You sir, are a genius. :)

I did it!

And i love this slider! Thank you very much!

Thank you sir. Seems that the image cache is back. Ill let you know if that gremlin pops up again... :)

@Moof
great work, thank you so much

i wonder how can i change the code just to show the last n articles ordered by date (descending)

thank you again for your work and your support

No Problem Bud.. :up:



For those of you looking to make it look much like Mooff's site (with no background box)

Try this

Create a New Template called

Then replace all the code with just

Then Save



No Go to, CMS > Widgets > Slider Then edit the template line and put

vbcms_widget_execphp_page_nobackground

And maybe set the cache to 9000 for best performance?

Should be done, :p Have a look at the attachments below:up:

Sorry, must have forgot to add this one into the FAQ:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=120

No value sorting -> ordered by date descending.

@ The Rocketeer
This was kinda already in the FAQ (not title version), added your version anyway, the attachments might make it clearer. =)

@Mooff (double 'f', sorry i misreaded before!)

i had already read that but i was uncertain if it was what i needed.. now i'm sure, so i'll put that in my code, thank you again!

Thanks Mooff. :) Yea I know, the CMS is a disaster, and on top of that a lot of staff are leaving too. But I'm Hoping for 417 to fix some issues tho. No miracles lol

By the way, checkout this guy's CMS http://www.nationofblue.com/

Maybe it'll give you a good idea for your own site, and also the slider the guy is using looks really fast and a lot more professional, Not sure what its name is, (looks a lot like Front Page Content Slider, but feels a lot different) Any chance you might deem using it worth using instead?

Thanks for everything and All the best Mooff. :)

I currently do not see the need to change the slider engine. Nivo is very powerful and for me really fast in chrome, opera and firefox.

In addition it is highly customizable. It can look like that:
http://nivo.dev7studios.com/demos/4/ (thumbnails)
http://www.songoperated.com/ (background version)

But well my plugin mainly provides the bridge between vb4-articles and the slider. What the slider does look like is up to the user.

Nice mod! I've installed it, but I'm really hoping future updates will address how this script slows the page loading. I'm guessing it's because there's 100 KB of JS that needs to download?

how can I create a new php-widget? I can't find it.

ok... maybe i missed something but i tried to have two instances of the slider
(nb. as you told me in my previuos help request i changed the part of code about the selection.. i jut need articles by date)

so 1) i create a second widget 2) edited the widget (changes also the the DIV id, the .css path and also doubled the .js file trying to have 2 indipendent things)

at this point everything was fine, i had 2 sliders on the same page, each with a different .css customization

but obviously i wanted them to be linked to 2 different CMS sections, so i added the code AND.. to the SELECT, and the correct section ids and ...

that didn't wok, it seems some kind of conflict issue (if i remove one slider the other works correctly) ..

the problem is: the second slider (say they are in the navbar, so the first on the top with section'a' set and the second right under with the section 'b') get "confused" mixing the articles of the sections a and b (precisely:it shows the only article of section 'a' and the first one of section 'b' which has 2 articles).. i think could be related to the result of the first SELECT, maybe if it possibile to have the second select starting from zero.. i event ried to rename all the variables but the result is still the same

any help?

thanks for your support

sorry for off but I`m glad to see C&C staff there :)

Thanks for this great addon.

I ve read several QA here and still I cant find why the slider displays only default uploaded image.

Permissions and path checked and rechecked..

The attachments are not transformed into png btw..

Any ideas ?

@YkudzA
Great to see you too. :) Big thanks for the donation.

@zairafusco
Can you link me to your site where the sliders are installed?
As a guess i would say you are using the same folder for both sliders and therefore it does overwrite the pictures. Can you confirm that the captions and descriptions are correct and the images are not?
If that is the case i have two solutions for you:
a) use different folders
b) use this (browser cache issue) fix: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=195

@w3rk3d
I don't see a page load slowdown on our site. Since we are into page speed a lot (see the sprite addon) i'm very curious where that problem might come from. If it really is the nivo slider framework we will switch the engine. But as of right now i can't reproduce that behaviour and in addition the nivo slider is used a lot on the internet, so i would assume their support forum beeing flooded if it does affect loading times.

@sensimilla
Please check the last FAQ question and send me the debug.

