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Compose External Javascript · **Released**: 01-05-2004

vB Compose External v. 1.0.3 (Updated)

This hack provides an easy way to generate JS-Code for the Javascript syndication system on vB 3. It has been tested with VB 3.0.0 RC 1 and higher.

Features:

Complete control of the HTML-code before, after and in between the links to the threads
Possibility to enter a maximum-value for the count of threads to be displayed by the administrator
Users can choose more than one forum to be displayed
Users can choose how many threads to be displayed
Users can choose how many characters in the thread title should appear (new in version 1.0.1)
Users can choose from three pre-made styles (new in version 1.0.3)
Integration into forumdisplay and navbar-templates (new in version 1.0.4)
Complete integration in the look and feel of vB 3
Phrase-compatibility

Plans for future versions:

Option to choose the forums from a pulldown-men?
Option to add it to the forum-tools (in order to be able to have the JS-Script created for this specific forum)
Options for creating the URLs for XML- and RSS-feeds
Adding new features when external.php will be updated with new features

These are the instructions how to install it:

New templates: 1
Templates to be changed: 2
PHP-files to be added: 1
Phrases to be added: 23

Step 1:
Insert the phrases using the XML-files. There are phrases for some languages. You can of course translate them to other languages using the phrase-system. If you do so, please send me the XML-files for these translations. I will add them to this ZIP. Right now there are:

German
English

Please be sure to save the language in the phrase system BEFORE you do so!

Step 2:
Upload the file composeexternal.php in the root of your forum.
Upload the files in the folder /images/composeexternal/ on the server.

Step 3:
Add a new template with the name "composeexternal" and add the content of composeexternal_template.txt (in this zip) to it.

Step 4:
Search for the following code on template forumdisplay:

Code:

 
 	    	<div><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/subscribe.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_parent_forum]" vspace="1" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$foruminfo[parentid]">$vbphrase[view_parent_forum]</a></div>
 		</div>
 	</td>
 	<!-- / forum tools -->

Replace with the following code:

Code:

 
 	    	<div><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/subscribe.gif" alt="$vbphrase[view_parent_forum]" vspace="1" /> <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$foruminfo[parentid]">$vbphrase[view_parent_forum]</a></div>
 		</div>
 		    <div><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/subscribe.gif" alt="$vbphrase[composeexternal_categorystrip]" vspace="1" /> <a href="composeexternal.php?$session[sessionurl]do=composecode&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]">$vbphrase[composeexternal_categorystrip]</a></div>
 
 	</td>
 	<!-- / forum tools -->

Search for:

Code:

 
 	<if condition="$show['adminoptions']">

Add above:

Code:

 
 	<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="composeexternal.php?$session[sessionurl]do=composecode&amp;f=$foruminfo[forumid]">$vbphrase[composeexternal_categorystrip]</a></td></tr>

Step 5:

Search for the following code on template navbar:

Code:

   		<if condition="$show['wollink']"><tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="online.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[whos_online]</a></td></tr></if>

Add below:

Code:

 		<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="composeexternal.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[composeexternal_categorystrip]</a></td></tr>

Credits go to Ypsfanpage.de - a user of our forum. He coded the initial php-file. I ported it to the VB-system and created the php-file and the template.

See the screen-shots below, how it works, or visit our testsite.

Version-History
v. 1.0.0 - Initial release
v. 1.0.1 - Added character-limitation
v. 1.0.2 - Got rid of a small bug, occuring in MSIE, happened when there where too less threads, genereal optimization of the code
v. 1.0.3 - Added three pre-made templates
v. 1.0.4 - Added support for forumdisplay-template and navbar-template

Please click on install, when you choose to use this hack

wacnstac · #32 01-12-2004, 04:03 PM

Quote:

What do you need to be explained? The insertion, the translation of the phrases, or how to export them? Or all of them Just want to be sure to explain the right thing

The whole process in general on how to add phrases. I only see a menu option to upload/download a whole language in the control panel.

eva2000 · #33 01-13-2004, 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bernd Glasstett

Strange thing. I tried alle examples again. This time the first two are working fine, the third produces the error. Then I tried again. This time the second one came up with the error.

So I looked into the code and found the first big problem: The code is never the same. It seems, that you have used different versions of the script. Can you please do the following:

- Use the latest version of the script on all three sites.
- And add all code produced by the script only to the body.

