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