i get no errors..just nothing shows up on the posts page where it should appear everything else seems to be working 100% correctly, in the control panels and everything, even in the generated files. any ideas on what to editdouble check?
Well I read the old threads from when it was in Beta and some had the same trouble Tho I tried the ways explained in the old threads around that error and Still no lukc for me
Hello.. I am a REAL newbie at hacking, and installed this hack on 6.02 & 6.04 and it worked like a charm!! It is a GREAT hack and my 5800+ members LOVE the ranks!
Thank you so much for making the hacks & supplying them for free!!
for some reason when you load op the admin to edit it, a space is put in Custom Ranks Override box, as its empty it makes a space, thats whats doing hte error
1) He entered an incorrect path for Custom Titles; he had two // in the path for some reason.
2) He forget the Backspace trick. You need to backspace on seemingly Empty Fields EVEN THOUGH they seem empty. Backspace until it's impossible. It's a quirk within the UBB software unfortunately. I may be using this server for testing purposes later on to see if I can quash this annoying bug.
The custom title works fine but I have yet to get the custom ranks to work at all. The database is there with the ranks listed in there but the default ranks are still being shown. I cleared the ubb cache and all that. So what else should I do?
Additionally if you use HTML in the Custom Rank for Admins and then save it, when it re-displays it messes up the form.
Now for the second. When I use something like Administrator in the Custom Rank for Admins it saves the codes correctly but re-displays this only on the form line:
One thing I noticed you should probably add is when you look at the profile of new members it shows their default rank and not the hacked one. Perhaps a simple fix?
Tundra: The Regular Status on User Profile is the designed behaviour.
New Custom Title/Rank ZIP File Bugfixes:
* mod_perl compatability problem fixed (uninitializied variable) * unfiltered " problems fixed (thx Tundra) * blank area TEXTAREA debugged - you'll need to upgrade your Perl version * FAQ updated
I get the same Error York1 did, but i looked at my Status/Rank settings, and there are no extra // or anything.. is there anything else it could be? Here are my Titles that i am trying to put in.
00000000|!!|Nothing 00000001|!!|Ultimate Coolness Matey 00000005|!!|King of the Mateys 00000008|!!|Im Batman 00000014|!!|The Captain
---- Just wanted to add, Even if i DONT put anything in the Custom Title Area, it says it is wrong. and i get the same error.
Okay, I think I've found a good work around in the coding for the blank text area bug (even though its Perl's fault.)
I need some testers. Go d/l my ZIP file again and re-upload cp_custom_status.cgi into the UBB cgi dir. Now do whatever you did previously to cause errors when you had blank boxes - the errors should now NOT show up
Hey, qasic, do you plan to fix this to where the statuses show up in profiles, too? I think this could be done with only a little more modification. This is one thing that bugged me about the older version of this hack too...
Yes, looks like a very nice mod qasic.. any time frame on integration with dark templar's stars/status? I basically need to be able to add more status' (stati?) that'll use a different image as the # of posts get to certain levels. DT allows for 5 and I got someboby who wants 20... That's a lotta rewriting of dt's script...
was just wondering if anybody could help me out here...i installed the hack and i think i did everything ok in the scripts and the u/l part coz i can see the menus in the control panel,but whenever i try to goto the primary settings and press the update button i get this error msg: "Unable to open vars_custom_status.cgi file for writing."
Hey q, I got the same error message and I downloaded the files this afternoon... I didn't set any status except for the Custom Ranks and left the rest blank, which coulda been my mistake...
I know when clicking inside any of the text boxes, the cursor automatically goes to the second line.
Darn Pearl acting up again. It's a bug in Pearl that was only fixed in latter versions of Perl. If you can, please upgrade the Perl otherwise use the old backspace trick or fake data.
I installed the hack, edited, uploaded and chmodded everything, but when trying to access my Control Panel to input custom statuses and ranks, I got this error message:
I've installed everything fine (I quess), I did the .SHW, and I also did it manually. When I want to Update the Custom Status/Rank Variables to create my vars_custom_status.cgi file, I get this error:
Unable to open vars_custom_status.cgi file for writing. » Use your browser's back button to return.
What did I do wrong? I'm using UBB 6.04b Please email help to renslohmann@hotmail.com . Thx!
Well, I get that error when I press that button! I haven't created the vars_custom_status.cgi, when I try to (by pressing that button) I get this error I mentioned in my previous post!
