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());
?>
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