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

eh, DPK beat me to it

Nope by putting the correct perl in there I'm getting this error now:

Can't locate /data1/va/repomann/cgi-bin/ubb/Forum1/forum_1.threads in @INC (@INC contains: /data1/va/webs4free/cgi-bin/ /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at ubbnews.cgi line 26.

Ok guys thank you all for your feedback. I made a lot of errors in the script because I was too fast. Anyway I'll try to fix 'em all afternoon. Bye

Ok, I've updated the link , so go and re-download. The new release includes the fixes for the cp_lib.cgi and the template file. I've also added a check for the icons.

Best Regards,
JB007

Very nice work!

Quick question. Can you set the number of characters to be displayed on your news page or does it only allow you to display the full thing?

Just wondering, I'm going to install this later today

Still getting:

FYI
You are attempting to reach a page that does not exist.
» Please use your browser's back button to return.

where are you getting this at? the cp? you might want to rehack from clean backups

great hack bond....very nice..... worked for me except the images.. like when i put in a frown like this ( ) it shows as a broken link.. it doesn't show the image..

might want to download the new version he let out, he fixed that in the latest one

i downloaded it like 20 minutes ago..

A quick solution is too add add <BASE HREF="UBBNONCGI"> tag into the page that's calling your script. However, you've to type the FULL url for anylink that is not in your non-cgi ubb dir.

It's still now working . .

Even trying this it will not post.

(BOARD)

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 15, 2001 02:31 PM: Message edited by: DGmayor ]</font>

hmm dose not work for me and the debug is not giveing me nothing ??

Executable error due to invalid characters in the file – Suggest re-upload ubbnews.cgi to server via FTP and test again. reupload like 600 times

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 15, 2001 05:16 PM: Message edited by: indoe ]</font>

I too am having an issue where it doesn't recognize the smilies still. This is after grabbing THE LATEST version as of the time of this post.

If I use the url "http://www.hourofhavoc.com/forums/ubbnews.cgi" it sees the smilies in the "/forums/smilies" directory.

If I use ssi and go to "http://www.hourofhavoc.com/Noname1.shtml" it shows the smilies as being in the "/smilies" directory.

As you can see this is incorrect, it should be /ubb/smilies. =) Hope that helps.

Hey guys i converted my newscript to UBB
the colors are using my old template "need changed" but everything is controled in the cpanel
not completed yet but heres a pic..
allso heres one of many sites using this script for an example..
DEMO IN ACTION



<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 16, 2001 02:23 AM: Message edited by: hurricane rob ]</font>

Funny, I'm not getting anything when calling the SSI, still shows up with nothing posted. I would assume it's calling up the ubbnews.cgi correctly because there are no exec error listing when calling up the ssi. But if you try to call up the ubbnews.cgi this way you will get a FYI
Other then that everything else is working 110%

Looking for suggestions on different designs tables for calling SSI. If you guys have any ideas please let me know please.

Check us out! The Wanderer's



<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 16, 2001 02:12 AM: Message edited by: Webdaddie ]</font>

The file is not a part from ultimatebb.cgi, it's called this way:

And about the smilies, as I said before, add a <BASE HREF="http://yourwebsite.com/ubb/icons">
in the SHTML page.

nice work !!
I will probably dump newspro now ...

An Idea:
Since templates are swappable, people should post some of the neat formats they make for their news up here so other people can just download and 'drop' them in.
as Cal would say 'Just a thought :)'

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 16, 2001 07:22 AM: Message edited by: freakscene ]</font>

Thanks, JB. This has been the one major thing we've been waiting on before we upgraded our production forums to UBB6. I'll install this and play around with it this weekend on our test servers.

Ahhh yes, finally!

www.hourofhavoc.com/news.shtml

very sexy...thanks gang.

i'm having troubles, when i load ubbnews.cgi in my browser, i get an internal server error

i have uploaded al the files in asscie, so that's not the prob

i've checked the perl patch, i corrected it

what am i doing wrong?

I think you are supposed to call it via SSI instead of accessing it directly with your browser.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 16, 2001 12:48 PM: Message edited by: freakscene ]</font>

that doesn't work for me either

you don't load it is your browser you edit the settings in the CP and call it into your page using:

What does this program do exactly? It looks like you cna post messages to a forum, and they automatically will update your news pages. Is that right? That would be awesome for me, since it takes me forever to update news sections, and it would let moderators who have no HTML experience update the site as well!

Doh! I have to have SSI access to use this script? Damn Simplenet!

it's not working for me if i load it via ssi or directly via the .cgi file.

what ssi call are you making?

what type of server are you on?

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!@$# I was trying to load in in my browser and geting 500err and i was useing the other ssi call now have to re hack becuzz i restord back up thx for the info

He probably never changed the first line in ubbnews.cgi (the one to your perl dir)

Oh, how do I have MULTIPLE slashbb's running. I have one for my Announcements forum, and I want another one for my Submit News forum.

On an Apache server you will more than likely need to use <!--#include virtual=filename.cgi--> as opposed to exec.

give that a try

Not true freakscene. I'm on an apache and the code works fine (although I don't have my files in a cgi-bin, and I used a "/" to escape the "VC" folder I have the news put in, but that's all besides the point.

Cool, that is nice to know.
I have had problems with past hosts and they told me that was the case (which resolved the problems). Guess they had the exec directive disabled.

I'll give that a shot on my new host when I get home today with a couple other scripts I am using.

Thanks for the info Axeone

Looks good! I'll try it out later today and see how it works out!

ok i got it working really cool mod man thx!

HOW DO YOU HAVE 2 SLASHBB'S RUN!

here here!

I do not think you can yet, maybe in the next version, I would also like to see archiving added in too

Oksy so you are saying that the call should be made in CP using the intro

<!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi"-->

or

<!--#include virtual="cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi"-->

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 16, 2001 02:58 PM: Message edited by: Webdaddie ]</font>

NOOOO , not in the CP. In a page that allows SSI calls (usually ends with .shtml)

Okay that what I thought. It's still comming up blank. calling the ssi. No errors are showing up at all. Look here at the center box that blank thats whats calling the ssi

http://webs4free.virtualave.net

got it working, n/m

I've noticed also that the code could be better integrated with the ubb's. Might be a future goal.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 16, 2001 03:43 PM: Message edited by: DPK ]</font>

on some servers they make you chmod the file ie. whatever.shtml to 777, my server does

m2sc: yeah, i know, been doing this kinda stuff for about 5 years now. It was actually quite a dumb mistake, I didnt change the perl path.

* dpk walks over to the large UBBDev snack table and grabs a sandwich; dpk goes to have fun customizing the news template *

What did you change to get it working?

webdaddy: perl path at the top of ubbnews.cgi.


for anyone who wants to see mine in action:
http://nfs5racing.nfscheats.com

Well, after re download the thing I realized that I did forget to edit the perl again. Boy I feel stupid! But that was the ticket.

Check it out here

-_-

hey great script. i've been waiting for this forever!

anyways i got it working but the colors are all messed up. go to http://server2048.virtualave.net/jpnetworks/test.shtml. that is where the news is and http://forums.jpneti.com is what my forums look like. I want them both to use the same color scheme. I've set it to do that but it has done it's own for some reason.

another question: i have multiple websites that use the same UBB forum and each site has it's own category. Is there any way for each site to have it's own news?

it uses the colors you set in the ubb

Hi again! I've added two new features to ver1.1: The possibility to grab news from multiple forums, and limiting the characters of the news topics. So go and redownload if you need these features , if you don't need them .. then there is no need to upgrade.

This hack is great, but you forgot to change the textcolor and textsize.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 17, 2001 10:30 AM: Message edited by: LK ]</font>

I have not been able to get this mod to work. After 3 attempts all i get is page does not exist. Also, Template setting are not staying in Cp after submit.
Is this SSi only?
Help please.

Bug in cp_vars_ubb_news.pl:
&RegField ("If yes, how many characters to display?", "ubbnew_maxchars","no","5","5","How many characters to display for each topic?","$vars_ubb_news{ubbnews_maxchars}");
Should be:
&RegField ("If yes, how many characters to display?", "ubbnews_maxchars","no","5","5","How many characters to display for each topic?","$vars_ubb_news{ubbnews_maxchars}");

It doesn't work here.
My SHTML file is:
(Who's Online works)

My Variables file is:

It doesn't display ANYTHING, only in the source two empty lines.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 17, 2001 11:05 AM: Message edited by: LK ]</font>

In 1.2 make it so that you can grab from multiple forums, but each forum u grab news from has its own SSI file. =)

Software error:
Modification of a read-only value attempted at ubbnews.cgi line 104

that when i turn on characters to display

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 17, 2001 11:24 AM: Message edited by: indoe ]</font>

Same here indoe after I changed the first line to #!/usr/bin/perl -w.

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 17, 2001 11:29 AM: Message edited by: LK ]</font>

In public_ubb_news.pl
look for
<hr>
change it to
<HR color="$vars_style{hr_color}">
look better

I have a question here.

Will the news still be viewable if I close the forum ?

Well, I made some fixes that hopefully will fix the problem. All you've to do is to re download, reupload the templates and ubbnews.cgi file.

Chuck, Well, the ubbnews.cgi file does not check vars_forums.cgi because I don't want to do a lot of file I/O operations. So it will display the news of that forum even if it is closed.

it work great now thx really nice jod

only one thing the smiles doent work but I dont use smiles in Announcements any ways

*runs to delete newspro*

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 17, 2001 02:26 PM: Message edited by: indoe ]</font>

Hehe. I wouldn't be that hasty. Newspro is a MUCH better script than UBB News.

I mean that in no offense JB. Your script is awesome, for something that is feeding off of a forum. It really is.

I like newspro because of it's versatility. I use it from news to release dates to previews to even affiliate managing.

I love UBB News though, because my forum members can post to the news =).

I just need to have 2 UBB News programs, than my site can open.

He did in 1.1
see......

3rd post from the bottom of page 3

what about it saying which forum it pulled it from say you had movies, video games, and anime it would say From: Anime or From: Movies down where it says how may replies(or else where) the would be helpful if you covered more than one topic on your site

Wait. Dude, what JB did is that he allows is for ONE ubbnews.cgi to load news from more than one source. I am talking about having 2 different ubbnews's.

