UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support Not sure where this belongs...Question on Features..

I just looked through the list of features and i dont see what i'm looking for and am afraid i just missed it.

Does ubbthreads allow the following.

1)Moderators able to split and merge posts?

2 Moderators able to sticky posts?

3)People to have avatars/pics under their names?

4)People to upload the avatars/pics to the host website?

Owner of the site i manage just bought this software and the sysadmin is not around yet to install it.

IF the answer to the above is no HOW do i return this so i can get a more functional forum? or better yet how can i modify this one?

Imaginos

[This message was edited by Imaginos on 01 Mar 02 at 08:27 PM.]

I believe that we can accomodate most of your requests:

1) Not at this time
2) Yes, I believe that is possible - There was a brief discussion on that right here <img border="0&...quot;images/icons/smile.gif" />
3) Each user can see a "Your Picture (Entire URL - Picture size is 65x75 pixels)" field if enabled which allows for a user avatar.
4) Yes, attachments can be enabled by the site admin and the host.

Please let me know if you have more questions.

Regards,

Brett Harris
Infopop Corporation

Hi there Bret thanks for the response, I do need to clarify some questions and i have a few more now that i have been messing with my sysadmins, basic install (seeing as i only know html atm)

I see the option to place a url to a picture and i see how you can upload an attachment to a thread for people to click on and dl but what i mean is more like this..

A person wants an avatar, they browse to their computer like when adding an attachement and it uploads to a different place on your site and not as something someone clicks on to download. (IE so the link for attachements doesnt show up).

IF they upload it as a attachement and then use that url you will still see the attachements link under their picture.

Next question:

I am having some issues with editing the css by selecting create template. Sometimes things i enter (color wise) are not working as they do in other sheets. I have left a space and made sure there was a ; right after, like in other sheets. Why am i having this issue? Is there some place that you have a more definitave guide to editing the css?

I also noticed that some of the listed things in your pdf manual are not in the default css sheet, or i didn't find them. Why is this? Do i just add them myself then?

Last css question. How do I make it so that ever other post's background color alternates like in ubb?

thanks
Imaginos

There isn't quite the feature for the user to upload their own pic or avatar.
But there is a hack for it at threadsdev.com that will allow a user to upload an image in their profile. Instead of linking to it on a remote site.

One option for the Avatars is to enable uploads on your own site and then let your users do an <img> link into your uploads directory.

You would be paying for the bandwidth to keep them up and host them if you did that.

On the CSS questions - I am no css expert but I think that most of the heavy-duty design types like to post over on UBBDesign.com can help you with that CSS the most.

I will, however, ask Rick about it and ask that our documentation be reviewed in that space.

Regards,

Brett Harris
Infopop Corporation

Brett,

If they upload an image to your site and use your forum with thier image wouldn't this not use bandwidth seeing as all the links are internal? Or are you talking when another user views the post and the image must be downloaded?

I've been to the ubbdesign site but have recieved now answers yet. Of course it has not been that long, only since last night.

From a novice at css I would suggest that each base command be described in a little detail for your css sheet. IE you go create a css sheet and in the manual it tells you what stuff like

.forumtitle {
}

actually means and how to edit it. For instance can i actually place a text tag and have it show up there? or is this only for stuff like colors and font enhancers (bold etc..)

JoshPet,

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunatly they are broke right now :

Here's the user pic upload hack. Written by "JustDave" at threadsdev.com. Yes the threadsdev.com site is moving.... I miss it!

http://www.chattersonline.com/test/files/491-5.5-uploadpic.1.5.1.txt

Thanks Tons Josh!

I can't wait for the site to be back up so I can check it out.


Another thing i noticed (boy aren't i a pain <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" /> )...

When editing a stylesheet if i do this I get different results in IE6 and netscape 4.7.

.lighttable {
background-color: #4E77AE;
color: ;
}

the above shows the background color in IE but not in netscape. IF i add that colortag to color: then it shows up in netscape BUT any text that is supposed to be that color is then invisible in IE because its the same as the bg.

Is there a way to get this bgcolor to work in both browsers without upgrading netscape. In my opinion 4.7 is superior to the newest netscape and less buggy.

Imagino

Yes - if those images are on your site and someone views the page your server sends the image out with the post. Therefore, you pay for it. I am presuming that this is an outside site.

I don't have any css answers but let me ask someone who does have them to read your post.

