Firefox plug in for your forum?
 

I was curious ... has anyone made a firefox extention so your forum members can recieve PM's, see the latest topics (via the rss feeds of course), etc?

I haven't seen one around, but it sounds like a nice idea..

I know someone made an MSN Messenger tab for vB2, that was pretty cool too.

Not for vB but similar.

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/60984

It would be quite easy to do I'd imagine :) Just take a bit of the gmail notifier code

Brad, thats what led me to ask the question. :)

Actually, I kept thinking about it since I saw thier desktop notifier.

anyone working on this? ;)

Theorizing ;)

What would be needed or useful in such a plug in?

* Newest and updated threads (external.php xml feeds most likely).

* PM notification

* Quick Post for AN-NET's Journal (assuming the same could work for some of the articles hacks)

* Buddy List (I dont think anyone on my site makes use of that but...)

yes these would be awesome!

Any word on this?

one exists because desitorrents.com has one ;)

Not a Firefox extension but a complete C# application. You'll see more in the next month or whenever.

A good person to ask is WetWired. He's been programming over 15 years. I belive C, C++, ect.. is his actual job. :)

I did a search plugin recently

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.h...mitform=Search

It doesn't use the forums search but rather a hook into google's search but it works well I think.

yes i made one for tampaforums.com and tamparacing.com .. in the process of getting it added to the mozilla site so it will update. It resides up with the rest of the menus. Right now all the links are hard coded.

Next release I think I will add an options area that will let users select via check boxes the urls they want to display, aswell as a place for them to add their own links.

demo of it is here --> http://www.zate.org/xpi.html (right click, save as then open it, select firefox as the application).

I don't know a whole lot about this now (about to pour on the net to research), but is tehre a way you could post the source for that for others to modify?

that is the source... the xpi file... save it, change it to a .zip and extract it.

i used this to help me : http://extensions.roachfiend.com/howto_bug.html

I see how that works now. Thanks.

I don't see how it works but I'd like to.

/me makes puppy dog eyes

Might be easier for folks if you attached the one you saved into a zip.

go to http://www.zate.org/xpi.html

right clik, save as.

go to the downloaded file (tftr.xpi) and change it to a .zip (tr.tf.zip)

extract it.

Inside the chrome folder, extract the jar (i used winrar).

use notedpad, or textpad to edit the files, use this site to help you learn what to change --> http://extensions.roachfiend.com/howto_bug.html

I am able to get the menu part of the extension to work real good. But clicking does nothing. So I am still trying to figure out what I missed.

EDIT: Got it. You have to make sure you replace every single instance of "trtf" in every single file with your new extension short name.

So I googled XUL Editor and chanced upon and extension thats for making extensions! Looks promising so far, check it out:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/

That was pretty much my only hurdle. Once I knew to change extensions it went like clockwork.

Aparently it's evil to talk about this in the lounge. :D

If your going to use the above template to make a link extension for your vb forum, I altered one of the js functions a bit. In chrome>content>common.js add this function. Make sure you change it to your site url and forum root.
Then you can just tsg_open_vb(event, '5') using the forum id instead of puting the whole url for every link. Smaller is better with js.

Now someone move this thing before it explodes.

i finished mine! wheeeee!

can we see a demo :)

<a href="http://joystickrequired.com/ff_extensions/jsr_extension.html" target="_blank">Mine is working</a>.

well I must be retarded, every time I install my edited one it says it's an invaild package

FYI. That install.js file that comes with that above code is legacy and not needed for Firefox. Firefox handles the install now. It may be needed if you wish to install in another mozila based app, or it may not. Not needed for FF though.

mine was giving me an error with the install file for the longest. turns out i zipped it wrong. whats the exact error it gives you?

File could not be installed, not a valid install package.

upload and link, i'll see if i can help at all.

Has anyone submitted the extension to addons.mozilla.org?

I was just wondering if they allow such site-specific menus to be added to their database, or am I on my own with distribution....

Just asking while I wait for the 'editor to get back to you' on my extension....

Extensions are for chumps, plus it doesn't apply to the 65% to 95% of the people using your site who use IE. Real men write full applications: http://www.webdesignforums.net/wdf_notifs_about.php . Course that limits it to Windows because it's written in C#, but that's a near-constant 90% of the user base.

Your making me want to cry here Filburt! Its not fair to tease us those of us who don't know C# like this!

Same in here when i saw the note The WDF Notifier is a unique, simple, and beneficial application to Web Design Forums.net only. Sorry, but it is not available or for sale for other web sites. i felt terribly sorry. We all know sharing is important :P

The application is actually extremely simple. It's all the server-side stuff that's more important. The architecture lets me add new notification types and messages without ever upgrading the client.

Go-go ubiquitous data formats.

Well I guess I'm okay with my firefox extension then. :P :cheeky:

Is the server side stuff written in php or c# and are you using native vb features? I imagine you had to add something for the PM notification.

The server-side is all PHP with some commonly installed PHP extensions (the server runs Linux so C# would be out anyway). Everything is done with custom scripts and hooks. Not one file on my site has been edited from vB's default.