Hi.

I ported jordos PM System to UBB 6.3 and added some modifications (New PM Color, Popup)

Name: PM System 1.2

Required: Valid UBB 6.3 License, CP Mod Addon

Download: TXT File

Demo: Forum of the TEClan

Future Plans: Allow users to choose, if they want a popup.

Special thx: Jordo for his PM Sys

######################################
# Do this step only, if you have the #
# Mod CP Addon installed. #
######################################

################################
# open public_forum_summary.pl #
################################

###############
# search for: #
###############

### Add Modifications Here:

##############
# add below: #
##############

### PM Inbox System 1.2 ###

$mod{pm_inbox} = {
NAME => "PM Inbox System 1.2",
OPTIONS => [
[
"RadioField",
"Enable Popup notification at forum summary ?", "pm_sys_popup", "yes", "", "$vars_modifications{pm_sys_popup}", "yes|Yes%%no|No"
]
]
};

### End PM Inbox System 1.2 ###

Should be cp_modaddon.cgi. Anyway I will test this tomorrow. Nice work I guess.

OOps... there was an old version on my Webspace

- fixed. thx.

Shark5060, please get on ICQ and reply to my messages!!

What's actually changed in this version from the 6.2 version..? The 6.2 version of the hack is running fine on my board

Suggestion: the WHOLE "add below" part of public_common.pl: [code][/code]

PM wav: "u have new mail" is finally working. I've removed the window.alert (popup) and put a bgsound src in it. Works perfect.

Can you pass me that wav file Dave?

Out of curiousity, how much of a resource drain is this compared to the regular PM inBox hack?

I am having trouble because in my CP i see no option for the New PM Color. And every time i try to update my style it says you need to enter a New Pm color but there is no such option. What should i do?

This is what I would do Nemesis..
Re-hack: cp_vars_style_core.pl and cp_styles.cgi

Is this thing safe to install yet? I see LK might have had an issue with this port. Whats happening?

No, it's only a suggestion to use better code

Worked fine for me, but I edited the code a bit on it.

Lord Dexter, something went wrong with the PM i wrote you.
I guess it is 3 or 4 times in your box because of a strange PM behavior here. There was a delay and a flood penalty for 61 seconds...

Ok, cLK helped me to edit the Hack (User can choose, if they want a Popup, a Sound, or nothing).

We have some big problems now , but we'll try to fix it.

This version will be out, when we fixed the errors.

Hi,

This is working reasonably well on my 6.3.0.
Sometimes when i click back from the PM Menu i get a null amount of pm's.

Appart from that all is cool

Paul

Hmmm - can't seem to get a "popup" no matter what I try

I used LK's script mod, everything else seems OK but not the popup.

I'm assuming my problem is somewhere in public_common.pl - is the hack final as yet?

Thanks

*friendly bump*

I installed this, but like a couple others I cannot get a popup at all. Anyone have any ideas with this yet?

*bump* (2)

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by ADWOFF:
Out of curiousity, how much of a resource drain is this compared to the regular PM inBox hack?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before I even think about using this hack, I'm hoping smomeone can answer my original question.

Thanks!

Pretty much the same

I've re-installed it on 6.3.0.1 but it doesn't work.

I have a question, tis installed on my board and it works dandy, however, if a member has a New PM it wont bring up a pop up or display 1 new pm till the user has refreshed forum summary or gone into a forum and back out.
Anyway to make it automatically pop up when a member immediately opens up forum summary? or did I hack it wrong?

It can be introduced in the JCTemplates, or is necessary to change some thing?

Because my forum all this in it, and would very like to place such add-on in it.

How much time is it going to take to the JC Template version to be released??
I really wanted to use it in my forum

It does with JC Template. You just have to make slight alterations for the template files.
Can't think what they are at the moment, but make sure the bit for Private Messages Table in Forum_Summary is above $pntf_locations[1]
Thats what I did and it works dandy.