See Release Notes on the first page to see what's new. To upgrade, upload the new, indicated files in the Install Doc. Then resubmit your Custom Status/Rank settings.
This hack has a conflict with that Star/Status hack I think.
I am a beginner at this, but both are named custom_status throughout. So i don't think both of these hacks can coexist unless someone goes through every line of code and changes it.
Please correct if i'm wrong, and i hope i'm wrong.
qasic- I LOVE AND USE ALL YOUR HACKS! I am on 6.04c (infopop PLEASE STOP THE UPGRADING ALREADY) I cannot seem to get it to work. I am going to try the backspace trick again, but I am not confident.
My e-mail is [email protected] if you would like to take a look at the board.
This is great I love it, my members love it but I have one tiny request
With Custom Ranks Override it would be really good if you could do a complete set of custom ranks for certain members, as an examble custom ranks set at
1|!!|Visitor 10|!!|stranger 100|!!|Vet
And then the custom rank override 00000022|!!|10|!!|Good Friend 00000022|!!|100|!!|Superstar poster
At the moment the hack will only recognise the first one and no matter how many posts the member has will still call them good friend.
What I had hoped to impliment was a good/evil system, my board is based on a role playing game and having titles that keeps everyone happy is a nightmare. My plan was to have a standard set of ranks up to 100 posts and then have 2 alternative paths leading to good and evil ranks.
Maybe something to think about for a future upgrade?
I'm getting a bunch of errors saying that vars_custom_status.cgi doesn't exist. It isn't there and it didnt come with the zip! what should i do about that...
PokeDigi, it's obviously you have not read the documentation. Read the install document carefully and you'll find the solution (hint, hint ... submit variables first )
this hack is truely one of my favorites here...it adds so much customizable things to your UBB
but now, i got the Mega Mod hack installed and was wondering if there was a way to add a default Mega Moderator section to this code, just like Administrator and Moderator is in
it could be another version of this code...optional if you have it in
i really wanna know how to do this :-/, and it would be helpful to ppl in the future who have this mod
Here is another question for you. I really love this mod. But in general on my board it has produced an outragous amount of spamming From people trying to get their Ranks elevated. IF I set it to "custom Titles only" will the default ranking system then show up.
hey man, i did it perfectly, but when i updated in the cp it said it couldnt write to the file vars_custom_status.cgi but thats cuz it isnt there, so can someone help?
Hi,Qasic i have seen all of your posts about " Jimbo's Custom Status/Rank " ,but i can't link your site->www.qasic.com/ubbhack.htm,i want to get this hack's final ver,pls tell me how 2 get it !ok? thank u very much ~~!!!!!!!or pls email this final hack 2 me [email protected]
qasic,5555555,i can only link this site of you which is in your signature!,but i still can't link your site of :www.qasic.com!!could u do me a favor that email this final hack 2 me ??Thanks in advance!!
I installed this hack and it seems to be working fine, but I can't figure out how the override features work. For example, I have 5 levels of custom ranks. And then on top of that I have certain people with custom statuses. If one of these people post, both the custom rank AND the custom status comes up, first the custom rank then below it the custom status. Is there any way that it can shuttle between the two depending on if they have a custom rank or not?
The hack for UBB version 5 worked like that. It would first look at the custom rank and then if some had a custom status, it would override it and post just that.
I don't know if I missed part of the hack but it works fine other than that. My version # is 6.04e.
I *think* I've read all of the posts here, but this has probably been asked: if I'm using ranks but not titles, can I eliminate the blank space that titles would have taken?
Sorry qasic, one more thing (I'm a bigtime rookie)... does this hack disable the Anchor hack, or do I simply reapply Anchor? The install for this hack worked perfectly, but Anchor died.
As you can see here : Topic of my forum I can see the Rank of my Moderators and Admins, but I can´t see the member´s rank. Also my members can´t see it, so I suppose I did something wrong.
I can setup everything in the CP, I can save it etc. everything works there, so I guess I did something wrong in the ubb files... but I don´t now, I am not very good in programming
Too many people are getting that error. I think I'm going to have to hard code a check in for that. Anyways, the easiest solution is to CHMOD your CGI-BIN to 777, run Custom Status/Rank settings, and then CHMOD the cgi-bin TO 775.