@apaydin2148
you need to have the suite and cms active, then in the acp it's in the cms->widget->new_widget section

Thanks for your fast response.. it says

change
$slider_img_filepath: '/var/www/sites/stylwolny.pl/public/slider/';

to
$slider_img_filepath: 'slider/' ;

@Moof

i followed your hint about different folders..it's almost ok but...
i added also (trying everything) a static slider (slider 3) and now slider 1 and slider 2 (dynamic) are linked to the right sections but instead of articles text they both get the static text of slider 3..

if i remove slider 3 i have the same problem.. the sliders show both the same text (slider 1 articles)
NB. but the link to the article is correct (clicking on the image thoug, the caption show only the slider 3 href)

link:
www.dogmylife.com/beta

thank you not only for your mod but for the great support (and fast!)

HERE THE CODE OF SLIDER 1



//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////SLIDER 1
// DEBUG MODUS !
$debug_modus = false;

if($debug_modus === false)
{
ob_start();
}

//nivo slider - uf - vb.org version
//set these values as you need them:

//your slider folder - has to be read and writeable
//folder where all slider files are saved
$slider_img_filepath = 'nivo1/';

//picture width and height !same as in the CSS FILE!
$maxwidth = 300;
$maxheight = 250;

//do you want images without previewimage to be shown? slider is using the fallback then
$show_articles_without_image = false;

//picture shown if your articles has no previewpicture
$fallback_img = $slider_img_filepath . 'uf_fallback_slider.png';

//hardcoded maximum is 20 - if you want more just ask
$number_of_articles_shown = 5;

//lengh in characters of the article descriptions
$description_length = 95;


//Debug Messages
if($debug_modus)
{
echo "<span style='color:red;'>DEBUG MODE is ON! </span><br />";
echo "slider_img_filepath: $slider_img_filepath <br />";
echo "width: $maxwidth height: $maxheight <br />";
echo "show_articles_without_image: ";
var_dump($show_articles_without_image);
echo " <br />";
echo "fallback_img: $fallback_img <br />";
echo "#img: $number_of_articles_shown <br />";
echo "description_length: $description_length <br />";
echo 'directory ' . DIR . '<br />';

}




$article_type = vb_Types::instance()->getContentTypeID("vBCms_Article");
$time = TIMENOW;

if(!extension_loaded('gd'))
{
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> Your System does not support the GD-Libary. Please install the GD-Libary.<br />';
}

$article_get = vB::$db->query_read('
SELECT
article.pagetext,
article.previewimage,
node.url,
node.publishdate,
node.parentnode,
parentnode.url AS parenturl,
thread.replycount,
info.title,
node.nodeid,
GROUP_CONCAT( category.category )
FROM
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_article AS article INNER JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_node AS node
ON (node.contentid = article.contentid AND node.contenttypeid = ' . vb::$db->sql_prepare($article_type) .') INNER JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_nodeinfo AS info
ON info.nodeid = node.nodeid INNER JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_node AS parentnode
ON parentnode.nodeid = node.parentnode LEFT JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'thread AS thread ON thread.threadid = info.associatedthreadid LEFT JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_nodecategory AS nodecategory ON nodecategory.nodeid = node.nodeid LEFT JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_category AS category ON nodecategory.categoryid = category.categoryid
WHERE
node.setpublish = 1 AND
node.publishdate > '. vb::$db->sql_prepare($time) .' -34560000 AND
node.publishdate < '. vb::$db->sql_prepare($time) .' AND
node.parentnode IN ( 125)


GROUP BY node.nodeid
ORDER BY node.publishdate
DESC LIMIT 20');

$database_articles = array();

/* my version of sorting the articles via relevance - i'll keep it in case someone is interested*/
while($article = vB::$db->fetch_array($article_get))
{
$article['value'] = ( 5 - ($time - $article['publishdate'] ) / 86400 ) * ( 5 - ($time - $article['publishdate'] ) / 86400 ) * ( 5 - ($time - $article['publishdate'] ) / 86400 ) + (10 * $article['replycount']);
$database_articles[] = $article;
}

foreach($database_articles as $c => $key)
{
$sort_value[] = $key['value'];
}

array_multisort($sort_value, SORT_DESC, $database_articles);

//
$i = 0;
$section_array = array();
$featured_articles = array();

foreach($database_articles AS $article)
{
$section_array[$article['parentnode']]++;

$categories = explode(',' , $article['GROUP_CONCAT( category.category )']);

if($show_articles_without_image == true OR $article['previewimage'])
{
if($section_array[$article['parentnode']] < 50 AND $i < $number_of_articles_shown)
{

