Hi guys,
I've recently done the UBBNews hack which works exactly as 'slashbb' hack for UBB5. The new hack is compatible with the caching system and is completely configurable through the CP

Here it is .

Best Regards,

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 15, 2001 04:36 AM: Message edited by: JB007 ]</font>

Do you have a demo?

I'm having two problems so far. First is that it seems to be using it's own Style template. If I select the template I usually use, I receive this error:
Can't locate c:/lmalla/ubbcgi/vars_style_2.cgi at c:lmallaubbcgiubbnews.cgi line 24.

Even if I change the standard template to my current colors, it still uses a different set.

Second problem is that if I select any other forum # other than 1, I receive this error:

Unable to open thread# 000145: No such file or directory at c:lmallaubbcgiubbnews.cgi line 72.

Thanks for your feedback DGMayor, anyway here is the fix:
1. Open ubbnews.cgi
2. Find:

3. Replace with:

4. Find:

5. Replace with:


Hop this works!

Demo please

Ok, here is a screen shot:


<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 14, 2001 02:56 PM: Message edited by: JB007 ]</font>

looking good JB, and thanks for the Arabic wordlets...

Two other minor problems.

First, If you don't use the Posticons, it leaves a broken image in it's place. Some code should be added to check if Posticons are allowed or not (I just removed that cell of the table).

Second, it doesn't want to post the Graemlin's correctly. Pretty sure this is a UBB issue, and not a UBBNews issue, but it bugs me

Basically for the Graemlins, it instead of showing up at www.lmalla.com/ubb/smile.gif it just tries to display it from www.lmalla.com/smile.gif.

Other than that I'm diggin it. Only reason I have yet to switch over to it from Newspro is because I like the fact that newspro archives my news. I'm still debating whether or not I want to lose that funcionality.

I also did some cosmetic edits here and there. If you wanna check it out, here are some links:

My Website Using Newspro
Testing the UBBNews (with similiar displ...SSI at the top)
My UBB :), which of course is linked from the main website


Anyways, the more I play with it, the more tempted I am to switch to it Keep up the good work!

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 14, 2001 03:56 PM: Message edited by: DGmayor ]</font>

I fond an error in the readme in cp_lib.cgi where you have:

## Find:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%;

## Under it add:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%; }
elsif ($_[0] eq 'ubb_news') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{ubb_news_settings}%;

it should be:

## Find:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%;
}

## Under it add:
elsif ($_[0] eq 'search') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{search_settings}%; }
elsif ($_[0] eq 'ubb_news') { $CurrentTab = qq%$vars_wordlets_cp{ubb_news_settings}%; }

otherwise it causes an error when you try to load cp.cgi in your browser

hey is there any way i could call this into like a public_news.pl so people can see it at ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=news

heres a demo if anyone wants it:

http://www.zeldaglitches.com/SSI/main.shtml

I have done some modification to it though btw.

I also seen that error and corrected it.

The options will load correct in the cp.

But when calling the ubbnews.cgi I still keep getting an error 500

it is not working for me, it is not putting the post there. See at that url
http://www.m2sc.com/

M2sc-com

make sure ur ubbnews.cgi is pointing to the right perl address. Mine wasn't showing up either until i changed the address.

the icons not showing up issue is is due to the vars_config variables NonCGIPath and NonCGIURL being different. in public_ubb_news.pl the icon is represented as:

when it should be :

for those who dont have the same url path as web server path.

excellent work mr. bond.

any chance of more features in the future? some sort of archiving would be nice, as mentioned above. this also is one reason i am hesitant. i like to keep (have/need) old news due to the way my site is laid out.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 14, 2001 09:22 PM: Message edited by: DPK ]</font>

ok love it, i forgot that i have to chmod .shtml files on my new server

Okay do I leave the -w in there

#!/perl/bin/perl -w

the -w executes perl so that it scans the lines of the script for errors carefully and prints them out if it finds any. sorta for debugging, shouldnt matter if you take it off or not.

nope, or at least i didnt