Hmm .. I guess you've have to upload a file with 0 bytes into that directory. I believe you have to upload 4 null files into your variables directory as stated in the Files Generated sectin of the documentation. Sorry for the inconvenience.
P.S. dbode's problem fixed. He speicifed his ranks incorrectly and that was causing a problem
If instead of using Custom Titles, I could put them in the Custom Ranks Override thing and make the post count 0, it would put the title in where the rank is, right?
Anyways I got the cp.cgi part fixed..now my main problem is that when I try to go to it in the CP it tells me that it can't find the vars_custom_status.cgi.
Is it possible to let the user set their own custom rank? I noticed that i may have to put edit: user_profile[7] in the public_edit_profile.pl, but i couldn't find it. The hack works perfectly, i just need the let users define their own, but at the same time controling it so if a member abuses it, i can edit it. Thanks.
I saw that your hack will fit perfectly into the memberlist hack - do you know what to put in there to get a special row which contains the rank of the users ?
Ah, something else. I saw in Private Messages (when you get a knew message) that there is still shown the normal UBB rank, but not the Custom Status Hack under the username. Is this known already ?
I was looking through the coding in my ubb_lib_posting.cgi and it has an extra bit of code in the first hack. It shows local(FILE*) now. Should I replace it? How else might the hack need to be modified?
these files have been modified to work if you use the megamoderator hack by al bundy it gives you the ability to set tiles/stars/etc to the magamod
i have tested on my site and one other with no problems there is no extra hacking to be done just replace the files with these and set the status megamod must be installed and i have not suplyed qasic's original install instructions you will need those as well if you dont have this installed
well, since this is already the longest thread in the world, i figure i'd just add my 2 cents right on top
i installed it (manually) on 6.04e. i got the space under the username, did all the business that you've perscribed in this mammoth thread, but i still got it. so i gave up
the hack works perfectly except for this little bitty problem, and i think my users and myself can live with it.
thanks for this hack, i've been looking around for something like this for a while.
I love this hack it rullezz! I hope you work on the layout of the CP tho I dont like it very much .. but thats me.. like intead of making the numba in a field you select the member numba in a dropdown and get rid of that ugly green and so on
Please follow the instructions carefully. The instructions say to find that long line and then add something below it. It mentions NOTHING about local(*FILE). You're really complicating yourself
So, in summary, don't touch the local(*FILE). Just add the local($custom_status) after the long text.
when Iedit "ubb_lib_posting.cgi" I get a low memory error! I know That this isn't possbile beacuse I closed all the programs and I still couldn't edit it! well I made it trhough 2 new inserts in there,but the rest doesn't work! Can some some help me edit it? Some one trustworthy? e-mail me at [email protected] thanks.
I installed it on my active board and the custom ranks are not working. They only say Member for everyone. The Custom Titles are working, though. Any ideas on why? I have it set to Both.
Yes! please help me out. Do you want me to PM my account info and stuff? I've already installed it twice on a test board on the previous version of UBB. But now it won't work right. Just let me know what you need. Thanks.
That website doesn't appear to be working. I'm getting a 547 error when I try and access the custom titles/rank option in the control panel. I rehacked it three times now, and get the same error every time.
Installed the hack but...when I go to the control panel and click on the custom title/rank thing...it gives me an "FYI - you do not have permission to access this page" I've tried logging out and back in and realoading and both my ADMIN names...any idea what I'm doing wrong? Help would appreciated...peace.
Crap, I didn't notice that 6.05 is out. Now i have ot upgrade. Upgrading means overwriting files. and that means overwriting this hack which took me 2 hours ot figure now how to install and use.
I forgot I made a MultiHack MHP file for this hack. It was late and I was tired. Anyway I installed it and all works fine on my board. Lemme check things out and I'll upload it.
the hack works very well, fine work. But there is a little issue where I need some help. In the FAQ you write:
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I have tried both settings and every time a Mod will sho as mod in every board. But he is mod in one board only. I use UBB 6.05
All other features seems to work fine. I check out several times ubb_lib-posting.cgi but cant find any error. I understand your FAQ so that I dont have to put the # in if I like to see the mod only in his mod boards and put it in to display his mod title everywhere, right ?
Iss there a known problem out there with Avatar and who is online hack ?
Thanks, but that is what I DONT need I will show the mod tag only in boards where the user IS mod and not if he post in other boards.
