It's the first step:

- the thread is created when the entry is actually submitted (or accepted by the moderator)
- when someone adds a comment, a post is appended to the thread, reflecting the comment and rating, i.e. the comments appear in two places (in LDM and in VB)

To go further (e.g. greg's suggestions to have new posts place comments back into ldm), I need to change the LDM data structure to track the threadid, etc, and I also need to find out a safe and simple way of tracking everything else in the vb post system.

Tried SNAP plugin too... doesn't work.

They worked fine when they left me - let's sort this out this evening (my time) - I'll be home in about an hour from now.

It's probably a java scripting issue since that's what it always seems to be on my end. OH, I can't WAIT till you're home, I'll put the kettle on! :smiles with glee:

No, it's not a javascripting issue (not quite).

You're using a vbadvanced wraparound for LDM, and as a result you never use the standard LDM header template. Consequently, the tags for snap were not being included.

Unfortunately, vba doesn't provide any hooks, and it sets up its header template *before* vb gets going, so there's no simple way to patch into the vba header template by a hook.

So - proof of concept - I've edited your adv_portal template in your AMAC midnight style and hard coded the javascript to load snap. All your LDM links which point to an external url now have a popup over the title which gives a snap image.

Now we take a look at the other plugins and see what's wrong...

And for the artviper and webthumbs, I admit to being a complete wally..

These require my bug-fixed 2.2.6, which I hadn't uploaded for the rest of you to use. (This is what happens when I try to bring Christmas cheer.)

Let me know if you want these, or if you are happy to wait for 2.2.7

I've gotten rid of the vba wrap around actually, but not fully cleaned out the code for it, just disabled the modules it was calling.

As for the other plugins, which ones are you referring to?

Whoops, just read about webthumbs, I'm perfectly ok with Snap for now then. When 2.2.7 comes along it'll be great.

Whatever changes you made, I had to disable the SNAP plugins. It was causing ALL links to open in a new window, even though I don't have LDM set in that way. And it was also causing any links people put in posts, or in signatures to use SNAP.

Looks like a project that needs some more thinking....

If necessary, take a look at your adv_portal template. I added a line of javascript in there also.