Modification Name: UBBNews 2.3a
Description: Allows you to use SSI to post news via a forum.
Whats to Come?
Whatever you want. Post some suggestions here.
Changes since 2.2.2: Bug Fixes, major, template fixes and tweaks. Version 3 is in devel and will be coming soon. Upload ubbnews.cgi and public_ubbnews.pl

Updated 4-28-2002

Only update if you're having problems with STYLES from version 2.3.
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This modification is no longer maintained by Greg Hard and will only be updated when 6.4 is released, partly as a new hack to expand functionality.

Grazi, will give it a shot

Suggestion, a drop-down for posting icons/avatars in the announcements forum, something like slash-dot does....

Good idea, and simple too.
Thanks dubba A.

The graemlins aren't working for me.

http://www.ivegeta.com/

I only modified the output of public_ubbnews.pl and that's it.

Uh, make sure you uploaded public_ubbnews.pl and that base href is still there.

where do i edit the base href?

Most everything works great. Exept when I attempted to post a numbered list.

It removed the numbers and replaced them with regular bullets.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Casper:
Most everything works great. Exept when I attempted to post a numbered list.

It removed the numbers and replaced them with regular bullets.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I take that back. It is happening on all my lists. It is also changeing the colors of the list.

Ok, I've never worked with SSI calls before. I've installed the news hack and the control panel portion is working. Now, how do I get it to call the file up when the board loads??

Never mind, I figured it out. Only, I had to change the ssi call to this:

<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id1"-->

The install docs had it as follows:

<!--#exec cgi="cgi-bin/ubbnes.cgi?ns_id"-->

Without the slash in front of the 'cgi-bin' portion it would not run...????

base href is in public_ubbnews and is there already. Reupload it and clear the cache.

I dont know about the lists. Let me check.

Found it! Guess i accidentally pasted over it without looking

Vielen Dank!!

Zip file has been updated. This fixed its inability to use strict, and some fixes for problems when updating the ubb, the main page goes blank sometimes. This may fix that.

I want template submissions! If you can make some email me, greg@tssaddicts.com. You'll get credit. Thanks!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I take that back. It is happening on all my lists. It is also changeing the colors of the list.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I found it. A style sheet has a definition of the colors for lists. Oops.

I have it up and running, however, it's not updating the messages when you reload the page. It hasn't put up any new messages since Friday, the 1st. I even recreated the news file and it still will not grab any messages newer than 2/1/02...?????

Ok, an update. Completely redid everything and it's working fine now. Great Hack! It's picking up the new messages as they are posted, etc.

bump...

Wahhh! The news hack changed premissions on some cache files, and now i'm locked out of all of the fourms that were cached there!!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Sorry, UBB has encountered an unexpected, fatal error. This error is extremely abnormal. Please contact the board administration. The error text is:

Can't open 'C:/WWW/Sipahigil/josh/ubb/ubb/cache-VWNEKCVR/ubb_files/forums/Forum3/000002.cgi'.

Permission was denied - please ask the administrator to check the permissions on that file/directory!

The exact error returned by the operating system is:
Permission denied

Here is the backtrace:

Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:301 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::tracer
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:393 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::_open
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandle.cgi:61 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::_open_file
Backtrace: ubb_lib_filehandler.cgi:119 -> sub UBB::FileHandle::new
Backtrace: ubb_lib_files.cgi:527 -> sub UBB::FileHandler::open
Backtrace: ubb_lib_posting.cgi:1348 -> sub main::WriteFileAsString
Backtrace: ubb_get_topic.cgi:81 -> sub main::create_topic
Backtrace: ultimatebb.cgi:703 -> sub main::get_topic

</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Help @.@

Hi there,

I have a problem with my UBBNews Session. I donīt know if itīs this one, because I integrated it 8 month ago and forgot to notice the numbers

Look here, it now sais :

http://www.forumdeluxx.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbnews.cgi?ns_id=1

Can't locate /homepages/45/d32051836/htdocs/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbnews/vars_ubbnews_1.cgi in @INC (@INC contains: /homepages/45/d32051836/htdocs/cgi-bin/ubb /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at /homepages/45/d32051836/htdocs/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbnews.cgi line 793.

Any ideas ?

Thanks for your help !

Dennis

IT WORKS IT WORKS :-)

(Well, interesting what you find if you look in line 784 and just copy the missing files...)

What does it mean when it keeps telling you. I didn't complete each field i didn't complete ubb news. Now i filled in everything checked everything and it still says that