UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Include signature" prechecked box - selected in preferences!!!

Ok. I've finally made that hacks. I hope it works fine. It did for me on 5.44a, but i might have left some things out.

Ok. Here it goes:
In ubbmisc.cgi find:
Right after that add

Then find
and after that add

Then in postings.cgi find
and right after that add
adn replace
with

Do those 2 last steps twice.

Now, in "Preferences" you can select whether you want signature prechecked by default. Option will be stored in cookies, so users's browser must support cookies!

Hope that works

hey, great idea/hack! i am thinking of doing this on the FONT SIZE. do you think it's possible?

You mean, what font UBB will be displayed in for that user?
Possible, but takes a lot of work, since you'd have to change almost everyother line of each file .
But IS possible.

Nevermind, I'm just stupid. The hack is perfect. =)

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Troy(Trekkan)
RPG-Files Webmaster & Owner http://www.rpg-files.com

i don't know if the hack is working or not, but i have a add-on


Well, it's will display the "Show Signature" only if the user has not yet
set the preferences, else it won't display the "Show Signature" if the user
has already set it to included signature. Humm, did i make it clear? anyway,
here it is:

ilya's code:


replace with my code:


ilya's code:
He told you to replace

with


well, just replace this:

Do those 2 last steps twice.

Now, in "Preferences" you can select whether you want signature prechecked by default. Option will be stored in cookies, so users's browser must support cookies!

Hope that works

I was thinking about doing it that way, but decided to go with original one, since it would be more clear to the user, i think.
But nice addon anyways

Very nice hack, thanks for posting it. I recently changed so that the sig was checked
by default, but then started to notice how many people were leaving it checked off
without having a sig in thier profile. This hack will solve that nicely

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Chris Schreiber
[email protected]
Fast 4GL Systems, Inc. http://www.fast4gl.com/
UBB: http://www.progresstalk.com/

Glad you like it
This is like my 3rd hack only.

Ilya -- yes, and EXCELLENT hack...

I will be installing this right now

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I wish I were a Canuck
All they have to do is drink beer, play hockey, and say "Eh"

* No offense meant to any Canadians

ilya, i'm using 5.44 and it only autochecks when i'm posting replies not topics.

Ilya - was that really only your 3rd hack? I thought you were a UBB veteren.

Just a thought

I've been dealing with UBB for quite a whil (installed it a lot of times, modified, translated), but didn't write many hacks. The ones I write:
"Last post by" in Ultimate.cgi
Signature preferences
Greetings by time

Aaah - Very good hacks!

Just a thought

I wish UBBMaster used this hack

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I'll tell him about it.

I don't need it personally, but it would be a nice addition.

Just a thought

here's something that was missed. after doing this hack, if a user goes to set prefrences, no default item is checked. this will fix it

a little further down in ubbmisc.cgi
you'll find this

change it like this

thats it

Actually, my code checks the checkbox. At least it's suposed to
I have this in it:
&get_cookie; if ($cookie{Signature} eq "yes") { $SigPref="CHECKED"; } else { $SigPref=""; }

And then I put .
I thought that would work, and it did for me..

ilya:

What I think Mutt is refering to is that when you go back to the preferences page it does not show that it has been enabled or not.

Mutt:

is not in version 5.39c. I really don't want to upgrade. Any other ideas how to get this to keep the choice checked?
Parker

Parker,

Its not in 5.44a either. =) But Mutt is right, I came back to this thread to specifically report this bug, but of course it was already mentioned.

Anyone have any ideas as to a fix(Since I can't find the code either)? Maybe its not in ubbmisc but another file?



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Troy(Trekkan)
RPG-Files Webmaster & Owner
http://www.rpg-files.com

I'd say that the code is there somewhere
i'm on 5.44

at the bottom of the prefrences page after the submit button and before $footer is this code


this is my modified version and you don't need all this. i posted the whole thing so that you could search for different parts.

if you can't find it do it like ilya said would work fine.

This hack didnt work at all when i tried it, i followed every step and all, still didnt do the trick, don't know whats wrong but I got no errors either. It just wouldn't show in the profile.

