UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas personal request

i am working on a project to put news on my main page. i've seen the Ubbnews and slashbb and all those hacks, but i want a custom job.

What I want to do is:
1) have an admin/moderator be able to post news in a forum. (just like slashbb)

2) when the admin/moderator submits the form, all i want to do is have it go in to my index.html file and look for a comment like
//and add the appropriate javascript function there. The javascript function would look something like this:
createPopup(stuff from the form goes here);

3) I dont want this to just be an output of some CGI script, I want this in my index.html

Basically I want the CGI script to read the news forum(like slashbb) and just add some text to my index.html file.

I am not a CGI programmer so thats why im asking for some help here. I assume(probably falsely) that this is much like slashbb or ubbnews or something.

Any help is much appreciated. My email is: [email protected]

-Brian

If you want to make a news-script without the use of CGI, you should try ASP. (for info try www.LearnASP.com ).
This requires your server to support ASP-script. If you are planning to make a web server at home, you should use Microsoft IIS.
If not, there is also a lot of good and reliable web hosting services that support ASP (see www.FreeWebSpace.net )

Hope I answered your question

- SpECTre

I thought about that too, but I was not sure that it would work with UBB.

After reading my post, I realized that I need to be clearer on what I want.

I want an admin/moderator to post news in some forum(named News on this board). After that person submits it on the UBB, he/she goes to some CGI script (ie. named news.cgi) or something. That script will look at the forum where I posted the news from and write to the index.html. It is just like Slashbb, however I want to write it to a file - not to the screen.

Does this make it clearer?

-Brian

anyone have any help on this?

I just want to post the news in my forum(just like in slashbb), then go to a CGI file. When you get into the CGI file, it should print to the screen a bunch of default settings for my news page(like color and position etc.) then I just click on the submit button and it looks into my index.html file and adds the appropriate HTML in the right spot.

in my index.html, there is a spot that looks like this:



then I goto the CGI script and it looks at the newest post in my news forum and it outputs that, plus a few default settings. When I click on submit, it looks in the index.html file for and begins to write the appropriate HTML there. A sample output would look like this"


createpopup('title', x, y, width, height, etc..)

the 'title' and 'x' etc., would be the default settings.

does this help?

-Brian