Is there a MH version? Sorry I have so many hacks and everytime I upgrade my software it takes ages...?

Erm... Slightly confused at the points where it asks you to modify the templates. Is the second part for people who have templates with more than one logout so that it doesn't pop up multiple times?

Is anyone working on this mod any more? Have the bugs been fixed? And before I go through all of the hassle, can someone tell me what this is going to look like in the end? ...What I'm looking for is for my PM box to be on my main forum page so that my members can see first off if they have messages or not. If they have to click on something to go somewhere else, what's the point? They have to do that now anyway...

Well i hate "me too" posts..... :rolleyes: But here goes..... Me Too!!

Ehm I will work on the mod in some weeks, because I had taken my "exams" (hmm I'm out of school I mean).

so, noe the "Work-World" begins

ok, give me 3 Weeks to fix all bugs, then another version is out.

please be patient

I haven't seen any bugs on my forums.

BTW PM's by SSI would be good too.

This is a great mod. It worked perfectly, except I couldn't get the pop-up.

How do we embed the audio file to announce new mail? And where can we download the file from?

Hussein

is there supposed to be something for this in the control panel? i dont have the cp mod installed. how do i enable popups without the cp mod?

thanks
frank

does this mod show you how many personal messages you have in the inbox, up near the 'Welcome user!" line?

There's several PM hacks, just wondered if this is the one that does it?

Cheers.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by komplex:
does this mod show you how many personal messages you have in the inbox, up near the 'Welcome user!" line?

There's several PM hacks, just wondered if this is the one that does it?

Cheers. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes this is the one that does that

I have a problem woth the mod,

it keep showing that there is 1 new message inbox and when the user reads the PM and returns to the forum summary it still shows that there is 1 unread message, you have to log out and In again to refresh the PM system to 0

I run 6.3.0.1

It doesn't count since the last time you entered forum summary, but since the last time you opened your browser (works the same as the lightbulbs)

so that means when the user is logged in and run thru the topics they get a pop up every time they come on the forum summary even if they saw there PM already...hmmm

I remember the PM mod used to refresh as soon as the user saw his PM

Maurice, that's Charles' hack, not this one.

Ohhh Thanks for clearing that up LK (again.. )

Hi is there a MH file for this?

Can someone finish this mod?

It does not refresh the counter when the user already read the message so the pop up keeps popping up untill the user log of.

I think this mod is one a lot of people want on their boards.

Can someone help me with this mod? I'm getting desperate. This is the second time I've installed it and I followed the instructions to the letter, but it still doesn't work. It keeps saying 0 new messages no matter how many new ones I get. I can't figure out wtf it doesn't work.

Try this one, I have no idea how it compares to the code you've been using, but I know it works in 6.3.1.

http://www.ubbdev.com/db/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=22;t=000049

Isn't that the exact same code =)? Takes you back to this forum.

It's in mhx, I haven't tried that version. Guess I've got nothing to lose, so I'll install MultiHack. Sigh.

Man... I don't believe this... This crap screwed my entire board up!!! After the multihack patched the files (it all showed ok), I uploaded them, and BLAM! server errors all over. Luckily I've managed to restore the boards which seem to work, but I can't access the control panel any more!
Every time I load cp.cgi I get this:

"Error
An error has occurred:

Undefined subroutine &main::AppendAdminLog called at cp.cgi line 261.

Please inform the board administration of this error so that they may fix the problem. Thank you!"

God damn!!!

I runned the mhk file and there seems to be a error in the ubb_lib somewhere, did not have the time to see what causes it

But the only files that you need to backup are the ultimatebb.cgi, ubb_lib.cgi and the forum_summary so I d onot understand why you have to restore the cp.cgi Gladius and don't swear you will get there just stay calm..lol

I got there... sorry about that. Of course, what got me totally crazed is the fact that there wasn't even any modification to any cp files going on, and I nearly went mad trying to figure out why the hell this happened. Of course, nothing helped. Until I started checking files one by one... sure enough, cp_lib.cgi was somehow corrupted on the server... I replaced it and it works now. THANK GOD!!

