Version: 1.1.0, by Mooff
Developer Last Online: Nov 2013
Category: vBulletin CMS Widgets -
Version: 4.1.4
Rating:
Released: 07-17-2011
Last Update: 07-18-2011
Installs: 146
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Based on the Nivo Slider - all credit for slider awesomeness goes to them.
vB4 implementation goes to me.
What it is:
A slider for cms articles, it gets the articles via database, uses (if possible) the previewimage there and resizes it to slider size *update 1.1.0 cropping function included.
Livedemo on a Big Board (>2.000.000 posts)
the nivo slider on our site is customized to fit our heavily customized cms. Default look of this addon is shown in the picture below
facts about the nivo slider
Quote:
Originally Posted by nivo slider homepage
- ~ 600.000 downloads
- 16 transition effects
- a ton of options
- different available themes
- ...
Installation
upload all files (attached zip file) in the folder where you do need them - this has to be the same folder you will set via $slider_img_filepath (see picture)
create a new php-widget and insert the following code:
Code:
// 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 = 'external/unitedforum/slider/';
//picture width and height !same as in the CSS FILE!
$maxwidth = 650;
$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 = 10;
//lengh in characters of the article descriptions
$description_length = 95;
//stretch picture or crop them? false = strechting (default) true = cropping (beta)
$crop = false;
//Debug Messages
if($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 "Strech or Crop? $crop <br />";
echo "show_articles_without_image: ";
var_dump($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) .'
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 < $number_of_articles_shown)
{
if($debug_modus == true OR !file_exists($slider_img_filepath . 'slide_' . $article['nodeid'] . '.jpg'))
{
//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.
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> imagecreation failed. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
}
else
{
$img_width = $imageinfo[0];
$img_height = $imageinfo[1];
if($crop == false)
{
imagecopyresampled($sprite, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $maxwidth, $maxheight, $img_width, $img_height );
imagedestroy($image);
}
else
{
//cropping
$ratiox = $maxheight / $img_height ;
$ratioy = $maxwidth / $img_width ;
$new_height = $img_height;
$new_width = $img_width;
if ($maxheight > $img_height OR $maxwidth > $img_width)
{
if($ratiox > $ratioy)
{
$new_height = round($img_height * $ratiox);
$new_width = round($img_width * $ratiox);
}
else
{
$new_height = round($img_height * $ratioy);
$new_width = round($img_width * $ratioy);
}
}
$cropx = $new_height - $maxheight;
$cropy = $new_width - $maxwidth;
imagecopyresampled($sprite, $image, 0, 0, 0, 0, $new_width, $new_height, $img_width, $img_height);
imagedestroy($image);
}
$img_filepath = $slider_img_filepath . 'slide_' . $article['nodeid'] . '.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.
echo '<span style="color:red">Error occurred:</span> picture is not readable.' . $article['previewimage']. '<br /> ';
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
}
}
else
{
//resiziing did not work - we are using the fallback image.
echo '<span style="color:red">Warning:</span> article has no previewimage or sprite is no ressource. ' . $article['previewimage']. '<br />';
$article['previewimage'] = $fallback_img;
}
}
else
{
//we already have the image, no need to resize or crop anything
$article['previewimage'] = $slider_img_filepath . 'slide_' . $article['nodeid'] . '.jpg';
}
/*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' . $article['nodeid'] ;
$article_neu['picture'] = '<a href="/content.php?r=' . $article['nodeid'] . '-' . $article['url'] . '"><img src="'.$article['previewimage'].'" alt="" title="#htmlcaption'. $article['nodeid'] . '" /></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();
}
set refresh time to something big!
save - add the widget to your layout - enjoy
Custom settings:
At the top of the php-widget code you can see the following:
Code:
// 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 = 'external/unitedforum/slider/';
//picture width and height !same as in the CSS FILE!
