;) Post more terms to add to the glossary ;)

It is a great hack. Thanks TWT!

Um, I might possibly be a dope, but I installed the hack (with the latest updated admin_glossary.php) fully, but not the extras (yet). However, I don't see the glossary, or know where to populate it. :s

Can someone help me out?

I'm not getting any errors or anything, I'm just, uh, momentarily blind. :D

The glossary.php file is in your root forums directory. You need to access that file with your browser. You need to add the change to admin/index.php so you can access admin_glossary.php. Then you can populate it from there.

Thanks FWC -- he's right, Rose. Once you've made the code change in the /admin/index.php file, you'll be able to add/edit/delete glossary terms from your CP...it's all the way on the bottom of the menu, beneath the links to manage your templates. :)

I HIGHLY recommend adding the random term add-on...I had the Glossary up, and even stuck it in the forumjump template...but no one took much interest. It was too "hidden." Now that it's referenced on the page everytime someone posts a reply or new thread, though, people have paid attention to it, and seem to be enjoying it. :)

KevinG: I'll see what I can do. :) If I get enough together, I'll probably update the archive file with a simple script to let people add a bunch of miscellaneous ones automatically.

I have one for you, and I hope it's not giving you nightmares already :rolleyes: I'd love to have category support, whereas I could put words into a certain category. Like:
IMO > category chat language
moderator > category vbulletin terms
vbcode > category vbulletin terms
Hotsync > category Palm (specific for my site)

The glossary itself would then be displayed like this:
term ---------------------- explanation --------------- category

imo ----------------------- in my opinion -------------- chat language
moderator -------------- board supervisor --------- vbulletin term
Hotsync ----------------- synchronization ----------- PalmOS

You could extend this feature to let users filter on glossary terms only in a specific category.

Hope you like the idea, if not: implement it anyway :D

By the way: did I say I already I like the concept and the implementation of this hack VERY VERY much! A big thank you of a happy user of vbGlossary! :up:

- djr

I like that suggestion. Good one. Thanks! I'll take a look and see if I could do it easily. Unless it's a major pain, I don't see what would stop me, though...'cept that it might be overkill. :)

Any other suggestions from anyone here? I'm trying to come up with other ways to make it visible to people using the forums...more places in which it's appropriate and useful.

The ultimate in visibility would be ofcourse to parse each post for terms in the glossary list and display the matched terms with a small [?]-link to the matched glossary term, like this:

How do I upload my own avatar [?]

or

djr is moderator [?] of this forum, please pay respect to him LOL [?]

- djr

Yes, that would be pretty dang cool...but I'd want to avoid a query for each post if I could help it. That'd be a bit of a burden. I suppose I could store the data in a template...but even then we'd be talking about a loop, basically, for every single post. I'll mess around with it and see how it goes...if it slows it down big time, though, obviously I won't bother much. Another good idea nonetheless, though.

That was one of my biggest concerns too (although I didn't post that). Well, maybe you could look into it and post the findings here. It was just a first thought actually. I think it's indeed a too big strain on the server, but you'll never know :-)

I keep thinking of other ways to make it more visible. I like it very much and it's a great support tool!

- djr

Most like likely, we will be making the glossary specific to our site (like djr with palm). Why not make them searchable? Say someone looks for palm. the first word that comes up will be a glossary term. That will attract attention and people will want to see what the glossary is all about. :greedy: