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I thought you were too, but you had said you were working on another modification that you mentioned in a pm.

Here's the fix you can add:

in privatesend.cgi

## FIND:

if ($in{'action'} eq "UBBIM") {

## PASTE THIS ABOVE:


There may be one extra "}" at the end there...

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Allen

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um..shouldn't that be replace with?



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Oh yeah, and I'm ALWAYS working on some new modification or another .

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Iddaknow, should it? It works, but maybe I have introduced another bug. Borg's script next in line checks for valid recipients, which is a little odd, since only people who have posted on the board will have the online.gif's to click on... waddya think?

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Allen

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Dark Templar said he's working on it, I wish he would get together with me we could separate the work. Anyone wanna work on some of this with me?


Have you downloaded the latest version of private messaging allen just updated it and it has alot of fixes, but if you dont want to, I ran into the same thing that you did and I discovered that it was my privateview.cgi that had a "$cgiurl" instead of a "$CGIURL" you might wanna check that.

This message has been edited by Black Death on December 20, 2000 at 05:02 PM

For the love of Pete!

Third time posted... this has been fixed... please download the latest pm files for this fix... was done 2 days ago...

we now return you to your regular programming...

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Allen

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Thats the fix for you not able to send messages to guests/from guests, on online.cgi I wrote one to make the send im link not even appear if their not registered...Just a cosmetic sort of thing, thats what i think he wanted.

ok.... the fix in the files does not allow guests to send any im's, they have to be registered members. Yours keeps the online image from showing to guests?

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Allen

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I originally came up with a "Send IM" link for the online.cgi page, but why have one by the guests if it doesn't work so i flopped this code together, to make it dynamic display the link depending on if they are guests or not...


So now you can view the who online and a send IM link will only show up to users logged in...

Now if you want the online/offline gif to only show up to registered/cookied users I can do that to gimme about 10 minutes.

This message has been edited by Black Death on December 20, 2000 at 05:32 PM

hmmmm.... added it here, but it's not linking to a user's actual name... and even all the guests get a "send im" link next to their name...

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Allen

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Sorry about that let me fix that as well, I tested it on my site when I was online as well as another person, it seems whatever you are guest or cookied it mimick you. I'll post a fix for that later on tonight.

This message has been edited by Black Death on December 20, 2000 at 06:12 PM

BlackDeath-that has a small problem. When it's admin, it's adminwrite, when its a normal member, its write...but when it's a mega mod it's adminmega. So, I will make this a bit more involved, fixing it so it will work .

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alright...fixed it so it works flawlessly.
Remove Black Death's, if you used it. Then:
>>>In online.cgi, find:


>>>REPLACE with:


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testing..

Appears to be working well... thanks.

What known bugs are still in this script that we need to look at? I am really not considering install errors, but bugs found by people who have it installed and working on their sites?

I would like to go ahead and clean this up as much as possible so that people who use this on their sites can install without worry... if an error pops up, then most likely it would be an install issue.

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Allen

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no biggie...just looked for and found the best place for that coding without having to add a ton of extra stuff

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Well I installed the new version of all Private files and PM 3.7 and IM 2.0 seem to be working fine. Wow!!
One question. I have the PM notification installed and its working with the PM's but not with the IM's. Is there some change that needs to be made to the Notify hack??

Most likely... I guess that could be considered another bug...

If one of our illustrious modification experts here (DT, GoTo, Thermit, cal, Borg, etc...) does not work on this before me, I'll take a look at it this weekend...

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Allen

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I would consider that good the way it is ^_^. If you get an IM, it pops up. If you get a pm, you get a pm notification popup.

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True... ok, no bug then...

Any other bugs you think need attention soon? I am think ing it might be time to move to the "finished mod forum" once we take care of any last bugs...

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Allen

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I thought you are kidding but now with Allens post I am confused. What IM popup

Well I just read the code again. Damn the hack is better then I thought.
But the problem is now I am not getting the pop IM, forget about notification

Any thoughts, what should I check?

Have you installed the latest code?

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Allen

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I downloaded yesterday the PM 3.7. I had installed the IM 2.0 last week. I am checking IM code now to see if I missed anything.

...urge to destroy boards...

...rising...

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2 problems persist:

1) when i click on the "online" image to pop up the small IM window, my UBB loads to the main URL, instead of remaining on the forum's thread page.

2) the IMs appear to be sent successfully, and, my "you have a private message" light is flashing, but, when i open up my inbox... aint nuthin to be found...

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huh. interesting. it appears that, after a few minutes or so, the IM window pops up on my screen, however, it still never appeared in the inbox of my private message section (is it no longer supposed to?)

additionally, the initial button click still reloads my forum, which isnt a MAJOR problem, justa major frustration.

-->oh yeah just to add, i have installed this thing properly (double checked), and, am using the latest versions of everything. (except i left out the icon/button parts of PM 3.5/7)


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This message has been edited by drkknght on December 21, 2000 at 02:47 AM

Yep... you got several problems working over there.... I registered to check some out. In your "welcome new registered member pm", I believe it is done in ubbmisc.cgi, make sure your whole message is on one line in that file, otherwise, a line break will send 2 messages, like it is now, both of them messed up.

