Topic: Cutecast Messageboard System

[arcticbear]

Mike,

I'm very strongly involved in the Cutecast Messageboard system from Artscore.  It's a very nice script, very flexible, independant of SQL and is getting a lot of focus especially in the plugin area.

There seems to be several, if not a lot of folks with cc boards that are discovering album.pl.

Here's my question, just how tough would it be to add cutecasts user base to the options currently available to album.  Cutecast I believe is using a flatfile db (although a php Sql version is in development as we speak).

I know that the ability to integrate album would be very welcome to me, and many others.  Even better, a cutecast album plugin would be complete awesome.

http://www.artscore.net/cgi-bin/cutecast/cutecast.pl

[johnypneumonic]

Yep,i totaly agree there with arctic bear Mike,
ive been using eZboard for 2 years,...i wanted a change and went thru (testing) about 10-12 different board systems,. i chose cutecast and can say there awesome ,efficient boards,. simple and effective.
The do have an option for plug-ins,. album.plug-in would be just very cool indeed. !!

[Mike Bobbitt]

Hi guys,

It's almost certainly doable to integrate with cutecast. Not sure about the plugin thing, as I don't really know what that's all about...

As for authentication, if you (or someone) can give me details on how cutecast stores it's username/password/display name as well as cookie details, I should be able to do something.

Once it moves to SQL, it'll be dead easy, just use auth type 4 and config the database section...

Cheers

[arcticbear]

OK the user/password info is in a subdirectory off of the cgi-bin/cutecast/ directory called users.

cgi-bin/cutecast/users

each file contains user information for identity and config including user name and password.  The convention for naming these files is "username".user (no quotes obviously) and there is a file for each user.

I was going to download a file named unclebob.user for you to go over, but it's not an image file so it won't let me upload it.  Instead I'm going to put the content of the file below.  Let me know if you need more.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

username=Unclebob
actkey=
name=
title=Brothel Virgin
lastvisit=
language=english
homepage=http://
email=ub@netscape.net
vc_pos=hidden
dateregistered=1037435850
newsletter=1
maritalstatus=value_unspecified
vc_myprofile=visible
vc_usersonline=visible
perthr=30
showfrom=0
occupation=
timeoffset=+8
aim=
level=PVT
vc=visible
notify=
posts=109|1,40|1,75|1,103|1,59|2,7|1
newvisit=
location=
pm_unread=
icq=
pm=1
avatar=http://
interests=
vc_iconslegend=visible
session=
opt1=N
opt2=N
opt3=N
permem=30
twentyfour=0
opt4=N
showemail=0
vc_search=hidden
msn=
permsg=30

-----------------------------------------------------------------

[arcticbear]

Some of it got cut off.  Here's the rest.


permsg=30
yim=
accountstatus=active
signature=
password=password
gender=value_unspecified
skin=http://www.cwmc.org/orange
birthday=--
lastpost=1039745664
totalposts=7
action=none
irc=irc.sciox.com

[Mike Bobbitt]

Looks good. Are the lines always in that order, or can they be re-arranged? Since they're prefixed with an identifier, they don't *have* to be in that order -- just want to make sure...

Cheers

[arcticbear]

Let me check with the developer, however it seems to me when I was going through several of the files that they did have a different order sometimes and in fact some have additional fields while others have less.

Thanks.

[arcticbear]

Yes I don't think it will be a problem

[Mike Bobbitt]

Making sticky so I can try to remember to look at this again.

I'm not sure when I'll have some cycles to try to code this, so feel free to nag me once in a while...

Cheers

[johnypneumonic]

Mike,..
can i  also point out  please , that i  chose cutecast because my server does not  support MYSql ...
well not  just  cos of that,they look great because there minimilstic
ive almost finished mine,.. have a  peep here
http://www.trance-creator.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/cgi-bin/Forums/cutecast.pl