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Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42679 05/07/2000 10:02 PM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Dark_Wizard Member Dark_Wizard Member Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 here is my error as reported by Internet Explorer 5.1 I do not offer support by EMail or ICQ, please post your question at UBBDev....

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42680 05/07/2000 10:07 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 I also get an ugly red box to the right of the news headline. i saw your fix for this, but colspan="4" is nowhere in my ultimate.cgi file. Any thoughts? You can see it here . Thanks in advance.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42681 05/07/2000 10:15 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes Dark_Wizard did you set those variables in the general settings and only set that switches you really want to use at the cp...? This is a beta version

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42682 05/07/2000 10:31 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 No change [aa]. Still have the box. PS... The "Announcements" headline should be underlined like the last regged member is so people know to click on it.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42683 05/07/2000 11:03 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes Would anyone know why it doesnt show the users name for newest registered member

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42684 05/07/2000 11:18 PM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Dark_Wizard Member Dark_Wizard Member Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Quote quote: Yes...I have tried everything...just userdefined, then just announcements, then both...all the variables are set...do you want me to email my Ultimtae file? If so give me your email address.... I do not offer support by EMail or ICQ, please post your question at UBBDev....

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42685 05/07/2000 11:23 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin change in ... to: KillmAll: change in ultimate.cgi: if ($NEWS_REG eq "ON") { if ($DisplayMemberTotal ne "true") { &GetMemberListArray; my $TotalMembers = @members; @lastmember = reverse(@members); $LastReg = $lastmember[0]; $LastRegCoded = $LastReg; chomp($LastReg); $LastRegCoded =~ tr/ /+/; chomp($LastRegCoded); } to: if ($NEWS_REG eq "ON") { if ($DisplayMemberTotal ne "true") { &GetMemberListArray; my $TotalMembers = @members; @lastmember = reverse(@members); $LastReg = $lastmember[0]; $LastRegCoded = $LastReg; chomp($LastReg); $LastRegCoded =~ tr/ /+/; chomp($LastRegCoded); } else { if ($LastReg eq "") { @lastmember = reverse(@members); $LastReg = $lastmember[0]; $LastRegCoded = $LastReg; chomp($LastReg); $LastRegCoded =~ tr/ /+/; chomp($LastRegCoded); } } or install "show the latest reg. memberhack"!

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42686 05/08/2000 12:02 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Dark_Wizard Member Dark_Wizard Member Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 that doesn't work either...I tried it on a clean 5.45b test board and it doesn't work. Can anyone help? I do not offer support by EMail or ICQ, please post your question at UBBDev....

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42687 05/08/2000 12:03 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Quote quote: have you made any headway on this?

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42688 05/08/2000 12:35 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin for underlined links change in Ultimate.cgi FDRlnkDec = "none"; to: FDRlnkDec = "underline"; Dark_Wizard -> aa@german-elite-board.com

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42689 05/08/2000 1:42 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin here is the fix for blank screen: in cpanel3.cgi find: sub NewsFader { &get_cookie; &VerifyAdminCP($UserName, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { and change to: sub NewsFader { &VerifyAdminCP($UserName, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { --------------------- i added the changes made so far to the description. current version is 2.2 newsfader v2.2 (beta!) DEMO (temp!)

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42690 05/08/2000 1:54 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 [aa], made the change, and it's still comes up blank. I noticed this: $newspage = "$CGIPath/newzline.cgi"; Did I miss something? I don't remember any instructs for a newzline.cgi file.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42691 05/08/2000 1:57 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes Dark_Wizard hmmm.... if the following doesn't work it's not the fault of the hack: [*] all options must be set to 'show...' [*] create a userdefined test-newsline [*] create an announcement to be shown in all forums [*] check if there is a file called 'newzline.cgi' in your cgi-bin and if there is a userdefined message in it. errm... did the newslinehack 1.1 work for you? please note that i made some changes in yours and cal's routine: if ($AnnouncementBlock ne "") {$AnnouncementBlock .= ",n";} $AnnouncementBlock .= qq("$LatestTitle","$CGIURL/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=1&Start=$StartJulian&End=$EndJulian&Session=$SessionLogin"); to: if ($AnnouncementBlock ne "") {$AnnouncementBlock .= "$SEP_On";} $AnnouncementBlock .= qq("$LatestTitle","$CGIURL/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getannounce&ForumNumber=1&Start=$StartJulian&End=$EndJulian&Session=$SessionLogin"$SEP_U); NBAustin the file creates itself if it doesn't already exist ps. i will change some things on the error-handling soon

