vBulletin CMS Widgets - [WIDGET] Slider

Widget Slider - Frontpage Slide Show.

Demo: http://demo.webdeveloperplus.com/fea...ontent-slider/

This is based on the demo above. OK this is my first mod and I know the coding really sucks! But I thought I would get this out and see if anyone want to improve on it.
This is one of those frontpage slide shows that pulls your attachment and data from specified forums.

I hope this works for you.

Install:

Edit slider.php and at line 100:

$forumid - set the forum to pull slides
$limit - set the number of posts
$chars - set the total number of characters
$words - set total number of words

Upload Files.

Create PHP Widget and inser the following code:

ob_start();
echo '<div>';
echo '<center>';
require_once './clientscript/slider/slider.php';
echo '</center>';
echo '</div>';
$output=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

[cory_booth]

NOTE: This mod uses the jquery javascript so if you load it already for other plugins (i.e. cometchat) then look to see if you need to load it with the script.

[mandingo]

Looks promising.Any way to get this to work on the forum front page?

[ManagerJosh]

I'm seeing this tagged a CMS widget, so exactly what are we pulling from a forum when we have no original forum post with attachments per-se for our CMS articles?

[cory_booth]

Originally Posted by mandingo

Looks promising.Any way to get this to work on the forum front page?

Perhaps, however I am still learning.
I need to template a bunch of this stuff and then do a hook.
I'd like to make it a plugin so you don't have to edit the php.

This is all stuff I will try to do...

[cory_booth]

Originally Posted by ManagerJosh

I'm seeing this tagged a CMS widget, so exactly what are we pulling from a forum when we have no original forum post with attachments per-se for our CMS articles?

I guess I see your point, but for me... My Articles start off as forum posts in the "Current Events" forum. Then I Post as Article...

I guess some people don't use stuff this way so, perhaps this isn't a good idea for your site.

[mandingo]

Originally Posted by cory_booth

Perhaps, however I am still learning.
I need to template a bunch of this stuff and then do a hook.
I'd like to make it a plugin so you don't have to edit the php.

This is all stuff I will try to do...

I'll keep watch.if I can think of any way to help i'll send ideas your way but i'm not a big coder either.

[winstone]

if you ever decide to do it using YUI, see this example http://www.lutsr.nl/yui/image%20slideshow/

you will need to change a fair bit of stuff tho

[valendono]

any forum example ?

[pablete]

Good mod but i have a problem with....

Not show the images from post in features and

My forum is on folder /forum, if you put on a title of one those post featured show me an error, because the links put http://web.com/showthread.php?t=323 an not http://web.com/forum/showthread.php?t=323...

Why can i fixed?

Thank's