Show Thread Enhancements - Borgs' [BB Code] Pack - Signs, User, Divider, Search Tags, Float Images

Well no one else will start a bbcode archive, so I'll do it myself!

I love bbcodes, bits of HTML joy that are often really lacking a most fora. I have made several in my time, some I have seen mentioned in passing at vb.org but never pinned down so I'm going to do these myself!

All of the following codes are added in your admincp under:
Custom BB Codes -> BB Code Manager -> Add New BB Code
or
Custom BB Codes -> Add New BB Code

Where I have typed '-->>' this is to show you an example of the output of using the code. Do not copy that data into your bbcode form.

All tags are tested in IE and Firefox - none of these 'IE only' rubbish tags

Credit to the following sign tags (well at least the first one) goes out to Hoffi in this thread which appeared ages ago when there was a separate vbtemplates site.

SIGN TAG

Upload attached schildhalter.gif to your images folder or wherever you like
Title: Sign
Tag: s
Replacement:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	<tr>
		<td align="center" style="background-color: White; border: 1px solid Black; padding: 1px;"><FONT COLOR="Black"><normalfont>{param}</normalfont></FONT>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
		<img src="/images/schildhalter.gif" alt="" border="0">
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

Example: [ s ]Look at me![/ s ] -->>
Description: Wrap your text with a cynical looking smiley holding a sign.
Use {option}: No
Button Image: /images/s-tag.gif
NB - remove the spaces around the example [ s ], there is a conflict here with vb.org 's' bbcode

DEVIL SIGN TAG

Upload attached devilsign.gif to your images folder or wherever you like
Title: Devil Sign
Tag: evil
Replacement:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	<tr>
		<td align="center" style="background-color: Red; border: 1px solid Black; padding: 1px;"><FONT COLOR="White"><normalfont>{param}</normalfont></FONT>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
		<img src="/images/devilsign.gif" alt="" border="0">
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

Example: [evil]He's so evil![/evil] -->>
Description: Wrap your text with a devil smiley for those evil thoughts.
Use {option}: No
Button Image: /images/evil-tag.gif

The following image was designed by vb.org's very own Boofo and was once his site mascot! We love the mouse!

MOUSE SIGN TAG

Upload attached mouse.png to your images folder or wherever you like
Title: Mouse
Tag: mouse
Replacement:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	<tr>
		<td align="center" style="background-color: White; border: 1px solid Black; padding: 1px;"><FONT COLOR="Black"><normalfont>{param}</normalfont></FONT>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
		<img src="/images/mouse.png" alt="" border="0">
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>
<!-- courtesy of Boofo -->

Example: [mouse]Duh huh![/mouse]-->>
Description: Act like a silly old mouse
Use {option}: No
Button Image: /images/mouse-tag.gif

MAD SIGN TAG

Upload attached mad.gif to your images folder or wherever you like
Title: Mad
Tag: mad
Replacement:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	<tr>
		<td align="center" style="background-color: White; border: 1px solid Black; padding: 1px;"><FONT COLOR="Black"><normalfont>{param}</normalfont></FONT>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
		<img src="/images/mad.gif" alt="" border="0">
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

Example: [mad]RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE![/mad]-->>
Description: Rouse the mob!
Use {option}: No
Button Image: /images/mad-tag.gif

BANANA SIGN TAG

Upload attached banana_sign.gif to your images folder or wherever you like
Title: Banana Sign
Tag: banana
Replacement:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
	<tr>
		<td align="center" style="background-color: White; border: 1px solid Black; padding: 1px;"><FONT COLOR="Black"><normalfont>{param}</normalfont></FONT>
		</td>
	</tr>
	<tr>
		<td align="center">
		<img src="/images/banana_sign.gif" alt="" border="0">
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

Example: [banana]:banana:[/banana]-->>
Description: Bananas holding bananas?
Use {option}: No
Button Image: /images/banana-tag.gif

Someone on vb.org told me this one. Whoever you are, thanks!

