Original Author: jordo.

Description: This modification will add a calendar to your UBB™. It includes a birthday profile field, which will show up in the calendar and add an avatar near the user's name in his/her birthday. You will also be able to post an announcement and set a calendar date and it will show it in the calendar. It's 100% Templetized and Wordletized™ and includes a CP interface.

Requirements: Valid license, UBB™ 6.1.0 Beta Release 2.1 or higher.

Download: ZIP File or MultiHack File

Demo: http://www.lkubb.dns2go.com

Good luck!

sweet!

LK, im still gettin the error message with the "ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi" file. u can view it here: http://www.djsharp.com/index3.shtml

im supposed to have ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi uploaded in "cgi-bin" & chmoded 755, right? if not, then that could be the problem i dont think the readme file ever said where it should go & what it should be chmoded.

Did you get the new ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi? Can you try again?

BTW Deb/Allen, I posted it in the V6 Licensed Modifications DB forum. Can you add a v6.1 one?

ya, i uploaded the new one & i got the same message.

LK,

Great hack.

Another great feature would be to allow users to display the day of their birthday, but not the year. Like in the year drop down on the member profile it has all the year options but maybe the top option is "do not display", or something.

Also, the colors are still kind of confusing, I added a color key at the bottom, but manually in the display pl. Maybe a hack for a key at the bottom of the calendar that changes when you chage the calendar settings in the cp?

thanks again, great work!

Having same problem. I think it may be server related though, not a problem with this hack. I can't even get .shtml files in my docs directory to call .inc's in my cgi-bin, let alone exec .cgi's

Looks Great! I'm not sure I'm going to use it though. But it's really good.

ZIP file updated with a modification to ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi, if it works in your board or you don't need SSI, you don't need it.

I haven't tested it anywhere that it didn't work before, but I think that's the reason.

Anyway, don't forget you can also try use INCLUDE VIRTUAL, and don't forget that it's not just , it's if it's in another directory.

damn thats strange. its still not working even with the updated file. and i tryed "include virtual" too. except this time it gives me an "Internal Server Error"

http://www.djsharp.com/index3.shtml

Thx, for this great hack but the multihack file is it something wrong with. When i try to analyse the file, i get failed in 9 of 10 files. Could not find or add to the hack.

I use the new ubb 6.1.0.2 with the who`s online, mods wordlet and last reply hack on.

Is it just me or....

Cybernoova, are you sure the MultiHack source files directory is V6.1 and not V6.0?

Yepp, i`m sure. I just reupped the orginales files to for my self, but it was the right files for the ubb 6.1. I just can`t find out what wrong i`m doing here. Shall i post the error files ?!?

LK, do u know anybody that has a demo of the SSI part of the calendar on their site?

if somebody has this working, id like to compare "ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi" files & see whats wrong with mine.

Hi Guys!

Great hack! I would like a feature . Simple. While displaying a link for an anniversary (description of event) i would like to put a link for people to a specific forum so that can write greetings. How to ? Thanks for the tip, and keep up the good work!

Med.

http://www.lkubb.dns2go.com/shtml , it's just like the version in this ZIP.

Hi LK,

My question was how to put a link in the description of an event (birthday)

XYZ was born on this day XX years ago. For greetings:
http://www.yourlink.com

Thanks in advance,

Med.

Modify 'add_birthday' wordlet to be "'s birthday. Write him/her a greeting in http://www.yoursite.com"

does this hack add a field to the profile page? when i click to view a new member's profile, i dont see Birthday listed anywhere, does it only show up on the calendar itself?

LK, if i gave u my info for my FTP, do u think u could check it out & see why i cant get the calender to show up on my .shtml page?

Question: Does the birthday cake go away after the birthday has expired, or does it stay as part of the post forever?

Manik, it only shows up in the calendar.
DJSharp, I can try.
Shamrock, it goes away after the next cache clearance after the birthday date.

ZIP/MultiHack files updated, now you can see the birthday date in get_profile (optional).

Rehack public_display_profile.pl and cp_lib.cgi and upload the new cp_vars_calendar.pl. If you want this feature, access the CP and choose 'Show it.'

Okay... this calendar hack seriously rocks!

It was a tool I was really craving.

I have a question/problem though, and hopefully I'm just being a retarded blind ******* ....

... lets say I make an error on one of the entries... how do I go in and erase/modify that error?

I'm not finding an option anywhere to fix a mistake.

Nice hack. A couple problems / suggestions.

The add a new event link should default to the currently selected day.

The scrolling window for month on Jump To opens showing only 11 months. You actually have to scroll for January. Is there a way to show all 12? (Probably the most nit-picking issue)

How about an extra link near Jump To that takes you back to Today?

What about an option to have events display at the top?

'Add a new event' / 'Prune todays events' links should be moved to a better location. At least put them on the same line.

How about future release with display options as to the style of calendar? A more datebook-looking style would be better for most people. Even at 1024x768 I have to scroll down to see today's events. Some design that had more horizontal space for each day would take up less room vertically and would fit on a page better.

Also, shouldn't all hacks that offer some new place to go in your board also include a way to let Who's Online know where you are? That would be a sweet bonus.

