OK, i've just set-up asked John if he would set-up a demo for me on his test forums, so that I can get this hack finilised ASAP can you please go and sign-up to his forums (http://www.eovie.com/forum/) and then use the story (http://www.eovie.com/forum/vbstory.php)

The sooner I can get an all clear, the better :)

Cheers all.

Come on. Onion Man needs a life. :D
Help onion MAn!

ok, one question. What if 2 users were adding a chapter at the same time?

Whoever submits the chapter first will have it added, the second user, once they hit the submit button will receve a message telling them they where too late, and is given the ability to view the chapter that was added.

I was thinking on working on a more advanced verson which would prevent you from seeing the submission form if someone else was currently adding a chapter, but it's not going to be included in this verson.

I helped onion man !

Gonna Go ahead and try rc4 on my test server...

I will report back later!

bitbender, any luck? any problems? any comments?

Well, I was 'tupid, and REFUSED to believe your comment about UserId, and typed in my admin name.

"Instant" assignment of the author ID of '0'(zero) in the chapters table, rendering it undisplayable on the story.php page.

I figgured I did sumpin wrong, so whence I arrived home from the office, I rechecked my templates, and code, all looked well..then I read thru this post, and low and belold on about page 6 or 7 (I fink) there was a case where someone had left author blank, and received a "similar" sit, so's I goes phpmyadmin, and ya, und Bit's is a Dufus. Thankfully MyPhpAdmin is made for moments like that!
A quick set to my user #, and we were off to the races!!

I'm going to to some deep 6 testing on it, now...Back soon!

Ohh, I'm running 2.2.6, and VBportal 3.0 pr8.1, with a buncha hacks, whole buncha hacks.

Film at 11

Keep at this, I like it already !

bitbender - well, you do have a way with words :) - I'm glad you like the hack.

I'm going to have to do something about that, maybe a little message saying that it's important with a link to the members page so they can get the user ID.

If, however, a user suggests a story, it will automaticly be entered in, so that's not really a problem anymore, but i'm going to keep the userid option in the admin for the moment, maybe setting the default as 1, just incase the admin/mod has to add a story for someone that's not quite intelegent enough to use the suggestion form :)

(BTW, I got the idea of having a user's ID number from TWTcommish's vBquiz hack, and if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me - he is also the tetris king on my arcade (the bastard LOL)

[high]* Ninth Dimension see's TWTcommish and runs.[/high]

Hi there! I've installed the latest beta on my forums but haven't brought it "live" yet to my members; you can check it out right here if you want to see some of the template tweaks I've done. (My forum layout uses a left column, which tends to push everything out to the right if I'm not careful.) Also, I changed some of the text to suit my community, which is largely for writers anyway. Here's the testing I've done so far:

- Created genres and a first story
- Added a chapter and two different path chapters.
- Edited the chapters.
- Suggested a story, then made sure it showed up in the admin panel.

So far everything has worked perfectly! Woohoo! :banana:

I do have a possible suggestion, though. When clicking on one of the paths that hasn't yet been written, I receive the standard "Now it's your turn!" page. So far so good. But if I continue on to the "add chapter" form, it would be great if the page could include the title of the path I've chosen, to "remind" me of the choice I made. Like, above the text field I'd be able to see the path title, such as "The Intruder Attacks..."

Do you think this is feasible? What can I say, I have a short memory. :)

Anyway, this is a totally kickass hack and I can't wait to bring it live. Super job, and many many thanks!

Writing RCA's (Root Cause Analyses to upper management gives a person the "silver tounge"!

THe ID thing is FINE, I was just being stuborn as germans are, sometimes(or so my dutch friends tell me). I also have VBQuiz installed on my board, and it's a great hack, also, and yes, he does use the the userid #, not name....

hmmmm...perhaps a eregi check to see if the field contained letters, instead of numbers??

If you don't mind, I may "play" a bit wif my copy, for now! :banana:

[high]* bitbender reminds himself to take several backups, now.....[/high]

First off I just want to say that I'm glad you like the hack :D and that I love how it looks on your site ;). The chapters you have written are about the right size for it to look good and be an interesting read. (N.B. I'm thinking about adding a feature that will block chapters that are too short).

Second, I think that this is a fantastic idea, although i'm not 100% sure how esay/hard it's going to be to do. I'll have to think about that one.

I do have one idea oh how to enable your suggestion, and should only need two template edits plus some extra lines to the file, but it's not the tidyest of ideas, so I'm going to work on another idea that I have for it first.

- unrelated(ish) -

Another problem that I have is that if you look at the show all page it does not show which path was taken at the end of each chapter. with the way I have coded it, it's near impossable for it to be added (without add FARFARFAR too many queries to that page, which I really don't want to do).

Anyway, it's like 3:13AM here :sleep: so i'll try to work on your suggestion tomorrow.

In theory doing this is fine, I just don't know what code I would need to use to make it happen :(

Sorry for not post lately, I m stuck with college craps =\

Ok, I m still working on my forum so I close it but only me can access and build it.

It works perfect on my net server. Many thanks. (Also yes you re r ight, it s something wrong with my local server but I fix it and it work now)

Here s attachment of screenshot..

Goldknight - looking good :D

=D many thanks to you and your wonderful hack!! my members would love it

Is this ready and stable now?

[high]* NexDog still want to know. :)
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C'mon, Ninth, you at work or something??

I was sleeping :sleep:.
The hack, I think is very stable at the moment, stil has one more bit that I want to add to it, but very stable.

Because I've seen how long the support threads for some hacks can get, I wan't to make sure that it's as perfect as can be, because while I don't mind offering support to people that install it, I'm not going to be able to spend half the day doing it :D

One more pre-release, then i'll release the final (unless, as I have always said, a huge bug is found, or someone suggests a fantastic addition - like kira did :))

damn, can't wait to get it. I'd love to help and Beta test it but I ain't that sure of meself. :D

OK, I've got some bits I need to get done today, but as soon as I have done them i'll upload the last beta and you can upgrade.

Upgrading from the current to the new one should just be a case of replacing one to three templates and the two files.

But i'll keep you updated.

Sweet.:)

Hi all

I can't seem to get past the add chapter part, I click on either path and I get to the add chapter, I click that and I get the add chapter bit again and agin. What can I check to get this working?

Odil

Do you have a URL that I can look at? Make sure you are using the latest templates.

I've finished

Please visit https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42899 for more info and to download.

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