Total Posts in Ultimate.cgi
Example http://cpfc.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

Files to edit: Ultimate.cgi
Versions: tested on 5.39

Right after the require files statements add


next insert $TotPosts anywhere in the $MemberLine

heres mine

A delicious hack, if I may say so

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

Me2Be, it worked for me on 5.40..

You'll prolly need to change your Members path....

Something just hit me...

This is going to be inaccurate. What about boards that prune? They'll have an artificially inflated post count.

The total number of posts EVER made (through profiles) shouldn't be counted - the total number of posts, PERIOD, should.

It says total posts not total active posts

damn, i tried that, and it worked, but said i had one regestered user, i'm alll WTF?!? anyone help?

This is a great hack but is there anyway to give you just the number of posts that are still active?

Ulimate.cgi gives you the total number of posts for each category. Is there anyway to just add these totals up and then display them as one number?

I have totals of over 500,000 and it takes about 2 minutes for the server to return a total as it is written.

Thanks,
Parker

I've been asked this before.
Again, it IS possible, but I personally don't know how to do this, since I'm not that good at perl, and haven't learned UBB all the way yet

I'm working on it, but it's actually a bit harder than I thought... *L*

http://flare.solareclipse.net/accurateposts.txt

100% accurate. Counts the posts and topics in all OPEN forums.

You can place the blurb elsewhere in Ultimate.cgi, but it may not perform as advertised... *L*

Thanks CC

In action
http://cpfc.org/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

Charles:

Great hack as usual. Just what I was looking for. Works like a charm. The only other thing that would be great to add is the ability to show you the total number of posts that have been made in the last 24 hours too.

You really should submit this to Ted to include in the release version.

Thanks again for a great hack.

Parker

Well, this particular version of the hack is a bit more intense than Dave's, and would add enough load to the stock UBB to make it a 'problem'...

I'll see what I can do about the past 24 hours... I might need to rework the Today's Active Topics bit.

Charles:

I have a fairly large site with 9,300 members so your hack works for our site better as I really only want to see the active message count and not a total of all the messages that have been posted. This takes, on our board, about 2 minutes to compile as its total is about 500,000.

Parker

great hack, charles

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Cougar's here, so have no fear
Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

Im not sure where this hack pulls its information from, but it shows me having a total of 10 posts when I only have 1 post total on my site?? Where is it getting its info?

Thanks,

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Chris Miller
http://www.webtrixter.com/

Rage: Be sure that you're counting the number of POSTS, not threads.

Me2Be: It will count ANY forum that is ON. If the forum is off, it won't be counted.

Ha! I just figured out my problem. The file 000001 or whatever that is my members folder had me listed as having posted 8 topics. (I probally have but i have deleted them cause they were just tests) Thats why it was showing 10!

Thanks all!

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Chris Miller
http://www.webtrixter.com/

Yep, nice hack!

However I cant seem to get it to work. I put your code in the right place and tried to put it in like this:

But it doesnt show up. Board is at http://www.wrestlingtalks.com Any ideas? BTW, it works if I put it say right below the header.

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Jake Lawson
WrestlingTalks.com

Excellent Hack thanks, I did and still do have one little problem.

The last user to register isn't showing up, I well lets just say programming illeriate (sp?)

Anyway thanks for the mod and any suggestions that might solve my simple problem.

http://www.DescentBB.net

KoolBear

Dave,

I just added this hack and I am getting an Internal Server Error.

I ran the Ultimate.cgi from a Unix prompt and I get an error message with this line:

open (MEMBFILE, "<../../Ultimate_BBS/Members/memberslist.cgi") or die ("Can't open file: $MembersPath/memberslist.cgi!");


It's telling me it can't find the users file.

My UBB is located in /cgi-bin/Ultimate_BBS
and the users directory and forum variable files are located at /Ultimae_BBS. All web based files are lcoated at /public_html/Ultiamte_BBS.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Micah Kritzman

Errr...the reason that the last person to register does not show with this hack is because it is a hack for total post count

You need the 'last person to register' hack which is on this site.

See them both in action at www.ravensnest2.com/ubb/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

Steve

DOH,umm thanks Raven Steve. I knew that all alongg


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KoolBear
http://wwwdescentbb.net
http://www.koolbear.com

This hack is bugged, once your member total exceeds 1000 it wil cause a server error. I have posted this on other UBB hack sites and yet to get anyone to address the bug. I wish I knew how but I don't, so be warned once all the UBB boards hit 1000 members this hack will cause the Ultimate.cgi to error and make your BBS unusable until the code is removed.

Hack worked fine for me after I corrected my boo-boo.

I have over 2300 members, with no problems that I'm aware of.

Descent BB Forums

I'm trying to get this hack to work, but I get a message about my can't open my members directory. I have it in /cgi-bin/members.


thanks

When I installed it nothing... no problems and nothing telling me how many posts!!
http://www.xtras.az-it.com/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

Managed to sort the problem...

http://ubbcodehacking.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000054.html



Patrick

Ok, just so you all know, I'm a major newbie at this stuff. I've put in other hacks before and such, but when I put CC's in and then replace the current $MemberLine with I get a Internal Server 500 Error. HELP!!?!?!?!?!?


I used CC's code and inserted it above print <<INTROHTML;
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>$BBName - powered by the Ultimate Bulletin Board</title> like I was supposed to, but ugh!

BTW I'm on 5.44a

-Thanks DPP

Please - someone help me!

But it doesnt show up. Board is at http://www.wrestlingtalks.com Any ideas? BTW, it works if I put it say right below the header.

[/b]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hi Jake,

Well, don't put the code above INTROHTML...
put it right above the following:



After that, it will work.

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Ueli von Ah

Webmaster of Arachid.org

URL to my board: http://board.bomb.net

I tried this for my board, and i never shows the user registered correctly. I even tried registering a new user to try that. When i modify my Member path near the top i get internal server error.
heres My Member Line and sub



[This message has been edited by fizz (edited April 11, 2000).]

Wonderful hack!
Easy and cool.

Thanks for the great and simple hack. Works like a charm!

Fred

I have 5.44b and no matter where I put the initial code, I get an ISE. I assume that Charles Capp's addon code is not a stand alone and must be implemented with Dave's original code, but the conflict that I am having is that when I put n Dave's code, where exactly am I supposed to put it?

After the substitue all required files statement? or after
"require "ubb_library.pl";"

I'm just getting the error....and I wanna get rid of it.
http://www.witnessesonline.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/witnessesonline/Ultimate.cgi

Nebbermind...
I got it worked out.

Could someone post the Total Posts Hack for version 5.44a?

Charles ,
Is there a way to move the accurate total posts to the members line..
I sure would like it there...
Thanx
Jumbo

Great HAck!, I hope i'm not off topic here but here is my question,
the front page of my site is a perl script, i would like to print the "total post hack" on my front page, does anyone have a quick idea of how i can do this?
thanks for you time,
jello http://www.dork.com

Got it to work! Great hack, if anyone needs an example just visit my board:
http://www.poltz.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro


over
cody

some things never change

Sush you! lol