USER TAG

Title: User
Tag: user
Replacement:

<b><a href="member.php?do=getinfo&username={param}">{param}</a></b>

Example: [user]Borgs8472[/user] -->> Borgs8472
Description: Wrap these tags to make a quick link to a user's profile anywhere at all.
Use {option}: No
Button Image: Not created

If this makes no sense to you, don't worry! It can obviously be customised with images of your choice!. But for those who wish to be enlightened about pie:
http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/

PIE TAG

You must upload the attached images under /images/pie/
Title: Pie
Tag: pie
Replacement:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
   <tr>
       <td width="60"></td>
       <td><img src="/images/pie/1.gif"></td>
       <td style="background-image: url('/images/pie/2.gif')"></td>
       <td><img src="/images/pie/3.gif"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
       <td width="60"></td>
       <td style="background-image: url('/images/pie/4.gif')"></td>
       <td bgcolor=white>{param}</td>
       <td style="background-image: url('/images/pie/5.gif')"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
       <td width="60"></td>
       <td><img src="/images/pie/6.gif"></td>
       <td style="background-image: url('/images/pie/7.gif')"></td>
       <td><img src="/images/pie/8.gif"></td>
   </tr>
</table>
<img src="/images/pie/weebl.gif">

Example: [pie]mmm pie![/pie] -->>


Description: Talk like Weebl and Bob!
Use {option}: No
Button Image: /images/weebltag.gif

STRIKETHROUGH

Title: Strikethrough
Tag: -
Replacement:

<strike>{param}</strike>

Example: [-]censored![/-] -->> [s]censored![/s]
Description: Wrap these tags to used strikethrough text.
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): /images/strikethrough.gif -->>

Ever tire of arguments where the other party say 'what was that'? Every tire of telling to to f'ing google it? Wrap the google tag around keywords in your argument and shut them up!

GOOGLE

Title: Google
Tag: google
Replacement:

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?&q={param}">{param}</a>

Example: [google]torrentforge[/google] -->> torrentforge
Description: Quick Links to google things!
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): /images/google.gif

Again, too lazy to search in another window while you make a post? Just wrap these tags and have others do your research for you!

WIKIPEDIA

Title: Wikipedia
Tag: wiki
Replacement:

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{param}">{param}</a>

Example: [wiki]wikipedia[/wiki] -->> wikipedia
Description: Links to facts and dates without a seperate search!
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): /images/wikipedia.gif

Good for long posts and portals especially, have images that text can wrap around!

FLOAT LEFT

Title: Float Left
Tag: imgl
Replacement:

<div style="float: left"></div>

Example:
Description: Float and image to the left, wrap text around it!
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): /images/imgl.gif

FLOAT RIGHT

Title: Float Right
Tag: imgr
Replacement:

<div style="float: right"></div>

Example:
Description: Float and image to the right, wrap text around it!
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): /images/imgr.gif

EBAY

Title: eBay
Tag: ebay
Replacement:

<a href="http://search.ebay.com/{param}">{param}</a>

Example: [ebay]Dodge Charger[/ebay]-->> Dodge Charger
Description: Links to search on eBay with search words or directly to item with item number.
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): /images/ebaytag.gif

MARQUEE

Title: marquee
Tag: marquee
Replacement:

<marquee>{param}</marquee>

Example: [marquee]Annoying Scrolling text![/marquee]-->> {it's that animated text scrolling by default from right to left}
Description: Highlight annoncements etc with scrolling text!
Use {option}: No
Button Image (Optional): Not yet created

The following code is done by replacement variables. Go to style manager in your admincp, on the drop down box of your parent most style, choose 'Replacement Variables' Select 'Add New Replacement Variable'

HORIZONTAL DIVIDER

Search for Text: ---
Replacement:

<hr>

Example:
[hr]whatever[/hr]
Button Image (Optional): Not yet created (would require a little custom coding too)

This is a very useful tag I made for my forum. What it does it takes a large image, e.g. a wallpaper or screenshot and stretches it to take up 100% of the avalible width. It then makes the image a link to the full version.