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42692 05/08/2000 2:02 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes What u posted for me worked perfect [aa]. Thanks

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42693 05/08/2000 2:10 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 I guess i need this "newsline hack". I wish i had known this. Can someone direct me to it? Evidently this is why "Add News" comes up blank.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42694 05/08/2000 11:31 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes the bug with the blank page at actualisations has been fixed. i had to change some things for this, because only the admin should be able to run it everyone with a previous version installed has to do this changes: # ##in cpanel3.cgi find: # if ($action eq "news") { &NewsFader; } # ## replace with # if ($action eq "news") { &get_cookie; $User_name = $UserName; $Pass = $Password; &VerifyAdminCP($UserName, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { &NewsFader; } } # ## in cpanel3.cgi delete: # sub NewsUpdateMessage { &get_cookie; if ($cookie{UserNameCP}) { $UserName = "$cookie{UserNameCP}"; $Password = "$cookie{PasswordCP}"; &VerifyAdminCP($UserName, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { &NewsFader; } else { exit; } } } # ## in cpanel3.cgi replace ## sub NewsFader, sub updatenews and sub addnewsline # with: sub NewsFader { $Password = $Pass; $Username = $User_name; &VerifyAdminCP($Username, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { require "Styles.file"; open(NEWS,"<$CGIPath/newzline.cgi"); @lines = ; close(NEWS); $the_page = join('', @lines); print< $HeaderInsert S E T N E W S L I N E S ADD NEWS $a_message To add a new newsline use the first editbox. HTML and links are allowed. But please use ' instead of ". If the whole line should link to a page then use the second editbox to enter the link. No " again. Newsline: Newsline Link (Optional): EDIT / DELETE NEWSLINES $u_message The contents of this editbox are the userdefined newslines. Here you can edit or delete old newslines. Change the text in this editbox and press "update" when you're done. a news datarecord consists of "topic", "link", Ensure after editing that the last datarecord may not have an comma as last character!!! $the_page by AA 2000 NEWZHTML } } sub updatenews { $Pass = $in{'Pass'}; $User_name = $in{'User_name'}; &VerifyAdminCP($User_name, $Pass); if ($Proceed eq "true") { $new_page = $in{'new_page'}; @newstuff = $new_page; open(NEWS,">$CGIPath/newzline.cgi"); print NEWS join('', @newstuff); close(NEWS); $a_message = ""; $u_message = "$User_name, The NEWS-database have been successfully updated."; &NewsFader; exit; } } sub addnewsline { $Pass = $in{'Pass'}; $User_name = $in{'User_name'}; &VerifyAdminCP($User_name, $Pass); if ($Proceed eq "true") { $newitem = $in{'new_item'}; $subject = $in{'subject'}; $currentnews = ""$subject","$newitem""; $hmhm = ""; open(NEWS,"<$CGIPath/newzline.cgi"); @newslines = ; close(NEWS); foreach $item(@newslines) { $hmhm .= $item; } if ($hmhm ne "") {$currentnews .= ",n";} $hmhm = $currentnews.$hmhm; @newslines = $hmhm; open(NEWS,">$CGIPath/newzline.cgi"); foreach $line(@newslines) { print NEWS "$line"; } close (NEWS); $u_message = ""; $a_message = "$User_name, The new Newsline successfully added!"; &NewsFader; exit; } } # ##done # all instructions can be found here: current version 2.3 Demo: here

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42695 05/08/2000 11:34 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes sorry. DEMO: here

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42696 05/08/2000 11:41 PM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Dark_Wizard Member Dark_Wizard Member Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Can anyone help me with this that has javascript experience? If you go to my page and click on the icon in the lower left hand corner with the java error it will display the error like this http://www.islandncs.com/error.gif then view source and see line 48 has nothing there...am I missing something when I post the news? It says it's missing the ] am I supposed to add this somewhere? Please help... I do not offer support by EMail or ICQ, please post your question at UBBDev....

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42697 05/08/2000 11:55 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 [aa], I just made all those changes, and it still comes up blank when submit my identification to "Add News".

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42698 05/09/2000 12:14 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes Dark_Wizard the following entries in UltBB.setup ? $NEWS_REG = qq(ON); $NEWS_ANNC = qq(ON); $NEWS_UDEF = qq(ON);

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42699 05/09/2000 12:23 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Quote quote: Now what the hell is this?

