I want to thank you, BHRA, for making it so easy to code your mods manually. I replying here in the hopes that others will follow your example.


I'm talking about  how you add those pound symbols to signify when each file to be modded is needed.

Not every mod writer does this, and this Mac user just wanted to give you the props due for making my YaBBing life a little easier.
Thank you!!!

They would be user files (in the members directory) - See post above for details.

Of course, with certain types of files which share a common name (user files, thread files, board files) it might be worthwhile modifying the routines to delete all files with that name regardless of extension. Then these "clean-up" modifications wouldn't be necessary!

Okay, I have two questions before I add in my unlink code:

1. When a member has posted a message and is then deleted, how does the the member's name (that is now a guest) be displayed? In other words is there a file in the member's dir kept for that purpose that I should not unlink?

2. For files that are already in the member directory that need to be deleted but the person is no longer a member, how do I delete them? If manually that would mean a lot of work!

Thanks for the replies and help.

Another thing I think should be mentioned to all of the aspiring mod writers out there:

Please make certain that you are very dilligent when typing the filenames for BoardMod to edit.  I have used one or two mods that edited a file called English.lng instead of english.lng.

For those of us on Unix/Linux servers, this can wreck our entire board.  Unix servers are case-sensitive, and when you upload English.lng, it will overwrite english.lng.  Unfortunately, because of the case sensitivity, YaBB is then no longer able to locate english.lng because it no longer exists.

So, please make certain that you type the "Edit File" name exactly as it should be when making your mods.

Thanks.

Not for YaBB 2.x though. You shouldn't need to add a new user file or a new board file.