Still, there's something seriously wrong with this multihack file! It should be taken down until this is fixed, so that more people don't get screwed like I did... I'll definitely remember my first excursion into the "safe" world of MultiHack. :rolleyes:

I used it this past week on my personal site running 6.3.1. Just checked it now and there are no errors. Did it pass your analysis? Sounds lie you have other problems if your cp file was corrupted as well. This only affects 3 files and the changes are pretty straight forward.

BTW, there is no excuse for language like that in these forums. That's your only warning.

There obviously are errors, I only got the cp corruption after I backed up the original files before the hack, this had nothing to do with the actual hack. It passed the analysis without problems, but didn't work on the server, it only produced ISE errors all over. I've installed enough hacks to know that there's something either wrong with the hack itself or the win98 MultiHack I'm using. If it didn't produce any errors upon patching, and it didn't work after uploading to the server, it's very clear to me that something went wrong with the patching process, or that the code is flawed somewhere.

Did you actually try using MultiHack to patch the files AllenAyres? Or did you do it manually?

Just to give it the benefit of a doubt, I redownloaded the win98 version of MultiHack and went through the whole hack again. Again, it all showed no errors. And again, as soon as I uploaded the files, the topic listing and anything subsequent of the ultimatebb.cgi would produce Internal Server Errors. In short, no, there's no way I'm doing something wrong.

Must be a combination of mods, I am getting the same errors Gladius

I have hardly any other mods (except original code modification, which couldn't be causing this) installed. The only hacks of note that I have are Newsfader and Latest Threads... Do you have either of those maurice?

I have Latest threads but that would be no problem I guess.

Try this one : http://www.jordodesigns.com/mods/PmSys620.txt

I just installed it and it seems to work steady

I think I tried that one before and it didn't work for me either... But then again, half of the code in that is different since it's from 6.2.x... I tried adding into the replace code the stuff that was missing in the hack, but it didn't work for me. Kept showing 0 new messages... (I'm on 6.3.1.)

Man, out of 50+ hacks I've installed over the years, I haven't had so much trouble with any... And still the result is NOTHING... I'd laugh, but it's sad, not funny...

So is anyone going to check out what the problem is or are we doomed to no PM Inbox?

sure, be my guest and let us know what you find

If I could fix it myself I obviously wouldn't bother looking for help here. :rolleyes:

And if I didn't require at least a couple hours of sleep, I'd have it done already too I'll get it, but I gots to finish the smilie one first

What? Sleep? That's for weaklings. Real men hack their night through!

For what it is worth, I downloaded this Multihack file and installed it on my 6.3.1 without errors and it works great! Nice Job!

aaahhhh.. thanks That's the info I was looking for. There must have been something else causing errors for the others. A conflict in javascript or something as it worked well for me on a couple of sites.

thanks

I suspect it must be the Newsfader then... It's the only other hack that I have that touches the same files as this one... public_forum_summary.pl specifically... Which is I suppose where the error occurs, since ultimatebb.cgi loads fine, but no specific forums do.

I have news fader installed, I needed to update it, here is my MHK for News fader

Ok, I'll check it out...

It comes up with an error in cp_common.pl Add After. And I did this on the original file, straight out from the zip.

Anyone have any ideas why this would be causing me a problem.
I get an error in ultimatebb.cgi
malformed header from script. Bad header=TEXT/HTML

I did find it
print header(
-cookie => [$pntf_cookie_data, $my_pms_cookie],
-charset => "$masterCharset"
-type => "text/html",
);
was a simple missing , in line -charset => "$masterCharset"
not sure why this happened but thought it might help someone else

I give up. Hopefully in a year or two Infopop will have this as standard. Wheeee. :rolleyes:

I installed it, got a few errors reguarding $pms

I rehacked due to some confusion about "if you have this hack do this, if not do do that. Narrowed that down to interface error . And now she works. Well on my test site anyway. Going live tonight wish me luck.

