UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums News and Releases Announcements UBB.threads version 6.3 released.

UBB.threads 6.3 released.

UBB.threads verison 6.3 has been released to the Member Area.

If you are upgrading from either of the two beta versions please read the special instructions at the bottom of this announcement.


What's new in version 6.3?

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• <font size="" face="">Moved all text in the administration into language files.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">All language files are now editable through the admin section.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added an option into the admin section to activate/deactivate languages. This allows for easy addition/removal of languages without the need to edit any code or templates.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added an option to the mass mailer to send out emails one at a time on servers where Bcc mailing does not work.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added in the last poster for each thread when viewing the postlist screen.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added a modification of JustDave's "My Cookies" hack, with a template file. This allows users to delete all cookies from a UBB.threads site.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Modified the banuser function so a user cannot login at all when they are banned. If they are currently logged in they will get a message that they are now banned on the next screen they visit.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Modified showflat/showthreaded so the Board= portion isn't needed when linking to a post. This will keep bookmarks or links to posts that have been moved from breaking.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Updated the COPPA registration and handling.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added the ability to add a custom charset or text direction for a language via the control panel.</font></li>

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We will be releasing two versions of the .zip or .tar.gz files now, one with just the English language installed, and one version with all of the languages that .threads traditionally ships with. please note:All of the non-English language packs that are included are customer donated versions. Some or all of them may not be up to date; In which case the non-translated parts will appear in English.


As usual for each release we also have a handful of fixes or updates from the previous version.

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• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug with linebreaks getting messed up when editing a post under Mac OS 9.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a SQL error when deleting all traces of a user.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a sorting bug when viewing the address book.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a SQL error in addons/ubbttopthreads.php</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a problem with forums not showing on main page when deleting all posts from a user or deleting a user.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a problem with forums not showing on main page on certain occasions when cron/doexpire is run.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug that would pop up if a post was moved while a user was replying to it.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a problem with the mass mailer sending out duplicates on some servers.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug that caused the year a user registerd not to show.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug with the instant ubbcode when previewing a reply to a private message.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug with the userlist not showing all users properly.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug that was causing the post icon to not show up on the main forum listing.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Fixed a bug when leaving a pointer behind on a moved post made by an anonymous user.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added in a check to see if a thread is locked before allowing a user to edit their post.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Added in Picture size checks into the printthread script.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Made some changes to showflat to add back in the [Re: Username] next to the subject.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Combined the welcome email in the adduser language file into 1 string instead of 3 seperate strings.</font></li>
• <font size="" face="">Made some changes to deletepost.php, so when deleting the last post in a thread the last poster would update properly for that thread on the postlist screen.</font></li>

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Upgrading instructions from previous versions are in the UPGRADING.html file, more detailed instructions are also located on our documentation page.

Upgrading from 6.3 beta 1?

You will need to run the following SQL -

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CREATE TABLE w3t_Mailer (
M_Time INT(11),
M_Subject VARCHAR(255),
M_Message TEXT,
M_Groups VARCHAR(255),
M_Bogus VARCHAR(255),
M_Onebyone INT(1),
M_Loop INT(9),
M_Type VARCHAR(10)
);

ALTER TABLE w3t_Users ADD U_CoppaUser INT(1) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0';

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Updating from 6.3 beta 4?

You'll need to run this SQL

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ALTER TABLE w3t_Users ADD U_CoppaUser INT(1) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0'
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Good work! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by JoshPet:
Good work! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Now where's that ChangeLog you were mentioning? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

Lee

Changelog for 6.3?

http://community.infopop.net/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=729094322&f=3133094913&m=6583080107

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by David Dreezer:
Changelog for 6.3?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Nah, sorry I should have posted it over at ThreadsDev, it was supposed to be tongue in cheek <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

Thanks for the new version...looking forward to it <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Lee

[This message was edited by Lee Cantey on June 10, 2003 at 05:21 PM.]

[This message was edited by Lee Cantey on June 10, 2003 at 05:22 PM.]

Well done! The language file editor is very impressive! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="images/icons/cool.gif" />

Da LAN Tech

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face=""> # All language files are now editable through the admin section. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">I can not found where is language editor.
And I can not found link to cookie manager.

The "my cookies" link is in the FAQ under "trouble logging in"

Under Admin there is a "Languages" category - to either edit a language file, or deactivate/activate a language.

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Thanks. I found links to cookies. But i not have under Admin a "Languages" category. ?

You have to upload the languages files, completely, for which ever language you are working in. They contain the new admin controls. Then be sure to go into your admin area, scroll down and click update. Then you should see the new languages category on the left, about half way down.

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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face="">Originally posted by auto:
Thanks. I found links to cookies. But i not have under Admin a "Languages" category. ?</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">If you're not seeing it on the admin menu - my guess is that you didn't upload somethign - most likely the /admin/menu.php file. There are new options there - towards the bottom.

Make sure you uploaded all the new scripts too. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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Thanks. I had uploaded old menu.php file <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

New Posts/No New Posts

Any of the installs I look at show under Legend
New Posts twice
No New Posts - also twice
with no icon to denote old/new

Wazzup?

Andrew

Threads stopped using icons to indicate new posts back with version 6.2. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

Instead it highlights the rows with colors defined in the stylesheets.

You can have 2 newpost colors (so that they alternate in a list) as defined in the stylesheets.

Check the 6.2 section of UPGRADING.html for info on this and if you are using any of your own stylesheets - you'll need to add the needed classes as noted in that file, for the new post tracking thing to work. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

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Thanks Josh

URa*

Andrew

I'm so wondering...why the chrset configure option in language(in generic.php) editor doesn't working still?

I edited it in ubbt.inc.php file at myself.

Am I wrong?

Yes, there are some reported bugs with this not working correctly.

It is supposed to let you set the charset in the generic.php language file (so that it's easy for you to edit) but it's not quite working for everyone.

I think Rick is working to fix this for maybe a 6.3.1. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> Stay tuned.

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My subscriptions mails are beiung sent with no subject. How can I include them. It worked on my 6.1 but stopped on 6.2 and 6.3
Thanks is advance

I would guess that you need to fix/update the path to main.inc.php in the top of the subscriptions script.

But This is a news announcement about a product release (and an old one at that <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" /> )... not really the place to ask questions.

If that doesn't help you, please start a new topic in the "How do I forum" with some more specifics (for example are you using the PHP or Perl Scripts). <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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