Okay, so now that I've got everything working on my test server, I made a fresh install of vb on my live server. First hack I installed was myvbindex, which worked fine, except that weather_install.php is not running. Keep getting a "page cannot be displayed" error... :rolleyes:

Any ideas? The rest of the board and the myvbindex page are working. The weather_install.php file is in /forums/admin/, and is untouched - straight from the zip file...

With an earlier file I experimented with putting in different urls for the 'require global.php' statement, and at one point I got a blank screen instead of the 'page cannot be displayed error'. But that's the extent of my progress so far.

Thanks
mbowers

PS Forgot to mention - the page is definately there. I changed the extension to .txt at one point and was able to bring it up in the browser (i just wanted to make sure I wasn't making some stupid URL typo). Since then I've uploaded a fresh copy...

mbowers - A couple of people have had this same problem before... The only thing I can guess is that your server can't handle a file that big (it's about 1mb). The best thing I can suggest would be to download JJR512's original hack here. In there he has 7 or so files with the queries you can run through phpMyAdmin to add all the cities and such. Then you can upload the file attached to this post and run it to install the templates and add the option to turn the weather on/off.

Great, thanks for the quick reply Tigga. I'll try that.

I've got to get a new hosting provider... :disappointed:

I recently installed this on a fresh 2.3.0 board, and i have a problem. I can log into the Admin CP, but after I change a setting, it makes me log back in again. I noticed thta prat of the URL was wrong form before I installed this hack. It showed up as: vb/admin/? (I removed the first part of the path)

What do I do to correct this so that I don't have to log in so much?

One other question: How do I change the default city to Minneapolis or Saint Paul on the weather box? The instructions on the help file don't make sense.

Thanks

your going to need to clear your cookies, if you changed the domain to .yoursite.com

Ahh, I see. Was the address always so funny looking for the adminCP? I never remember it looking like that.

But with the cookies cleared, it works like it should.

But, I still don't understand how to change the default city to Minneapolis or Saint Paul. The readme instructions don't make any sense. :ermm:

change your home city to that, refresh the mian page and make sure its there, then veiw source i think. you should be able to see your city id some where. then you take it and change the default city id

You will then want to change the setting for userid #0 to your cities "accid" using phpMyAdmin.

i think

Tigga - another quickie (hopefully ;)).

I have a poll forum, but I have a particular poll that I'd always like to appear on the forum homepage, or at least until I specify. You could do this with news by making it a sticky thread, but there were alterations to the code (provided by yourself) that made this work.

Can I do the same thing with a poll, i.e. make them sticky and it will always be the one that shows on the homepage? If so, could you give me the snippet of code :).

Thx.

Anybody have a mod for this that allows you to put a picture of the day thumbnail in one of the custom boxes?

Just an FYI...

I recently installed this on a Windows 2000 Server with IIS 5.0 and it works great. Install worked great, worked the first time (after I re-read the directions... :laugh: ) and I love it.

However, I noticed one problem. I had some test posts in the forum I chose, and I deleted the threads, and it appears that the threads were deleted, but the posts remained. So, they appeared on my home page, even though the didn't really exist.

SOLUTION: Using PhpMyAdmin, I searched the Posts table using the following:

SELECT * From POSTS WHERE isnews = 'Y'

Then, I simply deleted the offending posts manually.

So, overall, it works great!