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And now we know it's not fopen or url_access.
Resizing and everything works (not gonna look too good though given the width/height ratio of the pictures) but the slider can't save the pictures (cause the folder either does not exist or isn't writeable).

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

$slider_img_filepath = 'slider/'

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2244193)

Should be readable & writable.

Removed Forum/"

*edit*
Works.!!

But my images are WAY stretched out. lol
Now i need to play with the settings, i guess. :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2244183)

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

Truer words have never been spoken.

Sorry guys, you guys are looking at wordpress, not vBCMS. :D

The vBCMS is here:

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

I still have the same issue however. It finds the fall back image fine.

Is there additional logging I can turn on?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kr33p3r (Post 2244318)

Damn you!
for a min there I thought I finally got something :D

Very Nice Design BTW. Wish Anyone could make the vBulletin CMS look half decent. :(

i know it sounds stupid but.. i wanted to have a slider without nav buttons and another one without control buttons and... i'm not able to let controls and directions buttons to show and hide editing .css files... i only managed to hide the controls but now i can't make them appear again.. and the arrows.. there's no way to make them disappear....
i'm having some kind of cache troubles of what?
btw i'm running at once 2 sliders on my page (dynamic and static version)

thank you

sorry guys.. i must be a bit tired... read the faqs on nivo slider official website and found everything ...just playing with parameters like:

Code:

.nivoSlider({



controlNav:true,

directionNav:false});

and so on..

hope this one can be useful for someone!

thanks

Ive been messing with this for some time and I have no problem getting one slider to work on my homepage but Im trying to get another to work in a specific section.

I made a 2nd directory for the slider. So the first is slider/ the 2nd is slider2/ I have all the JS files in both as well as the fall back image.

I made a 2nd widget with and modified the code to save images in slider2/ as well as pull from a specific section.

All fine until it comes to actually seeing the slides. I get the rotation and the correct text but no images. I checked the dir. and its 777.

URL's in the slider are all correct. I click the image and I get the correct page.

Just very stuck as to why no images in the 2nd slider. Any help would be great.

Heres a copy of the widget code.

Code:

// 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 = 'clientscript/slider2/';   



//picture width and height !same as in the CSS FILE!

$maxwidth = 700;                                  

$maxheight = 375;    



//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_slider2.png';  



//hardcoded maximum is 20 - if you want more just ask

$number_of_articles_shown = 10;                                

            

//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 ( 136 )

        GROUP BY node.nodeid

        ORDER BY node.publishdate

        DESC LIMIT 20');

                

    $database_articles = array();

    

    $i = 0;

    $section_array = array();

    $featured_articles = array();

        

    while($article = vB::$db->fetch_array($article_get))

    {

        $section_array[$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> <a href="/content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '">read on</a>';

                $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="slider" 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.nivo.slider.pack.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">

    $(window).load(function() {

        $("#slider").nivoSlider();

    });

    </script>

    </div>

    ';

        $output = $output_bits;

 

if($debug_modus === false)

{

        ob_end_clean();        

}

i don't know wha happened.. tried the whole thing from start several times but i'm stuck on this error (and no visible slides..).. the only difference i can get starting over is the line number

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /web/htdocs/www.dogmylife.com/home/beta/packages/vbcms/widget/execphp.php(191) : eval()'d code on line 24

i really don't know what to do..

thank you

Most likely you are missing a semicolon in line 24 of the widget php code

that would be line 24
$fallback_img = $slider_img_filepath . 'uf_fallback_slider.png';

what does yours look like?

As for the other problems. I've read them, but unfortunately no time to look into it right now. Another coding projekt on our site keeps me busy right now.

Installed for testing on 4.1.3 with thanks ... :)

Regards,
Doug

Edit: Un-installed .. didn't work (see pic .. just empty box with date).. thanks anyway for your efforts ...

your support is most appreciated!
unfortunately i can't test your suggestions right now, it'll have to wait until saturday, but for now THANK YOU!

I need this slider and can't figure it out, can somebody help me?

@BadgerDog
You need to insert the code into the php widget. A default php widget with no new code does show the date.

@gusto
Please state which part is unclear in my installation description so i can improve it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2246051)

@BadgerDog
You need to insert the code into the php widget. A default php widget with no new code does show the date.

