IE& Clipboard error
This patch will fix the problem with the annoying "copy to clipboard" pop-up when posting in IE 7.

A checkbox is added to the post/reply page where users can enable/disable the auto-copy function. In IE 7 the auto-copy function is disabled by default - in older IE browsers it's enabled by default.

http://www.boardmod.org/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=beta_y2;action=display;num=1165506700

 

A "repeated Post timeout error"

An Error Has Occurred! The last POST request from your IP was less than 5 seconds ago, and was blocked to prevent overloading the forum. Please try later.

There might be an entry in the flood.txt file located in the Variables dir that contains your IP address.  Because it is there, the software assumed that address was a flood threat and refused to accept posts. Erasing the contents of this file, but leaving the file intact (0 bytes) corrects the difficulty

 

Registration Forum proceedure:

Actually between pre registration and activation there is no new write, only file changes.

To sum up in a nutshell what happens during pre registration:

A pre-registered user creates a new <userid>.pre file and his ID, together with a timestamp and the activation key is saved in a file in members (the pre registration log called memberlist.inactive).

So this means those two files have to be written (you can check using FTP if the .pre files get written and if the data is also entered in memberlist.inactive.

If this is working the activation link should do the following if succesful.

First of all it checks memberlist.inactive if this user is on the pre registration list and at what time he/she registered.
If he/she is on the list and the time between registration and activation is less then the default set 24 hours the following happens:

- the <userid>.pre file is renamed to <userid>.vars
- the preregistration data is removed from memberlist.inactive
- the member info is entered in memberlist.txt
- the memberlist.ttl is increased by 1.

With FTP you should be able to monitor this completely and find out where it goes wrong. (most likely the memberlist.inactive file has the wrong chmods and does not get editted on pre registration (looking at the error you get).


Upon registration. It sends an e-mail, which you should receive, but when you click the link:

"This user was not pre-registered or the allowed time span of 24 hours expired"


Basically clicking the activation link does four things:

1. it checks if the activation code is the same as saved in the list with pre-registered users
2. if the code is correct it renames the <userid>.pre file to <userid>.vars (which needs correct chmods)
3. it removes the entry for this ID from the pre-registration list and adds it to the memberlist
4. it sends the user an email that registration was succesfull.

Known issues with some email clients are the html conversion of the link which changes certain characters into their html equivalents, which makes the activation link fail.

Solution is to copy&paste the link from the message straight into your browser and activation should work.

 

EX-MEMBER

First go to Admin Center>Member Control>View/Delete Members.. check when your date of registration was...
Then go to Admin Center>Forum Configuration>Forum Settings.... scroll down to General Settings.. "Forum Start Date"  Adjust to clear "Ex" member.  (Must be before (prior) to the admin's registration date.
 

PM Send Error

In Post.pl find:

    if($curnum) { $thecurboard = qq~num=$curnum\;action=$destination~; }
    else { $thecurboard = qq~board=$currentboard\;action=$destination~; } 

and replace it with:

    if($INFO{'action'} eq "imsend") { $thecurboard = qq~action=$destination~; }
    elsif($curnum) { $thecurboard = qq~num=$curnum\;action=$destination~; }
    else { $thecurboard = qq~board=$currentboard\;action=$destination~; }