UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Avatar Hack 3.5

What's New?

- Allows JPG files and GIF files
- Displays the avatar when you view a profile
- Bug Fixes
- Instead of using the users profile number, you can use the username of the user in the custom directory.
- Redoced!
- MORE Bug Fixes

Get it here

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UBBDEV Moderator
OCCUPATION: Programmer, webmaster.

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

Sincerely,
MasterMind

More good work, MM... thank you.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Custom images no longer work on my board...

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-Webmaster of Cheat City

Thank you.

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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

Text file fixed.

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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

I just tried to intall this hack on my v4.7 ubb and I keep getting 505 errors. And I get a weird message in my control panel. Please help.

the ubb link is : http://www.venom-matrix.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro

the link to my cp is: http://www.venom-matrix.com/ubb/cp.html

any help is appreciated.

You uploaded the modified files in BINARY and not ASCII. Reupload your files again.

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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

If you truly did fix the display of avatars in the profile you might want to nuke this fix to the previous hack I posted in the staging area:
https://www.ubbdev.com/db/Forum18/HTML/000002.html

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Neal 'Thradar' Ulen
Webmaster www.gamerforums.net
www.moviefanonline.com

I can't seem to be able to use custom avatars, do you have an idea of what might be wrong ? (of course I made the custom subdir in avatars, and I have ver 5.47)

thanks

I reuploaded all the files in ASCII mode and I am still getting a 500 error and another error in my cp. Please help, I've tried to install the avatar hack over 6 times on 2 different versions and still get the same result.

Please note if you are having problems, its your install. Not my doc.

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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

In your doc for ubb_library2 the last change is
**************************
## FIND:

1;


## PASTE THIS ABOVE:
xyz
**********************
pardon my lack of Perl savvines but are we talking about the last 1;
I have about 4 after the line we hacked.

Thanks.

Uhh, you should only have 1 of those at the bottom. If not, delete all but 1. Then paste the sub above.

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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

Got it running.
I had only one at the end. But I had many 1; in the file and I was not sure if you were talking about the one in the last line.

Thanks

MasterMind, great hack. One question, though. Do custom avatars work on version 5.45c? You documented compatibility with 5.46, but everything except custom avatars work on my 5.45c. I checked a few times, everything in my files is as you documented. Thanks in advance for your reply.

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Later,
Zach

top...a reply would be greatly appreciated.

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Later,
Zach

Hi Zach.

Replace sub AvatarDropDownHTML with this:


sub AvatarDropDownHTML {

opendir(CUSTOMAVATARS, "$NonCGIPath/avatars/custom");
my @customavatars = readdir(CUSTOMAVATARS);
closedir(CUSTOMAVATARS);

@thecustomavatars = grep(/w+.(gif|jpg)/, @customavatars);

foreach $customavataritem(@thecustomavatars) {
if ($customavataritem eq "$ProfileNumber.gif") {
$CUSTOM = qq(Custom );
$NOTE = qq(Note: There is a Custom Avatar available for you! );
}
}

opendir(AVATARS, "$NonCGIPath/avatars");
my @avatars = readdir(AVATARS);
closedir(AVATARS);

@unsortedavatars = grep(/w+.(gif|jpg)/, @avatars);
@theavatars = sort {lc($a) cmp lc($b)} @unsortedavatars;

foreach $avataritem(@theavatars) {
($avatarname, $ext)=split(/./,$avataritem);
$avatarname =~ s/_/ /g; #convert spaces, commented with tr
$Avatars .= qq($avatarname );
}

return($Avatars);
return($NOTE);
return($CUSTOM);
}

All custom avatars must be the users profile number.

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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

Thanks, MasterMind! It worked great, I just had to add
after

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Later,
Zach

Glad it worked Zach

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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 have 2 issues i can't change my my avatars in my profile, and i can't dedicate custom avatars. Eventhough i've done the custom folder and named it correctly!

Expect an update when v6 of ubb comes out.