Thanks ... doh !!! :o

Regards,
Doug

Is there someplace I can change the actual size of the widget box being displayed?

Not the pic dimensions or text, but the size of the box, if that makes any sense?

Thanks .. :)

Regards,
Doug

how do I add this on another page? for example: test.php

Quote:

Not the pic dimensions or text, but the size of the box, if that makes any sense?

nivo-slider_uf_theme.css

.theme-uf #slider {
margin:0px auto 0 auto;
width:650px; /* Make sure your images are the same size */
height:250px; /* Make sure your images are the same size */
}

My apologies if this has been answered prior.
How do I change the sped of each slide, I basically want to halve the speed of each slide.

@GamersChallenge
In order to use the widget code on a test.php this test.php would have to have access to your vbulletin database. If you have the required files included on your test.php page just add (untested)

Code:

echo "$output";

at the end of the widget code and insert it into the test.php file. It should show up then.

@pmflav1
That FAQ question should help you out:

Quote:

Originally Posted by post2

Q: I want to change some nivo slider settings (effects, timings..)
A: An example for timings can be found here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=132
For other settings please check the nivo slider homepage:
http://nivo.dev7studios.com/#usage

Quote:

Originally Posted by daniel_pet (Post 2247052)

nivo-slider_uf_theme.css

.theme-uf #slider {
margin:0px auto 0 auto;
width:650px; /* Make sure your images are the same size */
height:250px; /* Make sure your images are the same size */
}

Thanks ... :)

Regards,
Doug

installed, Thanx Pretty awsome addition way better then a previous mod i was using :-)
+like

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2247666)

Code:

echo "$output";

at the end of the widget code and insert it into the test.php file. It should show up then.

@pmflav1
That FAQ question should help you out:

I dont understand,

this is test.php file.

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php



// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);



// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################



define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test');

define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);  

// change this depending on your filename



// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################

// get special phrase groups

$phrasegroups = array();



// get special data templates from the datastore

$specialtemplates = array();



// pre-cache templates used by all actions

$globaltemplates = array('test',

);



// pre-cache templates used by specific actions

$actiontemplates = array();



// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################

// if your page is outside of your normal vb forums directory, you should change directories by uncommenting the next line

// chdir ('/path/to/your/forums');

require_once('./global.php');



// #######################################################################

// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################

// #######################################################################



$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'Terms of Service'));

$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);



// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####

$pagetitle = 'Terms of Service';







// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######



$templater = vB_Template::create('test');

$templater->register_page_templates();

$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);

$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);

print_output($templater->render());



?>

this is test template:

PHP Code:


		
			
{vb:stylevar htmldoctype}

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="{vb:stylevar textdirection}" lang="{vb:stylevar languagecode}" id="vbulletin_html">

  <head>

    <title>{vb:raw vboptions.bbtitle} - {vb:raw pagetitle}</title>

    {vb:raw headinclude}

    {vb:raw headinclude_bottom}

  </head>

  <body>

    

    {vb:raw header}

    

    {vb:raw navbar}

    



    {vb:raw footer}

  </body>

</html>

whats next?

Bottom of the article you just quoted:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=228112

Please see this article for help with rendering templates - [vB4] Rendering templates and registering variables - a short guide

In a nutshell:
a) insert the php code from the first post here

Code:

// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####

$pagetitle = 'My Page Title';

b) register the variable $output
c) update your template so it does print the variable $output

Moff, have you or do you know how to make this work without fopen. I'm not sure how to code it for curl.

My host doesn't like fopen so I'm looking for an alternative. Thanks.

after spending hours reading all those tutorials I came up with this... what am I doing wrong?

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################

define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'test');
define('CSRF_PROTECTION', true);  
// change this depending on your filename

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array();

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array();

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array('test',
);

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array();

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################
// if your page is outside of your normal vb forums directory, you should change directories by uncommenting the next line
// chdir ('/path/to/your/forums');
require_once('./global.php');

// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################

$navbits = construct_navbits(array('' => 'Terms of Service'));
$navbar = render_navbar_template($navbits);

// ###### YOUR CUSTOM CODE GOES HERE #####
$pagetitle = 'test';

// 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 = 'slider/'; 

//picture width and height !same as in the CSS FILE!
$maxwidth = 620;                                  
$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 = 7;                                
            
