UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Memberlist v2.5 - The Last of the Line

Time for the last release of Memberlist before the next point release: v2.5
New in this version:

• Web control panel for configuring the increasing array of options.
• Fix for the user deletion "leftovers" problem.
• Option for configuring what the allowed search fields are. (It used to just default to the fields you chose to display.) For example, you may want to allow users to find each other via an e-mail address, but you may not want the e-mail column displayed.
• Option to use either the standard UBB e-mail link, or a mailto: link.
• ICQ "add-me" option.
• Karma display option. (If you're using the Karma hack.)
• Ability to filter out users with fewer than a certain number of posts.
• Various code clean-ups and more commenting.
• And more...

You can find a demo of the script here:
http://www.magictraders.com/cgi-bin/ubb/memberlist.cgi

You can download the ZIP file here:
http://www.magictraders.com/ubb/memberlist.zip

Or, the tarball here:
http://www.magictraders.com/ubb/memberlist.tgz

* Important! *
The installation instructions have changed, so please go through the README.txt file as if you were installing it for the first time, if you don't, the script will not function correctly. If something isn't working, go through the readme file again, if it still isn't working, go though the readme file another time. Seriously, please don't e-mail me until you've gone through the readme at least three times, as there are a LOT of little internal changes, and missing just one could screw things up. Also, lettercreate.pl has changed to lettercreate.cgi in order to work on Windows NT and other poorly configured systems. Due to a data format change, you MUST run lettercreate.cgi again, but ONLY during the appropriate step of the installation process!

Enjoy!

*Moderators: Please close the other Memberlist threads. Thanks.

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Leshrac
leshrac@magictraders.com
Founder, Owner - Magic Online Trading League (MOTL)
http://www.magictraders.com
MOTL Bulletin Board

Wonderful work!
I am hoping your positivly going to release one for UBB6?

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Modification Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail, ICQ , AIM, Private message or any media.
Regards,
MasterMind

Yes, that will be v3.0. I'll start work on it as soon as I can get my hands on a copy of UBB6.

I'll give this baby a try right now!

[edit]
Found something interesting Leshrac:

You do know this is memberlist not karma right
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This message has been edited by GoTorankusuKu on January 21, 2001 at 06:42 PM

Just to say that i love this mod. And thanks for answering my question in SK foruns Leshrac. Looking forward to ubb 6 version !

(this mod made me modify my boards in the first place; it was the first one that i installed.. blame him if you dont like me )

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it's a matter of time and knowledge

This message has been edited by CopyCat on January 21, 2001 at 07:08 PM

Bah, way to go beta testers. The README.txt file has been updated.

Humm...strange...why does it bring me to Options login page when I go to the script itself, without calling for Admin functions?

http://www.the-group.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/memberlist.cgi

Does that happen to any of you?

Exact ta mundo, same here. I know Allen had this problem before. Got a solution to this Leshrac?

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I did that on purpose to force people to FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Please read the readme file about five more times and do exactly as it says.

Umm...lol, that's torture! It'd be quite time-efficent if you help us narrow down the problem

I did what it said and still got that dreadful admin screen...

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It seems some people were having some permissions problems, so I've updated the script to account for that. If you're having problems, please download the zip file again and redo Step 1 of the installation instructions.

I'm still getting the admin page with the new zip. This hack is so complicated

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That's impossible, I removed that part of the code. Upload the new memberlist.cgi file and the included memlist.setup file.

This message has been edited by Leshrac on January 21, 2001 at 08:56 PM

I'll just wait for Allen to test it here, I've tried installing it three times and it keeps on leading me back to the admin page.

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Just installed it, it seems to be working fine now, thank you Leshrac, for all the work you have put into this and for sharing it.

For those who have layouts that go from edge to edge, you might want to find the 2 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 rightmargin=0

One thing I found that I may have done wrong the first time was regarding the part where you are supposed to find in ubbmisc.cgi:
I had looked for just the last line, there were 2 of them, and I chose the wrong one to paste the code from the instructions under.

Make sure your code is the same as the instructions, it should be, and paste it in the correct place. There is only one section thats close to what that whole block of code is...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Hmm...either my browser cache is screwy, or the newly downloaded ZIP file, downloaded 3:29PM AST, Jan. 22, re-checked my UBB files, and re-uploaded all required setup files, yet it still shows this ******* control panel...grrrr

Not sure where your problem is yakbak... I installed exctly like the instructions have said and it runs fine here... are permissions on the .setup file at 777 as recommended?