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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

any chance u could put up the full "bug-less" hack 4 vershun 5.45c & 5.47b in 1 post 4 uz ppl who don't know sh*t about perl? thanx

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Yourz truly
Baby Jordan

ICQ: 37179427

"Tell theze BadBoy b*tchez 2 bring it on"

i installed this hack for 5.47b. works fine. but one thing I was unclear about your inscrution was your last line l;
took me a while to figure it was the last line on the file.

anyways the only problem is that when I try to view someone'e profile, the link is to $cgiurl and it takes it from my aim field. I know it is hard to explain but go to
http://asdf.madpimp.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Loveless

let me guess.. in your ubbmisc.cgi file you did a cut n paste of this $Avatar = $thisprofile[15];

check it again.. aim is probably using profile 15..

find out where this code is hiding.. then starting at the top, count what number it is.
print MEMBERSHIP ("$in{'Avatar'}n");
when you find the number change the $Avatar = $thisprofile[15]; to $Avatar = $thisprofile[whatever number you counted];

That should fix your problem.. next time, be careful and read the directions completely! A note was placed in there.. on how to avoid this problem

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Ideas in motion remain in motion

Vertigo, it just wont stop

LA out

I have installed it and now when I try to use it I get this
Hack attempt logged or corrupt file found
What could be wrong
www.rcweb.org

You need to up the maxemfields #

######
#in ubb_library.pl
######

A few lines from the top (the exact wording on this will vary with your version of UBB)
and find

$Version = "5.47b";
$VersionNumber = "5R4R7RB";
$maxmemfields = 15; # = 16 max fields for member data

And increase the $maxmemfields value to the appropriate number.

For every new field you add to the profiles you need to add one to this. Alternately, if you have a hacked board with lots of additional fields and you install a newer version over it without upping this fields value to what it was before, you will get a "Hack attempt logged or corrupt file found" error when you attempt to do anything until it matches.

Hope this helps


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Jeremiah
FreakScene - The Dinosaur Jr Audio/Visual Archive
My UBB

This message has been edited by freakscene on December 20, 2000 at 06:14 AM

why am i missing Register_lib.cgi? it sounds like register_lib.pl... ? they said if i am missing REgister_lib.cgi it'll be in ultimate.cgi.. but it's not.. also when i upload pics it doesnt appear in tool bar and the registeration page is blank.. can someone please help?

my registration page also comes up blank. Any ideas?

Ok I got everything to work BUt by the users name when they post under the name it just gives a link to the pic. ex.http://www.the domain.com/ubb/avatars/joker.gif

what did i do wrong? Any help would be great!!

The problem is with the $Avatar = $thisprofile[15]; Yea you just bump up the number but if you have the triple im hack installed it does not work right. What you have to do is also bump up the #'s on the im hacks and it will work GREAT!!!

i installed avistar and did everything and folowed the instructions..
put the avistars directory in my noncgi or ubb directory add images allso
and in the profile drop box theres no images to choose
i enabled avistar in the general settings?
the avistar pics are pics i downloaded from an avistar site??
why cant i see pics in the drop down menu?
i see the letters "NONE" and "LAST"

well i found aim was useing the thisprofile[15] fifteen so i canged all the avistars to thisprofile[16]
and still no go

i got everythang to work fine, except when i choose an avatar, an post it doesnt show up. i also have tha custom user title by jimbo wit cp add on, any idea if they 2 are not compatible? or any idea of how to fix dis problem? by tha way, dis is da 1st time ive eva tried to install dis hack.

uppin!

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Ѓ†–HÄ££–M16



DFT Hiphop Nation

This hack works flawlessly, the install took under an hour all together, and adding avatars is as easy as anything. There is no better avatar hack out there for UBB, this one if by far the best!

Ok..Works good for me also on my test board. Love the option of a custom image and I would like to roll this out but have a request...

Would also like the option to be able to have the user either upload their image (I tell them what size) or be able to put in a URL to have their image pulled from. (Issue is if the server for their image is not reachable, it would cause load delays or broken images.)

I just would hate to filed requests to add a custom image for users. So, an upload into the custom directy with instructions to upload using their user name as the image file name would work. But now I need a way to do that in the Profile area.

Please advise. BTW: Where do you all find your Avatar's?

[ May 06, 2001 05:03 PM: Message edited by: David Bott ]

Also...Does not seem to work in Netscape 4.X with any user that has a space in their name like David Bott. Netscape does not seem to like spaces in names and thus shows a broken graphic. IE is fine.

Any clues on this or a work around?

Thanks!!!

UPDATE...I used the upload image CGI and made it work for this by adding an upload link in the description. Only issue is their is no deleting the image if they mess up without contacting me for a removel. Well, I did give them a good warning on the upload screen.

Still have the issue with Netscape though. Grrrr.

Removed


Only outstanding issues is the Netscape %20 thing with names with spaces. Any help here guys?

[ May 07, 2001 12:06 PM: Message edited by: David Bott ]