Miscellaneous Hacks - IFRAMEr (Free) by BOP5 - Easily create IFRAMEs in your forums to external pages

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Version 1.3.1

Fully compatible with VB 3.8 & 4.x versions.

This is a free version of this mod. The Gold Version is available at:
IFRAMEr Gold by BOP5 at Qapla.com

The FREE version is just like the GOLD version except limited to 3 Admin Created IFRAMEs. The GOLD version allows for unlimited IFRAME pages.
Also The GOLD version also allows for the admin to set a custom filename and URL attributes.

Live Demos:
VB4 Demos-
Photo Editor - Qapla.com Forum by BOP5 - Photo Editor
Radar Map - Qapla.com Forum by BOP5 - Radar Map

VB3 Demos-
321 Cheese - JUOT - Joe's Ultimate Off Topic - 321Cheese.com (Take your own photo)
Photo Editor - JUOT - Joe's Ultimate Off Topic - Photo Editor

About:

The IFRAME tag is a powerful tag that lets you embed any webpage in any other webpage. It is used all over in places you'd never expect like "Like Buttons" and even in vBulletin's Human Verify templates.

This mod is designed to provide the admin with one large IFRAME on a vBulletin powered page that the admin can easily assign and setup via the Admin CP.

This will allow admins to provide a familiar and local interface for external content.

PLEASE BE AWARE NOT ALL WEBSITES "ALLOW" YOU TO FRAME THEM. Please read the site's "Terms of Service" before you place their content into an IFRAME on your page. Some sites specifically forbid this, though it is mostly through the "honor system." Very few use JavaScript code that can detect them being framed and "break out" of them automatically. Still, please do your due diligence before framing anyone else's content. There a number of sites you are allowed to frame such as the photo editor in the demo links (a popular choice), usually any scientific/government sites like weather maps, forecasts, or NASA sites. Wikimedia/Wikipedia allow for framing as well.

This mod also allows you to choose if you want to link to each or any of the IFRAME pages via the "Quick Links" drop-down forum menu. However, this mod is intended to create the FRAME pages- linking to them in a better way is up to you. May I suggest a (Free) Qapla.com ExQlusive mod : Navbar Buttons Builder by BOP5 - For easy inclusion of IFRAME links in the navbar or drop-down lists.

You must give each IFRAMEr page a title, a navbits title, and an optional extended description. Each of these options may be entered directly into the IFRAMEr manager OR can instead be created as phrases to allow translation to multiple languages for multi-language sites. In the latter case you specify the "use phrases" and enter the phrase name in the settings box instead. A convenient link is included to the Phrase Manager pre-loaded to show your custom IFRAMEr phrases (if any.)

Finally the mod also allows you to choose which usergroups can see each IFRAME link and page. By default all usergroups can see each IFRAME page, but you can restrict it to specific groups or member's only (preventing guest access.)

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
Donations always appreciated. :up:
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[BirdOPrey5]

Glad you're happy.

[Naijasite]

its nice

[CharlieDelta]

I am getting this error when I am on the "Who's Online" page,

Warning: mysqli_query() [function.mysqli-query]: (42000/1064): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''gamingstore''' at line 1 in [path]/includes/class_core.php on line 1391

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT title, usephrase FROM bop_iframer WHERE page= 'gamingstore'';

MySQL Error   : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''gamingstore''' at line 1
Error Number  : 1064
Request Date  : Monday, January 21st 2013 @ 10:05:36 AM
Error Date    : Monday, January 21st 2013 @ 10:05:37 AM
Script        : http://www.canadianriflesregiment.com/crrforums/online.php
Referrer      : http://www.canadianriflesregiment.com/crrforums/forum.php
IP Address    : 
Username      : CharlieDeltaCDN
Classname     : vB_Database_MySQLi
MySQL Version : 5.1.66-cll

[BirdOPrey5]

Sorry for the delay... if you still have it installed are you sire the page name of "gamingstore" doesn't have a single-quote in it?

You may need to edit the database directly if it does to fix it... table would be bop_iframer.

[CharlieDelta]

No worries on the delay.

I have not had the error since but I did check the page name and the database and there are NO quotes.

[CharlieDelta]

I have the gold running on one of my sites and lite running on the other with no issues other than the one above.
You should have no problems.

[CharlieDelta]

There is no problem to do that but if you want to be absolutely safe it is best to back up before you make the change.

[Ba'al]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

The Quick Links stopped working in the free version with VB 4.2.0.

The MEMBER should work, I will look into this- but yes the option to use usergroupids really makes MEMBER almost useless anyway. It was really a hold-over from an early version when I only had MEMBER, GUEST, or ALL.

Thanks for the feedback.

I noticed this right away but its all good, just created a new tab and re-directed it there, thanx brother it works great.

[BirdOPrey5]

In 4.2.0 Free and Gold version users benefit from being able to use the more powerful built in Navigation Manager to create links to IFRAME pages. Using it on 4.2.0 should not be considered "less" compatible. It does require you to make the tab yourself (if you don't want to use quick links in Gold) but it gives you so many more options it is often the better choice.

[SkepticalGaming]

this is a great plugin, i have it loaded it up. i see it in the quicklinks and everything loads up fine. is there something like this or in this plugin can i just have it done to a tab? instead of a quicklinks.