Hi all,
I found a way to change the first line text in an email when sending a topic to a friend (UBB friend option).
MY change is only executable if you don't have the COPPA option activated
(But who has?)
Open ubb_friend.cgi from your cgi-bin directory
#### start hacking ####
Find:
# add name to message
my $message = qq!
$vars_wordlets{author_from} $in{your_name}
Replace with:
# set individual header in ubb-friend-mail
my $message = qq!
$vars_wordlets{parent_email} $in{your_name}
#### end hacking ####
You may delete $in{your_name} if you don't want the displayed forum-name to be shown.
Atfer uploading the hacked file back to your cgi-bin directory, go to the control panel in your administration and change the wordlet for parent_email to the text which you want to be shown in the first line(s) of your ubb-friend_email. HTML is allowed!!!
That's it!
Perhabs it's too complicated, but the change of the wordlet author_from also changes the field "From:" in the registration and below a posting.
These fools have chosen the same variable author_from in the registration form / the from: - field below a posting AND for the first line in a ubb-friend-email.
The field parent_email is quite unnecessary in my opinion so I took it for my midification.
I did this hack with a GERMAN Version 6.04b.
Perhabs this is different with other versions.
As I am a bloody newbie in hacking and UBB I would be happy to hear your opinion and your experiences.
Greetz from Schrapnell