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Yes, the permissions are set to 777 on the .setup file

Strange...I'll have to give it another shot...

OK I finally found the reason why it will lead you back to the admin screen. I got it to work after finding out this bug:

IF you turn on the 'online' indicator for memberlist, then you WILL be brought back to the admin screen EVERYTIME I think Leshrac should debug this.

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What? That makes absolutely no sense. There's nothing in the script that could cause that and I see no such effect in the version I'm running. Download the latest zip file and clear out your browser's cache.

I did that alot of times just right now. I got the memeberlist working without the online option for display. It will not work if I turn it on and yes I do have IM's.

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Download the zip file again and look at the code for yourself. The only way to get the admin subroutine to run is by running memberlist.cgi with the ?action=admin suffix. Something must be wrong with your system.

Script is working fine here.

Thanks a bunch, Leshrac!

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Wow dood, GoTorankusuKu is right, I removed the "online" thing from the display, and now it works...

I still don't see how this could be happening if you just downloaded the zip file. There's nothing in the code that could cause this, and I get no such effect in the version I'm running.

So you are implying that when you enable the Online status indicator (online), you don't get the admin login page, the first time setting it up?

That's exactly what I'm trying to say, I can't duplicate the error with the latest version.

At least I'm not the only person having that problem.

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I did the same thing and mine worked as well. v5.47d with the IM hack, ICQ hack, whos online hack, Triple IM hack, PM hack and now the memberlist hack. All hacks are the most recent versions of each. I suggest the writer uses the same hacks and adds the memberlist hack last. and see what happens. The problem happened on the initial install with the most recent download of the memberlist hack. This v2.5 should be updated to cover this problem. This makes at least 4 people that have had this same problem.



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http://gmncomputers.dyndns.org/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?

im affraid to say on my board i have no problems at all
but on another i work on i get the same probs as every one else i have to disable the who's online

I think I've been able to deduce the problem. It seems that somehow, somewhere, in one of the versions of the Who's Online hack (apparently not the version I'm using) there's an &admin; call, and that call is getting confused with the admin subroutine in memberlist.cgi. I guess it's my fault for assuming that no other hacks use an "admin" subroutine, but then, none of mine do. To fix this, just download the new zip file, upload the new memberlist.cgi, and you're set. If you'd rather fix it yourself, just do the following:

On line 88 of memberlist.cgi, replace &admin; with &memAdmin; Then on line 640, replace sub admin { with sub memAdmin { Save, upload, and you're done.

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Leshrac
leshrac@magictraders.com
Founder, Owner - Magic Online Trading League (MOTL)
http://www.magictraders.com
MOTL Bulletin Board

This message has been edited by Leshrac on January 24, 2001 at 04:39 PM

Thanks this fix worked. I think I was the first one to try this out.

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http://gmncomputers.dyndns.org/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?

Yep, that did the trick. Thank you Leshrac for debugging that.

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Quick suggestion if I may, in lettercreate.pl, on my site, the lettercreate times out 90% of the time, we have a large members database, and the irony is that we rely on the lettercreate for the faster getusername routines

Anyhow, my extemely simple and easy to code cure to this pain in the ass problem:

in lettercreate.pl, after:

Code

code:

and just above:

Code

code:

add:

Code

code:

adds a little status/progress bar.. amazing how the simplest things can work wonders

Script is working fine for me too...

and i have the online feature turn on.

i made some change in memberlist.cgi

i change the body to this:



cause the text is black and i have $AltColumnColor1 black too...

maybe some else will have to do this...

last thing... where are the part of the script that display the login for admin?

becasue i want to remove the header for that screen to call it by the cp... like the who's online hack...

check the screen shot:





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Sorry for my english... i speak french.

TyRaN = tyranausaure

Thanks, it works fine on my board.

But how do I create a link at the top of all the forums that links to the memberlist,

Profile | Register | Prefrences | FAQ | Memberlist

For some reason, the memberlist link isnt there, can anyone tell me how to fix this??

thanks

Works for me on my 5.47d board.
thanks.

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Webmaster of The Van Halen Vault & The Van Halen Radio Network
Administator of the "Strung Out" message board @ http://wwww.vhstrungout.com

You link it yourself using the tag

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I'm having this problem. Every time someone register, they can't seem to enter the forum with their newly registered username and password. However, if I run "lettercreate.cgi" every time someone registered, they can enter and post.

The error message is that the username wasn't found in the database. Does anyone know what is going on? Thanks.