UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Text Fader for the UBB, who's interested?

Making progress!

I can get the "Add News" screen.

BUT....
I enter text in the box.....and click "add"....

and i get ANOTHER blank screen!

Fixed it. Missed a "CP"

Thanks!

NBAustin hehe...hm here your last chance before you'll better try an update

#
##find in cpanel3.cgi:
#

if ($action eq "news") {
&get_cookie;
$User_name = $UserName;
$Pass = $Password;
&VerifyAdmin($UserName, $Password);
if ($Proceed eq "true") {
&NewsFader;
}
}

#
## and replace with:
#

if ($action eq "news") {
&get_cookie; #retrieves all current cookies

if ($cookie{UserNameCP}) {
$UserName = "$cookie{UserNameCP}";
$Password = "$cookie{PasswordCP}";
$User_name = $UserName;
$Pass = $Password;
&VerifyAdmin($UserName, $Password);

if ($Proceed eq "true") {
&NewsFader;
}
}
}

#
## done
#

Works fine now. Didn't need the last fix you offered. Thank you for your patience and help!

Now.....
We need to make the box taller (or whatever needs to be done) to handle 2 lines of text! If you go too long, it gets cut off, and only partially shows a tip of the 2nd line's text.

try in Ultimate.cgi:

FDRboxHgt = 50; or 45?

and

Thank you.

I'll play around with that.

5.39 doesn't suck!
I just have so many hacks, I can't upgrade. I have extra text fields and truncation crap for news article posting, and I have to comply with copyright laws.

I tried an upgrade a while back and none of my stuff worked.

Thanks again for your patience and help [aa]!

I wish we could edit our posts here.

Is there a way we can fit more text on the one line? It seems the box can accomodate a longer text line.

Yeah, I read over and over again about this rant of the news fader and it all seems cool but just exactly where do I get it??? Should have told that a long time ago eh?

I installed the hack and everything works perfectly. Except when the userdefined news finishes the hack stops and I would get "Error on Page" message below.

It doesn't want to loop! help please..

sorry forgot to add my URL.. here it is:

http://www.demna.org:81/~barsa/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

Make sure you don't end your custom news with a ,

yeah am sure my news doesn't inclue a "," but when I add an entry the script adds it automatically if I inserted for instance "testing testing" the script will save it as: "testing testing","",

You have to make sure the last line doesn't have a comma, the script inserts it and we never got around to fixing it.

Thanks man!! yeaah FINALLY it worked!.. I didnt know that I have to "manually" delete the last comma in the userdefined field! this bug should have been noted in the installation readme file!

Thanks again!

The newscript works beautifully (2.5) in 5.47e, except for the welcome our newest user, message.
Fixed by adding to the else statement as shown below.

In the Ultimate.cgi file:
if ($NEWS_REG ne "") {
if ($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);
}
}

##
# Replace with :
##

if ($NEWS_REG ne "") {
if ($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 "") {
&GetMemberListArray;
@lastmember = reverse(@members);
$LastReg = $lastmember[0];
$LastRegCoded = $LastReg;
chomp($LastReg);
$LastRegCoded =~ tr/ /+/;
chomp($LastRegCoded);
}
}

[ May 29, 2001 02:33 AM: Message edited by: dynomite ]

Can someone tell me what this hack does please?