<FONT size="3">Just one small problem. My tables got screwed up.. Specifically the first two columns when i instaled it.. Not a big deal in 1024 x 768 but in 800 x 600 it's screws up.. do you fix it? Here is the link to take ... should I edit?

BTW.. Other than that lil prob this is the best hack IMHO.. It's awesome..
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<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by swmRipper on January 19, 2001 at 09:20 PM</font>

You have something besides the pm's wrong with your layout. Look at the Category Strip going across the top. You have:
Forum Topics Posts Threads Total Posts Last Post Moderator

What is the "total posts" and "last post" column for? That's what's messing your layout up.

Go into your Ultimate.cgi and delete this section:


Start there and see if it doesn't correct your problem.

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Duke

Alright... question... didn't see this one addressed before...

I have PM 3.8 installed on 5.47d. All the file permissions are correct. I am upgrading from an older version... but I just copied over the contents of the private folder from my old version board. Changed all the private files perms to 777 just in case.

Now most of my users including myself had more than 30 PMs in there. When opening it for the first time you briefly see the privateview.cgi page then it dumps to the privatedelete.cgi with an Internal Server Error. Upon entering the PMs again it opens fine and the offending messages over 30 have been deleted.

To test this theory I also tried sending a message to myself once I am at 30. After it finished sending the message I get the same error. It pops back the privateview.cgi, then dumps me to an Internal Server Error on the privatedelete.cgi page.

The delete page appears to be working fine as I can delete messages normally any other times... from view or the message itself. And it even deletes them on the auto-delete function just fine, but it never successfully makes it back to the privateview.cgi page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty sure it's a code glitch... as this might have been one of the out there circumstances you might not have tested for. Thanks

-Nick

Back to my sending problem:

For some reason, members can send IM's but cannot send PM's. Now I'm certain the IM's are integrated with PM's. Any idea what in the world is going on?

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I am getting a 500 error msg on privatesend.cgi when I try to send a msg. Privateview.cgi works alright as far as I can tell and I was able to change my preferences. All the files have been chmoded. The perl path is correct.

The board is version 5.47d. I have no idea why this is happening. Thanks. Account test/test has been setup.

Edit: Actually I cant add posts anywhere on the board due to this hack. I dont have memberlist or ubb code buttons hack installed could that be a problem? This is my second time installing this with same problems.

http://www.war3.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi


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Sameer
[url]http://www.war3.com[/ubb]

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Sameer on January 21, 2001 at 03:28 AM</font>

More than likely you haven't set up a private directory, all in lowercase and permissions set to 777 on it.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

I guess everyone has seen the UBB 6 PMs over at InfoPop.

Any plans for a migration utility between this superb hack and the new standard PMs?

In fact the UBB 6 PM will need some of the features here and I am sure we will see enhancements developed for it.

i'm trying to install Prv Messages v3.8 on my ubb v4.5b but i'm stuck with one thing...

in Ultimate.cgi i should change:



the problem is that i can't find $modcolumn in my Ultimate.cgi file.
I hope someone will help me resolve this little problem.Thanks in advance

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by Karo on January 21, 2001 at 04:17 PM</font>

Yes Pilot, the pm's for v6 are rather "interesting" tho a nice base for additional functionality, should someone choose. The v6 code is still a moving target right now, especially the pm portion, since it was just added, so it may be a while before we can have something unchanging enuf to work with. Stay tuned tho, and we always welcome input for it.

Karo, what version ubb are you trying to modify? the modcolumn stuff is 5.46 and up...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

i'm trying to modify ubb v4.5b

If you mean 5.45b, I really can't help you there, I don't have that code anymore, it is almost a year old... maybe someone else from here can assist you.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Alan, considering that I was able to save my preferences, the private directory must be set up correctly

For easy reference:

I am getting a 500 error msg on privatesend.cgi when I try to send a msg. Privateview.cgi works alright as far as I can tell and I was able to change my preferences. All the files have been chmoded. The perl path is correct.

The board is version 5.47d. I have no idea why this is happening. Thanks. Account test/test has been setup.

