UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Fix for the Custom user Text hack

The long awaited fix. When user info and permissions gets submitted, it clears. I wonder why? It is printing a null variable, not the field in which the data is held, clearing the profile information. Two possible fixes:

1) Remove the null variable
2) Add in the null variable

To make things easy, we will do the first.
cpanel4.cgi
find:

replace with:
Replace the profile number to the one of the usertext hack.



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UBBDEV Moderator
OCCUPATION: Programmer, webmaster.

Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board. I am not an employee of Infopop

Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail. Please post on the forums.

Sincerely,
MasterMind

God hope this works...

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The Fusion of Goku & Trunks...GoTorankusuKu

Aww man, didn't work, is it because I am using 5.44?

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The Fusion of Goku & Trunks...GoTorankusuKu

Didn't quite get there for us either... this is probably a partial answer for this... I believe more is needed in these 2 similar sections:
~line 785:

Will this fix everything or is it just part of the stacking fixes? I recommend you guys fixing everything then just redoc the current one.

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The Fusion of Goku & Trunks...GoTorankusuKu

Dangerouse submition of variables IS a bugfix. Although, i don't know the problem.

cal?

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UBBDEV Moderator
OCCUPATION: Programmer, webmaster.

Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board. I am not an employee of Infopop

Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail. Please post on the forums.

Sincerely,
MasterMind

Hope everything is done soon because I'm tired of changing statuses for users

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The Fusion of Goku & Trunks...GoTorankusuKu

Same prob here and I dont seem to be able to fix it... Well, hope someone will come up with something..

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Techguy http://www.helpfromtechs.com

same here, i'm sick of changing peoples status'. i have karma ratings install on my ubb. karma changes the entire profile membership save routines and as hard as i've tried to get custom status's to work with it, i keep getting the dang server errors.

Well I got the darn thing to work last month. I forgot a print membership line in ubbmisc.cgi. The hack works fine, only if you install it correctly.

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I had never had a ER whit this scrip

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Ok. I have a heavily modified version that has Allhacks, amoungst others installed. I have no problem installing the script. But when I get the text put in the box and post a msg, it then pops up with the AIM. I have used the next highest number which is 19 instead of 15.

I am at a loss.

I don't have the version I am working on public as of yet since I am wanting to have it looking good first. So no link to give you to look at.


This message has been edited by Jaxx on January 01, 2001 at 01:02 AM

does anyone have the original hack?

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I don mean dis in a disrespectful way//
But colombine happens in the ghetto happens every day//
Uncle L

I found it here: https://www.ubbdev.com/db/Forum8/HTML/000006.html

Just wish I could get this and one other problem fixed...

yea iight i mean i have it in use...i just dont remember where i found it

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I don mean dis in a disrespectful way//
But colombine happens in the ghetto happens every day//
Uncle L

OK, good to see someone's still working on this hack

I got some info, a revelation if you will.

While installing a 5.47C UBB I, the first hack I added was this custom user hack. As expected, through the control panel, I couldn't see the user text...thus, if I submitted a change, all users on that page would have their user text erased What I learned was, if I clicked "Veiw all registered users" miraculously, the user text for anyone who had it would show up in the control panel If I asked the control panel for any form of sorting of users to display, no utext.

My revelation (hey, it was to me) is that if there is no searching of the profiles done, just a listing, it works. If they are searched for any variable and then listed, no utext.

I have no idea what this means, but I'm sure you guys might get some ideas. If ya do, lemme know!!

TimS

Hi!

Another bug in this hack is that it allows swear words such as the f word even though the script specifies for to Censor Check. I even tested it out here; it even showed up.

Can anyone help?

I've tried fixing the line the print lines to print MEMBERSHIP ($usertextn"); but to no avail.

Any help on this would be appreciated!

qasic
UBB Hacking @ http://pokegym.thedojo.com/

Yes that is a problem. Another problem is that HTML can be used like <--- ^_^

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I manage to apply a 'hotfix', that is swear words (and HTML) will be saved into the member file but not displayed in threads. Will anyone be interested in this?

LMK.

Yes I would be interested in this.

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Okay.

In ubb_library2.pl, look for the line

Under it, add

where the number 17 should be replaced by the number where your Custom Title is stored in each member's profile. Also the & lt and the & gt must be pushed together to get rid of the space.

LMK if you have any problems with this hack.

qasic



This message has been edited by qasic on January 06, 2001 at 11:43 AM

Is there a way to only allow moderators/admins use HTML? I've tried adding


above


But it didn't work, anyone got a fix for this?

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Try this:


My original hotfix stripped all html and all censor words; now this should only be applied to people who are NOT admin and NOT mods.

qasic


This message has been edited by qasic on January 06, 2001 at 04:54 PM

Darn that didn't work either. Anyone here knows how to do this?

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Logically it should have. AIM me the source you've pasted in. Perhaps I can spot an error. Did you remember to put change the profile number and push the letters together?

Yea sure did, I did everything I could think of.

I posted once with a test name and my admin name. Both came output as regular HTML code.


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This message has been edited by GoTorankusuKu on January 06, 2001 at 11:17 PM

I see the problem why now $Status refers to something else here; I'll create a fix and issue it here.

I could've sworn that would've worked but guess it didn't. Post back when you have gotten a solution.

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Ok, I think I've gotten the fix down pat now.

In ubbmisc.cgi (one that had been originally modified with the instructions provided in the original hack), look for:


Underneath, put


Look for:


Underneath, put


Look for:


Replace it with:


This should be done TWICE.

Now in ubb_library2.pl (as hacked in the original hack)

Find:


Underneath, place:


Make sure you have changed 17 to the appropriate number and pust the & and the lt & gt together in ALL the code snippets (there are 3).

NOW, it should work! Please remember to retype in your own custom user text (and save)as the orginal hack had it set to replace the < and > with the apropriate HTML code.

LMK how this goes!

This message has been edited by qasic on January 07, 2001 at 04:29 PM

I didn't quite get this but I added what you just put down and it works! Like magic, thanks for the help.

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Put simply (without a technical explanation), after you apply this hack, you'll need to go to your profile, and re-type your Custom User Text (for some people, not for others). A minor annoynace at best.

Glad to be of service!

My user text was still there so I guess that clears things out. Thanks again.

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I've posted my cpanel4.cgi fix onto the Beta Forum for testing. Please provide feedback.

https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000156.html