Regards,

Brett Harris
Infopop Corporation

I would suggest using a javascript browser sniffer to detect which browser, and load different styles according to each.

Judd
Senior Graphic Designer, Infopop Corporation

I'm the "documentation weenie" here, and I'd like to do what I can to improve the CSS information. Of course, it's beyond the scope of our docs to have a full "how to" tutorial on working with CSS, but here's just one website that has some useful info:

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/

regarding your specific question: </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="">quote:</font><hr /><font size="" face=""> I also noticed that some of the listed things in your pdf manual are not in the default css sheet, or i didn't find them. Why is this? Do i just add them myself then? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="" face="">Could you clarify this a bit? What "things" are you referring to? If we're missing something in there, I'll take a look and see whether we can add some detail!

Ok just looked at the images again and i dont see the following or need more info about them.

I'll put a note if i think i figured out what they do <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

BODY,P,TABLE,TD,TR { font-size: ; font-family: ; color: ; }

note: as far as i can tell this is for the general text of the page?

----

.post:FIRST-LINE { }
.post:FIRST-LETTER { }

note: i assume this is the first line and letter of any post that is made only.

----

.cleartable { background: ; }
.alternatetable { background: ; }
.footertable { background: ; }

note: couldnt find these on any picture and have no idea what they are or if i can add more then the background tags or if that would even do anything.

Thats it that i see, the rest i muddled through and think i have figured out. I am still having that odd problem with netscape and IE explained above.

Imaginos

Also I noticed that in my forum lists (that im messing with before converting my current ubb over) that there is a folder icon in its own cell.

It seems that this cell shares the .darktable tag along with the .forumheader and .forumdescript.

Is there any way to change the background color of that cell and not the .forumheader and .forumdescript?

Imaginos

SIGH I rechecked the .lightable thing i was talking about a few posts above and if i set color to the same as bg then in some areas of netscape you can't see the text either. Mostly in the admin section. I will have to check the board itself to see if it does that.

Is there any sort of fix for this to get the background-color to show up in netscape correctly?

Imaginos

Ok i figured out how the .lighttable and .darktable were working in regards to netscape 4.7

It seems that if you specify just a background color then nothing shows up at all and it defaults to your .tableborder color, if you dont have a .tableborder color then it defaults to your background.

If you add a text color, any color, then the cell is filled in netscape with the correct background color and the color you specified for text is used for text in these cells.

Kinda screwy <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

My next question(s) (heh of course ther are more) are..

1) how do you change the portrait size to about 125 x 125?

2) How do you center the portrait in the .darktable?

3) how can you give that specific .darktable another label or something to change just its color?

4) The fourm description field in my list of forum names. How can i turn this off so that the forum will not use this field? I have no text in them now but it still spaces out my forum names

Thanks for all the help and replies!
Imaginos

Ok, your most recent questions are going to take direct code modifications to accomplish. Normally we'd direct you over to threadsdev.com as it's the official hacking site, but it is being moved to a new server so it's not live right now.

Most of these revolve around showflat.php. It will be much easier to do this once 6.0 is out as the html is going to be in template files.

In showflat.php. The width and height of the image is set at about line 785. Look for the 65 and 75 and just change these to what you need. To center it you could just surround the image tag on that line with center tags. Line 752 is where you will see the class specified for this particular table cell. You could just name it postercell or something like that and add a .postercell to your stylesheets specifiying the attributes you want.

In ubbthreads.php, line 289 there is a block of code that looks like this:

<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr>
<td>
   
</td>
<td class=\"forumdescript\">
$Description
</td>
</tr>
</table>

You can just remove this whole code block to get rid of the forum descriptions.

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Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

Rick Baker -

Thank you very much! that is so awesome. I will pass that on to my code guy <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

ver 6 sounds great. when is it due to release?

I would like to suggest you add the ability to split and merge posts.

Imaginos

LOL well I'm back again with yet another question.

1) Now that i have my avatar/picture at 125x125 how do i make sure that this is the max size and that it wont just stretch the pic to this dimension? In other words it will use the default image dimension up to 125x125?

Renaming that cell worked great btw.

2) In order to move the show threads and search threads from where they are to somewhere else Do i just cut and paste the lines in the php or is there more to it?

3) Your logo on the bottom..where is it located so i can change the bg color of it? Is it in a table cell with a tag?

4) when is version 6 and easily editable html going to be released <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

Thanks for all the answers! So far its working well.

Imagino