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Found on the front page of our site, this lets you pull news/ announcements via SSI to another page. Written by flare, it has been added to the database.

https://www.ubbdev.com/db/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=8&t=000094

[ August 10, 2001: Message edited by: AllenAyres ]

Allen,
What did you change the settings to that allowed the full message to be included with this? I keep getting partial (the same amount no matter what) messages. Here is my test output... http://www.freakscene.net/test.shtml

Any suggestion (I'm sure it's a simple adjustment)

Thanks,
Jeremiah

post here just the part of slashubb that controls the variables you set... that should prolly take care of it.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Ok, I'll piece this together in this format:
#comment
$variable
------------- these are my current settings ---
# Change active.cgi to the name you change the script to.
$online_url = "$CGIURL/slashubb.cgi";

# Forum number of the news forum (Must NOT be private or password protected)
$forum = 1;

# Set to 1 for headlines ONLY, 0 if you want headlines + summary.
$headlines_only = 0;

# The number of characters to display in the summary. (I bumped this up to test although nothing changed for me)
$SummaryChars = 800;

# Number of news topics to display
$num_threads = 3;

# 0 = Start at first post, 1 = Skip first post
$remove_first = 0;

# Set this option to 1 if you want to used a fixed length summary, taken from the ?summarchars command line SSI call or from the above setting. If set to 0, put ---Full Story--- on a blank line to end the summary, if you do not put ---Full Story---, it will display the entire posted message from the SSI call. (I tried this at 1 thus the bumped $SummaryChars variable. As you can see , even with this set to 0 it is not getting the complete messages)
$FixedSummary = 0;

# 0 = No Save, 1 = On (saves in NonCGIPath as "slashubb.htm") script instead of having the server read the news everytime the page is loaded. Will reduce server load at the expense of non-realtime news.
$save_to_file = 0;

What do your settings look like?

Thanks for you help,
Jeremiah

[This message has been edited by freakscene (edited September 14, 2000).]

pretty much the same:

$online_url = "$CGIURL/slashubb.cgi";
$forum = 1;
$headlines_only = 0;
$SummaryChars = 220;
$num_threads = 3;
$remove_first = 0;
$FixedSummary = 0;
$save_to_file = 0;


Not sure what's happening with yours, you might want to get a fresh copy of the cgi file and upload it... maybe something was copied over, a comma is out of place, something.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Thanks Allen, I'll give that a shot when I get home

Jeremiah

Well I finally fixed it. The strangest thing was happening, I had a link to postings.cgi?action=reply..... of this particular topic and that is where it would stop. I removed that link from my message and everything is working fine now! odd though.

Just thought I'd mention it incase anyone else ever hits this.

Jeremiah

Glad it worked out for you...

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

Can someone please help me set up this hack, i just can't get it

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check out my boards, http://nintendocontrol.hypermart.net/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi

The link in the database setion for the code is busted. Help!!

http://www.cohort.to/files/slashubb.txt is down, any other link ???

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- matan zruya
get your free e-mail at zruya.org

Try here:
http://www.ubbhackers.com/hacks.cgi?action=info&cat=3&id=1

That's version 1.0, the latest (and the one I want) is version 1.3.

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--Dark Templar

Hey, Umm... Problems
This "Hack" requires one "cookie-lib.pl" or something... May not be a dash, may be an underscore, But my version (5.46) doesn't have a cookie-lib.pl....
Can peoples help?
What can I change to make it work?
Cos I want it...

Allen, did you ever notice smilies won't work in this..? Any fixes?



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UBB Layout Designer/Affiliate

Smilies will work - http://www.freakscene.net/index.shtml

I did no tweaking at all, just set the variables.
Make sure you have the most recent version.

jeremiah

http://cohort.techgrafix.com/files/slashubb.txt

Is the current link to the latest version (v1.3)



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A crust of bread is better than nothing. Nothing is better than love.
Therefore, by the transitive property, a crust of bread is better than love.

Gives me this:

Thank you flare, I'll update the database...

it's there, give it another try.

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Allen

- http://www.stand318.com

How Strange, I tried it 3/4 times before, now it works.

Oh well, I'm not complaining .

Is it somehow possible to use this with Newspro?

Hi,

I'm trying to get this script to work, but I keep getting the following error:

Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126'

Include file not found

/cgi-bin/slashubb.cgi, line 25

The include file '/cgi-bin/active.cgi' was not found.

How do I fix this? The documentation calls
for active.cgi, but I don't have this script
in my UBB?

AgentX

you have to rename active.cgi in the line above to slashubb.cgi or whatever you named this script to....

any way to use this in a cgi file? or php, cause my startup page is a .php file and i was curious if there was a way to include this

Excellent, got it to work nicely. as an add-on does anyone know how to get it to work with the hits counter (non ssi) hack?

https://www.ubbdev.com/db/Forum6/HTML/000006.html

Thanks...

Exstatica,

I also use php for my scripted pages. SSIs dont get parsed in php scripts, but if you are running Apache you can use the 'virtual()' php command to sub-request an SSI.

Create a file (slashubb.shtml) that contains only the slashubb ssi script. In the php script where you want slashubb to appear, call the shtml with the virtual() command {}
Make sue that you do have .shtml as server parsed files in the Apache conf.

I am also in the process of converting the slashubb script to a pure php script and once I am done I will try to remember to post it here.

thank you very much

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Music is the art of thinking with sound

are there any changes that need to be made to slash-ubb to make it work? I am using 4.57d and all i get when i call the script is the "SlashUBB v1.3 Copyright 2000 by Flare"

Any ideas????

Telnetmanta....

in the instruction it said:

Put the slc.gif file in your NON-CGI directory.

where can i find this image?

forget it... i found it...
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TyRaN = tyranausaure



This message has been edited by TyRaN on January 20, 2001 at 04:02 AM

ok if my board doesn't have ssi what do I name the script??

I named it slashubb.cgi

and I changed the $CGIURL/active.cgi

to $CGIURL/slashubb.cgi


I made a new forum named "news" I didn't put it in a category though... The forum number is 22

I put that in the slashubb variables...

I tried CHMOD755 and 777.... but nothing!!!


Someone pleaseeeeeeeeeee help!!

BAHAHAHAHA

If you can't use ssi, then you're pretty much outta luck, this was made for ssi.

Use the active topics by Dave Downin... it works well...

Ok I kinda figured it out..
My Site

But I have 2 problems I don't know how to display HTML in there?? And for some reason it puts everything together... Even if you space or double or triple space paragraphs it compacts it all into on paragraph... Any help please??

and heres my problem.. the link is busted to this as well as every link to the same site