change msg file type

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:32 pm

hi klemen,
thanks for the reply.
with regard to option 1, it would take forever changing the extensions by hand. is there a quick way or program to use to bulk convert them?
i have looked online but all of them have to be paid for...
thanks

Post by **Klemen** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 8:28 pm

Don't know of any, try searching.

How about option 2?

Henrie · Post by **Henrie** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:28 pm

For option 1 I can recommend Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/)

It's a shareware program but Christian Ghisler (the author of the program) is very lenient toward users who do not buy the program if they can not afford it. It is one of a few commercial programs I am a registered user of.

Here's how to rename the files with Total Commander
Once installed, start Total Commander.
Browse to the msg folder.
Select all files (Ctrl+A or Ctrl + Num+)
Press CTRl+M (starts Multi-Rename-Tool)
In the extension field, change [E] to shtml (check if the new names are oke)
Press Start! button to change the names
Press Close button to close the Multi-Rename-Tool

Greetings,
Henrie

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:30 pm

hi klemen,
i was hoping the extension change from html to shtml would make mboard entirely dynamic, but i see previous messages (in shtml) are unaffected even when i change the footer. so i'm guessing it won't be possible to make this work on mboard?
thanks

Post by **Klemen** » Fri May 02, 2008 8:33 am

SSI (shtml) are dynamic and it doesn't depend on the script (MBoard in your case). Have you read and tried any of the tutorials?

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:33 pm

hi klemen,
thanks for the reply. i've taken a look at your tutuorials, but can't find much help there. i'm really confused as i thought making the extensions shtml would mean when i change the footer, previous message's footers would also change, but it doesn't. not sure if i've done something wrong...

Henrie · Post by **Henrie** » Fri May 02, 2008 4:37 pm

In the shtml files you have to include code to include the footer.
Something like

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<!--#include file="../footer.txt" -->

To write this code in the *.shtml files in the msg folder you have to edit the existing (s)html files manually.
For new files to include this code you will have to edit the mboard.php file.
In MBoard 1.30 op en mboard.php file and go to line 443, there you'll find this

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</body>

Now edit this like this

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<!--#include file="../footer.txt" --></body>

Now you will have your footer.txt in all new files.

But this is only for the footer.txt file. Some other code is still hardcoded in the file. For example the "My lovely website - message board" which is set in the settings.php file in $settings['mboard_title']="" is written in the message file and is not dynamically read, so changes in the settings.php file will not be reflected in the message. Also the link to the css file is hardcoded. This normally will not give any problem unless you move to another host.

Greetings,
Henrie

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Sun May 04, 2008 2:31 pm

hi henrie,
have tried, but doesn't seem to work

Henrie · Post by **Henrie** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:22 pm

Are you sure that SSI is supported by your server?
You can check by creating a test.

Create one file called ssitest.shtml with the following content:

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<html>
<head>
<title>Test for SSI support.</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><!--#include file="content.txt" --></p>
</body>
</html>

Now create another file with the name content.txt with the following content:

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If this text is displayed than SSI is supported.

Upload both files to your server in the same directory. Now open ssitest.shtml in you browser. If the page does not display any content than SSI is not supported by your server. If it displays the text in content.txt than SSI is supported.

Greetings,
Henrie

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:14 pm

hi henrie,
thanks for the reply. i did the test and it passed. It read:
If this text is displayed than SSI is supported.
if i sent my mboard.php file to you, would you mind taking as look at it. it has been modified by klemen to include images, and i have made further modifications too.
i tried using

instead of

but i get the following error
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
cheers![/code]

Post by **Klemen** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:47 pm

You did try with

?

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:16 pm

hello klemen,
yes i did try and it did not give the error
however it did not update when i made changes to the footer

Henrie · Post by **Henrie** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:33 pm

Did you clear your browser cache after you changed the footer?
Try to reload the page by pressing Ctrl+F5 (works in IE and Firefox).

Greetings,
Henrie

Post by **Klemen** » Mon May 05, 2008 3:41 pm

How about you instead try replacing (in mboard.php)

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$content.=$footer;

with this:

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$content.='<!--#include file="../footer.txt" -->';

Save, upload, post a new message and test it.

icepack · Post by **icepack** » Mon May 05, 2008 5:04 pm

now, my entire footer disappears and instead i get:
[an error occurred while processing this directive]