Anyway, great mod so far. Hope you're not done making it better. Maybe Infopop will buy your design and make your hack 'official'. Or do they usually just code it from scratch themselves and pull a 'Microsoft'?

[ 11-02-2001: Message edited by: White Gold Wielder ]

Once again, I have to say this is one of my favorite hacks for the UBB, and like others have mentioned - I think it should become an integral feature of UBB 6.x+.

I had a few problems implementing this... I used a buggy Multihack version of the 1.6 release which I managed to get running...

The most recent 1.7 release... I tried to install it manually (hand editing all affected whiles as per the instructions in the upgrade.txt file) but the manual hack instructions contained several syntax errors. I succesfully hacked it (on our offline test board) using the 1.7 multihack file.

OK,.. that being said and again, this is a superb hack; for our Blues Music site, we hope to use it to post thousands of events, such as tour schedules for all key blues artists, birth and death dates of blues artists, etc.

We developped a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet which allows us to rapidly enter Calendar information, and includes a cell with concatenated information in a format that works with the Calendar hack. I.E. seqserialnumber || a julian date || postedby || eventname || description etc... this works fine, and we paste it into the calender_events.cgi file.

Where trouble arises, is when we paste a large number of events (say 500 plus, with sequential numbers starting at 1000+) into the events.cgi txt file... they appear properly in the Calendar, but if we attempt to "prune" them (edit the event) using the UBB Calendar interface, it causes the server to go into a real panic state.... i.e. after a prune event submit, a blank screen and the server goes into a runaway state.

So the question is this:

Can the events.cgi file be externally populated, and if so, what should the sequential numbering be.

Hope this makes some sense

Again, superb hack!!!!

[ 11-02-2001: Message edited by: RTM ]

Go to the day that contains the event in question... then select the Prune Today's Events located just beneath the detailled daily events listing at the bottom. The subsequent screen will allow you to edit (or delete) those days events.

DrClark: if there is an error, I can't do anything about it, you have to edit vars_calendar_events.cgi manually.

White Gold:

I think it's some IE thing.

Click on 'calendar' in the top of the page.

I'm not a good designer, but maybe.

ditto

Do you have any suggestions?

In ultimatebb.cgi, after if ($ubb eq 'calendar') {, add:

It's more Jordo's design.

RTM, are you sure seqserialnumber is in the line seqserialnumber? (like 1000 is in line 1000)

Maybe I'll change it soon to be more external-programs-compatible.

[ 11-03-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

ZIP file updated, now there is no $desc[0].

Don't worry, it's not like Calendar Hack 1.5 - 1.6 upgrade, there is upgrade.cgi that removes [0]

Please note that if you do not want to use upgrade.cgi, do not upload it, it's a security risk.

UPDATED FILES: ubb_lib_calendar.cgi, upgrade.cgi.

Hi,

I think I have discovered a bug, plus a comment..

First the bug....

If you are in Jan 2002, and go to previous month it goes to December 2000. This has happend on other months as well.

Now the comment...

Also, is it possible to have next / previous months at the top of the calendar as well, on a small screen it is a long way to scroll down the page to skip a couple of months etc.

Great Hack btw - think I preferred the colour scheme in 1.7, but hey that is a minor gripe

Cheers.

Canvey.

The color schemes in 1.7 and 1.8 are exactly the same, the only difference is that $desc[0] is removed.

ZIP file updated with a fix, and I want an example of a site with the 'comment'.

Hi,

No problem - the site is at Non League Forums

I thought the background was either white, or a light grey - maybe not - probably been working to hard .

My comment was mainly because in 800 * 600 there is a long way to scroll. Also could we make the weekday names a little smaller, again in 800 * 600 they look big, and I guess translated to another language, could cause a slight problem with length.

As I said before a great hack, and it went in very easily - even doing it manually.

Canvey.

Just one other thought, when somone registers, and fills in their Birthday, is there any way to display this is the summary, with perhaps a flag to say - 'Your Birthday will / will not appear in the Calendar'.

I realise it appears in 'edit my profile', but it would be nice in the summary as well.

Regards,

Canvey.

Actually, no, the serialnumber I generated was not necessarily located on the same physical line number... perhaps this is what was causing the problem. I will do some more testing using batch inputting into the events file and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the tip.

Just upgrade to v1.8 (upload ubb_lib
_calendar.cgi and upload.cgi and open upgrade.cgi) You won't have to make it in the same line.

Thanks again for that quick response.

That's odd, in my ubb_lib_calendar.cgi there isn't line 637...

Hehe - ok ... as you were writing that, I decided to delete everything past line 635 ... and it seems to be working now.

I will continue testing; I just noticed a date problem, -4711 as a year, but now I can't reproduce it.

Man, this is one superb feature!

Rob

Ok, found the problem:

When one first enters the calender (from the main ubb link using ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar) the date references for the "next month" and previous month" do not appear to be in proper julian format.

For example, in my case the next month link is
ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar&date=373

and the previous month link is
ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar&date=312

Using "jump to month" works fine, and then the dates are correctly julianised

Rob

I forgot 1 line in Canvey's bug bugfix!

ZIP/MHK files updated, upload the new ubb_lib_calendar.cgi.