I clear out the cache and use the orginal hack code. all works fine. I go to a forum and read postings. There will be some Postings of the mod of this board and he will show corectly as mod. There will be other postings from mods of other boards and they show up as user. Fine ! But if i switch to a other forum where the mod is only user he will now displayed as mod again. This can be only solved with clear out the cache again.
Just emailed him the MrClean the hack... BTW... I download & archive almost every version of every hack here for the last 5 months or so..... Maybe sometime in the future, with EACH and EVERY author's support, i'll host them for you guys, as sort of a backup archive 8)
Just an Idea!!!.. Until then... If I see someone looking, i'll just pop in and email them the file 8)
I just got Jimbo's Custom Status & Who's online 4.0 installed and it great. Here a ideal for you rookie UBB like myself. I just paid qasic a very small fee and he installed both for me. Then you don't have to worry about screwing anything up. Notice on custom ranking he also installed a icon for each level
why do i need to be a member...just to download a hack???If you ask me it sounds crazy!Im not giving you my license to my ubb,so i can get a hack.Give me a link to somewhere that i can download hacks(cept ubbdev).I came here to find Who's Online 3.9Qa....and i left empty handed.
One thing -- and I'm not gonna read through 16 pages of posts to find out -- but should this hack update people's profiles, too? I'm getting the old ranks in the profiles, although the new ones are showing up great in the forums...
I had this fine program installed on my board until it crashed, and now I'm missing a few pieces from the re-installation files. Qasic has not replied to my request for access to their site... so I'm wondering if there is another source for this hack??
I already had all the files.. the only thing I think I'm missing is the actual mods to the control panel which lets me access these mods. Can somebody tell me which file I need to access to modify the control panel pull down menus?? Thanks.
For members with 1-49 Postings it shows the correct rank "Newbie" but for members with 50 and more Postings it shows the rank"member" and not "Mitglied"!!!
This is a great hack Jimbo, but appears to be lacking one feature that I found that I wanted enough to where I hacked it in myself.
Basically what I wanted was for users to be able to pick one of two or more different categories at registration times and get a different set of ranks depending on which category they pick. I did some tweaking here and there and came up with the following hack which needs to be applied on top of Jimbo's custom status hack. Note that because I manage UBB in CVS I've found it very easy to give a unified diff file rather than the usual set of instructions for the hack. Apoligies in advance if this is unsuitable, but this is also the way I choose to submit my hacks. I recommend that you apply this hack manually rather than using the patch program, but if you choose to do the latter you will probably have to supply the location of many of the files it modifies as well as fixing a number of rejects.
Note that this hack does use the first custom profile field. You can change that to any of the other three fields in the usual manner. Before applying this hack I recommend turning custom ranks off, then fix the ranks according to the instructions in Custom status management before turning custom ranks back on again. You'll have to set the first custom field in registration settings to Category and enable it also:
Index: cp_custom_status.cgi =================================================================== RCS file: /var/www/cvs/ubb-cgi/cp_custom_status.cgi,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.2 --- cp_custom_status.cgi 2001/08/17 04:04:56 1.1 +++ cp_custom_status.cgi 2001/08/19 09:56:30 1.2 @@ -180,11 +180,12 @@ sub SetCustomStatusSettings { unless ($check =~ m/|!!|/) { &StandardHTML("ERROR (line $count): Custom Rank: $check does not have |!!| present OR a blank line exists where there shouldn't be one. If you've received this error previously and the data has been inputted correctly, you'll need to disable the Data Verification Check in Custom/Status Rank Variable Settings."); } - ($num, $rank) = split(/|!!|/ , $check); - unless ($num > $last) { - &StandardHTML("ERROR (around line $count): Custom ranks not in lowest to highest order. $num in $check is less than or equal to the one above it. It should be higher!"); - } - $last = $num; +# Disable this check -- PJ - 08/19/2001 +# ($num, $rank) = split(/|!!|/ , $check); +# unless ($num > $last) { +# &StandardHTML("ERROR (around line $count): Custom ranks not in lowest to highest order. $num in $check is less than or equal to the one above it. It should be higher!"); +# } +# $last = $num; } @check = (split/n/, $in{custom_override_guts}); for $check (@check) { Index: ubb_custom_status.cgi =================================================================== RCS file: /var/www/cvs/ubb-cgi/ubb_custom_status.cgi,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.5 --- ubb_custom_status.cgi 2001/08/17 04:04:56 1.1 +++ ubb_custom_status.cgi 2001/08/19 10:21:11 1.5 @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ require "$vars_config{VariablesPath}/var
I "had" the same problemme, your problemme is it is showing the UBB's default ranks not your custom ranks, so all I did to get it working (after 30 minutes of riping my hair out) is I just went into Miscellaneous Settings, and where it says
"Use Alternate User Titles? There are four status options for users: administrators, moderators, members, and junior members. You can have these four user classes appear as alternate titles, if you like. For instance, if you have a Star Trek site, you may want your administrators to be called Star Fleet Captain, your moderators to be called First Mate, your Members to be called Lieutenant and your Junior Members to be called Ensign."