//rebuild image to the height and width we want in the slider
//called sprite since i got the code from our sprite addon :P
$sprite = imagecreatetruecolor($maxwidth, $maxheight);
if(is_resource($sprite) AND $article['previewimage'] )
{
$imageinfo = getimagesize($article['previewimage']);
if(is_array($imageinfo))
{
$image = null;
switch($imageinfo[2])
{
case IMAGETYPE_PNG:
$image = imagecreatefrompng($article['previewimage']);
break;
case IMAGETYPE_GIF:
$image = imagecreatefromgif($article['previewimage']);
break;
case IMAGETYPE_JPEG:
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($article['previewimage']);
break;
default:
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> Unknown image format. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
break;
}

if(!is_resource($image))
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> imagecreation failed. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
}
else
{
$img_width = $imageinfo[0];
$img_height = $imageinfo[1];

imagecopyresampled($sprite, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $maxwidth, $maxheight, $img_width, $img_height );
imagedestroy($image);

$img_filepath = $slider_img_filepath . 'slide_' . $i . '.jpg';
$success = imagejpeg($sprite, DIR . ($img_filepath[0] != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ? DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR : '') . $img_filepath);
imagedestroy($sprite);
if($success)
{
$article['previewimage'] = $img_filepath;
}
else
{
$img_filepath = DIR . ($img_filepath[0] != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ? DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR : '') . $img_filepath;
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> imagejpeg failed. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />
directory: '. $img_filepath ;

$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
}
}

}
else
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> picture is not readable.' . $article['previewimage']. '<br /> ';
}
}
else
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
echo '<span style="color:red">Warning:</span> article has no previewimage or sprite is no ressource. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
}


/*remove everything from the previewtext - html and bb. I do not want bold or colored text there. Cut to a decent length.*/
$article['pagetext'] = strip_bbcode($article['pagetext'], true, true, false, true, false);

$article['previewtext'] = strip_tags($article['pagetext'], '<a>');

$len = $description_length;
if ( strlen($article['previewtext']) > $len )
{
$article['previewtext'] = substr( $article['previewtext'] , 0 , strrpos( substr( $article['previewtext'], 0, $len), ' ' ));
}

$i++;
//Build Array
$article_neu = array();
$article_neu['description'] = '<h2 style="font-weight:bold; font-size: 14px">'. $article['title'].'</h2><span>'. $article['previewtext'] .'</span> <p style="text-align:right"><a href="content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '">Leggi tutto</a></p>';
$article_neu['htmlcaptionname'] = 'htmlcaption' . $i ;
$article_neu['picture'] = '<a href="content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '"><img src="'.$article['previewimage'].'" alt="" title="#htmlcaption'. $i . '" /></a>';

$featured_articles[] = $article_neu;
}
}
}

//Randomize Array
//shuffle($featured_articles);

//Debug Messages
if($debug_modus)
{
echo '#articles - featured and databasepull ';
var_dump(count($featured_articles));
var_dump(count($database_articles));
}


$output_bits = '
<link rel="stylesheet" href="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'nivo-slider.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'nivo-slider_uf_theme.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<div style="height:' . $maxheight . 'px;">
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="slider-wrapper theme-uf">
<div class="ribbon"></div>
<div id="slider1" class="nivoSlider">';

foreach($featured_articles AS $article)
{
$output_bits .= $article['picture'];
}
$output_bits .= '
</div>';

foreach($featured_articles AS $article)
{
$output_bits .= '<div id="' . $article['htmlcaptionname'] . '" class="nivo-html-caption">' . $article['description'] .'</div>';
}

$output_bits .= '
</div>

</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
$("#slider1").nivoSlider();
});
</script>
</div>
';
$output = $output_bits;

if($debug_modus === false)
{
ob_end_clean();
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////SLIDER 2
// DEBUG MODUS !
$debug_modus = false;

if($debug_modus === false)
{
ob_start();
}

//nivo slider - uf - vb.org version
//set these values as you need them:

//your slider folder - has to be read and writeable
//folder where all slider files are saved
$slider_img_filepath = 'nivo2/';

//picture width and height !same as in the CSS FILE!
$maxwidth = 300;
$maxheight = 250;

//do you want images without previewimage to be shown? slider is using the fallback then
$show_articles_without_image = false;

//picture shown if your articles has no previewpicture
$fallback_img = $slider_img_filepath . 'uf_fallback_slider.png';