M2sc-com, you can easily do what you want through the templates [ public_ubb_news.pl ]. The forum name is the variable: $params->{forumname} , just move it where ever you like

Axeone, So you want the ubbnews.cgi to be called with parametres like these:
ubbnews.cgi?forums=1,2,3 .. ? this will allow you to choose different forums for each session.

EXACTLY. That would be perfect =)

yes PLEASE JB007 do a feature like that! I have 5 sites that share the same UBB that each have their own forum. And i need each site to have it's own news on the front page. Could you do something like this? If you do, you will finally help me put my site online! Thank you very very much in advance if you do that!

i tried $params->{forumname} but it is not working

i emailed mr. bond about this feature. hopefully he can integrate this feature into the next version.

Ok, I'll do it! You'll be able to choose 'default' forums from the CP and the script can accept other forums numbers from the URL too! if you didn't specify the default forums it'll just display forums you select from the URL.

M2sc-com, make sure you clear the summary cache.

um yeah hopefully that's what i wanted. i didn't understand anything you just said but it's probably just because i'm tired. I look forward to the feature in your next version!

I've done it. Go and redownload, you'll find a file named 'ubbnewsupg1.1.txt' follow the instructions if you are running version 1.1 [ that supports multiple forums ]. If you are not, follow the instructions in in ubbnewsupg.txt first.

Really nice, just one bug: IT DOESN'T WORK!

Execution of ubbnews.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.


It only happened after upgrading to 1.2 from 1.1.

Strange, I'm running it fine on my PC [ Win98/Apache ]. Can you give me the full error message?

<exec cgi="cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi"> (or something like that, the same as in your manual and the same as the one that worked in 1.1):
Software error:
Execution of ubbnews.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

<exec cgi="cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi?forums=1,3,4"> (or something like that, the same as in your manual):

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 18, 2001 07:50 AM: Message edited by: LK ]</font>

After upgrading I receive this:

Oh! I see it. I've fixed it, redownload and reupload ubbnews.cgi only.

Thanks

Bug: I added a smiley, and instead of <IMG SRC="ubb/smilies/smilie.gif">, it was: <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gi ...

It was in about the 100th character, so maybe it's stopped it, and also it didn't add ubb/ in the beginning.

You've to add:

in your SHTML page so that you can view the smilies correctly [ ubb does not store the full path for them ].

You're right, but don't forget the <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gi ... part, so it doesn't finish the command if it's in the maximum number of characters.

Check this out.. here is a new one...

Works fine if I go direct and go to:
http://207.106.139.34/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbnews.cgi

Ok, nice! Now I stick it in shtml at:
http://207.106.139.34/mmb_bak/

And I get the news, but I also get a lot of junk before the new output.

Help! any ideas?

Ok, redownload and reupload ubbnews.cgi again.

Yeah, I haven't gotten THAT error yet...but something weird.

The function "EXEC CGI" no longer works. I had to use the INCLUDE VIRTUAL function.

Must be the new coding

Mr. Bond,

When I call through the SSI the ubbnews.cgi it goes ok and show the news of the default forum, but, when i call ubbnews.cgi?forums=11 (for exemple) the server gives me in return:

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

Ps.: I just downloaded the new version 30 minutes ago...

Ps2.: Great hack man.

Knutt Ballz

<FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE="1">[ May 18, 2001 03:36 PM: Message edited by: Knutt Ballz ]</font>

Ok.. that new update knocked down more than 1/2 of the junk code that was getting spit out.

There is a little more its pumping out. Could you check:

http://207.106.139.34/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ubbnews.cgi
**Which works fine

and the ssi call at:
http://207.106.139.34/mmb_bak/
**Still shows some additional output.

Thx JB007!

i have the same problem. it worked fine before but now it doesn't!

I installed UBBnews and when I try to adjust settings in Control Panel, I select 'UBBnews Settings', and it displays
"UBBNews Settings" in bold above the drop down menus, and nothing else.

Any ideas?

x

xtrecate: you are probably missing the templates. upload cp_vars_ubb_news.pl and public_ubb_news.pl from the zip to ure boards 'Templates' directory.

heh, i had uploaded cp_vars~pl into the cgi directory by mistake. thanks D

ok i still haven't gotten it to work but i'm going to upgrade my ubb to the newest version and then trying the news hack again. i sure do hope it works this time.

hey mr. bond i have another idea for a feature. I love the idea how you can retreive the news from different forums and call them from different pages but can you make it so each one can have a different template so each one can have it's own color scheme? This would be great and then this would be the best script in the world!

ok i've upgraded UBB and reuploaded UBB News. Now i have a few questions in the UBB News control panel. Maybe put a wrong setting in there last time.

Where it says 'Forum(s) to grab topics from'. What exactly do I put here? I don't quite understand it.

Where it says 'Maximum forums to be called via URL'. What exactly does this mean? And what do I put there?

Ok hopefully you can answer these questions and it then UBB News will work. I'm scared to access from the page and get an error again so I just want the setting to be exactly right.