LK could you tell us what line you modified ?

thanks

Above:Add

Excellent, seems to be running smoothly now! I noticed that there are no more event serial numbers in the events file. Interesting... ;-)

I will start indepth testing, and we will probably launch our calendar tomorrow on our public site if all goes well...

Again, thanks and congrats LK and Jordo

Rob

Anyone else getting strange results trying to use the mhp file? It's throwing errors finding code in the cp_*.cgi files and when I run the hack it seems to be doing something really strange - code is added that the mhp doesn't call for and other code disappears... ???

Does the multihack tend to cache old files? I've deleted the output folder files and restarted the program, but it seems like ghost files appear when running the calendar.mhp cuz the differences are things I remember from the old 1.6 version. (it added:
require "$vars_config{VariablesPath}/vars_wordlets_calendar.cgi";

to the spot in cp.cgi that an earlier version would have and I don't see this in recent versions of the calendar mod.


I'll probably reboot and see if the memory or temp file folder gets cleared.

[ 11-04-2001: Message edited by: AllenAyres ]

Calendar Hack 1.9 released, now it uses [32] and another way since I got some information about 6.2

Rehack: ubb_profile.cgi, ubb_lib_posting.cgi, ubb_registration.cgi, ubb_lib_files.cgi (to decrease 55 to 32), public_display_profile.pl.

Use upgrade19.cgi to upgrade from 1.6/1.7/1.8, and don't forget to BACKUP YOUR MEMBERS DIR FIRST!!

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Installed on test system and working. Thank you for updating the MHK as well as it made my install painless

I get this when trying to update member files

Undefined subroutine &main::StandardHTML called at /www/reeftalk/test/cgi-bin/ubb_lib_files.cgi line 829.

this is from upgrade19.cgi

ZIP file updated with an updated upgrade19.cgi, now it checks if the file exists first and it also stops every 300 users to prevent cgi timeout error.

omegatron, try again with the new file.

Hi LK,

I ran the upgrade, and had the following result..

00000000 member not found.
Success! File removed for security purposes.

Is this correct?

Thanks as usual....

Canvey.

member not found = it's shown up in memberslist.cgi but doesn't exist, so I made a check so ubb_lib_files.cgi won't make &StandardHTMLs. In other words, it means 'the file doesn't exist, we didn't modify it, but everything else is fine', so if there REALLY isn't 00000000 (and I don't think there is such thing ), it's fine.

Why should I upgrade from 1.8 to 1.9?

This is all the information we get about a minor upgrade? I don't have time to upgrade my hacks if there is no reason to.

It makes the upgrading to 6.2 smoother, I think it's pretty important. You don't have to upgrade though, but I probably won't include upgrade*.cgi in the 6.2.0 ZIP so the users will have to manually fill in their birthdate.

I got the same thing? 000000 not found. Now I checked some member files and the birthdates are in the 32 lines in backwards format but they are still down in the 54th line as well. Should this be what happens? the custom status thing uses line 55

No, if I understand what you mean it shouldn't be like that and in my board it's not like that, but if it works, there is no problem

Can you send me a members file (password/etc censored, ofcourse) for example?

Also I forgot to include the new public_display_profile.pl part, please download the new ZIP/MHK and rehack it.

[ 11-04-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Lookin good so far LK. All birthday fields were switched from 55 to 32 and put in the correct format. They aren't showing up when you click on the calendar tho... something I am missing here?

They show up in the calendar only after the user edits his/her profile/registers, it doesn't check the profile fields.

[edit: that's odd, even when I update my profile it isn't shown up... works fine in my board

Try to rehack ubb_profile.cgi.]

[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Weird error I am noticing. I have done no new hacking to my board. Yesterday I installed the new calendar and ran the upgrade program. I posted error above but yesterday I noticed my newestmemberline is gone from the board even though it is enabled in control panel and now new members can not register. They get a confirmation and everything but my members directory does not have the new files.

I havent upgraded to 1.9 yet, but with 1.8 I noticed that even when you uncheck "Click here to display birthday" and then hit update profile, it stays checked regardless. Also, when you view someones profile that supposedly doenst want their birthday displayed, it still shows up!

Tried updating ubb_lib_files.cgi, ubb_lib_posting.cgi. ubb_profile.cgi and ubb_registration.cgi, changed 55 to 32, then ran upgrade19.cgi. Below is what I got:


00000000 member not found.
Content-type: text/html
Software error:
Undefined subroutine &main::StandardHTML called at /home/wewfhfc/public_html/cgi-bin/roleplay/ubb_lib.cgi line 415.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

any ideas LK ???

FYI: this is lines 390-425 of ubb_lib.cgi

sub PostHackDetails {

my @message = @_;
my $called = &Tracer;

my $hackstring = "";


$hackstring .= "nHACK ATTEMPT DATE: $GotTime{LastLoginDT}n$_[1]nAttempt Details:nEnvironment:n";
foreach (sort keys %ENV) {
$hackstring .= "$_ t $ENV{$_}n";
}

$hackstring .= "nPassed to script:n";

foreach (sort keys %in) {
$hackstring .= "$_ t $in{$_}n";
}

$hackstring .= "nnTracer: $calledn";

$hackstring .= "-=- " x 20;

&AppendFileAsString("$vars_config{NonCGIPath}/hacklog.cgi", $hackstring);

&StandardHTML(join("", @message)); (line 415)

}

sub CheckBadChars { # check for | , ;, .. or >< character hack attempts
my $checkthis = shift;
if ($checkthis =~ /||;|<|>|..|*/) { #
&PostHackDetails("$vars_wordlets_err{hack_attempt_bad_char}");
}
return 1;
} # end SR


any ideas LK ???

