[Billspaintball]

Usage

The hack is pretty useless without some usage instructions so here they are.

You can resize avatars, keeping them to their origional proportions to make them fit your prefered layout.
For instance, if you are using a fixed width column layout.
Do this by editing lines 5 and 6 in login_inc.php
These values are in pixels.

We can use conditionals to hide or display depending on a number of things such as
Logged in or out status,
or restrict to members of a specific usergroup.

We do this by using conditionals in php tags where the normal content of a webpage would go.


If you want something only accessable to a certain usergroup, use this code in your webpage. This example is only visible to members of usergroup 6.

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You can use a simple variation of this to restrict entire pages to a certain usergroup.
For example,

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Another use is to display different content to users depending on if they are logged in or not. For example

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Another use is to restrict advertising to people who are not logged in.
For example

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Of course you can play around with conditionals to do a whole range of things, these are just brief example snippets.



Troubleshooting

If your reading this chances are you are having problems.

Here are some common causes and fixes.

1. Headers already sent or cookies already sent errors. Chances are that there is something, even just a space before the 4 lines of code in part 1. Edit this and ensure that there are no spaces before it.
   
   
   
2. Path problems are the next biggest problem. Your paths must be exact else it will not work. Double check that all paths are correct.
   If you are unsure what the path is place the following code in a page all by itself.
   
   

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   Name this file something like path.php then upload it to your website, browse to it and it will show you the exact path to your sites root.
   
   
   
3. Appears to login ok, but wont show you as logged in
   Often caused by the vB cookie path setting.
   To fix log into you vB admin area;
   
   

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4. Subdomains and cross site logins
   This is a known issue with many scripts (not just this one), sometimes fixable sometimes not. Its caused by vB, PHP and your hosts security measures.
   
   First change your "cookie domain" settings.
   vB Admin > Control Panel > Cookies and HTTP Header Options > Cookie Domain
   Change it from being blank to
   
   

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   You may need to set a post referrer in your whitelist.
   vB Admin > Control Panel > General Settings > Post Referrer Whitelist
   Instructions on what to enter are listed where you change this setting.
   
   That should fix it if your forum is a subdomain.
   
   If that fails then,
   Open your /forum/login.php file and look for this code:
   
   

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   Below that add
   
   

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   Now save this and overwrite the file on the server with this one.
   
   A further reported work around is to make a copy of the required Forum Forum files on your second Server. Then you must set in the config.php on the second server to use the ip of the server with which the VB-Database is running.
   
   
   
5. 404 Error on expiring passwords
   Cause - When redirected for expired password you are redirected to the directory that your login script is located in, not your forums root.
   
   Fix - Edit phrase called
   

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   Your current phrase should be
   
   

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   change it to
   
   
   

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   where ../forums/ is your forums directory.
   
   
   
6. Still got problems?
   It may be a conflict with somthing already in your site.
   To check this we can just make a simple page.
   Call it test.php and use just this code in it.
   (Make sure there is no whitespace before the 1st line)
   
   

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   Naturally, change paths to fit your forums, then upload it.
   Browse to it and run it.

[KURTZ]

Hi Bill, some shots?

[Billspaintball]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

Hi Bill, some shots?

Added.
See the screenshots section above.

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by Billspaintball

Added.
See the screenshots section above.

thx

[NeuroLancer]

This is really easy to configure and use, its working great right out of the box, thanks.

[Hornstar]

Just wondering if you are working on this bug, or if it is not possible: Will not display Avatars correctly if they are kept in the file system (database avatars are fine)

[Billspaintball]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Just wondering if you are working on this bug, or if it is not possible: Will not display Avatars correctly if they are kept in the file system (database avatars are fine)

Not actively.
I did try and get around it in the past, but never came up with a workable solution.

[projectego]

/me clicks install

[snunhuck]

Adding PHP Code:

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breaks the page's layout.

Example here:

http://members.thinkteen.co.uk (original page)
http://members.co.uk/m2.php (Page broken + no login box)

[Billspaintball]

Try changing

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to

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Originally Posted by snunhuck

Adding PHP Code:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

breaks the page's layout.

Example here:

http://members.thinkteen.co.uk (original page)
http://members.co.uk/m2.php (Page broken + no login box)

[snunhuck]

still broken

[C.Birch]

Originally Posted by Billspaintball

Try changing

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to

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Should that not be a server path and not a address? eg it should be '/home/username/public_html/

[snunhuck]

hmm, I'll see if it works

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Nope Still broken.

here's the page I'm trying to implement: http://members.thinkteen.co.uk/m2.html It's meant to look like this: http://members.thinkteen.co.uk

[Billspaintball]

Originally Posted by snunhuck

here's the page I'm trying to implement: http://members.thinkteen.co.uk/m2.html

This mod only works with php pages, not html pages.