How do I...

Just by playing with the board I figured a few things out but I like any other newbie have questions.

1 - When someone goes to post a message it automatically checks the Send me e-mail box! Is there a way to disable this?

2 - How can I add tables to the forums (not involving the Header & Footer)?

3 - If there is a hack for me to upload more than 1 Smilie in Control Panel at a time could you please direct me that way?

4 - How can I take out the Moderator section on the First Forum / Category page?

5 - How do I take out the "Views" section in a Forum?

6 - How do I add vB code ([center])? I tried the little manual thing, but it didn't work!

These are my questions! My vB is located http://www.u-a-n.com/forums

Notta, with all due respect, before you start getting angry and making enemies, you may want to consult the documentation that comes with this board.

It explains templates and other items that you have been asking for. When someone posts a question here, it is under the assumption that they have tried searching for the answer in the documentation or the search.

wluke is one of our most helpful members, and he was trying to do just that.

If you want help in the future, it is best not to make enemies with those that can help you...just a thought.

Buddy, you have to know what they are talking about as far as hacking the templates before you will understand it. You need to be familiar with PHP and MySQL before you can understand what the hacks really do. Once you have this knowledge down pat, you will beable to hack it yourself.

I learned it myself without any outside help. It took time, my time. I viewed and analysed the templates and how they interacted with each other. Until I did that, I did not understand it either.

Don't expect someone here to hold your hand and give you complete step by step instructions for your list of hacks you want.

The templates you need to learn are all the begin with 'forum', to start. Many of them interact with one another to give you the forum display. You need to learn how this is done, then you will understand what you need to do.

Regards,

OK! Gee Thanx! Ummm If you all say so!

I'm not trying to make enemies but I don't have time to site around and learn PHP or MySQL but reading! I figured out CGI + PERL on the UBB by messing with it!

Once you ppl get a few great scripts this won't be a bad board at all!

2 - 3 weeks ago hypermart deleted my account becuz they said all I was using it for was a UBB! After hours of ahcking and all that Lost! No notification of deletion so I had to start over! i couldn't have backed up becuz I didn't know!

So after going through 5 servers I found the right one! Very nice too! i get my board installed and the Main company says it is using too many resources we are going to have to switch to a faster server. OK Kool thatz nice, I only would have liked it if you had told me before you deleted everything and switched me! After going through all that hacking for the sencond timeall of it is lost!

So the site is down 4 days costing me oodles of cashola! Yippee we are back up! OK I start to hacking away re-configuring now this isn't easy 300+ smilies to configure! I was blessed that the UBB has a hack that allows for as many as you want to add codes to, vB i can upload 1 at a time, wow talk about getting it done quick! So I fix everything after encountering to minro CGI probz i get it up and going to find out that the postings.cgi script takes up 99% of the system resources!

So I switch to vB hoping that truly I can import my ubb, truns out you can only import topics / categories & members! Back to the drawing board... hmmm ok I know nothing about MySQL and very very little about PHP3 so letz try this! Come to find out there are very few hacks, the control panel is very primitive and hard to read becuz the menus is in bold and it is like

forumdisplay
quotereply

thisandthat very hard to read!

Finally I get it all fixed to a degree, so now i'm from
B L A H to N A H and I need Y E A H!

So i come here for help and i here edit the templates ok thats kool.

If I have to edit the templates then I will!

I'll just import the code into Dreamweaver 4 and edit from there!

You should be editing your templates from the Admin Control panel, as they are stored in the MySQL database. Those who know what they are doing can edit them directly at the database.

here is a very qick response to your email hack request. I haven't tested or used it.

Go to your Contol panel
options, change options

enableemail
Switch to no.

In these templates:
newthread
newreply
editpost

Remove this line

<BR><INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="email" VALUE="yes" $emailchecked> <B>Email Notification:</B> emails sent to you whenever someone replies. Only registered users are eligible.

After doing this you may or maynot find other places in which this needs to be removed, just go to that template and remove this line.

I don't know any other way to quickly upload and install all your smilies.

Your forumdisplay template is where your title image is setup, you can add a table there, below the titleimage and fivelinks.

Have a good look at that template, you should be able to see how it works.

OK! I figured out the templates and started editing them woo man I amaze myself, it worked out perfectly!

As far as the e-mail notify for reply I don't want to delete it, I want it unselected if you can help me there

I will be specific this time

1 - What template would I have to edit to take out the "Views" column?

2 - What template would I have to edit to add a link at the bottom of the Topics that leads me back

Example = Under the bbtitle in a Topic

Link to homepage > Link to forum - Text of topic!

What template would I have to edit to get this?

1 - forumdisplay & forumdisplaybit
2 - forumdisplay

I figured it out, and I am getting it all done by myself though it is rather self explanatory!

I need to know these few things

Which template is the one for the First Page?
I don't have a Moderated By Template, is there one?
I still have been unable to find a "Muliple Smilie Upload" feature.

As far as anything else, I apologize for starting to get pissed and stuff earlier!

For your smilie problem, Why not simply upload all the files via FTP? They go in the /images/smilies directory.

Then you can add them to the database through the form provided. I don't know about adding 300 smilies but it would go faster.

Regarding the 'notify by email' option - Racin' Rob was correct, and you can also change that option in your own user profile (since some members prefer to have that option turned on). Click on 'profile' in the main forum view, and it should be the field at the very bottom.

Regarding the UBB import, I'm not sure where you heard/saw that it only imports members, topics and categories... I did the import on my UBB, and it imported *everything*, including all the posts. It worked like a charm, actually. You just have to follow the instructions.

Hope this helped.

- RJ

Note:

1 - The UBB import did import the messages but it didn't import the Styles the smilies or anything important!

2 - I have all the smilies uploaded already! I just want a way that i can give them all codes :whatever: more than 1 at a time.

3 - I want to completly remove the "views" column, what template would I edit?

4 - I want to completly remove the "Moderators column" on the first page "index.php"