UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Private Messages 3.8

Ok, I installed this on a clean board without any other hacks and when I click on ADVANCED to change the way I enter in text via UBB Code Buttons, I can see the popup window come up, but nothing is in it. It appears to be a problem with the way the private messaging writes the postings.cgi file. Can someone give me a hand with this please?

After further reviewing, it looks like this issue might be happening within the UBB Code Buttons.pl file and the way afp() is called. Hell I don't know, just trying to figure this out and could use the help.


You can see it for yourself here:
http://www.webdrenalin.com/cgibintest/Ultimate.cgi

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What kinda **** do I enter here?

This message has been edited by Carnage on December 22, 2000 at 08:33 PM

Carnage here's a fix to that problem

In postings.cgi

Find

Add under that:

Hope that helps

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The Fusion of Goku & Trunks...GoTorankusuKu

Well, I had originaly had this working on a test board, and I tried it again using THIS board and the same thing happens even AFTER adding what GoTo suggested.

http://www.webdrenalin.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

Basically, I hit the advanced button and the small javawindow pops up, but there's nothing in it again. HELP!

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What kinda **** do I enter here?

if you don't mind, set up a test acct with test/ test as the user name/password so I can send a few pm's to myself on there and see what is happening...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

You're all set up with test/test. If you need access or anything else, just let me know. =)THANKS!

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What kinda **** do I enter here?

I see your problem (nice looking site, btw), you don't have ubb codebuttons installed for the main site yet, the advanced font properties' pop-up's html comes from the postings.cgi... you might want to check that...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

the latest bug-fixed files have been uploaded to the database and the names finally changed to v3.8...

I think we want to continue working the bugs out before adding much more in the way of features... I would like a very stable v4 before we begin moving the code to strict -wT for use with ubb v6 in our pm's v6.

I think eventually the goal here is to make this a standalone script/ application that uses strict coding. Our only code modification in the ubb files would be if we wanted the pm tables in ultimate.cgi, but ideally would just be SSI'd into the left hand column, or the front page of a site... installing pm's would entail just uploading the files in the right directories and applying the links into ubb where needed...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

I just translated this wonderful Hack to german again Alan, if anyone might need it, contact me!

Matze

Excellent Matze!

If you'd like, I'll put it up in our database if you'd like to send me the files... with full credit, of course...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Great job on this guys! Good work!
Also, i think it needs compatibilty with Turb's Pick 'n Click Posting Icon hack for HTML enabled boards.

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Modification Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board
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Sincerely,
MasterMind

Anyway of anyone adding something to the pm? that you can control on the cp page?
when a user registers it auto sends them a pm message telling them whatever you set on the cp page? like welcome new users ext...

thanks.

Easily done. Let me whip up that hack, and i'll give it to you tonight in a new beta mods post.

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Sincerely,
MasterMind

Man your da bomb!@!

http://www.h-realms.com/welcome.txt

Slightly tested, works fine for me.

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MasterMind

Thanks alot man!
let me see if this works

It works for me. I hope you and everyone else who uses it, enjoyes it.

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MasterMind

i sure will.

theres a problem with that welcome pm
it sends 5 pms to the registered user
one is welcome
and has nothing in it
and 3 are blank
and the last one is 01
and that 01 link has the whole welcome message in its link.

also i don't know if its just me but the pm sometimes when i go to read a pm it ask me to login right then when i login it shows the messages i have right then when i click on the message it brings me right back to the login screen again

What version of PM's are you running? Everything you mentioned can NOT be caused by my addon, but by you running an older version of PM's.

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Sincerely,
MasterMind

using the newest pm that Private Message v3.5b
isn't that the newest one

hi guy,
i just donwload privatemessages3_8 and reinstall it. install fine no problem. but when i login in the PM it login in ok and when i click on a message it popup the login box again, and i login and it keep doing it, it won't let me read the message that i have in the inbox.

any idea?


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I Am lost...
Angel is looking for me, help

hes getting the same error as i am
it only happens now and then keps asking to login heh

thats the one i installed also.

Here's a screen shot of the "1" problem, Allen.



This only happens when I try to upload an image in PM. I have no problem uploading images on my board. I am using the latest files.