[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: MrStormyNights ]

nevermind my problem error was in ubb_registration.

MrStormyNights, try to use the upgrade19.cgi in the new ZIP I've just updated.

[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

I'll look at it, I used the mhk file.

Allen, in ubb_profile.cgi here there is 'add' instead of 'yes' in the 'check to display birthday' thing...

MHK file updated.

[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

it seems to be fixed now... thanks

OK LK, now I get this.

Software error:
Global symbol "$maxmemfields" requires explicit package name at /home/wewfhfc/public_html/cgi-bin/roleplay/upgrade19.cgi line 47. Global symbol "$maxmemfields" requires explicit package name at /home/wewfhfc/public_html/cgi-bin/roleplay/upgrade19.cgi line 47. Execution of /home/wewfhfc/public_html/cgi-bin/roleplay/upgrade19.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([email protected]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

Oops?

upgrade19.cgi file updated again, let's hope nobody has more than 300 fields in a user's profile

Also, public_display_profile.pl instructions modified, now if the user unchecks the checkbox it doesn't show it. (it's not important if you disabled this option)

[ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

same thing with new file, how bout I give you the info for the site and you check it out?

Ok, new file works.

Question though, When upgrading from 1.7 to 1.9 do I just run the upgrade19.cgi and then upload the included files?

And upgrade18.cgi

You should also rehack some files, check my 'new version' messages for a list.

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Found a very small bug, if you go to January 2000 it's changed to January 2nd instead of January 1st.

Get the new ubb_lib_calendar.cgi, the difference is in sub calendar_main.

getting this error all over the place:

Hack attempt logged or corrupt/altered member file found with extra fields. ('00000001')

I ran the upgrade18.cgi, then rehacked the files you mentioned for 1.9 and then tried to run upgrade1.9 and it gave me this error:

Global symbol "$maxmemfields" requires explicit package name at C:pathcgi-binupgrade19.cgi line 47. Global symbol "$maxmemfields" requires explicit package name at C:pathcgi-binupgrade19.cgi line 47. Execution of C:pathcgi-binupgrade19.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

Manik: 1. Until you'll get upgrade19.cgi to work, use '55' instead of '32' in ubb_lib_files.cgi.

2. Are you sure you got the new ZIP? If line 27 is without "$maxmemfields", make it:
Please contact me in AIM if it doesn't help.

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Hi... got a small problem and have no idea where to find bug.

When editing a profile, it always stats the Jan 01 date even when changing the date.
But the change is definitly made in the calendar.

Thanks for the help.

Med.

med, rehack ubb_profile.cgi, the $user_profile[32] = .... part.

[Fixed in AIM, proxy/Temporary Internet Files problem]

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

LK...

Thanks LK, really appreciated it! Works fine now (hehe...missed a line!)

Big up

Med.

I just downloaded the zip and it was empty?

LK,

I have a question. You spent all this time with making sure birthday is line 32. You said to be compliant with UBB 6.2? In 6.2 is there something special. Will those of us with lines after 50 have a problem. The only hack that uses anything higher than yours at 32 is stars hack which has a custom status at 54. Would it be worth my time to change this to 33 and hack member files putting it in line 33 to be compliant?

Yep, me too...

omegatron, just change the birthday info for now... it is a field being added into 6.2 for the coppa stuff and this just takes advantage of it already being in there. The transition to 6.2 for this modification will be much easier at that time

omegatron, just don't change ubb_lib_files.cgi.

XPerT/freaksence, blame my host, fixed

The reason I asked is cause stars hack uses 54 for custom status. Is not changing this to say 33 going to cause a problem with 6.2 and member files or will we simply have to up ubb_lib_files like we have been

Forgive my ignorance, but i THINK i have either the 1.6 or 1.7 hack installed. Now to upgrade, do I just need to run the upgrade19.cgi file? Or do I need to rehack files?

omegatron, [50]+ (I think) can be used in the future UBB releases, so there probably won't be any problem if you'll change $maxmemfields to the correct number.

Shamrock, MANY files have been changed, I can't remember which ones, so rehack everything, and then use both upgrade18.cgi AND upgrade19.cgi.

[ 11-08-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Here's a cool idea for version 2.0.

How about a display on the main forums page that shows today's events and their description? Right below Who's Online would be a good place for it.

In case there are no events for the day, how about a control panel option to display the next event showing how many days away it is instead of the description?

Without a presence on the main page, the calendar will never be as popular as it could be. (IMHO)

You know...He's right, nice idea man, could it be posted here some things to add/change to intigrate above suggestion in?

Sorry 4 bad english


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-=DARKMAN=-
-=CROHACK=-
www.crohack.org

ZIP file updated.

The only difference is the new forum summary thing (optional by the CP).

Hack ubb_forum_summary.cgi, public_forum_summary.pl, rehack cp_lib.cgi and upload the updated cp_vars_calendar.pl.

