Ok well I've got it running on vBulletin v2.2.4 and it works great! Just one little minor thing, when I go to "glossary.php" it shows nothing. I do have terms added, just nothing appears, why is this? Thanks and great hack! :)

The attached was made by TWTCommish himself to get us stated (you needed to read the entire thread to find it.)

Put in admin directory and run. It will add about 20 items to the database.

Ok thanks, however, that doesn't help the fact that it still doesn't show on "glossary.php". All it shows is this:

The Software Specialists Place > Glossary

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There are no letters, nothing...What should I do?

What's the direct link?

http://www.thessp.net/forum/glossary.php :)

Something's wrong with your glossary.php file. Can you post it here via attachment? I'll take a look at it.

Sure, here you go

Oops, here's the file, sorry! :)

I think I know what's wrong. It's not your glossary.php file: it's your templates. Did you add the glossary_letter and glossarybit templates? The problem you've having indicates that you didn't...I think that would explain it.

I did add them though...

Lemme double check to make sure it has the right info in it...

Well I just double checked everything and it's all there and it all works....So what else should I do?

Can you email me (chris@movieforums.com) the contents of each of your glossary templates? I should probably look at those, too. Hmmm, strange stuff. What version of vB are you running? Are you sure you have a fairly recent installation of PHP?

Well what's in the templates are exactly what the text file has

I'm running 2.2.4, and it was installed the same day that 2.2.4 came out ;)

Hmmm. Gimme some time, I'll see if I can figure out what the hizzell is going on. :D

Okies, well in the mean time I think I'll delete the templates and re-create them. Also, I know I edited the index.php and stuff right, what else could be at fault? Thanks for your support, it's greatly appreciated! :)

Well damn....I re-did the templates and it worked. I don't know what wasn't working the first time, but it works great now! Thanks so much for this hack! And btw, you have a successful test on 2.2.4 now ;) Thanks again sir!! :)

LOL. Good, I'm glad! Enjoy the hack...thanks so much for installing it.

Is there an install.php for the sql query? I do not have access to shell.. Thanks.

Ok, try this. I haven't tested it, but I think it'll work.

You don't need shell, just phpMyAdmin to run queries. Most hosts have it already installed on user accounts, if it is not you may wish to ask your host to install it for you as you will probably need it sometime down the line....

SaintDog

It worked... thank you. I'll have to keep it for any other "hacks" I install. I just hope I don't blow up my database.. :)

This is a great hack! I am curious, though, is there a way to do expand the functionality of this hack in the following way:

Instead of listing the definitions, the terms could be hyper-linked and open up a new page displaying an article; sort of like an Encyclopedic reference?

Thanks so much for your help!

Regards,
Kaelon

Kaelon: yes, it could be modified. Though not HIGHLY easily. I'm not sure how it'd look, formatting-wise. Could you elaborate? :)

Sure!

Basically, like an Encyclopedia. The terms would be listed in the glossary.php page, without their definitions (so, basically, in a single column, like a list). Here are a few examples:

Then, when you click on a term, a new page opens basically outputting the definition in the same template setting.

Would that make sense/work?

Kaelon

Oh, yeah. Sorry, I misunderstood you. Lemme take a look-see. :)

Thanks a bunch! What I'd really like to do with it is host an extensive library of fiction. =)

I am very interested in installing this hack on my board, but I was hoping somebody could let me know if it will work on a 2.0.3 board?

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Yes, I'm 99% sure it should work just fine with 2.0.3. Only one way to find out, though. :D It's mostly stand-alone anyway, so I think it's worth trying.

Thanks TWTCommish, This will make a great addition to may 50+ hacks I have installed on my forum.

Anybody know if there is a record for how many hacks you can install in a certain version of VB? :D

I have some pretty cool ideas for this hack too. I love tinkering with hacks and using them in ways nobody even thought of. :)

TWTCommish

I was wondering if it would be possible to make the gloassary searchable with the VB search? I was also looking Kaelon's request and I would like something like that too. Not exactly for the same thing, but it would work.

If you could let me know if it would be possible to make it searchable, along with adding that feature Kaelon as talking about I would really appreciate it. I have a really cool idea for this, but I kinda need these two features in order for it to work properly.

Thanks TWTCommish!

It would definitely be very cool if you could both:
1.) Include searching of the glossary in every Search
2.) Choose to seach the glossary from a drop down

Maybe with #1 it would also be nice to put glossary results at the end of the results section.

Bump.

TWTCommish are you still working on this hack or should I be looking for an alternative hack for my databasing idea?

I'll need some more time, I'm working on a few other things. Don't give up on me just yet. :D

OK sounds good. Thanks. When you do update it please post in this thread so I get an email. I'm not as actively searching for hacks as I used to, just because I am starting to run into more problems when I install hacks of today on a 2.0.3 forum. :D

Works great on 2.2.5 TWT, again, great hack! :)

Just one question...When viewing the "Who's Online", it just says "unknown source" then gives the link to the glossary...is there someway that I can make it say "Glossary"?

You can always hard code it, but I highly recommend this hack:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=32849

What FWC said. :)

I'm sure you have been told this a thousand times but great hack!

This is a fantastic Hack TWTCommish, it's just what I was looking for and I have installed it of course :D
Would it possible to add the following to the hack:
1. The search engine as you mentioned earlier and I DO think it's useful.
2. Can we add a new option so that the users themselves can add terms to the glossary itselfe?????
Thanx in advance :)