Name: ubb.db

Description: Adds a plug-n-play file database to your site with ubb authentication.

Original Author: Cal (thank you for permission to distribute )

Credits and Thank yous:
- LK for the majority of the grunt work updating from the v5 series it was written for and adding additional admin features
- Mark Badolato for code optimization and putting up with my questions
- Charles for code assistance
- Burak for code assistance
- Clankiller for bugfixes

Link: http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/upload/00000494/ubbdb.zip

Demo: http://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/db.cgi

Requirement: UBB™ 6.3+

Install Notes:
- Unzip the file and upload the cgi-bin contents to your ubb cgi directory in ascii, setting permissions to 755. Upload the /uploads folder to your ubb non-cgi directory and set permissions to 777.
- Access your admin at db.cgi?action=admin there are some 'starter' categories in there you can edit.
- A method was added to make using additional file types easir to upload. Line # 282:

To-Do:
- templates
- better customization features
- continuing optimizing code

Changelog:
- Nov. 29, 2002 - v2.9 - bugfixes and minor updates (thanks Clankiller)
- Nov. 20, 2002 - v2.8 - removed unused code (thanks Burak )
- Nov. 20, 2002 - v2.7 - Added easier method to upload additional file types (thanks Mark )
- Nov. 11, 2002 - v2.5 - Wordlets Done
- Oct. 28, 2002 - Initial Update for v6.3+
- Way way back - cal henderson wrote this for ubbcodehackers and ubb v5

Wow, this is great... Thanks Allen

BTW: Is this gonna be used with the Portal?

Allen, did you remove the option of "Create new thread"?

I guess I am a bit ignorant - what does this add ? That is what does having a "plug n play database" do for the board?

Woah... hey. I know a guy who was looking for this very thing a while back. I told him to just create a Forum called Downloads and stick the links in there... this is much *much* nicer.

Thanks

No LK, forgot that

The 'create new threads' needs to be left unchecked. We'll most likely remove it completely in the next update. Your ubb header and footer can be added easily as well. it'll be included in the next version too

welcome

This will probably become part of the portal, once the coding issues are worked out and modularization issues are worked out for the portal project. That's under the 'code optimization' todo list

Great work with this, should be a good addition to many forums.

danke

It'll be more useful once we get the wordlets and a few other tidbits done

Good job Allen. (And Mark, LK and CC)

Eh?

Very very cool !!!

Thanks a lot for this pluggin
Very usefull!!!

bobbel

I don't see any catagories, and the on.gif and off.gif files point to my webpage root, obviously they don't exist.

OK nm - I uploaded the CONTENTS of the uploads folder, not the folder itself. Obviously we have to modify for our own icons everywhere I assume? No problem if so...

OK, got everything figured except the files won't actually upload. The form submits ok, but it's pathing with the complete path including my local drive.

Ah...i see there is a file check for .zip - you need to have it reject the form if a non .zip is trying to be uploaded...I will try to figure out how to modify this because I am only going to use it for .jpg

OK, got everything figured out except how to easily add my header and footer...help?

I want to have this come up as one of my forum section, like instead fo seeing threads, I want to see the db section with all my formatting. After figuring out how to use the header and footer, I think it just means creating a new forum section, then modifying the forum record to display the db.cgi instead of the forum code. Help?

Eh?<hr /></blockquote>Man I must be the biggest idiot in the world that I am the only one who does not understand the purpose of this MOD.

Such an idiot that it is obviously so apparent that not one person has chosen to add a few lines explaining.

Would anyone care to enlighten this idiot?

Yeah, it's not immediately apparent what it is. It's a file database. Users can upload items and have them displayed and indexed.

bglynn - that's a heck of a lot of work you're looking at there... can you explain why you want to change the look so much?