UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Total Edits 2.0a

Created by mat-t, Dark Templar and MasterMind.
Adds the number of times message has been edited, date and time.
Fixed deleting of the files.

Version: 2.0a

Create a directory called edits in your CGI directory, chmod 777.
Coding:

>>>In postings.cgi, search for:

>>>REPLACE with:

find in postings.cgi:

under it add:


find:


under it add:

>>>Upload both, CHMOD them to 755. Create a folder in your cgi folder called "edits"

>>>In ubb_library.pl, search for:


Add this below it:


Happy coding, this has been tested.

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Great hack, thanks.

One little thing I noticed:-

Is it just me (i.e. have I stuffed it ) or is there a minor bug with this when
it comes to Private Forums. (I'm using 5.47a.).

I'm not very good with perl, but I've done enough hacking to have learned how to debug
hacks

The counter never advances beyond 1, and this appears to be because a edit counter
file is never made for the private forum topic.
When posting to a private forum as oppose to a normal one the $Exactpath variable is
coming out wrong (or rather, too right)
e.g. a normal forum would try to store a file like this:
$CGIPath/edits/Forum1-000001-000007.cgi

but currently, the code tries to store private forum counts using this:
$CGIPath/edits/Forum2/private-knNJg420-000001-000001.cgi

Since $Exactpath is including the parent directory path(Forum2/) its trying to store
a file in a folder which doesn't exist.

Ideally I'd want to throw in a line of code which would convert any forward-slashes (/)
to a dash (-) in $Exactpath (not only for the counter section but the unlink lines
too) but I'm afraid thats where my Perl knowledge comes to a screeching halt.

Can you tell me how to do that please ??

This message has been edited by DMan on December 10, 2000 at 11:40 PM