NEW USER HAS A QUESTION
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Printed Date: 15 April 2026 at 3:29pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: NEW USER HAS A QUESTION
Posted By: Wrightwood
Subject: NEW USER HAS A QUESTION
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 5:03pm
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Dear Group,
1.) Other forums I have used make it so that if I make a change in the post it becomes the #1 topic to look at in the forum. With webwiz it seems they stay right where they are even if you edit them? Is there a way to change the order of the topics in a particular forum?
2.) I really like this software but when I try to look for MODs in the forum, most of the posts are old and I don't know if they were addressed already in the new version 7.9 Where are the new MODs?
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 4:31am
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1. If you edit a post the post date remains the same. If you want to
make the post go to the top either post a new post in the topic, or if
you use the admin/moderators, button in a topic you can set the topic
as a sticky topic so it remains at the top of the list. 2. Mods are written by 3rd parties, usually just people who have modded the forum for their won use and wish to share their mod with others. You would have to contact the authors of the mods you wish to use and ask them if they would work in the latest version. As 7.95/7.96 only came out in the last 2 weeks, I doubt many mod writters have had chance to update their mods yet. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 4:49am
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For part 2 of the question most mods Do work with new versions as im using like 15 of those |
...the only real difference is between mods for the Access and MS SQL databses or those written for really old versions of WWF like version 6 or 7. Even if some mods don't work for the version difference there isnt much to do about those only a few modifications of your own and you'll be able to use those. If your interested in any particular old mod post in the topic for that mod and the good people here would help you out for your problems but you should understand that its not their JOB to do so. This goes for anyone who posts here. Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 12:18am
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Absolutely understood. Thank you both for getting back to me so quickly. It appears that version 8 has a lot of the improvements I was going to suggest. I will keep suggesting things from time to time because my goal is to get webwiz known as the best forum for ASP and possibly SQL. While we are on that subject is there a way to increase the amount of emoticons available for users?
Thanks again for a great product.
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Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 1:28am
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Is there a way to increase the maximum forum description characters?
If there is please direct me to where I can increase them.
Also, Is there a way to have bigger Avatars than 64 x 64?
Thanks
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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 5:40am
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1. emtotions you can add mre by uploading the images/emotions to the internet then edit the includes/emotions_inc.asp edit the array verble at the top for each emotion you are adding, and ten add a new emotion at the bottom of the list, 2. the forum description is set to that , but if you edit the database you willl /maybe able ot increase the size of the field its stored in (edit tblForum) 3. avatar size you can change the height and width of avatars fro within the includes/skin_file.asp |
Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 6:48am
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ive seen some mod while browsing for emoticon sets aswell, u can check it out by doing a search.
everything else has been explained by dj air :)
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 9:36pm
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A note on forum description... You'll notice that the db allows more characters in the field than the data entry form for the field allows. To prevent sql injection attacks, certain characters and combinations of letters are expanded ti their ascii representation prior to being inserted in the db. As a result, a character in one of these character strings may acrually occupy up to 4 characters in the db. ------------- 
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 11:40pm
| You guys are great...It is so nice to have instant support. |
Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 13 November 2005 at 12:01am
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I hope you don't get tired of hearing from me but here goes: Recently my wife found the need to edit or add to several hundred posts on our forum. She was really mad when it said this post was edited by and gave the time, date and who by. Is there anyway that I can turn that off while editing as an administrator?
Thanks in advance
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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 13 November 2005 at 6:16am
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this is not an option in the standard install, but not hard to eccomplish in the message form (RTE and stanfdard message include files in the includes file) when its not pm or new post, (strMode = "edit") then add a checkbox, and call it /add mesasge saying dont display edit by then on post_message.asp find the section that handles the edited by part mid way i think. and add if CBool(request.form("EditBy")) = True then add ' AND CBool(request.form("EditBy")) = True' to the if statement for it. i have used this method on my support forum. makee sure its for blnAdmin or blnModerator can only see it |
Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 13 November 2005 at 8:15am
| i think there is an option in forum configuration tab in admin pannel for this... |
Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 13 November 2005 at 11:17am
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you can turn off the edit by system all together yes from tha admin menu my method is on a per edit status. so you can choose everytime you edit a post if to or not. |
Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 4:37am
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1.) Well so far the edits are going well. I still haven't tried to change the database to give me more character spaces for topics. Sounds kinda scary if you can corrupt your database doing that however, I sure do need more room for both topic descriptions and user names (I have a few with 16 characters instead of the max of 15). I know it can be done because these forum members belong to others that have no trouble accepting the longer names.
2.) Last but not least, I have seen several examples of webwiz forums with the advertisements stacked on the bottom instead of both the top and bottom. I was wondering if there is a trick to setting them at the bottom. I have no problem with the ads but I would like to have a bigger area for my header without corrupting the operation of the board. Anyway those are the latest questions I have. Keep up the good work.
Thanks to all the team at Webwizforums.
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Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 17 November 2005 at 2:38pm
Maybe the above question was overlooked?
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Wrightwood wrote:Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 17 November 2005 at 8:16pm
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Ads cannot be messed with Id say leave them as they are if you havent purchased the license key. |
Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 20 November 2005 at 3:28pm
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Forget the ads... and the question! SEE BELOW
How do I increase the characters in Forum descriptions?
so that I don't get cut off in mid sentence? I know it has something
to do with the database but as I said before I don't want to go messing with numbers that may affect the program.
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Posted By: Ali Bilgrami
Date Posted: 21 November 2005 at 12:36am
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here you go
1-backup database
2-open database table tblAuthor in design view
3-select the field Username
4-in the properties below increase the field size to what ever number u want its 30 by default.
5-exit and save
6- upload yer database
same goes for forum details and forum names but i think they are already pretty large forum name field size is 100 and forum details size is 200 (these can be to the max of 255 due to text data type limitation). Any way same steps for those two.
now after uploading your database you want these changes to take effect.
open the register.asp find this
it would be line 1454 under the title Registration Details if you are using an UnModed and Fresh copy of the file.
change it to this
now save the changes and upload the file. u can change the max length to max of 255.
now for the forum name and details.
goto admin directory and open forum details.asp. At line 353 edit this code
to this
then at line 358 change this code
to this
save the file and upload it. this should pretty much do it. the fields in red are the length of the string you can type in the input text box. where as the size in blue is the actual width of textbox you can increase it if seems fit to you. let us know if it works.
Note: Before doing anything please backup the files to be edited and database.
Note: These changes are for a fresh copy of those files. If you have moded any of those the line numbers might not be the same but sure will somewhere around those line numbers.
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Posted By: Wrightwood
Date Posted: 26 November 2005 at 11:44pm
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1.) This was exactly the kind of tutorial I needed to make the change. With your perfect instructions I decided to take the plunge and edit the database. It seems to be working great....thank you soooo much.
2.) I am wondering is there a way to write http:// addresses in the description of a forum? or link the description? I am just wondering it would be nice if I could do that! I can't wait for 8 to come out it sounds like the search change is going to make it 10 times better. Let alone all the other changes.
3.) I have seen a mod somewhere on this forum about changing the actual date to words like TODAY, YESTERDAY etc. I read it and I think I even tried it but without knowing exactly where to put those changed files I didn't want to take the chance. Ali, if you wouldn't mind giving it to me in the same ordered format I would appreciate it greatly. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving
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