how about haveing it so each user can add there own story and only they are able to add more to it and edit it (and if they want they can pick for everyone to be able to add more), and on the main page to the hack it gives you a list of all the storys on the board and who they are by and how many views they have had and also a rateing of the story and feedback from users about the story?
I know it be alot of work but it be one how of a hack
this is an interesting idea, but not one that I'm going to do. the reason i'm not going to do it is because I don't think anyone is going to want to have to populate all of the diffrent chapters that are available. e.g.:
at the end of each chapter the story splits, and while I can see this being popular for a range of diffrent users working togther, I really can't see only one user wanting to do it all himself
although saying that, the current verson could be changed to support this feature, all you would need to do is change
PHP Code:
// check for permission
if (($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == "1") or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == "3") or ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == "4")) {
show_nopermission();
}
to
PHP Code:
// check for permission
if ($bbuserinfo[userid] == "<id>") {
show_nopermission();
}
where <id> is the id of the user you want to have access to it.
(this is just me, but) I personally think that if I was going to write a story it would want to keep it all in one thread, rather that having it split off all the time
the idea of this hack is to get your users more involved in using the forum, and expressing themselves
anyway, i'm just working on beta3 at the moment, this is going to support multipul stories split into multipul genres
Daniel, I for one am very impressed. I have about 20 hacks installed on my board. The #1 hack is Lesane's Store hack (a lot of hackers would also attest to that)...and your hack will be IMO ranked right up there with the best IMO. While still in its beginning stages...the ideas you have in store for it will put at the top of the available hacks here.
I'm always looking for ways for my community to be interactive, and we've done this very thing (a while back) w/i a thread....but this feature, esp w/ your new ideas will blow those linear threads away.
It's nice to see a hack that works, easy to install...but most importantly is creative and unique.
Thank you for your kind words, it's nice to see that people like the idea. This is a project that I've been trying to get off the ground for ages, i've got an (almost) fully working verson of this script on my localhost, but it's not vB'd, so it's just a case of taking my old code, making it work with vB, and then making it look nice
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