Topic: Something so simple

[smd]

I want something so simple its amazing it isnt even there yet! I want a logout button 

[adwiseman]

There is, next to your logedin name on the menu bar

[smd]

me no see on mine
what do u think i did wrong

[adwiseman]

Have you updated to the latest version.  6.5 somthing..., and what type of authentication are you using.  I don't know if it changes with different authentications.

[smd]

I'm using the yabb sp 1.3.1 -.- with album 6.4

[Mike Bobbitt]

The logout button will only automatically appear when an album.pl cookie is being used (usually only with authentication_type=1). When a YaBB cookie is used, album.pl won't log you out. I figured deleting a cookie set by YaBB would be a bad thing...

However, you can edit album_header.tml and add a logout button/link that takes you to your YaBB logout page. That way the same software that sets your cookie deletes it, for more uniform handling.

Hope that makes sense.


Cheers
Mike

[smd]

eh i found another way... you just go http://www.yoursitegoeshere.com/cgi-bin/album.pl?function=logout
works fine for me.. doesnt even log me out of yabb... is it because i changed the cookies from the default cookies for yabb?

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yep, that's why. You're actually using album.pl cookies then. If you change this bit of code in album.pl:

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# Change these if you've customized your YaBB cookie names...
my $YaBBusername="YaBBusername";
my $YaBBpassword="YaBBpassword";
To use your actual YaBB cookie names, you won't have to log in (or out) via album.pl. It'll automatically use your YaBB cookies.

[smd]

I think i will stick with this.. I like to be able to test it out without messing with my forums at the same time. =)

[Mike Bobbitt]

Heheh, ok, your call. When you use YaBB cookies though, they're never modified, just read (hence no logout button)...

[Poptarts]

I've been wanting a logout button for my album too, except I use UBB, so what I did was just modify the code to add a logout button next to the "Welcome ~~!".  The button would point to the UBB logout link, but only if the authentification mode was 2 (UBB).  In future releases it would be good if you could have this built in, along with a config item for the logout function, as it varies from version to version of UBB.

Code modifications:
Below...

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if (($::authentication_type eq 1) || ($::authentication_type eq 5))
{
if ($::textmenu)
{
$data.=" || ";
}
$data.="&nbsp;<a href=\"$::albumprog?function=$::logout_code\" class=\"optionslink\">";
if ($::textmenu)
{
$data.=$::S{305};
}
else
{
$data.="<img class=\"button\" src=\"$::logout_button\" title=\"$::S{305}\" />";
}
$data.="</a>";
if ($::textmenu)
{
$data.=" || ";
}
}I added this:

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if ($::authentication_type eq 2)
{
if ($::textmenu)
{
$data.=" || ";
}
$data.="&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.sb2wpics.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=logoff\" class=\"optionslink\">";
if ($::textmenu)
{
$data.=$::S{305};
}
else
{
$data.="<img class=\"button\" src=\"$::logout_button\" title=\"$::S{305}\" />";
}
$data.="</a>";
if ($::textmenu)
{
$data.=" || ";
}
}

[Mike Bobbitt]

Thanks for the code... I considered something like this a while ago, but couldn't find a reliable way to get the UBB logout URL...