//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 ( 163, 158 )
        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> <a href="/content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '">read on</a>';
                $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="slider" 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() {
        $("#slider").nivoSlider();
    });
    </script>
    </div>
    ';
        $output = $output_bits;
 
if($debug_modus === false)
{
    ob_end_clean();        
}

echo "$output";



// ###### NOW YOUR TEMPLATE IS BEING RENDERED ######

$templater = vB_Template::create('test');
$templater->register_page_templates();
$templater->register('navbar', $navbar);
$templater->register('output', $output);
$templater->register('pagetitle', $pagetitle);
print_output($templater->render());

?>

@Scalemotorcars
I haven't looked into it.
The options are:
- using fitting images as article images, which do not need to be resized (delete the resizing part then)
- resizing the images via CSS (might break the nivo slider transition effects, not sure about that one) - this also would mean deleting the resizing code
- cURL, which does involve reading through the cURL documentation or googleing for "replace fOpen via cURL"

@GamersChallenge
you can remove echo "$output"; since you are using the template system.
Then in the template you need to write {vb:raw output} somewhere, and that should be it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2248515)

I think I'm almost there. Getting this error now.

Fatal error: Class 'vb_Types' not found in /home/gamersch/public_html/test.php on line 91

this is line 91:

PHP Code:


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

Sorry for the question, but i kinda just have to ask: Do you have the vbcms?

Anyway, if you do i'm not exactly sure in which globalclass vb_Types is definded, just look into your database, i think the table is "contenttypes" and check which contenttypeid your articles have.
On our installation it would be
$article_type = 18;
could be different on yours though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mooff (Post 2248845)

yes I have. I also have the slider working on my home page as a widget with the same code, I'll try yo look into what you said. thanx

Thanks anyway Mooff, I ended up just going with the Content slider. The load times were dragging the homepage down horribly and my host was having an issue with Fopen.

Hello, everything seems to be working fine except for one thing; the slider images aren't showing in the slider. The slider is working fine, instead the fallback images are showing. Also no images are being saved in the specified folder.

More then likely your host has disabled fopen. You can create an php.ini file enabling it but your host may not like that. If you do a Google search you'll see how.

Lol, right now I got it working, I just had to clear the CMS cache. But thanks anyway!

Edit: I cannot seem to remove the frame around the static html version of the slider.

[s]I did follow all the steps mentioned and also renamed the template as;

"vbcms_widget_static_page_nobackground"

And added the same title. Yet it's still not working and the slider isn't appearing.[/s]

Fixed :D

Gotta love Mooff :D

OK in my site http://www.fliprap.com/content.php I want to know how come the slider feature works, but the article images do not show, only the default image shows. How can I get the Article image to show? I already check the javascript filepath that was mentioned in FAQ and everything is correct. Any suggestions? Please tell me, I really need some serious help!

This mod is freaking awesome!!!!!!!

Couple of questions:

1) How do I remove the text from the slider? I would like to have only the images pulled from the articles.

2) Is it possible to have 2 of these on the same page? I have two atm and the 2nd one is coming up as a blank white box, though if I turn the first one off the 2nd one works flawlessly.

EDIT:

I did a debug on the blank slider which gave me this code:

Code:

DEBUG MODE is ON! 

slider_img_filepath: nivoslider/ 

width: 190 height: 190 

show_articles_without_image: bool(false) 

fallback_img: nivoslider/uf_fallback_slider.png 

#img: 5 

description_length: 0 

directory /var/www/virtual/std/andrew.jennings/reactgaming.net.au

#articles - featured and databasepull int(5) int(20)

I don't know if that helps or not. At the moment each slider has it own folder on the server so that i could have the sliders at different sizes and speeds.

Eagerly await your thoughts or ideas :)

Again this is an awesome mod, thank you for taken the time to give this to the community :up:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kr33p3r (Post 2244318)

Is there anything else I can do to provide you more information?

Heck, I'd give you shell access if you want it.

We are in the final stages of releasing a huge project on our board. I expect that to be done mid next week.

Once we are live i'll answer the questions which came up here in regards to the slider.

P.S.: Thanks for the latest donation. :)

Moof, one question, if you have time. Is there a way I can display the slider only on CMS home and not on all article pages?

@vexxy different layouts for different cms sections

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