UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Custom Rank Setting 2.0 / Custom Status

Well I found a couple cool hacks called costum rank setting and custom status. Costum rank setting was flawed and made no sense to have some of the settings with custom status. So I went through complete revised them and renamed the hacks. Both hacks that I have revised can be at http://www.shiningforce.net/CusRank.zip

I will have 2.1 out in about a week. I have a few new things I am adding and a few things fixing.

I've always been a big supporter of these hacks and am interested in what you ahve done. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!



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I want to include this in the WCH, but what exactly does it do? I can't check it because WinZip isn't on this machine and I can't get a decent .zip program that can bypass fortres.101.

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It basically fixes alot of the bugs in his code. dont user the user status text enclsoed its not needed and will make you created duplicate ranks in posts

how bout a screen shot of the custom rank cp?

thanx

Yeah, a screen shot would be cool.

I store the ranks in an array. I was wondering if this is an efficient way of going about this.

File: ubb_library2.pl
Replace:

Replace With:


Array of ranks in ranks.txt.

Rank 1 is achieved at 1 post. Rank 2 at 30 posts. Rank 3 at 60 posts. More ranks can be added easily by editing ranks.text.

Nice addition - a Mas*Mind Smilies CP style mod would be good, to allow adding of ranks through the control panel.

Just a thought

I thought that is what Nevex has made. I'm not sure thought. thats why I'd like to see a screen shot. has anyone installed this? cna i see a working link.

thanx

I just got through installing this hack.
But, my paint program doesnt work, so i cant take a screen shot. It basically allows you to easily set the Cutom User Status with images. Makes it easy, but it doesnt work for me. I am still working on it, and modifying the code.

i just installed this on a fresh UBB 5.44b and it works just fine (i think). there is an issue in the installation instructions, however. the last paragraph makes reference to an "update user ranks" link, or something like this. this link does not exist (or i totally missed it), and it's completely necessary to get the hack to work. if the link did exist, it would call cpanel.cgi?action=RankCheck. you just have to add a link to that (or call it directly from the address bar) and you should be good to go.

also, the CosRank.cgi file's first line calls "usr/bin/perl5". this didn't work on my server.

- Wind-X

Take a look at this site http://www.hardware-one.com.sg/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001517.html

Isit possible to have a PIC hack as in besides the RANK | TITLE | TYPE | IMAGE,we add in another coloum, USER IMAGE.

This USER IMAGE can be any size and there will be a default USER PIC for the rank. and if the user want to use their own USER PIC, we can put it for them?

i found another issue with this one that pops up when you're making the custom rank a profile entry greater than the default 15. in the changes made to cpanel2.cgi, there is a section that you replace with:


if you have something else in profile entry 15 (i had the custom user text), then that $searchrow[7] probably won't return the right value. in my case, the fix simply involved changing the 7 to an 8, but that may not work for everyone.

- Wind-X

found another bug in this bad boy. seems the author missed an update in ubbmisc.cgi. in the ModifyBio function, $UserRank is properly written to the user profile file at the end of the subroutine. however, $UserRank is never actually set. this causes the custom rank to be lost any time the user changes his or her profile. to remedy this:

in Sub ModifyBio in ubbmisc.cgi, find:


and after this code, add the following:


as the instructions say, that [15] index is dependant on what you have in your profiles. if you changed that number everywhere else in the hack, change it here, too.

- Wind-X

I can't get this hack to work AT ALL.

If he made that I would install it

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as is, the hack has a control panel for adding new ranks.

- Wind-X

How do you do this perl thing...I have my own boards but I don't know how to work this perl thing and how to get the custom ranks to work..... can someone help.... please don't give me any instructions that sound like they are from another world....THANKS!

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Cal doesnt trust me enough to have me do it for you. So, i am not gonna comment at this time. I can only help if i have your files. And, i dont think anyone trusts me enough.

Chill MasterMind. I don't trust you any less than I tust Atom. It's just you're not a mod and I don't know if you really have a license. Feel free to email this guy, just don't exchange files on this board. No hard feelings?

Just a thought

I am gonna re package this people obviously didnt read the installation instructions carefullyenough. I haveinstalled it with my instructions on more than just my board.

when will it be out?
Looks good.

If i dont have a license, how did i get a UBB?

When I have time I will re package it, its not that hard to instal as is

So does the hack (http://www.shiningforce.net/CusRank.zip) work 100% correctly??? Is it safe to upload to my board and from what I understand can I edit it all in the control panel???

Please reply...

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I see.
I understand what he was saying. I just want to point out, look at the bottom of my UBB. 5.44a it says! http://www.h-realms.com/lild/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

I Would really like to setup this hack, although i know for a fact its not for 5.45b. I did searches in the files and only found 1/5 of the the info it said to find and change or replace and add. Anyone know of a custom status/title hack that works for 5.45b?

i've got a 5.44a board
i searched the in postings.cgi but did not find anything so i cannot complete the hack
could anyone tell me where to look for it?
thx
Sub

Nevex you said
so what should i do? apply the hack in custom title.txt or custom status.txt only or both or... ?
thx for an answer

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SubWorx

Dear Custon Rank Master,
I had download the custom rank, but the problem is, i cannot found the correct code in the instruction for UBB 5.45a, can you update the correct code for new ubb 5.45a.

Thanks in advanced

If you can't find the correct code in any hack then please try to search for substrings.

Just a thought

Is there no way, to get a 'clean' package from this hack ?
I try one install on a brand new 5.45c ...
When i try to use CP to setup status ... i got a nice blank frame ...

Btw ... they are some strings that was hasardous to place ...

Is it possible when building the hack to give :

- sub name
- substring
- fix ?

when they are more then one possiblity to apply hack ??

Thank for good work

S-Stephen

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