vBstory - an Interactive Story for vB (0.94 RC4)

I've upgraded this is Final Status, please visit https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=42899 for more information.

[Ninth Dimension]

OK, i've just set-up asked John if he would set-up a demo for me on his test forums, so that I can get this hack finilised ASAP can you please go and sign-up to his forums (http://www.eovie.com/forum/) and then use the story (http://www.eovie.com/forum/vbstory.php)

The sooner I can get an all clear, the better

Cheers all.

[Ryangel]

Come on. Onion Man needs a life.
Help onion MAn!

ok, one question. What if 2 users were adding a chapter at the same time?

[Ninth Dimension]

Originally posted by Ryangel
ok, one question. What if 2 users were adding a chapter at the same time?

Whoever submits the chapter first will have it added, the second user, once they hit the submit button will receve a message telling them they where too late, and is given the ability to view the chapter that was added.

I was thinking on working on a more advanced verson which would prevent you from seeing the submission form if someone else was currently adding a chapter, but it's not going to be included in this verson.

[xxxsaint]

I helped onion man !

[bitbender]

Gonna Go ahead and try rc4 on my test server...

I will report back later!

[Ninth Dimension]

bitbender, any luck? any problems? any comments?

[bitbender]

Well, I was 'tupid, and REFUSED to believe your comment about UserId, and typed in my admin name.

"Instant" assignment of the author ID of '0'(zero) in the chapters table, rendering it undisplayable on the story.php page.

I figgured I did sumpin wrong, so whence I arrived home from the office, I rechecked my templates, and code, all looked well..then I read thru this post, and low and belold on about page 6 or 7 (I fink) there was a case where someone had left author blank, and received a "similar" sit, so's I goes phpmyadmin, and ya, und Bit's is a Dufus. Thankfully MyPhpAdmin is made for moments like that!
A quick set to my user #, and we were off to the races!!

I'm going to to some deep 6 testing on it, now...Back soon!

Ohh, I'm running 2.2.6, and VBportal 3.0 pr8.1, with a buncha hacks, whole buncha hacks.

Film at 11

Keep at this, I like it already !

[Ninth Dimension]

bitbender - well, you do have a way with words - I'm glad you like the hack.

I'm going to have to do something about that, maybe a little message saying that it's important with a link to the members page so they can get the user ID.

If, however, a user suggests a story, it will automaticly be entered in, so that's not really a problem anymore, but i'm going to keep the userid option in the admin for the moment, maybe setting the default as 1, just incase the admin/mod has to add a story for someone that's not quite intelegent enough to use the suggestion form

(BTW, I got the idea of having a user's ID number from TWTcommish's vBquiz hack, and if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me - he is also the tetris king on my arcade (the bastard LOL)

[high]* Ninth Dimension see's TWTcommish and runs.[/high]

[kira]

Hi there! I've installed the latest beta on my forums but haven't brought it "live" yet to my members; you can check it out right here if you want to see some of the template tweaks I've done. (My forum layout uses a left column, which tends to push everything out to the right if I'm not careful.) Also, I changed some of the text to suit my community, which is largely for writers anyway. Here's the testing I've done so far:

- Created genres and a first story
- Added a chapter and two different path chapters.
- Edited the chapters.
- Suggested a story, then made sure it showed up in the admin panel.

So far everything has worked perfectly! Woohoo! :banana:

I do have a possible suggestion, though. When clicking on one of the paths that hasn't yet been written, I receive the standard "Now it's your turn!" page. So far so good. But if I continue on to the "add chapter" form, it would be great if the page could include the title of the path I've chosen, to "remind" me of the choice I made. Like, above the text field I'd be able to see the path title, such as "The Intruder Attacks..."

Do you think this is feasible? What can I say, I have a short memory.

Anyway, this is a totally kickass hack and I can't wait to bring it live. Super job, and many many thanks!

[bitbender]

Originally posted by Ninth Dimension
bitbender - well, you do have a way with words

Writing RCA's (Root Cause Analyses to upper management gives a person the "silver tounge"!

THe ID thing is FINE, I was just being stuborn as germans are, sometimes(or so my dutch friends tell me). I also have VBQuiz installed on my board, and it's a great hack, also, and yes, he does use the the userid #, not name....

hmmmm...perhaps a eregi check to see if the field contained letters, instead of numbers??

If you don't mind, I may "play" a bit wif my copy, for now! :banana:

[high]* bitbender reminds himself to take several backups, now.....[/high]