You don't have to rehack if you don't want this feature

[ 11-09-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

It says the zip is missing 928 bytes.

I haven't checked out your changes, but has this been put in? I didn't notice it on your site.

In case it isn't very clear, I wanted a control panel option to prevent having your calendar always say "No events for today." if you have few items on the calendar.

That way, the next event displays and how far away it is. A control panel option would be the trick, since not everyone would want the next event to display and perhaps confuse people.

I personally don't like this option, so it's not available yet.

XPerT: ZIP file uploaded again, does it work now?

There is a problem with Netfirms, get it from http://lk.netfirms.com/calendar2.zip

Help!

Running upgrade19.cgi gives me this:


I was upgrading from 1.8 to the new 1.9.

-UPDATE-
It gives me the same message when I put in an incorrect username and password. I re-checked the ubb_lib.cgi changes and they matched the ones needed in calendar.txt. What else can I check?

[ 11-09-2001: Message edited by: White Gold Wielder ]

OK. I saw this previous message. Perhaps the calendar.txt instructions should include this tidbit?

Now that I'm up and running, should I modify ubb_lib_files.cgi back to '32' now?

I added an event for today and it doesn't show up on the forum summary. It's always "No events scheduled for today". Cache cleared and everything.

Has anyone gotten this to work?

White:

a. It should work without the $maxmemfields modification.
b. The forum summary thing works fine in my board.

Got it, and the zip is valid...I'll hack it in the test board tonight and see how it likes NT servers...

I had great results with the version I ran on 6.04 and 6.05 so I predict a good outcome.

OK, found the problem with 'No events scheduled for today', it's because it used the server time and not the UBB time. (like if the server is in Australia but the UBB time is set to PST, it checked for events for today in Australian time).

ZIP file updated, rehack ubb_forum_summary.cgi

I downloaded both calendar.zip and calendar2.zip and calendar.txt was the same as before. Did I download it too quick?

Also, how about fixing the "1 events" wordlet spelling problem?

[ 11-09-2001: Message edited by: White Gold Wielder ]

------------Ignore this now (because I was told to ignore your question)----------------

In the new version it has been modified.

-------------Stop ignoring this---------------

It's pretty easy, but I think the user will understand. You can also change the Worldet™ to 'event(s)'. If you REALLY need it, in ubb_lib_calendar.cgi:

I still find nothing changed with the instructions to hack ubb_forum_summary.cgi. I wish I could stop bugging you.

It's probably your Proxy/Temporary Internet Files...

upgrade19.cgi wasn't working for me, like someone else I'll get


After changing '32' to '55' in ubb_lib_files.cgi back again it was running.

Also ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi doesn't work. But it was also not working in 1.8 for me since I've upgraded a few days ago. It shows no events. But the forum summary thing works fine for me.

Get the new ZIP and try to use ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi, the 'fix' attempt caused it.

Here's a bug I can't believe I didn't notice.

When you jump to (for example) November of any future year and then click a date
on that month (let's say the 9th), it takes you back to the 9th of November in 2001.

Here's a quote from a while back of a similar problem:

F.Y.I.

[ 11-10-2001: Message edited by: White Gold Wielder ]

ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi isn't working for me, even with the version from the new zip

Fixed, upload the new ubb_lib_calendar.cgi

XNet: I have no idea, it works fine both in my board and in UBBDev, maybe it works only in Windows?

It has worked before 1.8 for me, but not now.

A other point: After I've answered in a topic directly after someone with a birtday cake (has birtday this day) I have also birtday cake with my username. But only in this topic. And I don't have birthday this day, but added a event for the same day.

This is a lot of changes without affecting the version number.

It also begs the question, "How often does a hack have to be changed to lose its 'finished' status?".
<-(just kidding)

White Gold, all bugs except the weird ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi thing are affected by additions to the final version.

XNet: rehack ubb_lib_posting.cgi, the = ""; part.

[ 11-11-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

(White Gold, and again, it was caused by something after the final version was released)

XNet: this is very weird, however I fixed it, rehack ubb_lib_posting.cgi... I guess I should have made the next version in the beta forum and 1.7 in the finished mods, but I hope all the bugs are fixed now.

Hmm, there was no luck with the birthday cakes, all posters after the person with birtday have their cake.

I've added a undef($birthdayfields[3]); now, seems to work yet.

Ok, the ssi is also working for me now.

I've added
print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";

and changed $desc[2] to $desc[1]
and $desc[3] to $desc[2]

Thanks XNet, I also tried Content-type: text/html but in index.shtml it said "Content-type: text/htmlnone"...

I re-thought the idea I had about having a control panel option to display the next upcoming event on the forum summary. You must admit the desire for sites who really use the calendar to have some sort of buit-in countdown option. I came up with a better way to implement it. Let's see if you like this better.

It would start with an additional option for each event that you could set. Just a checkbox labelled 'countdown?' next to 'yearly?' You might even add an admin requirement for this option.

Then, on the forum summary display, you could search for all future events with the countdown flag and display them first on a separate line with a note about how many days are left. Then display the current day's events normally on another line.

This seems to be a simple change for great functionality. You might have to convert the current events again to include the new flag, but that should be all the hard work.

