to edit the smilies.html in the non-cgi directory...worked like a charm.

Hope this helps,

SusanM

Thanks man i got it working on my ubb5.44 but you think it will work on ubb5.45b ??? hehe took awhile to chaneg everything
Well thanks
Cracka

Sorry , but is there a completed instruction on this hack as i'm not into programming so can some lends me a helping hand???

I'm having problem with UBB Code Buttons v3 and this smilies hack. the problem i'm having when you click on in UBBCODEBUTTONS a blank page comes up. and when i do smilies in New Topic or Reply they don work so example i do (will show u a picture) on my site there will be nothing. except the text thing anyone can help me out?
take a look at my site www.dealking.net my icq 10363340 thanks

Smilie Legend still don't work I can't figure out why, Someone give me the clues the required "Styles.file"; is there
Hmm anyone?
take a look please www.dealking.net it will forward u straight to the board

Okay, 5.45c, I seemingly installed everything cool, but it's late and I may have been a retard somewhere here...

Everything was going cool, upped everything, it all appeared in cp.html ok, got to the point where I was about to upload some new smilies to test it out, when I received a message from one of my users saying that after they replied, the postings.cgi screen came up blank. I tried it and this was indeed true. Anybody know offhand why this would happen?

I re-upped the backups for functionality's sake, and am ready to go to sleep, but if anybody knows off the top of their head what I may have missed or mistyped to get this (maybe even a wrong CHMOD?) I would appreciate a heads-up to save some stress.

Thanks all.

Does anyone know if the hack will work with 5.45c or will I just have to find the codes in a different file?

after installing, everything seems work fine..
onlyt problem is...the edit page become a blank page...

I'm currently having the problem with the edit page appearing blank. ( As the person above is experienceing) I'm also having a problem with the smiles I add not displaying.

I have UBB version 5.42a.
I have your Smilies hack and the Auto-Updating Smilies Legend hack to complete it.

BlueMoon: Yes this hack worked with 5.45c

Squall14: the edit page became a blank page? you mean the smilies.cgi? if it's yes, then you need to get the update script.

Bartman: you might want to check smilies path..make sure you have the right path or else the smilies won't display correctly..also make sure you have smilies directory in NonCGI directory...for the problem with the blank page, use the update smilies scripts...

Not smilie.cgi...
but the Edit page for edit a post..

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Squall14

squall14: I think there is a problem in your postings.cgi...you might miss out some codes or did you edit the postings.cgi like the instruction said?

bartman: you have same problem with squall14...the problem is from the postings.cgi...did you replace all of the smilies subroutine with the new one? etc...

Yes,...I follow all the instructions....
I edit the postings.cgi 3 times...but I still get the same result...
a blank page shown when I trying to edit a post......

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Squall14

Well, problem wasn't resolved after starting from scratch with a install of this.

So I just went back to my backup copy, where editing posts work....

Thanks for the suggestions..

I've got a problem, my postings.cgi is messed up. However this is nothing new, whenever I make a hack and it deals with postings.cgi I ALWAYS get a "Premature end of script" error. I don't understand.

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Theres a peace inside us all,
Let it be your friend,
It will help you carry on,
In the end

I was having the same problem with the edit page showing up blank and it turned out it wasn't a problem in postings.cgi but a problem in ubb_library.pl so you may want to redo that file..

Fixed postings.cgi and now the smilies wont show up. If I change what to put for the smilies that already exist, it doesn't change them. It wont show the smilies that I add. When I go to edit my smilies they are there, but only the ones that were originally there show up, and they have to be made the way that they were originally made.

Anyone have any idea what I could do to fix that?

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Theres a peace inside us all,
Let it be your friend,
It will help you carry on,
In the end

I can't seem to find this smilies "legend" thing anywhere. It's not in my smilies.cgi file. Where can I find this? On my board, when you click on the smilies button, the window just hangs there. PLEASE HELP!!

I'm having a problem with the smilies with codes that contain ) and ( like :), :(, and .

I can add them but when I post a message, they aren't converted to the images. The other ones like work.

Any suggestions on how to fix this problem??

I've tried this hack, checked double, triple even quad times and get the same error. Everyone who posts post fine but no smilies are showing. (I know why).

In the CP General settings cpanel2.cgi, when I enter the path for the smilies I get this error:

Sorry! Your General Settings were not accepted

Here is what UBB found:

and it will not accept any path I give it. Also I found a little funny.


well in mine it's


so where am I supposed to add

$SmilieURL = "http://$ENV

??

here?


Any help would be greatly appreciative.


This message has been edited by NoCarrier on January 22, 2001 at 11:39 PM

You might wanna compare it to the coding in the latest code buttons, it was updated for the newer versions of the ubb.

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Duke

I just added

if ($SmilieURL eq '') {
$SmilieURL = "http://$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}/ubb";
}

still no luck. In the smilie control panel (since it's looking for www.yourwebsite.com no default directory) for my smilies I just input ubb/smilies/smiliename.gif and the smile picture shows. Now the posts still don't work and there's not smilie button. Arg!

Did you set your paths to your smilie folder in your general settings?

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Duke

that's where I get the error. I can put in the CP path = ubb/smilies/smile.gif and the UBB works fine. It was just a pain to reenter all the smilies.

Also, was there supposed to be a new smilie button during post or do I have to edit the smiles.html everytime I add a smilie now? I mean it works... kinda.. just a lot of trouble for a few

also, now that the cpanel2.cgi is non-functional (still gives me that error) I can't change ANY settings in the general section. I can get the cpanel2.cgi page, but if I try to change something and hit submit I get that dreaded "Sorry! Your Gerneal Settings were not accepted" error.

something in my cpanel2.cgi is screwy. everything else seems to work great.

i need help with it! i am running 5.47a can you please tell me what to replace and with what? Please i don't understard that!

If you set your paths correctly in your general settings, ie:
/home/users/htdocs/ubb/smilies

(or whatever your absolute paths are)

Then you shouldn't be entering paths in your smilies settings like you are, ie:
ubb/smilies/flamethrower.gif

it should be just:
flamethrower.gif

If you can't set the absolute paths in your general settings for the smilie directory, then you have a mistake in your coding and this will not work.

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Duke

Hi I have finally got the file working, and have added some new smilies but they do not show up on the smilie.html file. How do I get these in do i need to add them manually, and if so is there a program that will do this for me?
Thanks
Donald