Bibliasoft -- BibleFilter 1.5
 

Bibliasoft -- BibleFilter 1.5

Introduction
In 2004, plugins became available for both Wordpress and Drupal that converted plain text Bible verses into BibleGateway links. The plugins were free to modify and distribute, so I have ported the code to work with vBulletin and made some improvements.

I originally introduced this modification for vBulletin 3.5.x, and now I present it (with a few enhancements) for vBulletin 3.6.x

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What does it do?

Basically, every time a user types in a Bible Verse (e.g. John 1:1), it will automatically turn it into a link to the Bible Gateway's page for that specific verse. The filter will convert verses posted in various formats including, but not limited to: John 1:1 John 1.1 Joh 1:1 John_1.1 1John_1:1 1 John 1:1 NIV John 1:1 ESV John 1:1 KJV etc.

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Some features:

Admin Control Panel Settings
- The Administrator can choose whether or not Scripturized links open a new window or not.
- The Administrator can choose the default translation that is used.

Versatile
- The newer version supports various different means of creating links, including Book Abbreviations (Gen instead of Genesis, for example).
- A period (John 1.1) can be used instead of a colon (John 1:1).
- Users can specify which translation they would like to use simply by placing it at the end of the reference: (John 1:1 KJV, John 1:1 ESV, etc).

Extra Features
- The product will also turn Apocrypha verse references into links. NEW!

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Installation

1) Import the product file using your Admin Control Panel.
2) ENJOY!

If upgrading, simply overwrite the old product.

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Support

I will try hard to support this product. There are a few ways you can help support the product, too:

1) Click Install. This will help incredibly with support.
2) If you find this product useful on your forums, consider posting a link to Bibliapedia.com somewhere on your site. It's a useful free non-profit online Bible Encyclopedia.
3) Give feedback on the product! Let me know what you think!

I think that's all for now....so ENJOY!

okay.. i installed this and it works very nice.. i really like how you have the many different versions available to work from! my christian members will be impressed...

I'm glad you like it!

I'll probably add a bunch of extra versions as updates.

Thanks for the release! I'll check it out soon.

Pretty Nice can you choose which forum to set this in?

Unfortunately for now, this will only affect any posts in any forums. I'll consider individual forum permissions in the next release.

You know what else would be nice? If this could have enough user permissions to redirect guests to the register page and only registered users to the correct destination.

I'm not sure if I'm that smart, though, unfortunately. It'll have to wait until the next release.

:( Very lovely Hack - but i cant use it because you are not using different Languages. :(

German is the one i need. :(

If members could set their preferred translation in their profile. That is a cool feature of the phpbb version of this hack.

It may be possible to use this in German. It would only require modifying the regex to support the German Bible Translations on Bible Gateway.

I might add that in the next release.

I'll see if I can do that. I'm not an expert with vBulletin, but I might be able to get it to work.

Are there any other features of the phpBB one that I haven't implemented?

Also, do you have a link to the phpBB version? I can't seem to find it.

Why not the largest one with the most Languages ? ;)

http://www.bibleserver.com/

Perhaps eventually I can integrate it. For now, the port from the Drupal extension only supported Bible Gateway.

For some reason it doesn't work for me in VB 3.6.3

I key in John 3:16 and press the spacebar and nothing happens. I rechecked and it is installed but the verses do not turn into links. It's as if it weren't there.

Ideas???

Clicks Installed 3.6.0 this is really kewl thanks for this, the gang over at musiciansquarters.com really appreciates all this!!!!

MarkAnthony:cool:

same here. john 1:1 is just plain text on vb 3.6.2

Well done UltraVR. :D

I want to use this with my SIG is that possible?????????????????????

Thanks in advance :D

They will be turned into links once posted, not immediately when typed. Try submitting the thread and viewing the post.

I've been working on a bible application - http://bible.5solas.org. On my website http://www.predestinarian.net - I've modified the source of biblefilter to link to my bible software. I'm continuing to modify the application and I plan to eventually release it. - Brandan

I'm glad you like it. If you get a lot of use out of it, consider linking to Bibliapedia.com's encyclopedia somewhere.

Just a thought.

Hi Ultra VR

I likes this hack so much...:)

Please keep this stuff coming on new vBulls. ;)

I will post your link on our site if you can help me figure out how to get this hack to work in sig???????

I tryed it and its not working in member sigs. Other than the sigs its working beautifully.

Peace and Happy Holidays :D

For those not being able to get it to work...you must use caps for the first letter of the book, else it will not link.

Found a bug.

http://www.onlinedebate.net/forums/198822-post64.html

When trying to say "The 2nd" (as in The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics) it reads it as if it may be a Bible reference. At first, I thought it was linking to perhaps Thessalonians Chapter 2, instead, it just links to the index of Bible Gateway.

UltraVR,
I just wanted to drop you a line and say thank you for this wonderful tool. We have installed it on our Christian forums, and we hope that it will be a blessing for our users. God bless you and keep up the good work. :)

TTF

Thanks, buddy!

Deepdog009,

I'll see if I can figure out how to do this in signatures, too. I'll post an update to the product when I do.

I copy/pasted the code into the plugin section of my control panel. It is not working. Did I not do the install right?

I am glad nobody replied to my noviceness. I fixed and and downloaded it. It works perfect.

Thanks a lot.
This is so cool I just want to sing and praise the lord.
It is also the easiest install I have ever done. Under 3 minutes and I am a newbie.

This has not been updated, but worked fine on 3.6.4

I installed this and selected NKJV. Then I went to test it in a password protected forum, it did not autolink John 3:16 in the post.

Is the NKJV the only version giving you problems?

Actually, fyi when installing this plugin for first time, it installed but is disabled by default I found. I had to enable it in plugin manager then it worked.

Thanks.

Podriais añadir una version en Español...por favor, con la Reina Valera 60, o La Biblia de las Amricas.

Gracias

adding a version in Spanish ... please, with queen The Valera 60, or The Bible of Americas.

Thanks

Can you please tell me how to prevent this mod from removing formatting?

For example, I'll type John 3:16 in bold, but this mod removes any formatting of the Scripture it automatically links.

Due to lack of support and being too buggy (more of a nuisance because of the silly "The" bug), I've uninstalled.

I would not recommend this hack on busy forums.

Just installed. Unbelievably easy. Tested and seems to work OK. Now let my users to get to it and we'll see. :)

Thanks!

Admin Control Panel Settings
- The Administrator can choose whether or not Scripturized links open a new window or not.
- The Administrator can choose the default translation that is used.

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How do you set the above?

This is a great idea! I look forward to trying it out. Thank you! :)

Rebecca

Can I get an answer on this please? Thanks