What do you think?

Where did you add this add?

Tom

I've been trying to get the SSI part to work and when if I try to run ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi manually, this is what I get:

malformed header from script. Bad header=none: /data1/hm/osok-clan.net/cgi-bin/ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi

Can someone help?

Tom

Also one other thing.

LK in you calendar.txt file at the bottom it says to uss the ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi file to display a text list of events.

How did you get your test board to show the small version of the calendar?

Tom

Here's a little twist I added to my calendar.

I didn't like having a different color for the currently selected day. I put an out-set border around it instead.

Check it out:
My Calendar

Here's what I changed in ubb_lib_calendar.cgi:

Find:

Replace it with:
###

Find:

Add after:
###

Find:

Replace with:
###

Find:

Replace with:
###

That's it.

Looks a little like vBulletin, but I prefer it.

(Why does UBB translate graemlins inside code tags? )

[ 11-12-2001: Message edited by: White Gold Wielder ]

That minicalendar is ?ubb=calendar_ssi.

Tom: that's the bug XNet fixed, but whenever I try to fix it, Content-type: text/html + 2 enters are printed in the SSI page, so I can't fix it till he'll give me his updated ZIP since I don't have a *nix box to try it on.

I think you have to add such a statement always if you output HTML from a CGI before you print anything else. Mainly on a *ix box.

LK,

Is there a fix yet when members register that checks to make sure that they input the birthday correctly? some people are inputing example 197238|no instead of 19720308|no which ends up with garbled birthday

AHHHH!!! HELP! I re-hacked to upgrade from 1.7 and now I am getting these errors in my cp... I had to hack into my member file just to log in!:

"Hack attempt logged or corrupt/altered member file found with extra fields. ('00000002')"

Anyone know what's up?

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: Shamrock ]

also, when I ran upgrade19.cgi, i got this:

"Content-type: text/html"

Okay in ubb_lib_files.cgi find ( my $maxmemfields ) if it reads 32 and you are getting this number try entering 55 and see if this fixes it.

LK,

Greets... I have one more question for you.

I have gotten the small calendar on my site now.. Thanks for that bit of info... But I do have a question about it...

On the webpage and if I go directly to it by ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi it doesn't show my events on the small version... Is there something I need to do?

UBBDev does the same thing... you can see here https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi

This is what mine is also doing...

Thanks for all the help you have given me...

Tom

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: tomjinx1 ]

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: tomjinx1 ]

[ 11-13-2001: Message edited by: tomjinx1 ]

XNet: That's what I was afraid of, that you have to choose between Windows and UNIX.. New method for UNIX users: ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi?unix=yeah.

Get the updated zip from http://www.lkubb.dns2go.com/calendar.zip since Netirms FTP doesn't work now

I'm just going to re-edit this post so I don't take up alot of space.

LK - feel free to tell me to go screw myself if I get on your nerves.

I have one last question... with this new download that you just put up, it fixed the problem with my small calendar displaying events. However, it didn't seem to work with the ?unix=yeah statement so I fixed that by taking that new part off the content line. No big deal...

My question (like I said, you can tell me to go **** off if you want) is this. the small version of the calendar shows events but not birthday events. I noticed this on your board also. Is it hard to get it to display birthday event dates also. If so, then just ignore this.

Thanks so much for everything you have do LK. I appreciate all the help.

Tom

[ 11-14-2001: Message edited by: tomjinx1 ]

omegatron: make sure you have:
$in{bdaymonth} = sprintf("%0.2d", $in{bdaymonth});
$in{bdayday} = sprintf("%0.2d", $in{bdayday});

in ubb_profile.cgi.

If you do, you're probably running a pretty old version. Try:
tomjinx: it's on purpose, but if you want to modify it, take out:
if ($desc[3] =~ /<--d+-->/) {
$desc[1] = "";
} from ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi

I am running your latest calendar NOT AN OLD VERSION.

I mean an old Perl version.

Well my Perl version is 5.006

Not that old really I tried your little fix we will see if in a couple registrations we have the same problem. I will keep you posted.

LK,

Thank you for everything.

Tom

*/ tries and tries to connect to server /*

LK HELP!!!

Try again

I got it installed, and it seems to work great and bugfree so far for me.

Only 1 little thing:
There seems to be a problem in the wordlets. I have it installed on a german Board, and the line where it says "xx was born on this day xx years ago" I translated it to "xx wurde an diesem tag vor xx geboren", but it just doesnt let me change that "years ago" in the Wordlets or I rather should say it doens't show then, and of course I cleared cache and so on.

Any Suggestions?

In the wordlets file at the bottom is where years is at. The last two lines I think is years and years ago. Did you change those two lines?

Tom

Okay, solved my own problem that I originally came here with, but I'm having another.

Everything looks fine, except two things:


1) There's no line for the events of the day showing on forum pages, even though I have that option enabled.

2) Birthdays aren't showing up on the calendar.


Any ideas for where I went wrong?

Also a totally unrelated question-- when it has the option "Only Administrators and selected Members may post new events," where is it that one would select the "selected members" to give them the ability to add events?

Thanks!

[ 11-15-2001: Message edited by: redhotkitchen ]

Of course I did! At first I double and triple checked everything, but I just can't get it to change into german.

