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Hi,


We have built a registration system that will create accounts for all of our web sties features from one scrip. The script will create a record in our database, email and UBB without a problem. The way we create the new user in UBB is by passing a hidden url in the script. What we want is one place to update a users information. So far we were able to create a script that will update everything but UBB. I have been playing with the this for a few weeks and cant seem to get it to work. Is there a way to pass a hidden URL to update a users info?


Thanks in advance for your time


Joe

pass a hidden URL - Could you explain this in more detail?

The way to update the UBB member database would be to modify the appropriate files in the Members directory. If it's done by an external script, the script should use the same file locking mechanism as the UBB, to avoid possible file corruption.

Hi,

Hidden url:

We use a Filemake Pro Database to store user information. The registration page is a Tango Application File. The file enters the users information into our database and then take the users name, email address and password and put it into a url that is passed to the UBB registration page. The same is also done for our free email. The url looks something like this

<@URL LOCATION="http://www.applelinks.com/cgi-app/boards/ubbmisc-hacked.cgi?action=RegSubmit&UserName=<@LOWER STR="<@POSTARG NAME="uid">">&Password=<@POSTARG NAME="password">&PasswordConfirm=<@POSTARG NAME="password">&Email=<@LOWER STR="<@POSTARG NAME="uid">">@applelinks.net&AllowMassMail=yes&NameStorage=yes&DaysPrune=30&EmailView=no" BASE="">

What I wanted to create is an update your profile page that will change all the information from one page (database email and UBB). I thought that i might be able to use the same method to update the UBB info.

I'm not sure how to do it the way you suggest. If you could give me more detail that would be grate

Joe

I don't think it would be possible to update the UBB member database with your technique.

The relevant files in the UBB member database are memberslist.cgi (maps member login name to member number), emailfile.cgi (maps member email address to member number) and ########.cgi, where '########' is the eight-digit member number. membertotal.cgi might also need to be updated.

The above info is based on UBB 5.47d. UBB 6 has some additional files. I'm not sure if it would be neccessary to deal with those.