Justin...

Here are a couple of thoughts toward future upgrades of the program. 

1.  Allow for Administrators to receive email notifications that someone has signed up and/or needs validation (depending on how the admin sets up the board)

2.  Allow for easy modification of emails and subject lines that are delivered at the time of sign up and validation. (I still can't find where to do it within Languages>English>Register.Ing)

Hey julie I can answer ? 2 for you 

2.
To change the subject line go in Languages/English/Register.Ing
on line 32 you will see ---> $registertxt[38] = 'Forum Validation';
in between ' ' is what you can change.

The Head of the E-Mail that says welcome to the (the name of your board that you set in the admin section) go in Languages/English/Register.Ing line 29 you will see ---> $registertxt[35] = 'Welcome to the';
Change anything between ' '

The body of the E-Mail go to Languages/English/Register.Ing line 30  you will see ---> $registertxt[36] = 'Before you can start posting and use the member features on the';
Change anything between ' '

And line 40 you will see ---> $registertxt[54] = 'you must validate your username.';
Change anything between ' '

And line 27 you will see ---> $registertxt[33] = 'The forum administrators have disabled access to certain features on these boards. You will have to wait for an administrator to validate you after you have validated yourself.';
Change anything between ' '

And line 31 you will see ---> $registertxt[37] = 'To validate your username, please use the link below';
Change anything between ' '

Thanks. 

I may add #1.  Just have to see if I can remember I guess. 

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Hey julie I can answer ? 2 for you 

- Thanks Cody!    That helped a lot.

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I may add #1.  Just have to see if I can remember I guess. 

- Yeah you mentioned that the other night in one of my other posts. =)  I figured if I put it here it might help you to remember. 

Well ... it's easy as nothing to do ... just remembering it is the thing.

Btw ... how's everyone like Final?    If you were one of the first 3 to download Final, REDOWNLOAD it ... I fixed a last minute bug.  To find out if you're included, add this to your signature:

Code [code]this should be a bug[/ code]

  If you get an error that looks like:

http://jfa.eblah.com/uploads/eblaherror.jpg ... upgrade ASAP.    It's a 'major' bug, and it was recently solved (after days of wondering if it was a bug, or just a user error of some sort).

Justin;

I may have been one of the first three to download. I did not get a chance to upgrade my forum, which is very new. So I thought I would start all over again via a fresh new install as no one has used the boards yet. Again I plan to install on our in house server to test it out before uploading to the host.

A couple of observations:

1. I thought you removed all references to alpha, beta in the new Blah Platinum5 release. When I unzipped the distribution file: platinum5.zip it was extracted into the following directory: \platinum5\Blah Platinum Alpha 

I understand that this is the first version if the Platinum5 release, but it is slightly confusing seeing a designation of alpha. If it not an alpha version then perhaps a numerical release number would be more appropriate, as you are planning several updates during the year. Can you place a version number at the bottom of the page where you have the statement " Powered by E-Blah with the link to eblah.com.

2. One of my hosting facilities allows perl scripts to be executed from anywhere within the site. My preference in NOT to use cgi-bin if possible. I uploaded the previous version into a directory called 'forum' it works just fine.

3. I might suggest, that as many hosts regard chmod 666, 766 and 777 as a no-no and request that these permissions NOT be applied to directories or files. Anyone installing your excellent system should inquire from their host what their policies are in this regard.

On the same note when I first uploaded E-Blah 4, your install instructions called for the /uploads and /helpdoc directories to 666.  I did it first to /helpdoc and immediately noticed the entire directory disappeared, it was there but was hidden from view (I used SmartFTP). After contacting my host they told me never chmod to 666, they changed it to 755. I am wondering if other hosts have the same security concerns, perhaps you may require some other chmod for these directories. My host changed them to 755, and all is well.

All the best 

Mel

It all depends on your server. 

#1 ... I have a script that puts the new files in the dir, that's why I haven't / won't rename the DIR yet ... lol.  It's just a little thing anyway.

#2 ... I've done that before as well.


- Justin

My hosting also allow my Perl scripts to be located out of the CGI-BIN dir as well. The URL looks cleaner.

But do remember to place this piece of info to the directory's .htaccess file to prevent hiccups

Code AddHandler cgi-script .pl .cgi Options Includes +ExecCGI

Have fun!