//hardcoded maximum is 20 - if you want more just ask
$number_of_articles_shown = 5;

//lengh in characters of the article descriptions
$description_length = 95;

//Debug Messages
if($debug_modus)
{
echo "<span style='color:red;'>DEBUG MODE is ON! </span><br />";
echo "slider_img_filepath: $slider_img_filepath <br />";
echo "width: $maxwidth height: $maxheight <br />";
echo "show_articles_without_image: ";
var_dump($show_articles_without_image);
echo " <br />";
echo "fallback_img: $fallback_img <br />";
echo "#img: $number_of_articles_shown <br />";
echo "description_length: $description_length <br />";
echo 'directory ' . DIR . '<br />';

}

$article_type = vb_Types::instance()->getContentTypeID("vBCms_Article");
$time = TIMENOW;

if(!extension_loaded('gd'))
{
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> Your System does not support the GD-Libary. Please install the GD-Libary.<br />';
}

$article_get = vB::$db->query_read('
SELECT
article.pagetext,
article.previewimage,
node.url,
node.publishdate,
node.parentnode,
parentnode.url AS parenturl,
thread.replycount,
info.title,
node.nodeid,
GROUP_CONCAT( category.category )
FROM
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_article AS article INNER JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_node AS node
ON (node.contentid = article.contentid AND node.contenttypeid = ' . vb::$db->sql_prepare($article_type) .') INNER JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_nodeinfo AS info
ON info.nodeid = node.nodeid INNER JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_node AS parentnode
ON parentnode.nodeid = node.parentnode LEFT JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'thread AS thread ON thread.threadid = info.associatedthreadid LEFT JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_nodecategory AS nodecategory ON nodecategory.nodeid = node.nodeid LEFT JOIN
'.TABLE_PREFIX.'cms_category AS category ON nodecategory.categoryid = category.categoryid
WHERE
node.setpublish = 1 AND
node.publishdate > '. vb::$db->sql_prepare($time) .' -34560000 AND
node.publishdate < '. vb::$db->sql_prepare($time) .' AND
node.parentnode IN ( 129)

GROUP BY node.nodeid
ORDER BY node.publishdate
DESC LIMIT 20');

$database_articles = array();

/* my version of sorting the articles via relevance - i'll keep it in case someone is interested*/
while($article = vB::$db->fetch_array($article_get))
{
$article['value'] = ( 5 - ($time - $article['publishdate'] ) / 86400 ) * ( 5 - ($time - $article['publishdate'] ) / 86400 ) * ( 5 - ($time - $article['publishdate'] ) / 86400 ) + (10 * $article['replycount']);
$database_articles[] = $article;
}

foreach($database_articles as $c => $key)
{
$sort_value[] = $key['value'];
}

array_multisort($sort_value, SORT_DESC, $database_articles);

//
$i = 0;
$section_array = array();
$featured_articles = array();

foreach($database_articles AS $article)
{
$section_array[$article['parentnode']]++;

$categories = explode(',' , $article['GROUP_CONCAT( category.category )']);

if($show_articles_without_image == true OR $article['previewimage'])
{
if($section_array[$article['parentnode']] < 50 AND $i < $number_of_articles_shown)
{

//rebuild image to the height and width we want in the slider
//called sprite since i got the code from our sprite addon :P
$sprite = imagecreatetruecolor($maxwidth, $maxheight);
if(is_resource($sprite) AND $article['previewimage'] )
{
$imageinfo = getimagesize($article['previewimage']);
if(is_array($imageinfo))
{
$image = null;
switch($imageinfo[2])
{
case IMAGETYPE_PNG:
$image = imagecreatefrompng($article['previewimage']);
break;
case IMAGETYPE_GIF:
$image = imagecreatefromgif($article['previewimage']);
break;
case IMAGETYPE_JPEG:
$image = imagecreatefromjpeg($article['previewimage']);
break;
default:
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> Unknown image format. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
break;
}

if(!is_resource($image))
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> imagecreation failed. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
}
else
{
$img_width = $imageinfo[0];
$img_height = $imageinfo[1];

imagecopyresampled($sprite, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $maxwidth, $maxheight, $img_width, $img_height );
imagedestroy($image);