$maxwidth = 650;
$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 = 5;
//lengh in characters of the article descriptions
$description_length = 95;
If you change $maxwidth and $maxheight you need to edit the nivo-slider_uf_theme.css file, here:
Code:
.theme-uf #slider {
margin:0px auto 0 auto;
width:650px; /* Make sure your images are the same size */
height:250px; /* Make sure your images are the same size */
}
Width and height have to be the same value in your php-widget and in the css file.
In additon to these settings i also included a "value/relevance function". Meaning the slider doesn't show your latest 5 articles, but instead weights them based on age and comments.
As older an article is the less likely it will show up in the slider.
More comments make it more likely.
This behaviour can be easily changed. I didn't include an if condition cause every board has different needs and i don't know whats best for you.
In addition conditions like "articles just from this section - or these sections, or this category, with a minimum of 10 posts" can be included via one single if condition. Again, i don't know what your board needs or what your category names are.
You can also modify the preview length (more words, less words), the preview style (color fontsize, fontweight .... Again different forums different needs. It's highly customizable.
Support:
Support and requests for the slider itself should be asked here http://nivo.dev7studios.com/
Same goes for different slider themes - a lot is possible, even thumbnails - again this is part of the nivo slider and not the vb4 implementation.
If you have any questions regarding the settings - or want different settings (which have to do with vb4) - ask, and i'll try to come up with some code // show you where you have to put what.
Slider not working. No idea why?
You will find a FAQ in the first comment, which will be kept up to date: FAQ
The widget here is completely free. No charge, no branding.
But, we do not mind donations either. If you want to give us something. Since we are advertising free and fan based we are happy about every small donation.
( On Forumhome bottom right paypal button: http://www.united-forum.de/forum.php )
I am also having problems, It has stopped displaying any new featured articles
I placed some new articles in the featured articles category like I always do but the slider only displays the old ones. It was working fine few weeks ago but now no new article is shown in the slider. Do I have to manually deselect older featured articles to make way for new ones?
Hopefully Mooff will be back here soon, after Christmas and can help us all with the problems
I have the micro-cart system installed on my vbulletin with the slider on the main CMS.
Is it possible to take the products from micro-cart to show on the nivo-slider?
I mean if I put a product on sell throw micro-cart and I also put there a picture for it then I would like it to show on nivo-slider along with the proper link to that product.
Sorry guys for the long wait, i have been really busy lately.
Quote:
Originally Posted by DoDe
Dear Mooff,
I have the micro-cart system installed on my vbulletin with the slider on the main CMS.
Is it possible to take the products from micro-cart to show on the nivo-slider?
I mean if I put a product on sell throw micro-cart and I also put there a picture for it then I would like it to show on nivo-slider along with the proper link to that product.
Thanks in advance!
That would need a different database query. But yes, it is possible.
Quote:
Originally Posted by rose123
This works great for me but I was expecting when user clicks on slide, it will direct the user to original page where article is published.
What happens is
I have slide show on home page and primary content on home page
When user clicks on slide, it displays the clicked article under primary content and does not direct the user to original page where article is published.
Thanks in advance for your time.
I'm sorry, can you please rephrase your question or provide links what happens and what behaviour you would prefer?
Quote:
Originally Posted by kenp
I would like to have the slider set o a sub-domain to hopefully reduce the amount of requests on the server. I do not see where in the uploaded files I can tell it to do so. Can you point me in the right direction please.
I'm sorry, can you please rephrase your question?
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Rocketeer
hey Mooff, The Slider is causing refresh problems even after I clear the cache in the admin CP and also after clearing it on my browser. The Slider doesn't show the newly Featured Article.
is there a fix?
Are you running the latest version? Can you link me to your site?
I have a small problem with the mood , it works perfect but it doesn't load the images from articles it gets the standard one from the slider folder. I think the problem is because I have the CMS in www.site.com and the forum in www.forum.site.com. When I try to see an atachament from an article the link looks like www.forum.site.com/atachamnets/image.jpg. And I also use vbseo but I think that is not a problem.
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