Hi,

If you're comfy with modifying the code yourself then have a look at this post over on Carsten's forum - It should do exactly what you want:

http://www.carsten-dalgaard.dk/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1320684758/9#9

I'm not sure which version of YaBB you are using, but it should work with 2.4/2.5.

Yep, BoardMod is basically just a code editor, and if you'd rather make the edits yourself instead of using the BoardMod program then that's absolutely fine to do.

If you open the .mod file in a text editor you should find it self explanatory - here's a quick example from the Antispam Question Mod (Antispam_Question_V0_2.mod):

<edit file>
Admin/ModList.pl
</edit file>

<search for>
### END BOARDMOD ANCHOR ###
</search for>

<add before>
    $reg_question_mod = "Anti-Spam Question|Derek Barnstorm|This Mod will add a random question which must be answered on registration. [<span class=\"small\"><a href=\"$adminurl?action=reg_question\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Anti-Spam Question Settings</a></span>]|0.2|7th November 2011";
    push (@installed_mods, "$reg_question_mod");

</add before> 

All you have is <edit file> which is the file to edit, <search for> which is the code in that file to search for, and then either <replace>, <add before> or <add after>.

I hope that makes sense...

Derek Barnstorm wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 6:05pm:

This is very helpful. Thank you very much!  :2thumbsup:

For me personally when I've used it, I really appreciated that BoardMod gives step by step instructions with it's "Manual Installation" option. Wonderfully helpful! I'm particularly grateful for that option because it's been a great way for me to learn more about how YaBB's coding works. Very cool! 

You geniuses rock! 

Unfortunately here in the states we cannot get real and truthful news about our own country.  I have to get my news about what is really happening here from your country. We are mentally manipulated in mass here by our media.

I have ran across quite a few articles about how the U.S. is overly obsessed with the idea of the S*** hitting the fan soon. Doomsday preppers and Etc. They seem to find it humorous that the topic has become such a big business here. The stocking up of guns and ammo is the main direction of the humor.

There is a big movement towards self sustained living and independence from the big corporations and government. I just jumped on the band wagon with my sites because I too think we might soon need old way knowledge to survive along with a few extra tins of kippers. The economy is not getting any better,Lol.

I based my comment on the articles I have read but should not have stereotyped, I apologize for that Derek. Again thank you so much for your time and help Sir. Please have a great day!

J.R.

shtfknowledge.com

J.R. Bentley wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 10:17am:

Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining. No reason to apologize - I was just intrigued.

westwegoman wrote on Aug 15^th, 2012 at 3:30pm:


 I have been to busy to install it but can't wait! I think I have so far banned just about every IP address from Russia,China,Poland and the Ukraine ! Lol. Is there a Whole country ban button mod? Lol.

 I am going to contact you at your site if you don't mind, I have a good friend, editor and author you might like to meet to discuss going fishing.

J.R.

J.R. Bentley wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 1:29pm:

Ah, good point. 

Ironically, thanks to a YaBBer who had modified his own forum with a CAPTCHA hack without using BoardMod, I followed his lead to do the same for our forum.

Very happily, this stopped all spam-bots cold. Previously, we had been getting hundreds of attempted registrations a day because of spam-bot automation that easily defeats CAPTCHA verification codes (our form no longer requires registrants to jump through that hoop).

As for using the BoardMod program, I was ignorant about how it actually worked, and afraid that I wouldn't be able to use it. But I got encouragement from YaBBers to take the plunge to install the BoardMod program, and give it a try.

I'm glad I did. It's like having a help-bot to assist me.

As for the results you get while taking less steps to accomplish the same thing, I'm reminded of one forum software in particular that forked off from YaBB SE many years ago. Their modification process is now built in to the core of their software so that modified files are updated directly on the server.

I'm hoping that YaBB will more or less do the same thing at some point, i.e., marry BoardMod with YaBB's core so that it's more or less a one-step process.

Well, with an undo feature in case it's needed.