When you have done so, please tell it to me, and I will test all three of them again. And if the error still occurs - it doesn't do it on our testsite with the latest script - then I will try to find the error.

done but really anime_news.php is the only one i care about right now i have the following in that file

Code:

<?php
if ( is_numeric($fid) ) {
$fid = $fid;
} else {
$fid = 224;
}
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="0 days">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<TITLE>Anime News - Animeboards.com</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<p>
This is a example of some javascript code you can add to your own anime web site to display anime news reported by Animeboards.com. Display, font, color etc are all customisable to fit into your web site's design and color scheme.
</p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://animeboards.com/external.php?type=js&amp;forumids=<?php echo($fid); ?>"></script>
<b>Last 15 Threads :</b><br><table width="60%">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
 var max = 15;
 if(threads.length < max) 
 max = threads.length;
 for(i = 0; i < max; i++)
  { 
   if (threads[i].title.length > 50)
    { threads[i].title = threads[i].title.substring(0, 50) + '...'; }
   document.writeln("<tr><td><a href=\"http://animeboards.com/showthread.php?t=" + threads[i].threadid + "\">" + threads[i].title + "<\/a>  <\/td><td><small> : (by " + threads[i].poster + ")<\/small><\/td><td> : <small>" + threads[i].threaddate + "<\/small><\/td><\/tr>");
  }
//-->
</script>
</table>


</BODY>
</HTML>

eva2000 · #34 01-13-2004, 12:39 AM

one thing though when i uploaded your stock composer on my site the generated code made external.php's link as

www.animeboards.net/external.php

since animeboards.com is a domain alias for animeboards.net

daFish · #35 01-13-2004, 07:45 AM

Hi Bernd,

great hack. I have installed this on my testboard and when i generate the code for one specific forum, the preview alawys shows me the latest 5 threads from the whole forum.
The generated external.php link is ok (external.php?forumids=44&type=js) i think.

Is there a way to solve this?

Bernd Glasstett · #36 01-13-2004, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eva2000

one thing though when i uploaded your stock composer on my site the generated code made external.php's link as

www.animeboards.net/external.php

since animeboards.com is a domain alias for animeboards.net

That is something, which we cannot resolve generally. We use the following code to generate the address:

PHP Code:


			
 $server2_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
 $folder_url = str_replace("/composeexternal.php?do=composecode", "", $server2_url);
 $server_url = "[url="http://&quot;.$_SERVER"]http://".$_SERVER[/url]['SERVER_NAME'];
 $forum_url = $server_url . $folder_url;

It takes the request_uri, which is the whole URL, including the /composeexternal-Part and without the http://www-Part. Than it takes the http://-Part and combines the two. What you can do is, search in our script for:

PHP Code:


			
 $server_url = "[url="http://&quot;.$_server['server_name'/"]http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'[/url]];

and replace it with:

PHP Code:


			
 $server_url = "[url="http://&quot;.$_server['server_name'/"]http://animeboards.com[/url]";

We wanted it to program as universal as possible, but domain-aliases are almost impossible to get dynamically. The variable above always gets the main domain.

Bernd Glasstett · #37 01-13-2004, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daFish

Hi Bernd,

great hack. I have installed this on my testboard and when i generate the code for one specific forum, the preview alawys shows me the latest 5 threads from the whole forum.
The generated external.php link is ok (external.php?forumids=44&type=js) i think.

Is there a way to solve this?

Hacking the external.php that would be. We noticed the bug. It is located in the external.php. The strange thing is: it doesn't appear always. As it also bugs us a little, we are currently looking for a solution - always thinking about: What if Jelsoft gets rid of the bug in a future version?

Bernd Glasstett · #38 01-13-2004, 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eva2000

done but really anime_news.php is the only one i care about right now i have the following in that file

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://animeboards.com/external.php?type=js&amp;forumids=<?php echo($fid); ?>"></script>

ok, first things first: Please use

Code:

 <script type="text/javascript" src=http://animeboards.com/external.php?forumids=<?php echo $fid; ?>&type=js></script>

Instead of the above code. So that it uses the same code, as we are currently using on our development-board

We noticed that while & should work out it sometimes doesn't. That's why we use & again. Let's see if the problem is solved with this

daFish · #39 01-13-2004, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bernd Glasstett

Hacking the external.php that would be. We noticed the bug. It is located in the external.php. The strange thing is: it doesn't appear always. As it also bugs us a little, we are currently looking for a solution - always thinking about: What if Jelsoft gets rid of the bug in a future version?

Thanks for clearing this up.

Let's hope they'll fix this bug in RC3/Gold version.

daFish · #40 01-24-2004, 11:47 AM

Hey Bernd,

i finally got it working after i upgraded my live board, but after the code insert, the XHTML compatibility was broken. Is the code XHTML-valid?

Bernd Glasstett · #41 02-05-2004, 02:46 PM

Hm for xhtml-compatibility the code has to be with low-characters. A far as I can see, everything is in that way, but I will take look asap.

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