Thanks,
dachs

I think that problem has to do with the welcome message. Allen told me back then that the welcome message MUST be on one line for it to work. I had mine on several lines and it caused that. Fixed it after I got everything on one single line.

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Allan, i got a small misstake in the translation, there is a JavaScript error when opening the privatesend.cgi. Is it possible, that the error happen because of no IM's installed? Btw. i have installed an old Version of Codebuttons.pl too (3.5), but this is the only error that happend any more at my board with this Version! Any Ideas why this happens?

Matze

You might want to upgrade to 5.5 then. It's the most reliable UBB Code Buttons since.

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Got a Christmas present for the brave... an alpha beta release of what will become v4 of pm's. It still needs bug testing, so if you can, please look it over, especially the new admin file and help me bug test it.

https://ubbdev.com/hacks/beta4.zip

Note: Do not use these files if you aren't very familiar with pm's, use the files in our database until we get some bugs worked out of these. To upgrade to these for bug testing purposes, just upload these over your old pm files.

There is a new file in there name privateadmin.cgi. When uploaded and accessed at /privateadmin.cgi?action=admin, it performs the configuration that used to be done to the private.cfg file (at least the upper half of that file... This is the first step towards making pm's to where you just upload them to your cgi-bin, configure from your browser, and run them... should cut down on install errors...

OK, things that need work:

- It builds the private.setup file ok when you submit the admin file. But when you re-access the admin file, your previous choices do not show up... really needs to display present choices and if there are none, display the defaults... I have attempted that at the top of the file, but it is missing something...

- need a way to build the "private" directory and chmod it to 777 so that step will never have to be done by manually again, will cut down on a major amount of install errors.

- need a setting that will make code buttons optional from this admin file...

For an example of what it looks like:
http://www.health-net.org/ubbcgi/privateadmin.cgi?action=admin

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

The code_button.pl file that comes with pm's is the latest version (5.5 right now), but you will need the trnslate .html files for the translate to work, which is found with the official code button download... maybe I should include those with this download...



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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

I tried out alpha/beta 4 and set the auto delete to 5 and assoon as I posted a test message it went and tried to auto delete the message. Something I assume is wrong with that portion. Just thought i'd let you know.

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Check out the Klipsch board

Thanks for looking at it klipsch... did it write the private.setup file for you and did it write the "5" in the for the warning?

I am wondering why it didn't recognize it.... could be the privateview file is still looking for the warning # in private.cfg.... I'll take a look at it..

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Can do. Both of 'em. . I'll work on it tonight or tomorrow .

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YES!

Thank you DT, I got most of the grunt work done, I just don't know enough to get it to the next level... thank you again...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

OHH boy don't remind me of this one...
I have been having this error show up on my forums from time to time, it happened to me recently.
You type in your message, hit submit, you come back to a "1". You can't edit it out, every time you try it still comes back a "1".
I can't find a "non-random" problem with it yet... it seems totally chaotic and sporadic.

I have been having the issue on our forums though, not in the PM section. (our host won't allow the image uploading, it even disallows the script for uploading from even being in the cgi directory, so that isn't an issue)
If this is due to the PM's I'll downgrade, because it is bothering me a little.
I haven't been able to narrow it down to anything set yet... the people seem to have been using different PC's at the time, which is about the only similiarity that could be announced. (except for when it happened to me... I use the same PC all the time.)


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Aww the good ol' magic "1" error. I had a fix to this long ago but let's see if it is still effective.

In ubb_library.pl

Find:

Replace the last line in that sub with:

This was MasterMind's fault in the UBB Code Buttons which I had experienced before...and it was ugly...

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, GoTorankusuKu! That fixed the problem!

Told ya...no problem

I think someone should fix this in the documentation that is contained in the UBB Code Buttons

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This message has been edited by GoTorankusuKu on December 27, 2000 at 12:41 PM

I'll fix those docs. BTW, it wasnt my fault. That is how it was written in UBB 5.47a i think..

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Sincerely,
MasterMind

i've read through this whole topic post and i'm just wondering if it's safe to upgrade to v3.8 yet. Are there any major bugs that haven't been fixed yet? Is it ok for me to upgrade to this version while v4 is being tested? Just let me know cause i'm likin this new version so far. thankz