I got another problem now!

I just installed the "Stats Hack" and now all my links to the calendar are gone, I still can reach the calendar with the /ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar URL but the Link at the top in the forum home and the calendar summary at the bottom in the forum home "disappeared" after I had the Stats Hack installed. As well the whole calendar Hack now is screwed up, doesn't work at all anymore!

Strange, does anybody know why, and know a fix to that?

[ 11-15-2001: Message edited by: Domain ]

In addition to the problem I stated above, I've also discovered that a newly registered user since I installed the calendar hack has her birthday showing up on the calendar, but no one else. However, her birthday in her profile is listed as 51-21-198. When you click on it, it goes to the calendar date March 20, 2005. But her birthday is listed as an event on December 1st on the calendar, and doesn't list a name of a person who added it, which leads me to believe it was automatically generated from the info in her profile.

This is getting more and more confusing.

link to the main boards page

link to the page that show\'s the girl\'s birthday on December 1 (though her profile doesn't say that)

Redhot - I just went to your board and registered. My date of birth is Nov 30 1972 and it showed up on the calendar fine...

Hummmm Did you get your problem fixed?

Tom

Alot of hacks will say find this: and then replace with: What you have to realize is that sometimes, your other hacks modifications could be within the coding that is to be erased. For example in the stats hack which I'm going to be adding this weekend, it might have your replace a section of coding that contains the $calendar and have your replace the whole string that contains coding for your links at the top of the forum. And if you have other hacks in the string of code and just replace it like the file says, then your link is gone.

The best thing I can do is tell you to zip up all the files that the calendar hack modifies and send them to me at [email protected] and I will try to find and fix your problemed areas. How's that sound...

Cool?

Tom

kitchen: 1) Rehack ubb_forum_summary.cgi

2) Rehack ubb_profile.cgi

3) CP - View/Edit Member Records

Installed without problems. Great hack !!
Two minor questions:

I just wanted to know when the "has just turned" will be used, cause I am translating into spanish
and I can´t imagine what´s the use of it.


What has to be changed in order to have the "add_birthday" wordlet before the name of the user)? I will explain: In spanish I can´t say "manuelbp´s birthday", it has to be something like "birthday of manuelbp", where "add_birthday" is before my name.

'has just turned' is like 'was born', number and 'years ago', but in Topic Page.

It's like "LK has just turned 18".

About the ''s birthday' wordlet, change ubb_profile and ubb_registration.cgi:

Instead of:
$pubname$vars_wordlets_calendar{add_birthday}

or:

$poster_name$vars_wordlets_calendar{add_birthday}, make it:

$vars_wordlets_calendar{add_birthday} $pubname

or:

$vars_wordlets_calendar{add_birthday} $poster_name

Thanks LK !!

Keeping the mentioned modifications in mind, these are the translations into spanish for whoever wants them:



[ 11-17-2001: Message edited by: manuelbp ]

LK,

I figured I would let you know this again. I tried your fix's but I have watched another ten members register and same error as before. I tried your fix as well as upload all new files and recheck all hacking. Still when some people register and do not input the month or day as 1 instead of 01 you end up with garbled birthday data. Example 197238|no instead of 19720308|no This was taken directly from member cgi file.

Problem with the hack on my board.

Everytime I go to the CP to set the settings, it gives me this error message.

You did not complete all required fields.
You did not complete: show_summary

I looked up and down and all fields are filled. I even checked all files that where hacked and everything is ok as the installing text guide said.

Does anyone know what is causing this?

Terminator, you forgot to upload the new cp_vars_calendar.pl

Well, I did and still no go, and I checked my work twice. Still only new users who've registered since I installed the calendar have their birthday showing up on the calendar (tom-- I think that's why yours shows up but old users b-days don't), and no notice of events is displaying on forum summary pages at all.

I've just registered 'LK' nick, and it looks like both problems have been solved!

[ 11-19-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

I think I'm going crazy! lol

I just saw your post and responded, but to save you going back over there... I do have the cake enabled, so I don't know why it's not showing by your name. And I've got one user who mysteriously now has her birthday showing up correctly, but no one else (including me), has theirs showing up except those few new members since I installed.

Oh yes, of course as I'm typing this, my birthday now is showing up. But it didn't before. And it didn't later. But now that you visited, and after I posted that it didn't, it does. Gah! :rolleyes: But I'm still not seeing all birthdays when I know some users have set them up (I've checked in their profiles). Still no cake either.

[ 11-19-2001: Message edited by: redhotkitchen ]

I added this hack today and followed all the instructions. I went through again and can't find anything wrong, but the Month fields aren't showing up in the calendar. My URL is:
http://www.fencing.net/cgi-bin/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar

Can anyone suggest why this is happening? I've gone through all the modified files and can't figure this out.

Thanks,
Craig

I dunno if this was ever posted before but I don't wanna read 10 pages.
You can change the name displayed on the calender for birthdays from the user's login name to the user's publicly displayed name like this (this is assuming u have installed the hack already): *Please backup files before modifying*


After doing this, go to your cgi-bin directory and find a file called vars_calendar_events.cgi.
Inside, for every event that is a birthday, you will see something like this:
where loginname = user's login name
change this to
where publicname = corresponding user's publicly displayed name. CAUTION: the publicly displayed name MUST BE EXACTLY AS IT APPEARS IN THEIR PROFILE!!!