The link to this download is broken, is there any way to get ahold of the txt for this hack? I've looked for alternative PM Inbox mods, but there do not seem to be any at all for 6.3x.

Any advice on how to get ahold of a 6.3x PM Inbox mod would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,

It seems as though he has re-organised his site. I have located the required file here:

http://www.shark5060.net/files/ubb_pm_sys_63.txt

I implemented this mod and it works great. One probelm with the instruction/code-changes, though:

The string of characters it says to find in "cp_vars_style_core.pl" does not exist within that file (in 6.3.1.1, at least -- maybe it was changed since 6.3.1)

However, skipping that one change to "cp_vars_style_core.pl" is not a huge deal, the mod still works fine. It looks like that skipped code would enable a different, more alerting color when there are new PMs, which would be very nice but is not required.

However, if anyone knows how to fix that, let us know -- I'd like to have the color change feature too.

Anyway, great mod -- a big "thanks" to the developers!!!

Correction on my last post, there is a problem with not editing the "cp_vars_style_core.pl" file. The problem is if you ever want to edit your style sheets, submitting the edit provides the following eror:

--------------------------------------------
You did not complete all required fields

You did not complete: new_pm_color
--------------------------------------------

But since the change was not made to "cp_vars_style_core.pl", you can't complete new_pm_color. And therefore you can't shange the style sheet.

Can anyone help with updating that one line? Thanks!!

Get rid of the line in cp_styles.cgi and then that won't happen.

Thank You! That did it.

Ok, I can't seem to find the search line in cp_vars_style_core.pl for the following:

Any advice? I can't find any reference to Horizontal Rule Color anywhere in cp_vars_style_core.pl, period.

(We're running 6.3.1.)

Hack seems to be working fine for me with one exception. The first time I visit my UBB is usually at the forum summary page which is where the notification is displayed (I haven't hacked the other "public" templates yet). I've found that it always displays zero messages even if there are new messages in my inbox. If I go view a post on the board and return to the forum summary then it correctly displays the number of messages. Anyone have any ideas why it doesn't work the first time? Did I screw up somewhere or is this a known bug/behavior? I was evaluating the hack on the forum summary only before integrating it with the rest of the public templates and this is the only issue I've had so far. Anyone?

I have this exact same problem when using the version designed for 6.2..

I think thats just how it works. I have a meta refresh on my forum summary, so after it refreshes, users get notified of new PM. Happens with cache on and off.

This mod keeps telling their is a new PM even when the user has read the PM, the pop up keeps showing up over and over, Is there a way to fix this?

Close up shop and your done. However, this only changes the number's color. Any quick coders out there who can tell me how to have it change the color for the message "New Private Message in..."?

I read that Variables had a wav sound instead of the popup, could someone send that to me?

Also in the profile options to turn popup on and off there is no text. How can I fix that? There were no vars_worldet additions in the document.

The mod does work just fine on my 6.3.1.1, thanks for this handy feature.

Never mind about the vars_worldet. I thought each user was able to turn the popup notify on/off in profile, which you can't, and found out what was the problem.

I would still prefer to have the wav play instead of the popup so if someone could send me that code change I would greatly appreciate it.

The link is down, could someone email it to Gizmo@undergroundnews.com please?

Has anyone else noticed that you do not get notified of your PM until after you refresh ultimatebb.cgi or come back to it a second time?

Is there a fix for that?

I have always experienced this problem and decided to stop using this hack because of it.

Hello! I want to now if there is a way when users are not logged in to show this message "Only registered people can have pms"
besides of "No unread messages" = "0 Nem private message"
PS: I´ve changed the Texts.

Take a look at my board: http://cshock.ibboards.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

How do I place the Private Message link at the top of the page?