Edit: Actually I cant add posts anywhere on the board due to this hack. I dont have memberlist or ubb code buttons hack installed could that be a problem? This is my second time installing this with same problems.

http://www.war3.com/cgi-bin/ubb/Ultimate.cgi

I am having the exact same problem my friend...

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Hey I posted this in MOD questions, but thought I'd post here as well..

Well I have a 5.47c board, I have PM 3.8 and everything is working fine, preferences, ignore (except that it doesn't show up a name in the ignore list, when one is added) and that has to do with the problem I am experiencing... This is old site but new version and new board that we are working on before releasing.. I think everything was working fine before, not sure... But now when opening a sent PM, it shows no content in the message, it's empty and for where it should display the user, it says unregistered??

It might be possible that I have all the old addon's for the PM, from another board, than did this 3.8 updated version 3 days ago, but just uploaded the old addons, could that be anything?? If so, why isn't any other funtion not working??? Can anyone help??

Alright... question... didn't see this one addressed before...

This is definilty a BUG in the code...

I have PM 3.8 installed on 5.47d. All the file permissions are correct. I am upgrading from an older version... but I just copied over the contents of the private folder from my old version board. Changed all the private files perms to 777 just in case.

Now most of my users including myself had more than 30 PMs in there. When opening it for the first time you briefly see the privateview.cgi page then it dumps to the privatedelete.cgi with an Internal Server Error. Upon entering the PMs again it opens fine and the offending messages over 30 have been deleted.

To test this theory I also tried sending a message to myself once I am at 30. After it finished sending the message I get the same error. It pops back the privateview.cgi, then dumps me to an Internal Server Error on the privatedelete.cgi page.

The delete page appears to be working fine as I can delete messages normally any other times... from view or the message itself. And it even deletes them on the auto-delete function just fine, but it never successfully makes it back to the privateview.cgi page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty sure it's a code glitch... as this might have been one of the out there circumstances you might not have tested for. Thanks

-Nick

Mine works fine now...kinda...You have to(usually)remember to change the perl location on the first line of the cgi-bin files that are added.

The problem I have is when I go into a forum and view a thread. An error comes up: [There was an error in the directives] or something like that. The rest of the thread shows up, but it's bad cosmetically.
Click here to view problem

DR3, that is a problem with your who's online script. You need to fix the SSI call in ubb_library2.pl. Check the who's online thread for multiple answers to that question.

Nick, quite possibly a bug.... I haven't seen it, but doesn't mean it isn't there... I have seen it autodelete without the 500 ISE... I know you said your file permissions were correct, but is your private directory (and the files within) set to 777?

Allen,
Just checked the permissions again and they are indeed 777 on the private directory. The only one wierd circumstance that happened is I had copied the contents of the private directory over from an older version of PM.
When I did this tried to redo the permissions on the files to full 777. That seemed to fix most of the initial problems with getting back into the files. The only glitch was I had a few users that names start with special characters that I can't escape like ' and -. So I couldn't change the permissions on those files.

If you wanna take a look to get some ideas where the problem might be happening drop by the board it's at http://www.i-club.com. If you wanna sign up for an account and flood a PM box you can send them to me NickCat on my board. (note: the warning is set to 90 and the auto-delete happens after 100)

Thanks for any help in advance. I keep running into problems with dumb users not even realizing they have an outbox and are filling it up. So they keep getting the ISE message without realizing what is causing it.

EDIT: Just to add on I picked up another problem, there seems to be a problem with special characters in users signature files. It throws an ISE when they include a sig that contains any sort of special character.

-Nick

[ February 05, 2001: Message edited by: NickCat ]

I've noticed that PM 3.8 breaks when people use apostrophies in the subject.

IE: Subject: User's Access

Will render this PM:

Subject: User
Date: s Access
Text: APO

Sorry I missed your response Nick, if you are still having problems, post back here.

Flare, is this the most recent files from the database? I know we had problems in the past like that, but it should be handling them well now... you probably get a |QUS| instead of a ? in the subject too....