UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions UBBPoll v2.1b

Name: UBBPoll v2.1b

Description: This is a stand-alone poll script that utilizes the UBB members structure and the styles. A user must be registered on your UBB in order to vote in the poll. A slick administration utility is also included with the script allowing for opening and closing of polls, adding and deleting of polls, and adding and deleting if users.

Author: Andy Tomaka

Compatibility: This hack should work with all licensed versions of the UBB. NT Compatibility fixed by MasterMind.

Link: https://www.ubbdev.com/hacks/UbbPoll21b_eng.zip

2.0z? (read title )

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My bad

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Nice work Andy!
Works like a charm on my test board.

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Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board.
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail or AIM. Please post on the forums.

Regards,
MasterMind

Is it any diffrent from UBBPoll 1.3?
Like can you post Polls in topics now?
(That's what I want! hehe)

that's what we ALL want...

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SkinningWorld - GamerForums - ThaMorphMan - loadedClip

Nope, for the most part, it is the same as 1.3d feature-wise. However, the code is much cleaner, and the script should run faster than previously.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

It really kicks andy. Fast, (safe) and i like the new Ultimate.cgi interface.

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Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board.
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail or AIM. Please post on the forums.

Regards,
MasterMind

I agree MM, but there is a need for some formatting changes if you have the "remove moderators for Ultimate.cgi" hack installed. Not a real big deal, and nothing against the Poll hack! Just 2 cents worth of what I've found.

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Tony (Vipermad) Rickard
Viper Club UBB Admin

that can be fixed with a colspan change..

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Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board.
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail or AIM. Please post on the forums.

Regards,
MasterMind

Yeah, I'm doing that...I was just pointing out that there is a little work to do if you have the other hack installed. I think it is GREAT! I saw it on a site and immediately started the search! I have little time to get the formatting straightened out, but I hope to get it all set up this week.

You all do great work, so don't take this as a complaint...it wasn't! just info, nothing more, nothing less.

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Tony (Vipermad) Rickard
Viper Club UBB Admin

Us ubb hackers take constructive critism and nothing less. That was better than that.

Thanks,
and expect an NT compatible version soon.

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Hack Developer of the Ultimate Bulletin Board.
Due to time limitation, I do not offer support Via. E-mail or AIM. Please post on the forums.

Regards,
MasterMind

2.0b released. Added a few lines that make the script NT compatible thanx to MasterMind.

To upgrade, simply fix the path on your admin.cgi and poll.cgi files if necessary, and re-upload them, nothing else to do!

The script doesn't acount for the user removing or adding extra columns, but only the two amount of columns that the stock UBB can have.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

This message has been edited by atom911 on November 26, 2000 at 08:35 PM

On NT whenever i try to create a poll it says "The user has no permissions" or something like that. I used the same user when i was setting it up.

Any ideas??

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http://forums.pp-network.com
http://www.pp-network.com

Did you download the new version? I had to fix the UBBPoll.zip because it was corrupted so you could have. Try downloading again.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Is there any way to modify it so that it doesn't require a register user to vote?

Yes, in sub do_vote, remove these lines:

Why would you wanna do that though? There are plenty of good polls out there.

Also realize that this gets rid of the double vote checking.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

The hack worked perfectly for me, and the poll is working great. One problem though- both the background and text are set to default at white, so as a result you can't read the text! It's at http://www.roxydoll12.com/cgi-bin/poll.cgi
If you view the source you can see both are color #000000! Can you please tell me how to fix this?

Ellen -- Sorry about the color error. Seems I musta used an incorrect variable in the colors. I will change it to the one I need to use when I get a little bit of time.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Note that 2.0c has been released. This fixes the color errors. Let me know if ya find any more spots where the colors are incorrect.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

I did use 2.c downloaded from the link above

After posting can I change the page it takes you to, to something other than poll.cgi???

Any help appreciated.

Nice work... can this be SSI'd to a .shtml page?

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

And what is the problem?

Not too dificult. Just find the end of the do_vote subroutine, and print the redirection code.