$img_filepath = $slider_img_filepath . 'slide_' . $i . '.jpg';
$success = imagejpeg($sprite, DIR . ($img_filepath[0] != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ? DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR : '') . $img_filepath);
imagedestroy($sprite);
if($success)
{
$article['previewimage'] = $img_filepath;
}
else
{
$img_filepath = DIR . ($img_filepath[0] != DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ? DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR : '') . $img_filepath;
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> imagejpeg failed. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />
directory: '. $img_filepath ;

$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
}
}

}
else
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> picture is not readable.' . $article['previewimage']. '<br /> ';
}
}
else
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
echo '<span style="color:red">Warning:</span> article has no previewimage or sprite is no ressource. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
}


/*remove everything from the previewtext - html and bb. I do not want bold or colored text there. Cut to a decent length.*/
$article['pagetext'] = strip_bbcode($article['pagetext'], true, true, false, true, false);

$article['previewtext'] = strip_tags($article['pagetext'], '<a>');

$len = $description_length;
if ( strlen($article['previewtext']) > $len )
{
$article['previewtext'] = substr( $article['previewtext'] , 0 , strrpos( substr( $article['previewtext'], 0, $len), ' ' ));
}

$i++;
//Build Array
$article_neu = array();
$article_neu['description'] = '<h2 style="font-weight:bold; font-size: 14px">'. $article['title'].'</h2><span>'. $article['previewtext'] .'</span> <p style="text-align:right"><a href="content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '">Leggi tutto</a></p>';
$article_neu['htmlcaptionname'] = 'htmlcaption' . $i ;
$article_neu['picture'] = '<a href="content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '"><img src="'.$article['previewimage'].'" alt="" title="#htmlcaption'. $i . '" /></a>';

$featured_articles[] = $article_neu;
}
}
}

//Randomize Array
//shuffle($featured_articles);

//Debug Messages
if($debug_modus)
{
echo '#articles - featured and databasepull ';
var_dump(count($featured_articles));
var_dump(count($database_articles));
}


$output_bits = '
<link rel="stylesheet" href="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'nivo-slider.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'nivo-slider_uf_theme.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<div style="height:' . $maxheight . 'px;">
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="slider-wrapper theme-uf">
<div class="ribbon"></div>
<div id="slider2" class="nivoSlider">';

foreach($featured_articles AS $article)
{
$output_bits .= $article['picture'];
}
$output_bits .= '
</div>';

foreach($featured_articles AS $article)
{
$output_bits .= '<div id="' . $article['htmlcaptionname'] . '" class="nivo-html-caption">' . $article['description'] .'</div>';
}

$output_bits .= '
</div>

</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="' .$slider_img_filepath. 'jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
$("#slider2").nivoSlider();
});
</script>
</div>
';
$output = $output_bits;

if($debug_modus === false)
{
ob_end_clean();
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////SLIDER 3

<link rel="stylesheet" href="nivo3/nivo-slider.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="nivo3/nivo-slider_uf_theme.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<div style="height:250px;">
<div id="wrapper">
<div class="slider-wrapper theme-uf">
<div class="ribbon"></div>
<div id="slider3" class="nivoSlider">
<a href="http://consortium.stormspire.net"><img src="bgheader/bgheader1.jpg" alt="" title="#htmlcaption1" /></a>
<a href="http://consortium.stormspire.net"><img src="bgheader/bgheader2" alt="" title="#htmlcaption2" /></a>
</div>
<div id="htmlcaption1" class="nivo-html-caption">
<b>First slide..</b> </ br> testing.. <a href="http://consortium.stormspire.net">read more</a>
<div id="htmlcaption2" class="nivo-html-caption">
<b>Second slide..</b> </ br> testing.. <a href="http://consortium.stormspire.net">read more</a>
</div>
</div>

</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="' nivo3/'jquery-1.6.1.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="nivo3/jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
$("#slider3").nivoSlider();
});
</script>
</div>

I think this is the problem:
You probably have multiple divs with the id htmlcaption1.

Please try this:
replace
with
in all automated sliders

@Moff
ok!!! you're great..
btw...what do you think about my customization? (i like it .it's still in progress)

thank you again

I have installed this and configured it but I am only able to see the fallback image.

Debug:

That's everything you get for debug? Nothing more?

Can you link me to your site?

Yes, that is the full output.
http://www.nextgenupdate.com/forums/content/

There is still work being done to the CMS.

Same as above!

Hi there!

Everything works, except it won't pull the image!

I've checked the CMS permissions and its set to allow download of attachments to everyone.

Help!

Thanks!

http://www.cyberneticpunks.com/forums/content/

Ok so im confused...