(I haven't had the chance to try this mod since the link is down)

to add it to the top of the page under login you add it:

In public_forum_summary.pl (template) you'd add the code under:

$show_logout

(not sure of what all to add since I hadn't tweaked with this code and the page is down. I found it quite odd that the person who ported the hack's board was having errors with the pm box (page errors) when i went to his page)...

If you want you can email me this mod gizmo@undergroundnews.com and i'll take a look at it.

Hi,

I held off trying this hack for a long while as it seemed to be "hit or miss" to describe it at best.

Finally the other day I told the plunge, downloaded the multihack file and installed in onto my 6.3.1.1 board (everything all backed up of course! ;-) ).

Anyway, something unusual happens that I can't see described anywhere else here: Whilst the mod works perfectly, when anybody logs in, or whilst they are logged in the following line appears at the top of the screen:

Now this line is at the very top, just before the grahic for my BB loads.

The bulletin boards loads fine, and any new PM are displayed in the correct area, and onced clicked goes to the "in box".

However throught all of this, the above line still appears at the top of the page.

As soon as I click the logout button - voila, it's gone?

Is there any reason why I should be seeing cookie information on my webpages?

(As I said, I used the multihack file, and it reports a 100% success with the hacking. The only other hacks I have on, are the last reply hack and sticky threads.)

Thanks for any input!

Valid link ?

Does anyone have a valid link?
The original link is broken.

Thanks!

Can anybody share a alink with us? Or at least mail it to me, please?
felix10@rogers.com

Thank you

this is the working link and the working file.

http://www.shark5060.net/files/ubb_pm_sys_63.txt

Beautiful, thanks for the link!

my pleasure

Whether work on UBB.classicTM 6.3.1.1?

Yes it sure does, Im running it on 6.3.1.1 with no problems.

Is the issue with the popup already fixed?

I installed the hack on my 6.3.1.1 board and it works perfect except for:

the pm color; the search string doesn't match
the popup.. doesn't show.. although i have enabled it with my CP addon..

could it be that it has something to do with the not adding colors for the new private message?

thnx in advance!

I got the pop-up thing to work! Its awesome.

Only problem is, if they dont read their new message, everytime they go back to the forum summary, it shows the pop-up again until they read it.

Any fix for this?!

hey havoq..

how did you get it to work??

I installed the hack, had to install the CP_mod addon as well, and I got it to work that way. Whats ur problem?

I am not getting the pop up..

that is the only problem..

You dont have a Popup Ad blocker running on your system do you ? Zonealarm and some other firewall programs have these built in as well.

Is there an easy way to allow pop-ups but make it user selectable in Profile. SOme people love it, some people hate it

Yes it would be possible, probably not that hard to do, but to my knowledge it hasn't been done.

Where the heck is this control panel mod file at? I'd like to enable the pop up window to force people to start reading their PMs.

TTT

How do you get the pop up notification to work?

Pop up still doesn;t work for me and when I try to change my style, it asks for a OM Colro setting that doesn't show

I get this error...

You did not complete all required fields

You did not complete: new_pm_color


» Use your browser's back button to return.

I see a problem here...

The directions say to find this...



##############################
# open cp_vars_style_core.pl #
##############################

###############
# search for: #
###############

&ColorRow("Horizontal Rule Color", "", "hr_color", "#FFFFFF", "yes");

------------------------------------------------

This is the closest thing I can find:



&AlternateColors; &ColorRow($vars_wordlets_cp{vars_stylecore_hr}, "", "hr_color", $vars_style_cp{AltColumnColorCurrent}, "yes");



-------------------------------------------------

What should I do???

I get the You did not complete all fields error after I try to update my style template

They are the same line, so what you have found is correct, its just the 2nd one is wordletized, while the 1st is not.
But they are infact the same thing basically.

How come it doesn;t appear in my style settings then...I can;t enter a pm color because it does not appear...

Did I miss something in the instructions?

Ok...so I hacked out the cp.styles.cgi and cp.vars.style.core.cgi so I could update my style templates again

Any suggestions how I can implement the pm color properly?