Let's combine funds for a CMS Slider
 

Hello all,

Like me, I have seen that many people are frustrated by the lack of a dynamic CMS slider which can support images. Forum-slider has a mod on this site but it works with RSS and is not the ideal solution. Images have to be included near the top with BBCode instead of attachments which is hardly aesthetically appealing.

Let's all get our cash together and hire a programmer to do this for us. There are literally hundreds of free scripts which we could use. We just need to get a programmer to dynamically pull the content from our CMS systems.

So let's all pledge some money for this project and get it moving. I pledge $25.

Who is with me?

If it uses a good slider like WOWslider or Nivio and pulls images & text from CMS articles and forum posts, then I am in for €25 as well.

Once there are enough pledges, we can post this in the paid modifications requests forum.

I am going to go ahead and contact some programmers and see what we can get quoted.

There are plenty of qualified coders around. I'd prefer a coder who has a proven track record. But lets see if there are enough people wanting to pledge...

vBCover has one available: Slider for 4.0

While vbcover its products are great, I do not install encoded products. I want to be able to modify software to my liking or if a developer becomes unavailable I want another coder to be able to update the software. I have been burned too often.

I can completely understand why Lionel encrypts his software though. Any vb addon which is publicly released instantly gets nulled and released on vbteam, etc.

My server hates ioncube!

$25 buck huh! If its good you got my pledge..

Alright, so we have $75 raised. Anyone think it's time to go ahead and solicit for this? I'm sure once we have a firm price, some more folks will come on board. I will go ahead and post this.

I think we need some more people to join in. I pledged €25, which is about $35. So we are at $85. We are not going to get quality for that. Lets see if we can reach 200.

Definitely, I think we'll need about $200... but it would be good to have a figure in mind. I think we can easily sway 3-4 more folks to help out and get this underway.

Or you could just use wordpress and get it for free >.<

Guys, I started working on this myself and have so far been successful.

http://www.sectalk.com/boards/content/

As you see there, the slider is working.. but I am having the issue of the images not being resized properly. If all your images are the same side, then it isn't a problem.. but if you are having different sized images which need to be cropped, the solution isn't ideal. I'm still working on it and should have something done soon.

Would you be willing to share your code here? Maybe with multiple brains working on it, we could get a working solution.

Hey guys,

Seems like I've got it working really well now:

http://www.sectalk.com/boards/section/food-11/

For now, I'm trying to figure out how to get a image to center inside the frame when it is overly large. Right now, it aligns the top left corner of the frame with the image.

And I will definitely share my code. Hopefully I can put this in a product with all the settings inside the admin cp.

I'm excited to see what you come up with!

i'd toss another 25 on it!

i'd even be willing to put more on it if it would pick images from cms articles

Thats the point of this initiative. The slider should be able to pick images & text (caption) from CMS articles and forum threads.

Good to see more people join in. We are at $110 now.

I'm in for $25.

$135 now.

I think I've got a good start to this, but in case that I can't get it to work properly or we want more bells and whistles added in, this will be great. I hope to release something workable for free though, I've been reading a lot of programming articles regarding vB the past couple of day.s

Have you tried this? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=259842

No issues for me whatsoever, and easy to configure for either fixed for variable width forums.

DEMO: http://www.gnd-tech.com

That seems something different. That does not pull images / text from CMS articles or forum posts. Or am I wrong about that? In any case: I installed it and it does not add the needed table to the database, and therefore it doesnt work for me.

BTW: your reviews section and a lot of other links do not work.

Yep, had some server errors but it's all cleaned up now so they should work.

But yes you are right on how this mod works. It doesn't automatically pull images from the CMS but that's ok because I didn't' want it to in the first place. Manually entering in the info allows me to link to both CMS articles as well as forum posts.

But it's a matter of personal preference, and if this doesn't work for you, then I agree, that a new mod needs to be made. :)

will the stand alone version of frontpage slideshow work on vb? http://www.frontpageslideshow.net/

Yes, that works with RSS. If you enable images and full text in RSS you invite scrapers to steal your content. That is a very big problem for me.
RSS is a workaround. Having something that works directly with vbulletin would be nice.

+40 euros :-)

and work with vb advanced will be nice too

Most script and/or classes are counting from 0,0 (top left edge) to crop the image at a specific width. Some others, more sophisticated they're allowing to specify this top-left point on your own. But again is not so good. You most probably want to crop it having center the center of the image. You need to make some runtime calculations:

1. Get the image's width eg 700px
2. Subtrack the desired width eg 700-600 = 100
3. Divide by 2 (100/2 = 50)
4. Get the image's height eg 400 px
5. Subtrack the desired height eg 400-350 = 50
6. Divide by 2 (50/2 = 25)

After it the topleft position is: 25,50 (25px from top, 50px from left). With these settings you can get from an image 700X400, a new one 600X350 cropped centered.

By the way, my partner Jeff Ledger is planing to release such a slider the upcoming week.

Maria

Ευχαριστούμε Μαρία :-)

Thanks a lot for the infos

I want a slider that can pull from a certain forum. I also want the ability to select certain threads. Maybe we need a “Promote to Slider” button :D

Oh, if anyone can pull this off then I’m in for a reasonable amount. I’ll pay good money for a slider that does what i want.

I just wanted to contribute to this topic and say that there are already plenty of lite and free sliders. Mainly for wordpress, why not convert them so we can use them with vB4? Check this out - http://www.wpwebhost.com/2009/12/10-...ordpress-blog/


We should use only this slider, simple, and goes well with the CMS/Blogs
http://www.php-help.ro/

Nivo slider is really easy to implement.

I have it ready on my testsite, but we are not ready to release our fully reworked cms part as of yet.


Since a lot of you guys want it i'll upload the code later today.


there you go:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=267024

Thanks. Thats almost what we need. If you add a function to pull content and images from a forum, then this provides all that has been requested.

Would need a additional database_query and i would have to look up a code which searchs for the first image in a thread (probably going through the vb4 files to see how it is done there) - and then some additional debug in order to not catch smileys.
Which to be honest i won't look into simply because it has no practical relevance for our forum. Which means there will arise a lot of problems i can't see or fix without extensive debugging. Article is different since we will use the slider there ourselfs.

Besides that (as an admin) i have some problems to imagine how that would run in practice, when i pull 50 threads out of our board - i end up with 48 threads without image which probably all have a similar combination of age/comments as my articles. Meaning i have no controll over what is going to show up in the slider.

That aside, if someone comes up with a database query which fetches: thread title, thread id, post count, thread date, message - and a way to find the thread image - i can easily point him in a direction where to put that code in my nivo slider widget for it to show up.

As a workaround you could promote everything out of one forum into a hidden cms-subsection. And then change the link in the slider to point at your threads (instead of articles).

I've been burned by vB cover. Nearly $200 wasted. Do not trust them.

Bad modules? Expensive services? Not good assistance? Please clarify cause i need some modules from there...

Thank you :)

PM sent.

hummm user thunderclap with your email address did not make a single purchase ...

It was puchased under a different name.

Very easily said ... why don't you provide some proof? Sounds to me that you have your own agenda. In the past, contributors here used to be honest.

There was a bug in your iReview software I pointed out to you that involved sorting. It didn't work properly, and even with proof you insisted it was user error. How I can screw up sorting is beyond me. In any event, you discontinued communication and ignored me. You even told me not to contact you again.