UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.classic [Archived] UBB.classic Bugs JC Templates transition problem [FIXED - 6.3.0]

Hi guys - got a thread going here that might be interest.

Could do with some help . . .

(Hope you don't count this as a double post <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> )

Thanks

I'm depriving a village somewhere of an idiot !

[This message was edited by Charles Capps on August 23, 2002 at 10:38 AM.]

Ugh.

No, there's nothing we can do to help.

LK's alternative (non-standard) forwarder is looking better and better, I swear.

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Charles,

I guess I'm just a little perplexed by your response <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

1. If there's nothing you can do to help, are you treating JC's templates as a "hack" - because they did come bundled with 6.3 from Infopop?

2. Not sure what you mean by "LK's forwarder" is that something recent, I haven't seen anything on UBBdev or LK's site.

I'm depriving a village somewhere of an idiot !

http://community.infopop.net/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=729094322&f=7343077313&m=5663013393

But to get it to work with 6.3, it should be TransitionCore and with $_[3]:<pre>sub TransitionCore {

# requires four parameters:
# $_[0] : URL we are forwarding user to
# $_[1] : Thank you wording
# $_[2] : URL Link Wording
# $_[3] : Transition Wording

$_[0] =~ tr/&/;/;
$direct_to = qq!<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; URL='$_[0]'" />!;

&set_page_elements;

print <<THIS;

$Header
<center>
$standard_title_table
</center>
<br /><br />

$TBT

<tr bgcolor="$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}">
<td valign="bottom" align="left">
<font size="1" face="$vars_style{FontFace}">
<b>&#187;
$show_logout
</b>
</font>
</td>
<td valign="bottom" align="right">
<font size="1" face="$vars_style{FontFace}"><b>
<a href="$ULTIMATEBB">$vars_config{BBName}</a> » $vars_wordlets{transition}</b>
</font>
</td>
</tr>

$TBB

<br /><br />

$TBT

<tr bgcolor="$vars_style{TableColorStrip}">
<td>
<font color="$vars_style{TableStripTextColor}" size="$vars_style{TextSize}" face="$vars_style{FontFace}"><b>
$vars_wordlets{transition}
</b></font>
</td>
</tr>

<tr bgcolor="$vars_style{AltColumnColor1}"><td>
<font size="$vars_style{TextSize}" face="$vars_style{FontFace}"><b>
$_[1]
<br /><br />
$_[3] <a href="$_[0]">$_[2]</a>
</b></font>
</td></tr>

$TBB
<br /><br />

$Footer

THIS

} #end TransitionCore</pre>

1. If there's nothing you can do to help, are you treating JC's templates as a hack - because they did come bundled with 6.3 from Infopop?

No, they use the same infrastructure as the standard templates. Any enhancements to the code are template based, and supported by Infopop.com as long as they are intact <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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Thanks JC - logical I guess, but two issues have emerged here.

1. The javascript (header insert) problem which seems to disable re-direct (refresh) in both 6.2.1 and now 6.3.

Now I have no real difficulty accepting that a fix won't be able available anytime soon, but in the referring thread (above) Graeme made the comment: Within this context, the question(s) needs to be "how many types of Javascript are there, which types work in the UBB header, why do they work, and how do we go about 'fixing" the types that don't work? I’ve seen other JS menu systems operate, I ran one myself a couple of years ago with UBB 5.xxx

2. The second issue relates (on my board at least) to my inability ( through style associations) to “force” the transition page to pick up a different style template ( as per Jenny’s suggestion)

I “duplicated” my “ jc_style_hitechblue.cgi “, and left out the JS menu call from the header insert, associated the transition page with the new template ( trying various combinations of JC /Standard Style template and JC/Standard HTML template), but the transition page INSISTED on using the original (JS menu) template ???

Now the first problem may require a medium term solution, but perhaps the second issue is affecting more than myself.

It seems that if this is a bug and can be fixed, it’s logical that we could use “Jenny’s fix” to solve the first issue – yes/no???

Thanks . . . <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

p.s. - the templates are intact <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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I'm depriving a village somewhere of an idiot !

Well the .js is the same no matter what template is used. I didn't bother it when editing. Sooooooooooo not sure what help I can be. I'll hand off to CC, but as he has explained it is a known issue, and I suspect somewhat browser based. BUT, he also mentioned LK's solution is looking better. Trouble is there are only so many hours in a day and sooooooooooooooooooo many different requests. But, I have faith it will be fixed as soon as.

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I don't think it's so much that you have javascript in the header as what is IN the javascript. That might be disturbing the refresh action.

So... what's in there?

Honor The Victims

Hi Dave,

I don't think . . .

<script language=JavaScript src="../menu_array.js" type=text/javascript></script>
<script language=JavaScript src="../mmenu.js" type=text/javascript></script>

could be considered unusual - do you?

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I'm depriving a village somewhere of an idiot !

Those lines, no. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Depends what is in those files though. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Graeme

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Ok - would you like to have a look (32k combined) - if so who do I e-mail them to?

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I'm depriving a village somewhere of an idiot !

JC,

Putting the .js issue to one side, have you managed to establish if the (point 2 problem) above is widespread or just me - (template association)

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I'm depriving a village somewhere of an idiot !

It's a general problem with Javascript, so it's not just you.

Basically, if something locks up or there's a Javascript error, the routine that starts the forwarding to another page won't trigger.

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