UBB.Developers Forums UBB.classic V5 Mod Questions Avatar Hack 3.5

OK...Space in user name now solved thanks to a user on my site!!!

All you need to do is add the following code in into the UBB_library2.cgi

At the total end of the cgi, you have that section that makes up the drop down list for the custom avatars, right before the $CUSTOM you need to add...

$customavataritem =~ s/s/%20/g;

So, make this...


Like this...


All this does is when the UTL for the image is written to the members file, if the user had a space in their user name, the space will be replaced with %20 . This will allow Netscape to be able to read the image correctly when called.


Hope this helps someone.

[ May 12, 2001 09:21 PM: Message edited by: David Bott ]

I need help with the avatar i'am only starting this ubb stuff so can someone help me
Absolute Path for your UBB CGI DIRECTORY
c:/inetpub/wwwroot/cgi-bin
Absolute Path for your UBB NON CGI DIRECTORY
c:/inetpub/wwwroot/NonCGI
Absolute Path to Members Directory
C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/cgi-bin

were do i add these dam avatar i run a board of win2k with PHP & MYSQL & PERL & IIS

Great hack Master Mind it runs really smooth.

Remind that the mod will cause trouble for non-English version, esp. Japanese, Chinese and so on, because the member's name of such versions can has special characters and, when used for custom Avatar file name, may lead to illegal filename error on some operating systems. I prefer a good linking method between user name and number. i.e, user can use their user name but UBB uses number filename accordingly.

You add a file called Avatars in your NONcgi direcorty so the path would be...

c:/inetpub/wwwroot/NonCGI/avatars

And make a "custom" directory inside your Avatars directory for custom Avatars.