Reupload all the files.

Done. Based on the code, I believe the script was suppose to put the user's publicly displayed name on the birthdays. But it doesn't seem to work. So, I had to do this. I haven't found any errors yet. But if you do find errors, please go ahead and change it back.

I hope LK or jordo doesn't mind me providing this information. If you do mind, I'll be glad to remove this pronto. Also, I guess this is just to let you know that there is something wrong with the birthday name thing.

In the mean while, everyone else, enjoy.

X: Thanks, but it already is in the hack Enter the CP and change 'use login names' to 'use public names'

C: Rehack ultimatebb.cgi, the wordlets_calendar part, and make sure you uploaded vars_wordlets_calendar.cgi to the variables directory.

[ 11-21-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

LK: yes i know it is an actual built in feature already but I tried turning that thing on. It didn't work.

For non-bday event, they DID show the publicly displayed name. However, the bday events still showed their login names. *shrug*
so my "hack" just forces it to use the publicly displayed name.

X: Not in my board...

Allen: btw, it appears like you're running an old version of calendar hack in 1 part but a new version in the other parts, there is 'add' instead of 'yes' in ubb_profile.cgi part #1. Rehack it please.

[ 11-22-2001: Message edited by: LK ]

Yes sir... We'll be moving to the xhtml files this weekend, I'll re-add everything then.

New? Damn I need to check up on news posts on here more often.

Thanks LK.

Terminator, btw, "Powered by DDC Scripts, Version 6.1.0.3"?! :rolleyes:

Help,
Added this hack today and everything works great apart from the events aren't being displayed on the main page even though I have selected it in the control panel.
Please help.

Update : Also just realised that birthdays are not being displayed and evertime I go back to my profile it has reset the birday feild back to the default.

[ 11-24-2001: Message edited by: Nokia666 ]

Lk,

I asked this a while back and you provided a possible fix that never worked. My unix server has perl 5. With your calendar hack when you select dates for birthdates it has one digit for the months and days before the teens. If these do not have a 0 before then it does not display it right. Here is what is written to a member file upon registration

197568|yes

it should be

19750608|yes

Nokia666: try to rehack ubb_forum_summary.cgi/public_forum_summary.pl and ubb_profile.cgi/public_edit_profile.pl...

omegatron: do you have ICQ/AIM/MSNIM/whatever?

LK, today is one of the moderator´s birthday and the cake gif appears beside the name of all the moderators inside one of the private forums.

[ 11-25-2001 10:12 AM: Message edited by: manuelbp ]

I think I fixed that a while ago... Download the ZIP again and rehack ubb_forum_summary

aim yes and icq

aim= charles328

[ 11-25-2001 04:14 PM: Message edited by: omegatron ]

Hi,
Thanks very much...it works perfect now. Only problem is that I don't like it being at the bottom of the page.
If there anyway I can move it to the top just above who's online and below where is says your user name? Then it would fit in really nicely with my PM notification hack.
I'm running who's online version 4.1 PB2
Board is Version 6.1.3

Thanks again

[ 11-25-2001 06:09 PM: Message edited by: Nokia666 ]

Instructions say:
#####################in public_forum_summary.pl:

######find: (twice)

$TBB





######replace it with:

$TBB
$calendar





################################################

I don't find this. $TBB appears four times but none of them have

after them. I have the new beta XHTML templates, where does $calendar go? After all four instances?

This code below appears three times, I put it after all three, let hope it works ok.

$TBB





[ 11-25-2001 06:03 PM: Message edited by: MrStormyNights ]

Just put it after the ones in sub page_bottom (or something very similar to that).

thanks again! Hack works and looks great. I had no problems installing this.

Another problem with the Time Zone.

I made the previous changes to ubb_forum_summary.cgi, and now the correct day's events display on the main page.

However, the birthday cakes in the threads are displaying for people who have their birthday tomorrow. Should a fix similar to the Forum Summary be made to ubb_lib_posting.cgi?

Try again, I thought sub today also includes the timezone offset.

I tried reaching you via AIM and it says your active but you never respond. HMM You seem to overlook my problem here too?

I'm back now

OK, omegatron found a bug... ZIP file updated with updated instructions for ubb_registration.cgi, the $thismemarray part...

Hey LK, tried to use the calendar ssi and had a problem, no output or something

https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi

any idea what might be wrong?

Allen, so try: https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi?unix=yeah

In my board, if I use it, it adds 'content-type: text/htmlnn' to the SSI page...

ok... it doesn't do the little calendar anymore?

Little calendar = https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi

Sorry, but the birthday cake display is off by my timezone difference.

The cakes showed up yesterday afternoon when the birthday was today, and after clearing my cache just now, they're gone - in the middle of the birthday date.

On a side note, what if a thread hasn't been posted to for a while? Do the last birthday cakes stay there until either a reply is posted or someone else in that thread has a birthday and the page is viewed? Why didn't the fact that the calendar thought the birthday was over trigger a cache overwrite for that page?

quote:

---

Originally posted by LK:
Little calendar = https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi

https://ubbdev.com/