So, Will this one work on a Win server?

DocRST wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2003 at 12:26pm:


This version of the mod is completely integrated with YaBB so like the rest of YaBB, it works fine on both OS'. In fact, it was written and tested on a Win32 server so if any of these kind of problems are going to appear they should be for *nix!

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Yes, I agree, it is confusing... I'll remove this option in the next version. Thanks for pointing this out.

Hey Ronnie just wanted to share an interesting headache I got related to your mod.

I noticed on my board after installing this mod, that even though I had different colors set for the .message1 and .message2 fields, only the color for .message2 was ever used.

So I noticed that on BillBSET2's board above he has the same thing, no alternating colors.

So I took a look inside the ShoutBox.pl, find the part where it decides on what background color to use depending on the count number.  Decided that I couldn't see anything at all wrong with your code.  the modulus function should work, the increment should work, and obviously the loop works fine.  Anyway so I added a bit to the print line so it'd display the value of $count at the end of the shout messages.  What I found out is that the value of $count remains at 0 the entire time.  It never increments.  So I was at a loss for this, tried about a billion combinations.  Found it interesting that if you progress the $count++; before the print line in the loop, instead of all 0s you get all 1s.

Anyway to end this bizarroness, out of desperation I tried creating a $count2 variable in all the same places that the original $count was at, replaced it in the modulus equation ($count2 % 2).  And it works.  $count2 increments, the alternative colors are used, and all the while I have $count running side by side in the same locations, and nothing.

I have no idea why that works, but it does.  For whatever clarity it may add, I'm using a Unix server.

@scaredwitless - thanks for highlighting this (no pun intended). I've never noticed this while testing, but off the top of my head I'd guess there might be another $count variable in use somewhere else at the same time (probably from another mod on the Boardindex that I wasn't using during testing), and there's some kind of conflict going on.

I'll add this to the to-do list.

Quick question for anyone interested in the mod - how important is the "add to top/add to bottom" option to you?

I originally planned to include it, and quite a bit of the code is already written, but I just came up against a brick wall and had a lot of really awkward problems so gave up. I don't really have the motivation to try again... but if it's important to people then I'll have a go.

Changes made so far:

- Removed the auto-refresh setting from the Shoutbox Options page to clear up the confusion. To set the auto-refresh, you now just edit it in the template.
- Fixed a variable conflict that caused the alternating shout background colours to fail for some people.
- Linking of usernames removed to simplify things.
- Highlighting member's own posts now works. Please note: only members who are LOGGED IN and who made the shout using their DISPLAY NAME will see shouts as highlighted. Note that Guest shouts and shouts a member made using a different name cannot be highlighted.
- If "name changing" is disabled, a line is shown to Guests saying "Your name: [their name]" in place of the text box.

By "adding to top or bottom" I mean the option of whether to add new shouts to the top or bottom of the shoutbox list. Sorry, I should have made that clear.

That's got to be the most confusing board I've ever seen! I afraid I have absolutely no idea how you would go about sorting that out, other than one little trick - right click and view the source of your boardindex, and try to sort the HTML out that way - then you can go into Boardindex.pl and adjust the HTML output with the help of the generated page you have.

I was referring to joelmachado's board.