[6.5] UBBNews (perl) - UBB.Developers

Modification Name: [6.5] UBBNews (perl)

Author(s): Allen Ayres

Description: Allows you to use SSI to post news via a forum.

Demo: https://ubbdev.com

Requirements: UBB 6.5 and mod wordlets

Download Link: https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/upload/00000494/ubbnews65.mhp

Credits: JB007 for the original version and Mastermind, LK, Burak, and many others for updates

Notes: This is a medium/minor update with several bugfixes and lots of small tweaks to the code. Not as good as a full CI ubbnews, but works until that one comes along

Input for further refinement is always appreciated

Is this available in a text or zip file?

you can always export a text file from a multihack file.

I am not able to open the multihack file. Where do I get the application?

Thanks

There's a link at the top of this (6.4/6.5 mods) forum

Thank You

Hey allen, anyway to get a textbox with forums listed like in the CI list?

Allen, you may want to add that people need to add a folder named "ubbnews" to their cgi directory... Otherwise theil get:

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An error has occurred:

Unable to create a new configuration file: No such file or directory at /var/subdomain/tavern/html/cgi-bin/cp_ubbnews.cgi line 107.
Backtrace: cp.cgi:540 -> sub main::set_add_newssession
Backtrace: cp_ubbnews.cgi:107 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::die
Backtrace: Carp.pm:82 -> sub UBBCGI::Carp::fatalsToBrowser
Backtrace: Carp.pm:146 -> sub main::StandardHTML2
Backtrace: cp_lib.cgi:131 -> sub main::Tracer

thanks gizzy

Not sure about your first question, got a link to what you mean?

Where you select forums you want to use, it'd be better to have a textbox showing the forums you have then having to go and find the forum number for each forum

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I feel real stupid, but now that I have the hack installed, how do I put it on my main page?

SSI call, PHP include, etc...

I believe the file you'd call is in the cgi directory (i don't use it that much)

Code

<!--#exec cgi="http://www.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1" -->

Code

<?php print implode("n", file("http://www.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1"));?>

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Whats the question B? "..." doesn't seem to carry too much lol...

Gizzy,

I had a question about news fader, but I realized that I'd posted it here by mestake. Sorry for that

Hey allen, quick little thing... When I go to http://www.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1 to view the news id, it shows the wording as my background color on black (not my text color) any idea why? Better yet, anyway to get it to not output colors at all so i could use css?

You can use css, just adjust it on your template file. It shows the colors you see because normally the text color is set by the rest of your page (within the ubb it's in the small bit of css charles has added in public_common.pl )

figures, now that I'm on 6.6, Gizzy posts the right link

Any chance on this being ported to 6.6, Allen?

no, we stopped developing for 6.6 about a month ago.

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Originally posted by AllenAyres:
no, we stopped developing for 6.6 about a month ago.

so that's a yes

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it's a yes when 6.6 is final

If you already had it installed on a previous version, your newsfeeds will still work, it's just not integrated into the cp

Now that 6.7 is on the horizon is there any chance of updating the intergration in the control panel?

I'll take a crack at it this weekend when I'm not getting ready for the holidays

I had to modify the hack somewhat to work on 6.7. I added additional variables required.
It works if I manually add the news session files.Add one in the ubbnews folder and then edit the var file.
Intergrating it to the control panel would be really tough for me though.
Maybe infopop will add topic text to Content Islands someday.

Did anyone ever port this to the control panel for 6.7 ?

It has not been updated for 6.7, nor do I know of anyone who's planning on it.

We use it here

The cp part just hasn't been updated for 6.7+

arghh... just looked at the cp section - that would require a good bit-o-work

Would be cool tho