Not with the stock version, but it would take too much in the way of modification.




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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Hi atom,

Tried to install the mod but ran into a problem.

After clicking the submit button in setting up the very first poll, I got the following:

"The members.cgi file could not be opened because No such file or directory."

I tried to add a user ... myself, but got the same error message.

I'm hoping I just missed a step.

Appreciate any help you can provide.

Thanks,
Errol

This message has been edited by errol on December 01, 2000 at 07:30 PM

errol -- Is the data path chmod'ed properly? is there a members.cgi file in it?

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Hi,

Where do I get the members.cgi file? I don't have that file in any of the directories on my board.

I have my board on an NT which my host has setup to inherit whatever permissions are set for cgi-bin. So, when I created the ubbpoll within cgi-bin, I didn't do any permission steps. BTW, I only have ftp access to the server.

Also step 5 says

5) Create a data directory within that UBBPoll directory and set its chmod to 777.

I don't really know what this step is for. I simply create a directory called "data" within ubbpoll. Is that what step 5 meant?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Errol

This message has been edited by errol on December 01, 2000 at 08:06 PM

It is setup when you setup the poll.

That may be a problem. I have heard some users can't get it to work on NT.

Yes, that is what it means. I thought it was pretty clear


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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Version 2.1b has been released.

There are some coding fixes, some logical fixes, and a few other things. Consult upgrade.txt for upgrading.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Hi Atom,

Installed V2.1b. Same results. =(

I noticed in the Admin.cgi that there is a form that you fill out to set up UBBPoll.


I don't get this at all on my screen when I open admin.cgi from my browser. I instead get the options for New Poll, Delete Poll, Close Poll, etc.

I think that is what I need correct to properly configure UBBPoll.

When I type in admin.cgi?=DoSetup, I just get the bottom nav text links.

Any ideas why the form is not coming up?

Thanks,
Errol

errol -- why would you be access DoSetup, you should never do that. I recomend you delete everything UBBPoll related and start over. thset up stuff should only be shown the first time and not every time.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Hi Atom,

Actually never seen the form, so I've never done it.

I'm puzzled why the form doesn't come up.

I went ahead and did a fresh install per your instructions.

Same results. =(
Form to do setup for the first time doesn't come up. I get the New Poll, Close Poll, etc.

If I can figure out how to get that form to come up, I should be good to go.

Thanks,
Errol

Open up UltPoll.setup and change it to this, replaceing with the proper information.

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Not sure if you are doing anything wrong I am not familiar with working on NT servers. Phillip over at Script Keeper said the problem comes because NT can't find the location of the UltPoll.setup file. To fix it, simply find $size = -s 'UltPoll.setup'; and replace it with $size = -s '/path/to/UltPoll.setup';

Hopefully, this will get ya through it

Thread at scriptkeeper: http://www.scriptkeeper.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/006583.html

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

Hi Andy,

The setup form still doesn't come up even with line replacement above.

I also tried Phillip's code replacement suggestion at scriptkeeper but still.. no form setup.

Oh well. I guess I'll shelf this for now until someone who has been able to make this work on an NT server comes up with the solution.

Thanks again Atom for all your help.

v/r,
Errol

Following Phillip's method completely and fully should result in proper setup...

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Da Wannabe Cannuck

:: Who is Andy?

hey Andy, thanks alot for creating the poll! I just installed it ot my forum...successfully. It looks great!!

Take a look:
http://forums.civfanatics.com

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Thunderfall
Civilization Fanatics' Center
http://www.CivFanatics.com

Hi Andy,

The link is down http://www.ubbhackers.com/hacks.cgi?action=get&cat=6&id=71

I dot already a poll on my UBB in the leftmenu tables but i like to have one in my Ultimate.cgi
Thus if you post direct link to the hack i appreciate that

Thanks,

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I got also UBB hacks database

I can email the file to u if you want...

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Thunderfall
Civilization Fanatics' Center
http://www.CivFanatics.com

The link is down on ubbhackers.com. Can somebody please email me the file at [email protected]??? Please!!!!

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