How did they do this ticker!?

[OSbetas]

This is simple, it is not a javascript. Its Marque which you said you didn't want but it grabs the forums the same way that VBPortals does. :-P

[dengel]

<script language="javascript" src="http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/ticker/ticker.js"></script>

Does not look like a marquee to me...

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[Psychdrone]

I swear I thought I saw this made.... maybe not

anyone gonna make it??

[nuno]

Originally posted by nicksaunders
wluke's hack isn't really wluke's

really? and what do you mean by that?

[nafae]

Originally posted by Psychdrone
I swear I thought I saw this made.... maybe not

anyone gonna make it??

boy oh boy do I hope so :laugh:

[David Bott]

Hi All...I run AVS Forum and TiVo Community.

The Ticker was custom made for our sites because some other ticker that was posted that I had seen a while back had some issues and caused load issues on the database server. Not to mention it had some small issues.

You see, with the users that we have...say 1000 people were running the ticker that hit the database every 3 mins....Well you can see the major issue that it would cause. (Yes, we could easily have that many if not more using it.) The issue was, people really liked it so we needed to come up with something.

We thus worked on a PHP script that runs as a cron job every 5 mins. This script does the lookup for the 25 most recent posts and puts them to a text file. Thus every 5 min this text file is replaced.

We then made the HTML page that runs a java script that reads this data. Thus we have ONE database lookup every 5 mins and all the page reloads just hit the text file which is nothing for the server to send down.

We are also developing an installed EXE file that does the same read. The reason we are doing that is because we want something that will stay on-top on a desktop and a browser window does not do that. We hope to have this done my months end.

The other issue with the coding in the PHP database call is that we needed to hard code out forums we did not want shown. Thus is not just something you can plug in.

I give all the credit to one of my mods who did the development on this. We worked back an fourth on it and finely got it like you see it.

I will see what we can do maybe about posting it. BUT...You will need to go though it and make all the changes needed for YOUR site. On a large site, this is really the only way this will work without killing the database. Remember, you will need to make a number of mods for it to work including setting up a cron job.

[dengel]

If you share it, I'd be glad to document the steps to put it up and have it running properly. By far your solution is the best I've seen on the ticker arena.

Gotta love that TiVo community!

d.

[nafae]

Thats great, I hope we can entice you to post it! *goes to think of something enticing*

[Dan203]

Hi I'm Dan, and I'm the moderator who actually wrote this code.

I don't mind sharing with others, but as of right now it's pretty well hard coded into our site. So what I'm going to do is move some of the hard coded stuff into variables, so that it's easier for others to use, then either me or David will post it here.

Dan

[dengel]

Yes! Thank you both!



d.