Miscellaneous Hacks - IFRAMEr (Free) by BOP5 - Easily create IFRAMEs in your forums to external pages

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Version 1.3.1

Fully compatible with VB 3.8 & 4.x versions.

This is a free version of this mod. The Gold Version is available at:
IFRAMEr Gold by BOP5 at Qapla.com

The FREE version is just like the GOLD version except limited to 3 Admin Created IFRAMEs. The GOLD version allows for unlimited IFRAME pages.
Also The GOLD version also allows for the admin to set a custom filename and URL attributes.

Live Demos:
VB4 Demos-
Photo Editor - Qapla.com Forum by BOP5 - Photo Editor
Radar Map - Qapla.com Forum by BOP5 - Radar Map

VB3 Demos-
321 Cheese - JUOT - Joe's Ultimate Off Topic - 321Cheese.com (Take your own photo)
Photo Editor - JUOT - Joe's Ultimate Off Topic - Photo Editor

About:

The IFRAME tag is a powerful tag that lets you embed any webpage in any other webpage. It is used all over in places you'd never expect like "Like Buttons" and even in vBulletin's Human Verify templates.

This mod is designed to provide the admin with one large IFRAME on a vBulletin powered page that the admin can easily assign and setup via the Admin CP.

This will allow admins to provide a familiar and local interface for external content.

PLEASE BE AWARE NOT ALL WEBSITES "ALLOW" YOU TO FRAME THEM. Please read the site's "Terms of Service" before you place their content into an IFRAME on your page. Some sites specifically forbid this, though it is mostly through the "honor system." Very few use JavaScript code that can detect them being framed and "break out" of them automatically. Still, please do your due diligence before framing anyone else's content. There a number of sites you are allowed to frame such as the photo editor in the demo links (a popular choice), usually any scientific/government sites like weather maps, forecasts, or NASA sites. Wikimedia/Wikipedia allow for framing as well.

This mod also allows you to choose if you want to link to each or any of the IFRAME pages via the "Quick Links" drop-down forum menu. However, this mod is intended to create the FRAME pages- linking to them in a better way is up to you. May I suggest a (Free) Qapla.com ExQlusive mod : Navbar Buttons Builder by BOP5 - For easy inclusion of IFRAME links in the navbar or drop-down lists.

You must give each IFRAMEr page a title, a navbits title, and an optional extended description. Each of these options may be entered directly into the IFRAMEr manager OR can instead be created as phrases to allow translation to multiple languages for multi-language sites. In the latter case you specify the "use phrases" and enter the phrase name in the settings box instead. A convenient link is included to the Phrase Manager pre-loaded to show your custom IFRAMEr phrases (if any.)

Finally the mod also allows you to choose which usergroups can see each IFRAME link and page. By default all usergroups can see each IFRAME page, but you can restrict it to specific groups or member's only (preventing guest access.)

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
Donations always appreciated. :up:
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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by CaneInsider

Ok, I tried to install the product and half of it did install. I see the options in the CP>Options to turn the iFrames plugin on. But there is no IFRAMES CP anywhere else to add the iframe data?

You need to upload the files, in particular the .xml file- it needs to be uploaded and in the correct location to create the IFRAMES CP menu system.

The please Mark as Installed.

[nubbyless]

is there away to center the frame in other words the site im displaying in frame is wider then my template i can expand frame to fit site but then it is pushed off to the right see link

http://www.cbjunkies.com/iframer4.php?page=CB%20Auction

[BirdOPrey5]

Please "Mark as installed"

Answered here: http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread...ull=1#post1170

[Papa Bear]

Very Nice Bought the Gold version.

[BirdOPrey5]

Thanks for the support. :up:

I have fixed the demo links- apologies to anyone who got a 404 error- forgot I changed the URLs.

[CaneInsider]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

You need to upload the files, in particular the .xml file- it needs to be uploaded and in the correct location to create the IFRAMES CP menu system.

The please Mark as Installed.

Where do I install them? The root file or through the plugings manager?

[BirdOPrey5]

The files in the UPLOAD directory get uploaded to the forum root. They are already in the correct folders so if you upload everything in UPLOAD to the forum root (the folder with forumdisplay.php) everything will go into the correct location.

The product .xml file gets imported via the the product manager. The product .xml file is the one NOT inside the "upload" folder.

[CaneInsider]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

The files in the UPLOAD directory get uploaded to the forum root. They are already in the correct folders so if you upload everything in UPLOAD to the forum root (the folder with forumdisplay.php) everything will go into the correct location.

The product .xml file gets imported via the the product manager. The product .xml file is the one NOT inside the "upload" folder.

Excuse my ignorance but where is the Forum root? I uploaded the folder named "IFRAMEr by BOP5 FREE" to /public_html/IFRAMEr by BOP5 FREE and nothing happened. Should I upload the folder named "UPLOAD" or just the two files inside the UPLOAD folder?

[BirdOPrey5]

Forum Root is the folder on your FTP Server that contains the following files:
showthread.php
forumdisplay.php
ajax.php

and quite a few others.

You do not upload the entire "IFRAMEr by BOP5 FREE" folder.

In your FTP program browse to the "upload" folder on the left side and the forum root directory on the right side.

So on the left side of your FTP program you will see the following list:
admincp (folder)
includes (folder)
iframer3.php
iframer4.php

Highlight them all and hit the "upload" button to copy them all to the forum root.

Once that is complete you will need to go to your Admin CP -> Products & Plugins -> Add / Import Product.

Then use the "Choose File" button to browse to and select the product-bop5iframer5 FREE.xml file.

Ignore the other blank fields on the page and just click the "Import" button.

The product should import and after the page refreshes you should see the "IFRAMEr CP" menu on the side menu of Admin CP, near the top but not the very top.

[CaneInsider]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Forum Root is the folder on your FTP Server that contains the following files:
showthread.php
forumdisplay.php
ajax.php

and quite a few others.

You do not upload the entire "IFRAMEr by BOP5 FREE" folder.

In your FTP program browse to the "upload" folder on the left side and the forum root directory on the right side.

So on the left side of your FTP program you will see the following list:
admincp (folder)
includes (folder)
iframer3.php
iframer4.php

Highlight them all and hit the "upload" button to copy them all to the forum root.

Once that is complete you will need to go to your Admin CP -> Products & Plugins -> Add / Import Product.

Then use the "Choose File" button to browse to and select the product-bop5iframer5 FREE.xml file.

Ignore the other blank fields on the page and just click the "Import" button.

The product should import and after the page refreshes you should see the "IFRAMEr CP" menu on the side menu of Admin CP, near the top but not the very top.

Thank you so much for your time. Got it figured out. Was digging to far down in my forum root. LOVE THIS MOD! INSTALLED.