Add-On Releases - Daily Crossword Puzzle for your site

I just found a neat online crossword puzzle that you can add to your site and I thought, it would be really easy to just make a page to put this in. So, I did just that and made a vbadvanced page as well. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=141333

Step 1: Upload vbcross.php to your forum root
Step 2: Go to your admincp => Plugins & Products => Manage Products => Add/Import Product
Import product-christianb_vbcross.xml

And they are looking for spanish and french translators as well.
See this page for details.

Demo location: http://www.christianboards.org/vbcross.php

This is loaded in an iframe so it is coming from the source site. Because of this there can be a 1-15 second delay.

You can put a link to it in the navbar by doing something like this...

Go to Styles & Templates => Style Manager => Style Choice Drop down All Style Options and choose Edit Templates - Click Go.

Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates >> => navbar

Find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="faq.php$session[sessionurl_q]" accesskey="5">$vbphrase[faq]</a></td>

Add after:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbcross.php$session[sessionurl_q]">vB Crosswords</a></td>

Changes

V. 1.1 Added support for Who's Online

[davidw]

I am guessing that the crossword creator has abandoned this project. I still support my work, but cannot support the works of others (the crossword creator's). The best I could do was email him and let him know but those emails have gone unanswered. This is why I never released anything for 3.7 - there wasn't really a point.

[davidw]

This modification is no longer supported.
This modification has been marked re-usable.

[BucShot]

I replaced the puzzle code (address etc) with code from this site. It required a little tweaking but all seems to be working well.

[davidw]

I was actually looking at that site a couple weeks ago as I was considering restarting this project with a site that works.

[Videx]

So, is the zip fixed yet? I saw someone else put this new site in a post, but I prefer the way this mod did it.

If you update it, you should add code for the Template Modification System so we don't have to set up that edit ourselves.

[davidw]

No, due to the nature of what transpired, I stopped working on the 3.6 version. I also marked this as reusable so anyone can update/work on it and release it, provided they credit me.

If no one does continue working on it, I might later but I have a lot of work ahead of me at the present.

[BucShot]

I don't think anyone expects support for older mods to last forever David and it's certainly not your fault that the original crosswords site went dormant. It happens, but some us old 3.6 hacks like this mod and it's easily fixed with a simple template edit.

First go to bestcrosswords.com and click on the web syndication link.
Register an account and you'll see 2 options, the code generator and the customization guide. I would recommend adding code from both of these to your "vbcross" template.

Next edit your vbcross template.
Find:

<iframe src="http://www.onlinecrosswords.net/externalplay.php?code=6d2e501ce15b4416853f64e62a6355e2&lang=EN" width="570px" height="700px" name="Crossword" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>
		</td>                                                   
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td class="alt2" style="text-align:center">
			Instructions:  Click on a clue below the puzzle to activate the word in the puzzle.<br />
			You can also click on the puzzle location to activate the word and the clue will be highlighted below.
			To enter the word, start typing.

Replace that with the code from bestcrosswords.com and tweak the customization code to match your site. You should be good to go.

[edytwinky]

Anybody ever update this for 3.7 or 3.8?

[davidw]

I may have some time in the near future to update this. The past few months have been tight with time for me.

[Glynn58]

Originally Posted by davidw

I may have some time in the near future to update this. The past few months have been tight with time for me.

Tagging this and waiting for the 3.82 cheers David