UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V6.4 - 6.7 Modifications [6.4 - 6.5] [beta] Calendar

yes, that's what I mean.. though I will probably make it differently, which I have 2 main ideas:
1.
%vars_calendar_events = (
calendar events
);

%vars_calendar_birthdays = (
calendar birthdays
);

then calendar_birthdays is the one to be maintenanced...

or instead
2. I'll choose that when somebody edits profile or registers, it will automatically add it to a file in members dir, such as "birthdays.cgi"... and when you run ubb_lib_calendar, it will check this file... that'd probably make it simpler to be up-to-date.

Well, I think there still needs to be something that completely cleans and rebuilds the birthdays (not the events).

This would cover all bases so we wouldn't have birthdays showing for deleted or banned members - that is unless you are going to add a "Remove Birthday" routine when banning or deleting.

If you can't make sure that there won't be an orphaned birthday out there with no way of knowing, then you need something that can clean and rebuild based on the "Allow others to see my birth date?" check in their profile.

The lack of tools for the calendar has been especially frustrating. You need to start offering some useful ones.

There will be something that completely cleans and rebuilds the birthdays. in my post above I said how it's gonna recognize what's birthdays and what's regular events (because you said in your post "All you would need would be a single character flag added to the calendar event that tells whether the event came from a user’s profile or was custom added"...

Excellent! Can't wait.

any ETA on when this newest version of calendar will be released ?

When you see a public beta for 6.6, you can expect an update soon after for the calendar

HTML:
birthday.gif

Instructions to hack: no need to upload:
calendar.txt

Templates:
cp_vars_calendar.pl
public_calendar_display.pl
public_calendar_review.pl
public_new_calendar_event.pl

CGI-BIN: Permissions @ 755
ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi
ubb_lib_calendar.cgi

CGI-BIN: Permissions @777
vars_calendar.cgi
vars_calendar_events.cgi
vars_wordlets_calendar.cgi

In CGI-BIN only if your upgrading from the prior version, Permissions @ 755:
upgrade.cgi

Hope this helps... Good rule of thumb is the .cgi files always go in cgi-bin and the .pl always go in the Templates. Most of the mistakes I make are with the permissions.

Sorry LK, I see now you already answered it

LK, will there be a ton of new features? cause I just moved the hack to css, and I love it, but I don't wanna lose all my work to upgrade. will the main thing be the rebuild feature?

PS. you should check out the calendar on my boards, I added some cool css tricks to make the current day emboss

not tons of new features. just the ones I mentioned in the previous page, in todo list.

btw, I love what you did in the calendar (the effect of the current day)... you think I should add something like that to the next version? (so instead of "Today Background Color" it would be "Today CSS Text", with a textarea)

personally, I think everything on the net should be css, it's so easy to use and allows for a lot more flexibility. maybe you should give people a choice, cause a lot more people know hexcodes than know css. ie instead of multihack and text, css and the bad one

catcherman, would it be alright if I allow smilies and not images? (I guess you'll have to add a smiley for full moon and a smiley for new moon when you update the calendar, it's not that difficult)

EDIT: I got the ubbcode buttons to work, but the smilies wouldn't show, so I used the popup feature it had.

Thanks for your help

Done for 2.1:

• put version number at top of lib_calendar..
• put add new event at the line of "Events for".
• ability to add smilies to title
• totally redesigned Review page (now it looks like New Event page)
• now there is only one template - public_calendar.pl, and calendar uses only one ?ubb= shortcut (calendar).

www.lkworld.com/?ubb=calendar

LK, that sounds great. Thanks for your hard work.

sounding good LK

Hey LK, I'm trying to set it up so that I can access the calendar through SSI (well PHP includes but give or take it's the same thing) but when I try to go to http://tavern.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi&css=yes I recieve "You're trying to access a page that does not exist"... Any idea's? BTW, I used the mhk ...

hmm, it's:
http://tavern.undergroundnews.com/cgi-bin/ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi?css=yes
but for some reason I get "blah?"

ahhh, the instructions i saw stated that it was ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=calendar_ssi.cgi?css=yes :X... Sorry...

yeah, you're right, I forgot to update ubb_calendar_ssi.cgi... it should be:

:x, i've just been an error finding midget lately haven't i.

Yesterday I've finished creating Calendar v2.1, and I'm gonna publish it the moment 6.6.0 br1 is out, unless there's gonna be an unexpected problem... you'll rebuild the birthdays in the same place where you rebuild the member stat files, instead of adding a whole new subroutine for that.
also vars_calendar_events.cgi is redesigned, but no fear, I made upgrade.cgi which updates your calendar_events file to v2.1... it removes all the birthdays, because it's a very simple procedure to rebuild member stat files from CP.

new vars_calendar_events.cgi example:
[code][/code]oh, and all the fake smilies you see in @events, they were real smilies but I edited them in this post because I didn't want my post to enlarge this page (you know, long stuff in [code] tag make the topic page look really ugly).

Woohoo! Keep up the good work!

question: should I add "Birthdays Today" to forum summary, like in vBullrtin? it's possible in 2.1

well what would be the big difference between that and the normal summary we get from the calendar on the main page?

that it'd be like "Today's Birthdays: LK (21), Weird Al (59), Lincoln (195)" (links to profiles when you click on the name), instead of "Today's Events: LK's Birthday, Weird Al's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, I got a new computer, UBB 6.6 release"

btw yeah, I know, you haven't really been born in '55

Oh, I like that.

BTW: 55+59 would be 2014, not 2003 I'm a young'un

Sorry, I meant 49

I am new to UBB and I tried to install this calendar hack... why it never show any of my members' birthday? can LK help?

One thing you should do is update your profile and see if your birthday shows. You need to update your profile to add it to the calendar. If it isn't that, LK probably knows the problem

I updated my profile. I mean add-in a date of birth right?
BTW how do you add the profile to the calendar?

My calendar works well in term of posting events and viewing events... but it just doesn't show any birthday..

I am using UBB classic 6.5

I reccomend you verify all the steps in public_edit_profile.pl and ubb_profile.cgi. those are the files that control that

ok. im making the commitment and adding this mod!

will it be an easy apply to 6.5?

i know LK has said that some steps might be different ... anyone know for sure?

I've got it up and running on my 6.5 without changing a letter in the install txt

woo! installed and workin smooth -- nice job!

a question: new registered members show up a-ok, but lotsa posters on my board have already registered with their birthdays ... other than manually entering the events, is there anyway to add their b-days to the calendar?

the only way to do it is to have them to update their profile. that might be different in the next version, but that'll be 6.6 only from what I've heard

LK, now hat 6.6 is out, and word on when 2.1 will be out?

maybe you've heard differently but it's very difficult to post a hack when you're abroad..

anyhow... www.ubbdev.com/lk/calendar66.zip - alpha version... test please

I just think it's sad the way you think females can't post hacks. That's sexism

(sorry, but I'm tired and this seems funny)

isn't in ubb_registration.cgi.

is

I'll get back to you on the rest of the hack once I can get into my cp