All I did was go to the Junior member field and type in anything you like (I typed Pawn as in the chess piece) then click update Miscellaneous Settings, and you custom ranks should work now
I guess by updating the Miscellaneous Settings, when it processed it realised you have custom ranks and not the default ones, I dunno, but thats all I did and it works now
Also, like quasic said ages ago (page 1 or 2), in the Custom Ranks fields where you put in your |!!| bizzo, press and make sure you backspace any leftover spaces
I apoogize if this has already been answered but me and my mate have both got 6.05's respectively but we both can't seem to get this to work. When we select Custom Title/Rank Settings in CP we're guided to a blank page with your credits/info on the bottom example:
Sorry for my bad English... Hack work greatly, but I can't see custom status in profile. I tried to replace $user_status with $custom_status in public_edit_profile.pl & public_display_profile.pl, but take no result. What I should make to do that.
2 P Ajamian Your upgrade is cooool, but I'm not professional in hacking. Can You explain, what exactly I need to do?
I may sound like a complete idiot (but I'll take my chances here). This is a very popular hack and it has the features I'm looking for in my board but I seem to have an installation problem. I (think) I configured the hack properly but when I try to execute it I get the infamous 'syntax error page' suggesting that it is trying to call the vars_custom_status.cgi which never generated. In fact, none of the files that were supposed to generate did.
If anyone could kindly point our my errors and help me that would be cool.
I fixed the problem (which was my bad to begin with) so everything is operational. Awesome hack btw!
Paranoix: I don't know in detail of what you did but this is what I did. I set my 'custom ranks' (the ranks according to the amount of posts) for regular members and guests, 'custom rank' for Mods and Admins and 'custom rank override' for the members I wanted to have a distinct title. All of them were set to "0" posts so they are automatically set to that rank specified. Ex for custom override (notice the alone "0"):
members numbers here|!!|0|!!|your title here ----> 00000015|!!|0|!!|Captain
2PrimeTime I did that too, It's work. Thanks. By the way, Do you have moderators in other forums shown as "moderators" or like other members? I have as "Moderators" and I dont know what I need to do.
My Moderators have been renamed actually and they show up in all of the forums regardless whether they are moderating those forums or not. I did change it so that they show up as regular members in the beginning, but I decided that they should have their own rank so I used 'custom override'. This is more labor intensive but I like its flexibility.
Hmm...I'm not exactly clear to what you want to achieve. Is it that your Moderators show up as the name "Moderators" in every forum?...Or that you only want your Moderators to show up on the forums they moderate?
I think your best bet would be to speak to Qasic or Jimbo, but I'll help you if I can.
UBB's default has that option...Although I rather do it manually by going into the files rather than CP. Try this...Erase all settings from your ranking hack and only set the custom rank for moderators and see what happens. I think there is a way but because that means you would have to edit the hack codes I suggest you speak to Qasic or Jimbo...I'm sure they will help you as they did with many others.
hi... i just insatalled that hack but everytime i go to the control panel to set it up i get this messge: Access Denied. No permission to write inside /home/*****/public_html/cgi-bin/cgi. Read FAQ for more information.
i tried moving the files to a folder that i chmod 777 and still the same message...
i solved this problem by chmod cgi-bin folder as 777 and the files created correctly but when i tried to set the ranks i got this message: Access Denied. No permission to write inside /home/*****/ranks. Read FAQ for more information.
Err...Did you go into the Primary Settings or Maintenance to set your ranks first? You may have attempted to do this already but you need to configure the settings in the Primary Settings before you can go into the Maintenance to set your members' ranks. Just wondering.