This stops the syndrome where you'd have either loads of oversized images, or loads of links. Also since the full version is loaded first time, when you click the link the full image loads instantly

100 TAG

Title: 100
Tag: 100
Replacement:

<a href="{param}"><img width="100%" src="{param}" border="0"></a>

Example: [100]<path to image here>[/100] here's a thread on my forum where you can see it in action
Description: An image taking up 100% of the width of the page, click for full version
Use {option}: No
Button Image: not created

Only problem with this system as it stands is that it will occasionally make large images larger for people viewing on a very large resolution which can potentially make an image worse to look at. There are no plans to fix this yet as it would a totally different hack otherwise beyond my capabilities.

Another great benefit of this is it eliminates the moderator/administrator effort to police images that are too wide for people's screens, wrap this code and you'll never have that problem.

I might release 'variations' on this theme if people like. For example the hyperlink to full version may prevent other hyperlinks which may be a problem in some cases so you might use a version without the <a href... but I'm sure people can figure this out for yourselves.

You might want to use alternative tags like [largeimage] or [wide] or [fit] or something rather than [100]. I chose [100] because it's short, and it reminds me it fits the image to 100% width whatever happens. See attachment for what this looks like.

Well that's all folks. Get back to me on any mistakes if you want. This post took a long time to prepare as you might imagine!

If you install any of these tags, please click install

*****

Update: 27th December '05 -> Added a lot more button images, as well as fixed some old button images.
Thanks to dodgechargerfan for the ebay tag
Update: 11th March '06 -> Added the maquee tag, I mean why not?
Update: 24th March '06 -> Added the <hr> replacement variable type tag
Updated: 2nd October '6 -> Merged in my oversized image code

[Krahl]

Originally Posted by Krahl

I installed the "STRIKETHROUGH" code and it works fine other than one issue. In the editor, the button image only shows on a mouseover. Any pointers as to what I need to do to change/fix this?

Thanks for any help.

Anyone have input on this issue? I still haven't been able to track down the problem.

[MThornback]

Originally Posted by Krahl

Anyone have input on this issue? I still haven't been able to track down the problem.

When I have issues I put the full link (HREF not server location) thats what fixes for me

[Krahl]

Originally Posted by MThornback

When I have issues I put the full link (HREF not server location) thats what fixes for me

Thanks for the input MThornback. I went ahead and tried that. It's still showing the exact same thing though - just a very "blue" view of the button and mostly only when the button image is moused-over. Drats!

Any other suggestions or does anyone else have thoughts as to what might be wrong?

[Krahl]

Originally Posted by Krahl

Thanks for the input MThornback. I went ahead and tried that. It's still showing the exact same thing though - just a very "blue" view of the button and mostly only when the button image is moused-over. Drats!

Any other suggestions or does anyone else have thoughts as to what might be wrong?

Follow up - I remade the graphics entirely and they're working now. No clue why the ones in the zip file didn't work for our site but at least the issue is now resolved.

[rareclownfish]

Any code for placing a pic on the main portal like a pic of the month or something like that?

[lostgirl815]

Thanks much for the strike tag.

[redlabour]

Will it work in the Future with vBulletin 3.6 or is something changed for BB-Codes ?

[Borgs8472]

^ ^
yep. These work with 3.0 also.

[Freesteyelz]

Excellent and fun hack, Borgs8472. *Clicked Install*

[libertate]

Thank you!

This is excellent.

I know there was an example of specific Amazon item, and the "search" results were discarded as not enough comission. I think something is still better then nothing so here it is.

Title: Amazon
Tag: amazon
Replacement:

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&tag=amazonid-99&camp=1789&creative=9325&location=/gp/search%3F%26index=blended%26keywords={param}%26_encoding=UTF8" target="_blank">{param}</a>

Example: [amazon]exercise[/amazon]
Description: Wraps amazon.com search around specific text.
Use {option}: No
Image: images/amazon.gif

Note that amazonid-99 should be replaced by your amazon id number.

If you have a very specific type of search you can narrow it down by selecting a category, and replacing blended within the URL.

Since these are links for searching, I open them in a new window via the target="_blank" tag within the anchor tag.

Again, thanks!