Modification Name: Games 2.6.1 - Integrated

Author(s): Ian Spence

Description: Adds a game gallery to your forum

Difference between this and Allen's version:
This version is completely integrated with your UBB. Using who's online, you can tell what game a person is playing.
This also uses the spider friendly links.
Wordletized, so you can change names of games. (ie, Allen's mod had games' names in this format: "rigelianhotshots", whereas mine has "Rigelian Hot Shots"
I've added the requested link at the top of forums.

2.6 adds use of cached pages and the PHP acclerator

2.6.1 adds the ability to restrict game access to members who can access certain forums. Also fixes the bug that allowed unregistered users to play games with the accelerator pages even if disabled in the .cgi pages

Demo: http://www.alforadmin.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/games.html

Requirements: 6.7+

Credits: Allen and Burak for the original code.
LK for the code for sorting.
Josh Pettit for ubb.threads version - www.threadsdev.com

Download Links:
Current Version - Use if upgrading or first install
(1.8mb) - only the flash/graphics files


Download both zips if this is your first install.

I followed the instructions in your "Games Install" .txt and nothing appears in my forums for the games. I must be missing something. Also I assumed that "image" directory would be uploaded to "modules" in my CGI directory and that games would go in to my non-cgi directory. Is this right? Thanks!

clear the cache

remember that the game files and images go in the same folder.

Also, you need to update the paths at the top of ubb_games.cgi

I'm afraid that I am not following you. I cleared the cache and now the games show up. 4 of the games are showing up and working perfectly while the remaining 4 are not. I get a can't find message and their titles are messed up. I'm confused why half work and half do not.

Ok so I was able to get all of the games to work by chaning their file names on my server. There was a discrepency with regards to the names that were being called when clicking on their respective links and what the actual names of the games were from the download. Now I'm trying to figure out how to correct the issue of their titles being off within my game index in the forums.

I had to go in to vars_wordlets_games.cgi and change the names to the correct file names in order to fix the titles within my forums. All is well just thought I'd share the fix with other who may be having issues with this mod.

Actually, I just updated the zip with the correct file names.

Should fix the issues

OK, so I downloaded this one, and I seem to have similiar problems to Hamr. 4 games show up and work just fine (Battleship, Rigelian Hot Shots, Sheepish, and Smashing).

The other 4 games show up like this, $vars_wordlets_games{crash}, $vars_wordlets_games{flash}, $vars_wordlets_games{paint}, and $vars_wordlets_games{rocketman}.

These last 4 do not work when you click the links initially but by changing the name of the game files, you can make then work. However, I'm still stuck with the $vars_wordlets_games game names... Any ideas? Thanks in advance...

P.S. I looked in vars_wordlets_games.cgi but I'm not savvy enough to figure out what I need to change.

You have to add the games to vars_wordlets_games.cgi to have the wordlet show; it's liek any standard wordlet on your boards.

You must think I know what I'm doing... You give me a lot more credit than I deserve. Can I get the wordlets for dummies version please? Thanks!

Open the file, copy the line from one of the other games, and change the last part to the name of the file minus the swf (you'll get the hang of it)

OK, I opened vars_wordlets_games.cgi and this is what I have below. I tried to make a correlation between the games that worked, the file names, and what was showing on the games page.

%vars_wordlets_games = (

q!crashdown! => q!Crashdown!,
q!battleships! => q!Battleships!,
q!flashman! => q!Flash Man!,
q!smashing! => q!Smashing!,
q!rocketmandemo! => q!Rocket Man!,
q!sheepish! => q!Sheepish!,
q!stressgame! => q~Stress Relief! Paintball~,
q!rigelianhotshots! => q!Rigelian Hot Shots!,

File names

battleships.swf - *WORKING*
bg1.swf
*Displays as $vars_wordlets_games{rocketman}*
crashdownwm.swf
*Displays as $vars_wordlets_games{crash}*
flashmanwm.swf
*Displays as $vars_wordlets_games{flash}*
rigelian_hotshots.swf -
Displays correct name, but error "Sorry I can not find the game 'rigelianhotshots' you requested!"
rocketmandemo.swf
sheepish.swf - *WORKING*
smashing.swf - *WORKING*
stressgame.swf
*Displays as $vars_wordlets_games{paint}*

This would almost all seem to make sense about what to do except for Rigelian Hotshots where it's listed in the code as

q!rigelianhotshots! => q!Rigelian Hot Shots!

and diplays correctly but the file and/or link name is wrong.

So what is it I do where?

Just trying to understand so that I can one day move past these kinds of questions. Thanks again...

Ah... In that case, some of your Wordlets aren't matching. In other words, the script is looking for $vars_wordlets_games{rocketman}, but since $vars_wordlets_games{rocketman} doesn't exist in the Wordlets file (it's actually supposed to be $vars_wordlets_games{rocketmandemo}, which does exist) then it won't display as it should. Any clearer? If not, don't worry.

This is what the part of vars_wordlets_games.cgi that you posted should look like:

Freaking awesome. It worked. Thanks so much for your help Gizzy and CTM!

Was mainly chris lol... But you're welcome none the less... See, now that you've done it, isn't it friggen easy?

Trust me, I couldn't have done it without CTM's help. I have a long way to go before I can say it's easy. Without the detailed instructions of what to do, I'd be very lost. If things don't match up exactly from instructions to what I have in the code, I get nervous.

So far I've installed 13 hacks and various small design changes and I learn a little something on every one. I greatly appreciate all the help that's been given to me by everyone along the way.

Updated to the new 2.6 version with new features.

Now uses the cache, so there should be much less server load.
Uses PHP acclerator, which reduces server load even more, and compresses the page
The games are now sorted by wordlet, not file name.


To upgrade, upload ubb_games.cgi, do the steps for ultimatebb.php, and do the new step in ubb_lib.cgi(it is marked)

I have a question... Could this hack be implemented for one forum only, or installed in such a way as to only be accessible via a certain link (i.e., not be available board-wide)? I have a separate private forum and I'd like this be only available there. Any suggestions on how I would go about doing this?