Forum Home Enhancements - Rhoov's News Slider

Just to start out, this mod was not written by me. It was written by Rhoov from Dutch Fight Platoon. He gives his mod, as is.

He says

Originally Posted by Rhoov

If there are people interrested in this product i can post the files and instructions, but maybe better if someone with real VB knowledge could take my code and make it completly VB and in the process i can learn some of it as well

here

I am posting this addon with the hopes that someone can take it a step farther. It is completely functioning and integrated into the vB Admincp. So, all works. I just would like to see an option to add slides from CMS Articles without having to be in the Admin CP.

But, here are the install instructions, pictures, and demo.

1. Edit the file Connections/rhoov_slider_db.php to match your Database settings
2. Upload all files in the upload folder to your VB root.
3. Install the product-rhoov_slider.xml product This will only create the 2 tables needed.
4. Go to your ACP and you will see a new menu called Rhoov's slider.
5. Here you can edit your slides and slider settings. As you will see there are some slides of my in there so you can see how it works.
6. Create a "static html" widget en insert the following.(the code is on the settings page as well)

<iframe src="./rhoovslider/rhoovslide.php" name="frame1" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" height = "235"  width = "100%">
</iframe>
 
7. Match the witdh and height with those of the slider, but make them a bit bigger to allow for the navigation.
8. Put the widget on one of your layout's
9. Add the widget to the page you want it on

This should do the trick

Remember this is not a real product but just a try out from me
Have fun
Cheers Rhoov

This can be put as a Widget on the main page. By creating a widget as stated above. Or, do similar to what I did.

Inside the vBulletin CMS template vbcms_page insert this.

<vb:if condition="$_GET['r'] == '1-your-page-name' OR !$_GET['r']">
<iframe src="./rhoovslider/rhoovslide.php" name="frame1" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" height = "300"  width = "100%">
</iframe>
</vb:if>

Above:

{vb:raw toolbar}
<div class="vbcms_content">
{vb:raw layout}
</div>
{vb:raw footer}
</body>
</html>

The if statement only allows the slider to be shown on the main news page, and not inside the articles themselves. Edit according to how you want it to be.

DEMO

I am not an expert in this slider. I just really liked it for my forum, it looks the best and works quite well for us. I thought I would share it. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it better, let me know. I will be sure to update the files accordingly.

[Whitesky]

I'm currently developing this on some high-end creative client sites. I've rewritten a lot of code and CSS to be more of a premium looking mod than it is out of the box.

I'm definitely looking to pick up this mod, with proper permission, and develop it further. This is the closest thing to what vB has lacked for so long; a full AdminCP functioning slide edit system.

Btw I'm the designer through MysticDigital http://mysticdigital.com so this is really cool with gaming sites ;-)

[iyama]

Look very good.
Buth waiting for a slider who grab things of my board.
Every time to go admincp and changing is to much work.

[frankw]

cool mod, is it possible to get this above the forum instead of cms section?

[nerowolfe]

Hi, great tools, but I've a little problema, see the picture:



The background is white, the font is different and also. Can you help me?

[deinrapde]

not work on 4.1.3 cos the mysql is wrong? please fix

[msoms]

For some reason it didn't connect to the forum database even though that user/pass is correct. Then I realized that my pass word contains "$" thus it was taking it as a variable. So I changed the variable from double quotes (") to single quote (') and it when through, i.e.:

$username_rhoov_slider_db = "user";
$password_rhoov_slider_db = 'pass';

For those who get table doesn't exist, just use your forum DB user and pass and don't create a new DB for it.

Regards,
Mohammed Sharif

Hope this will help.

[The Rocketeer]

Originally Posted by Whitesky

I'm currently developing this on some high-end creative client sites. I've rewritten a lot of code and CSS to be more of a premium looking mod than it is out of the box.

I'm definitely looking to pick up this mod, with proper permission, and develop it further. This is the closest thing to what vB has lacked for so long; a full AdminCP functioning slide edit system.

Btw I'm the designer through MysticDigital http://mysticdigital.com so this is really cool with gaming sites ;-)

please do it and show us how

[j0k4w1ld]

okay i have CMPS

how do i insert the code. <iframe src=path/to/slider/rhoovslider.php" name="frame1" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" height = "235" width = "100%">
</iframe>

add module
or
add page

and whats next.

[xavier.matia]

Hi

I tried to place the slider in a widget, but without success.
As part of the vbcms_page it works, but i really need it as a widget:

This is the code in my static page

<iframe src=./rhoovslider/rhoovslide.php" name="frame1" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" height = "235" width = "100%">
</iframe>

And this is the error i get:

Not Found

The requested URL /rhoovslider/rhoovslide.php" was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.54 Server at www.renderglobal.org Port 80


I tried several different path to the src file...but it never finds it.

Any hint would be appreciated.
Thank you for the mod, it's great btw, even though I'm probably going to change it a bit to be able to grab the images from the latest published article of a specific section.

cheers

Xavier

[xavier.matia]

Fixed, it was a missing quote, sorry for the noise!

Xavier

Originally Posted by xavier.matia

Hi

I tried to place the slider in a widget, but without success.
As part of the vbcms_page it works, but i really need it as a widget:

This is the code in my static page

<iframe src=./rhoovslider/rhoovslide.php" name="frame1" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" height = "235" width = "100%">
</iframe>

And this is the error i get:

Not Found

The requested URL /rhoovslider/rhoovslide.php" was not found on this server.
Apache/2.0.54 Server at www.renderglobal.org Port 80


I tried several different path to the src file...but it never finds it.

Any hint would be appreciated.
Thank you for the mod, it's great btw, even though I'm probably going to change it a bit to be able to grab the images from the latest published article of a specific section.

cheers

Xavier