Beta-[6.5] Generic Page for 6.5

Mod Name / Version: Generic Page for 6.5

Description: This is a templated Generic Page - which will allow you to wrap your other site pages with a threads header/footer and stylesheet.

Working Under: UBB.Threads 6.5

Mod Status: Beta

Any pre-requisites: 6.5

Author(s): JoshPet

Date: 07/04/04

Credits: Wraith originally helped me with this in the version 5 days

Files Altered: none

New Files: generic.php, generic.tmpl

Database Altered: none

Info/Instructions: Rename and duplicate files as needed.

Disclaimer: Please backup every file that you intend to modify.
If the modification modifies the database, it's a good idea to backup your database before doing so.

Note: If you modify your UBB.Threads code, you may be giving up your right for "official" support from Infopop.If you need official support, you'll need to restore unmodified files.

Attached File

116324-GenericPage6.5.zip (344 downloads)

Thanks Josh, I use this one a lot

This works fine, except the generic page show the user:

You are not logged in. [Login]

how to correct?

Do you have forum cookies set globally?

I can't find a setting in my cp o set them globally?

Control Panel - > Primary Settings
Advanced Options Tab

If the page you created isn't in your ubbthreads direcotry then set the cookie path to /

Also don't use http://www.yourdomain.com and http://yourdomain.com (no www) interchangably as the cookies are different between the two. You can be logged in at www. but not at the domain without the www.

hmmm, if I take the www out all users get this on submit:

The host you are trying to send the input from is not a valid host.
Please use your back button to return to the previous page.

You can also set that part at whatever name registration service you use (register.com, joker.com, etc.). Set the http://yourdomain.com as an alias for http://www.yourdomain.com.

You'll need to set the cookie globally like Josh explained to / (the root of your site), that way it will be available to your whole site.

my cookie is set / as default, never changed that. Thanks for the tip to change at registrar - didn't think of that.

[]nosleep said:
hmmm, if I take the www out all users get this on submit:

The host you are trying to send the input from is not a valid host.
Please use your back button to return to the previous page. [/]

Use whatever one you use normally - that error you get is the referral check, which you can either turn off in your admin area.

You also should list both domains for the referral check:

Control Panel -> Primary Settings -> Advanced Options

In the box that says "Domains for HTTP Refer check" separate them with a | per the example.com domain shown there.

Even after following your advice to the minute it still shows "you are not logged in".

I have done http://www.nobody.com|http://nobody.com

and have also tried with referrer enabled and disabled.

Make no difference. The not logged it won't go away.

This is great, an extremely useful little thing that I'm getting a lot of use out of.

However, there are a few additional info pages that I'd like only to be visible to members of the forum that are logged in. How would I go about doing that?

Further restriction by group (if they're not in a specific group, they can't see it) would be nice as well. Is that a lot of extra stuff that would require more than just the generic page stuff?

To restrict a page to logged in users only, just below the authenticate function, add this

Code

<br />if(!$user['U_Username']) {<br />   $html = new html;<br />   $html -> not_right("You must be logged in to view this page.",$Cat);<br />}<br />

To restrict a page to a specific usergroup, first:

Find this:

Code

<br />   $user = $userob -> authenticate();<br />

Change to this:
[/code]
$user = $userob -> authenticate("U_Groups");
[/code]

Below that, let's assume that you only want to allow access to usergroup #5, and if they aren't in the #5 group, we block them
Add this:

Code

<br />if (!strstr($user['U_Groups'],"-5-")) {<br />   $html = new html;<br />   $html -> not_right("You are not authorized to view this page.",$Cat);<br />}<br />

To account for allowing multiple usergroups, example admins, moderators and group 5 are allowed:

Code

<br />if ((!strstr($user['U_Groups'],"-5-")) && (!strstr($user['U_Groups'],"-1-")) && (!strstr($user['U_Groups'],"-2-"))) {<br />   $html = new html;<br />   $html -> not_right("You are not authorized to view this page.",$Cat);<br />}<br />

That should do it.

Thanks for the updates, those are handy

works in 6.5.2