There's apparently some install errors in ubb im's as well, because it does load the whole site again when you click on it. Here it just brings you to the top of the page... And you don't receive the im after it says it was successfully sent. Which is all just a repeat of what you just typed... you might want to try installing the latest files, paying extra attention to the ubb_library2.pl section...

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Allen

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was definitly shocking to see "new post left by allen" on my boards

ok, i fixed up the welcome PM you mentioned (had it linked directly to my control panel's general settings)

as for installing the latest files... dooooh... i did! i did! and i hated it every time. takes soooo long....

plus, the IM code for ubb_...2 is really short. just the line with the link, specifically href="#" (which, i believe, is whats messin THAT part up, the reload part)

lotsa frustration. thanks for checkin it, tho.

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What takes so long for you to install the new files? I understand you want to avoid the code buttons, but I believe they are optional now.... (I could definitely be wrong on that tho).

Do you use "Beyond Compare" on your files to see what has been changed? You might want to comment out the parts you want out then just compare files to see what has been changed each time... makes it very easy. You can copy differences over from one file to another in a matter of seconds....

Anyways, you might want to experiment with that # in ubb_library2.pl... it seems to be what's causing the reload. See if you can point it to an anchor in your footer or something... or in your navigation on the left, etc...

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Allen

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the thing that takes me so long is just the editting, then re-editting of the cgi scripts. i dont have a program with an UNDO or anything, so, each time, i just go in by hand.

other than that, i messed around with the ubb_library2.pl code a lil more.

changed my parts from the "#" ordeal to this (which i modeled after the email / profile button links):



this keeps my main page where it was, instead of reloading it. it does, however, create a full-sized window for IMs, as opposed to the tiny pop up (i guess cuz of that code, it ignores the height and width specifications). and this, i imagine, would grow quite annoying.

plus, it does nothing to fix the "missing IM" in my inbox section. the light flashes, indicating i have one, but, when i checked, all i get is tumbleweed.

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This message has been edited by drkknght on December 21, 2000 at 01:12 PM

The im's do get sent, cuz the pop-up shows when you go into forumdisplay...

I would check privateview and see why the tables for the im's aren't showing...

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Allen

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It only checks for IMs when you click post a new topic, post reply, edit post, or click on a forum. Thats the only times it checks for IMs. As for it reloading the main page...no clue why that would happen.

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allen: im in my privateview.cgi now... any specific thing i should be looking for?

i remember adding the words "privateview.cgi" into other scripts during the UBONLINE hack install, but, i dont think the hack dealt directly with that file, itself...

i agree that this is where the problem is, tho.

dt: thats when i get the IM popups, so, if thats when its supposed t'happen, im assuming that part of my thing is workin ok, then.

the reload thing was drivin me nuts, tho. i dunno why that happens, either. the lil adjustment i added in (above) fixed the problem, altho, the lil popup was (and would be) more convenient then the full sized window that bounces up now.

again, i thank y'all fer yer help. this is why i love these boards

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I think I am going blind now . I have gone through eachline of code in all files of PM 3.7 (12/16) and IM 2.0 and I still can't find the fix.

The PM is working. I can send the IM through popup and it does show up in PM-Inbox but I don't get a IM popup message.

I installed the memberlist hack and changed the variable but still no go. Have checked all the variables and Chmod.
Any thoughts........

Go through your installation again (ubb script modifying). If the majority of the people got it working then it should work for everyone else.

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Thanks GoTorankusuKu. The hack working on majority of boards doesn't neccassirily mean if I install it as documented it will work.
Even though we are all on UBB but with all different hacks and with different hacks versions and with different UBB versions.

I am on 5.45 and I suspect the either the Voice Chat hack, UBB code buttons hack or PM notify hack may be related to me not getting the popups as I have gone through the hack code 5 times and it is all in order. I sort of now have all the hack memorized .
I don't know enough about perl to know what to change to get it all working and I think all these other popups may be an issue.

There's got to be someone who knows the pieces of the hack that deal with the popup piece in particular.
I will probably give it one more try tonight and if not I plan to give up on it for now .

try taking of PM notification...

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grr...

problem appears to not be in the privateview code. i uploaded a "clean" version of the newest code, and, still couldnt see anything in the inbox section of my boards.

...frustration mounting...

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nightsong... do you have the "who's online" mod installed? It is required... other than that, it would have to be the install instruction code you are supposed to add in the different places, not the new cgi files you add....

Rob, I was about to suggest some code to look at regarding privateview, but if you uploaded a fresh one and still do not see them, it may be more than that. Did you also upload a fresh private.pl and private.cfg? Those files control some of the functionality of im's...

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Allen

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If you figure out how to solve your problem, please let me know.

I installed the IM hack yesterday, and i am also not getting the pop-up notification of new messages. Receiving and Sending works fine, but no pop up...so it isn't just you.

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