I installed & i see UF image, but where am i supposed to put images so they slide.!?

Does this pull from a forum section or thread..?
OR
Do i just add images to the slider folder on my server.? (that would actually be better for me. :))

Seems like error messages are suppressed in your php settings.

Some questions for you guys then:
- Is the slider folder writeable for your webserver?
- Do you have the php GD libary installed?
- Is allow_url_access set to false in your php settings?

@Gamelobby
The slider does pull your article preview images and automatically resizes and saves them to the slider folder.

GD is installed.


I made everything 777 just to test:

This allow URL?

I can't tell is this is using fopen or not.

So i cant control what it shows outside of what articles are posted.?

This basically replaces articles (& makes them better), rather than adds to the front page.

I dont normally add images to the preview, but the CMS automatically pulls an image from the article.. Can i have it pull the same image.? (Not sure, but it's not doing that now)

It seems like it is going to work really well i just need to tweek it to get it working correctly. :D

@Kr33p3r
at this point the slider is using fopen:
$imageinfo = getimagesize($article['previewimage']);

@Gamelobby
I'm not sure i understand what your question is.
This addon provides a bridge between vb4 articles and the nivo slider. Therefore it is an article slider widget.
The image which the CMS automatically pulls from the article is used for the slider.
If it doesn't right now do that in your case please refer to post 227.

Ok I have allowed fopen

Sadly,

Please try switching allow_url_include to ON aswell. It's got to be one of those two.

Same result, sadly.

allow_url_include On On

Hey Kr33p3r, I see you are having a problem with the fallback or source image, I had the same issue, cant remember how I solved it but might be something in the first few pages.

Anyway, I just visited your site and I wanted to ask. Can you share with us the code / edits that makes the articles appear so neatly on your CMS? Inside the green line below ?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1315620875

I have been long waiting for such a nice flow, and I think me and a lot of others using the vbulletin CMS would certainly benefit from having it.

Edit: not trying to steal your code, just the way your articles are displayed on the home page / blog roll. You know all images nicely at the left, and the info on the right. It looks perfect!

@ Rocketeer..
That looks like the default CMS design..!?
You dont need a slider for that.



I'm not sure, how/where do i check this..? (is it in the widget.?)

Here is what i found.. (this part is untouched from what you have above, that we are supposed to put in php widget)

Here is what i get..
The UF image with my article text:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1315630872



ALSO..
I just noticed that when i click on an image it takes me to the wrong url.. its not showing the"forum" folder in the path.?
Should be:
Could that be part of the problem.?

Nope, That's not the default CMS design.
I was talking about the article display design he had. Its custom.

I am not asking about the slider :confused: if you had read my post carefully I said I already had the slider installed :( (one of the first installs btw) and that others who are having the same issues as I had should look back in the first few pages

Anyhow to the OP, I am just wanting to know about his article display design. Go look at the default vB article layout, its messed up compared to his. Look at the articles 1x1 in a blog roll image above, examine the area I placed in Green.

That doesn't look like a vb4-cms at all. Judgeding from the code i severly doubt it is one.

@Gamelobby
The wrong link to the articles has nothing to do with where the slider wants to save the images. Per default i'm asuming the content.php resides in the main http folder and not in a subfolder. Anyway, for that to work correctly

search in the php widget code
and replace with this code

As for the other question why the images do not show up. Can you please post the debug messages the slider puts out in debug mode?
As for checking how to find out whether fopen/ allow_url_open is active or not. I would have to google that aswell. Best is to ask your techadmin, since he is the guy who would need to activate it.

@Kr33p3r
I'll try to come up with a version on monday which pumps out a bit more debug to see what is going on there. Kinda lost right now.

Yea, I meant it looks like just a default CMS layout. (1 Column & Sidebar) He just has articles on the left, & sidebar on the right... as far as i can tell. (If it's not default we can easily make that layout, cant we.?)

That's why i said you dont need a slider for that.
I knew it wasn't the slider. lol

Linksd are fixed. Thanks.



How do i do Debug mode.?
&
Who is my techadmin.? (Is that my hosting.?)

Designwise it is possible, but it's not easy to force the vb4-cms to look decent. :P

Your techadmin is the guy who does all the coding on your board. Judgeding by your question you are. :P

Please set the slider to debug mode (last FAQ question) and post the output, something might show up what can help us to solve your problem.

Yup i guess that would be me. lol


Here is what i got.