What part interfaces with JC templates? I don't think it matters what kind of templates you use in your public forums, this doesn't touch them.

Those who don't feel like modifying your files can do like we have done since the beginning and just manually set the variables and upload the files...

[code][/code][/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I keep seeing this, but it doesn't work for me. (I am using *.asp pages, and maybe that's an issue?)

The problem is, the server hits that code, and then comes back and tell me that there is no page named ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1. Which is true. only ubbnews.cgi exists. The server is interpreting the passed variables as a literal.

I "solved" this problem by using a screen scrape of the page and extracting the details I need. But if there is cleaner way to do that, I'd like to know? Thanks!

Try <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1" -->

and make sure your path is correct.

if its stored in /path1/path2/path3/cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi make sure you put that in, even if the asp calling is in the path3 directory.

ok...maybe it's just me being an idiot, but i'm having the same issue with both this and the latest threads hack. when i install everything and then call the file with the ssi script i get nothing not even an error.

since i really don't understand how to call a script, i'll tell you what i did. i just took,

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1" -->

since bluedomino doesn't allow for "exec", and i pasted it in the CP under a number of different places as test to see if it would work, i.e. Footer, Header, HTML Extra, Intro Text, and so on.

am i doing that right???

gost95 for latest threads to show up you must make a post after you install it or nothing will show up.

and for UBBNews did you first go into your cp and steup the forum you would like the news to come from?

you can see both of them running very well at this site.
http://www.starbraker.com/

the page you are calling them from should be a .shtml file not a .html or a .htm.

Todd Davis that could be the prob you are haveing as well i am not really sure if you can make a ssi call from a .asp page.

I am running a couple of these on the front of my site to show latest updates in the forums (as the latest topics hack isnt available). The problem people moan about most, is that it takes a good few seconds for the page to appear because of the scripts it is running to pull that information in.. is there any way of running a timed script to pipe this info to a file, and then just include that file so it appears instantly like the old latest posts hack did?

Well I thought I did have the problem fixed, but I was wrong, does anybody know why is it that the latest post appear entirely in the front page, meaning I put a limit of 200 characters and still shows the entire topic, I tried 100 characters and still the same result, also I try this with every option and still not good. If this is the way it's supposed to work then I'll just have to deal with it, but if it can be fixed I'd love to know how :-)
I love the hack any ways.

Rabriar

I am thinking of switching to UBB.threads - are there a UBBNews for that version??

Also: I would love to have multiple HTML templates for UBBNews.

Check out our site with UBBNews installed:

http://99mac.com/nyheter.htm

(its a swedish macintosh site - in swedish)

Hello martin

threads has a news script that comes with it, there are also quite a few nice news-type scripts for threads at www.threadsdev.com

Hello Greg,
Just thought I'd let you know that if HTML is enabled for a forum no tables get included in the shtml file I have. I'm using:
Regards,
TiCaL

When I run the SSI I get this error:

Software error:
/usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/vars_wordlets_mods.cgi: syntax error at /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/vars_wordlets_mods.cgi line 10, near "'time_localboard'"

Now when I delete everything in the var_wordlet_mod.cgi cept the ubbnews wordlets the hack works perfectly....

cp_ubbnews updated with a fix.

Hi Greg, I installed Ubbnews beta and also Sticky Threads hack, and I thought they would work together so that the sticky threads would be captured from ubbnews to appear them in the shtml file, but actually it doesn't. Is there in the future any chance to have this as an option in ubbnews hack (or maybe even now?)?

Thanks for your time

P.S. Your hacks are really great, keep up the good work.

That was a bug fixed back when JB007 was coding this Your best bet would be to have an "announcements" forum only you can post new topics to, then pull your news from that

Sorry for getting out of topic:

Allen, how do you put images inside that, like the one in ubbdev index?

If I want to remove the box of "# replies | Read more..." which file should I edit?

Would anyone be so kind to link me to a working zip file of Greg's latest release of UBBNews? I've been looking all over since his site is down. Thks!

http://ubbdev.com/hacks/ubbnewsbeta2.zip

- as always you can ignore the ubbintegration, upload your files and set the variables manually.

the public_ubbnews.pl file

Thanks Allen. UBBNews3 will be out when 6.4 is released.