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42700 05/09/2000 12:25 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin # ##in cpanel3.cgi find: # sub NewsFader { $Password = $Pass; $Username = $User_name; &VerifyAdminCP($Username, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { require "Styles.file"; # ## and replace with: ## sub NewsFader { require "Styles.file"; # ## in cpanel3.cgi find: ## NEWZHTML } } # ## and replace with: ## NEWZHTML } # ##done #

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42701 05/09/2000 12:30 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Try again [aa]. Still get a blank page.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42702 05/09/2000 12:33 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin $NEWS_REG = qq(ON); $NEWS_ANNC = qq(ON); $NEWS_UDEF = qq(ON); Settings from CP! $NEWS_REG = qq(ON); ->> "Show the latest reg. Member" $NEWS_REG = qq(OFF); ->> "Do not Show the latest reg. Member" . . .

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42703 05/09/2000 12:33 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Evidently it's not creating that newzline.cgi file. It accepts my identification, but puts up a blank page and the browser says DONE at the lower left.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42704 05/09/2000 12:36 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin grrr... are they sure that they have a UBB? delete your f*** cookies!

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42705 05/09/2000 12:42 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Of course i have a UBB! It's 5.39. Everything else accepts my cookies just fine. "Add News" accepts my cookie, but puts up a blank page. It is NOT creating that newzline.cgi file.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42706 05/09/2000 12:43 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin ok, find in cpanel3.cgi and Ultimate.cgi newzline.cgi and change to newzline.txt your chmod of cgi-bin is 755?

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42707 05/09/2000 12:45 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 I'm running on NT. I don't need to CHMOD. Why change to a txt file? Are we grasping at straws now? Experimenting?

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42708 05/09/2000 12:45 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Dark_Wizard Member Dark_Wizard Member Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Quote quote: I do not offer support by EMail or ICQ, please post your question at UBBDev....

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42709 05/09/2000 12:49 AM Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Dark_Wizard Member Dark_Wizard Member Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 59 Quote quote: It's a cookie issue.....try creating the newzline.cgi file and give the rights as follows: -rw-r--r-- see if that helps.... I do not offer support by EMail or ICQ, please post your question at UBBDev....

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42710 05/09/2000 12:52 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 just dumped the cookies and redid them. No change.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42711 05/09/2000 1:02 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin find in cpanel3.cgi and Ultimate.cgi $CGIPath/newzline.txt or *.cgi and change all to: $NonCGIPath/newzline.txt

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42712 05/09/2000 1:04 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Quote quote: I created and uploaded in ascii. I don't have a clue as to setting rights. No change.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42713 05/09/2000 1:12 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Quote quote: No change. Still blank.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42714 05/09/2000 1:22 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Maybe I should reinstall this hack? This is going nowhere. I think it's a backward compatibility problem. This was written for the newer versions, not for versions like 5.39. Any more ideas before I scrap and start over? Everything works except "Add News".

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42715 05/09/2000 1:51 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes NBAustin SOORRRRRY! DEMO 5.39: here! in 5.39 "&VerifyAdminCP{blah..." ??? change all "&VerifyAdminCP...." to "&VerifyAdmin...." (delete "CP" !!!! damn

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42716 05/09/2000 2:02 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 Thanks. Now...which files? Just Ultimate.cgi & cpanel3.cgi or all of the ones listed in the hack?

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42717 05/09/2000 2:07 AM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 NBAustin Member NBAustin Member Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 395 &VerifyAdminCP does not exist in any of the files.

Re: Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested? #42718 05/09/2000 2:09 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes The Team Moderator The Team Moderator Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,590 yes in cpanel3.cgi! if ($action eq "news") { &get_cookie; $User_name = $UserName; $Pass = $Password; &VerifyAdmin($UserName, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { &NewsFader; } } if ($action eq "updnews") { &updatenews; } if ($action eq "addnews") { &addnewsline; } .... sub NewsFader { $Password = $Pass; $Username = $User_name; &VerifyAdmin($Username, $Password); if ($Proceed eq "true") { require "Styles.file"; ... sub updatenews { $Pass = $in{'Pass'}; $User_name = $in{'User_name'}; &VerifyAdmin($User_name, $Pass); if ($Proceed eq "true") { ... sub addnewsline { $Pass = $in{'Pass'}; $User_name = $in{'User_name'}; &VerifyAdmin($User_name, $Pass); if ($Proceed eq "true") { and rechange: NEWZHTML } to NEWZHTML } }