Also how do you change the background and title image in the profile area, its driving me crazy!

It's not in profile, it's in Preferences!

goodness what a fool I am, thanks, i will try it again, can't believe i didnt figure that out!

I can't seem to get it to work. I did everything posted in this thread every way possible, tried everyones ideas. It started out with not saving which option i checked "yes" or "no" and not effecting anything in my forum. Then I tried Anonymous's code and still not working, although not exactly sure what to do with that last part but i tried it anyhow by just replacing that line with the $SigPref. Then I did Mutt's code, that made it save what option i picked in the prefrences, but it still doesnt do anything when I post a message.

Any ideas??

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NekdDrgn

Does your browser support cookies?
Do you have them turned on?

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

Yes, I'm using IE5 and cookies work everywhere else. I had a few people that are registered on my board try it and it didn't work for them either. Is there anything specific I could check that you would know of? I've tried reinstalling the hack 3 times and this what I come to each time.

i cannot see if i set on or off now. nothing is checked! and the both addons above didnt work for me! i have ubb 5.44a and ie 5 (accepting cookies)

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Worked Great Ilya...
version # - 5.39c

Good Job...

HMM seems not to work to well on 5.45b. I followed the steps and get no errors and even am able to switch it around in preferences but the damn thing just wont show up. And now my option to check it myself is gone so anyone get it to work in 5.45b+ yet let me know thanks
Cracka

Is this a good assumption then? This is not doable in version 5.45b?

I like the idea of this add-on to the hack but I get a 500 error when I add this part of it and the error-loge reportsAny suggestions?

Also I wanted to add the option for new registrants so did the first step of the orignal instructions for register_lib.pl - top tip



replace with my code:


ilya's code:
He told you to replace

with


well, just replace this:

Do those 2 last steps twice.

Now, in "Preferences" you can select whether you want signature prechecked by default. Option will be stored in cookies, so users's browser must support cookies!

Hope that works

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Ilya:

Thanks for the great signature hack, it works fine in 5.45C code. But, I'm trying to modify it to automatically place a check in the radio button that was the users preference. Say when you select "preferences" again after making your selection it doesn't show what choice you made before. It does check the box according to what you selected in the postings just like you said, but doesn't leave a check box on the preferences setting once it's been made. I tried the code on ubbcodehacking.com made by a user, but didn't find the code mentioned in the ubbmisc.cgi file. Could you shed some light on this and maybe give a hand in doing this? I'm new to code so I'm a little lost right now but learning a lot as I go.

Do you have the code for the other mods you wrote or can point to the threads where they are? There are so many of them that it's hard to find and I'm not sure if it's the latest version you wrote. If you want to send them in an e-mail to me you can as well.

Thanks for your help.

Jeff

I fixed the bug where the set status of the signature doesn't appear set when you re-enter the preferences area.

It used pure CGI and it's working flawlessly.

If you need the hack, pm me for it.

Hello everyone,

This is a re-documentation of the hack I listed yesterday. I left out some code. Sorry.

I figured out how to show it selected in your preferences after you choose an option for version 5.45c. (The mod Mutt was talking about.)

In ubbmisc.cgi FIND:

REPLACE that with:


Then AFTER that add:

Then change ilya's code from this:

TO This:

Basically your adding the $SigOn and $SigOff variables to the INPUT fields to tell the script whether or not to CHECK the checkbox if the preference is turned on.

You can change the else statement by making on of the variables to CHECKED to make "signatures checked" or "Signatured unchecked" a default value.

Hope I explained that ok, been a long day of coding.

I hope this helps.

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James L. Murray
VirtueTech, Inc.
EMAIL: info@virtuetech.com
WWW: http://www.virtuetech.com

Hi VirtueTech,
I follow ur document of hack for sign precheck box at prefernece. I have tested so i went to preference click yes for signture is work BUT I found that i select NO then it wont work to save it. Then i check on Preference signture still YES. You can check on http://test2k.virtualave.net/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

I believe something wrong VirtueTech's code. Please fix it.
Thank you.

does this work with 5.46?

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kaak
[email protected]
icq# 4032410

it works on UBB 5.47e with a bit of reworking in my board.