News Forum - newsdisplay.cgi
Posted: 01.04.2000 (obed)
Documented: 02.15.2000 (Sir Nikon)

Description: This is a modified version of forumdisplay.cgi
which changes the overall layout of a certain forum.

In cpanel3.cgi, look for:



Below that add:



Look for:



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Look for:



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Look for:



Below that add:



Look for:



Change that to:



Look for:



Change that to:



Look for:



Below that add:



In forumdisplay.cgi, look for:



Below that add:



Now download and upload the newsdisplay.cgi file to your server. Create
a forum in the CP as you normally would. Then access the forum settings
and change the "Forum Type" letter of the forum you just created to
[i]N[/b]. That will tell forumdisplay.cgi to forward the user to the
newsdisplay.cgi. If you are wondering what the key is for "Forum Type,"
it goes as follows:

F - Standard Forum (forumdisplay.cgi)
N - News Forum (newsdisplay.cgi)

That's about it... I modified this thing just a bit to look for like the UBB.

Example: http://su.ffgamers.net/forums/forumdispl...&LastLogin=

Tested on: 5.40, 5.42, 5.43a

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

Sir Nikon, I installed this in my ubb (v5.43d) and it give me it displays wierd. Can you please click on the link below and check it out?

It does not look anything like the way yours does. Any ideas how I screwed this up?

http://www.hidingplace.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~mrwebb/board/newsdisplay.cgi?action =topics&number=1

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When you sin, you don't fall FROM God's grace, you fall INTO it!!

Delicious hack, thnx!

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Webmaster of www.artbeast.de

Menno, how did you get this to work? Please read my earlier post. if you can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

The version you installed is the original version that obed created, my version is a version that I just modified to look more like the UBB. If you want, I'll post a text file of the script.

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

Dunno, I just followed the instructions, and it worked

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

I have the 5.43d version and don't work

i find some errors in ur txt like $OrderNu mber...

can u explain more for this cool hacks?

tnx

Coo...i will make sure to install this thing sometime. Ya think it should work with 5.39?

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I wish I were a Canuck
All they have to do is drink beer, play hockey, and say "Eh"

* No offense meant to any Canadians

will this work with 5.38c?

I only tested it on 5.40, 5.41, and 5.43a. My guess is that it would still work since I don't think there are that many mods to how forums are indexed and <i>totaled</i>.

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

cool

Do i need SSI or anything crazy?

I remember reading one news display thing and you need all of this crazy stuff.. Hoping this is not the case here.

Sir Nikon, the version I installed was the one you posted here. I do not know anything about Obed's version at all. I still get a wierd display.

Can you please help me?????

You are using obed's version... if you want to download mine, check the URL below:


http://su.ffgamers.net/wch/newsdisplay.ycy

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

Sir Nikon, I re-insalled the hack and used the newdisplay.txt file you suggested. Now I get a different display and it still is not correct.

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One thing I did notice: You refer to:

&ReadParse;
foreach $row(@in) {
($Name, $Value) = split ("=", $row);
$Name = &decodeURL($Name);
$Value = &decodeURL($Value);

But I do not have this in my code. I have it in three places with out the &ReadParse; line in the cpanel3.cgi file.

Do I paste your addition in all three places. Is this what is wrong? I do not understand. Can you please check it out for me?

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When you sin, you don't fall FROM God's grace, you fall INTO it!!

How odd... I dunno what it could be. You shouldn't edit any portion of newsdisplay.cgi (except maybe the Perl path). It just needs to be uploaded in ASCII to your UBB CGI Dir and CHMODed 755.

No part of the UBB should be affecting the actual layout of newsdisplay.cgi, except maybe the header and footer.

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http://su.ffgamers.net

Joy! A hobby that only cost me $170.

Well, i did not modify the newsdiplay.cgi file at all except the perl path. I did upload it in ascii and chmod it to 755.

Like I said, I saw 3 instances of what I referred to and so I added your change to all 3.

Other than that, I don't know either. I am running 5.44 right now. Does that make a differnce? Before when I was haveing problems, I was running 5.43d.

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When you sin, you don't fall FROM God's grace, you fall INTO it!!

please help, i did and re did every single line of this hack and now i can not access the topics of my forms. im using UBB 5.44a

please help, thank you all.

i am using 5.44a. I followed the instructions to the letter, and it was very easy. I dont knowhow to help you. Because this problem has never been documented.