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A Dynamically Driven Forum Slider for your vBulletin4.X Forum or Suite. Sites like Yahoo, MSN, AOL, MTV, all use Dynamic Sliders as their Main Focus of the Home Page.

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Features:

• Automatically Pulls Content from your Forums! Images and Text
• Display Text from Forum Threads
• Display Images from Forum Threads
• Automatically cut off long titles
• Automatically cut off long descriptions
• Easy Customization in Admincp Options
• No work after installation
• New Content Automatically displayed
• Special Permissions of who can post
• 5 Minute Installation
• Custom default image if no images are present in thread.
• Works with External Sites
• Powerd By Jquery
• Deep Links to new content in Your Forum
• Unique Custom Coded Slider

See a Complete list of all features of the Lite version.

SEO Features

• Drives traffic from your front page to deep threads in your forum
• Adds fresh content hourly or daily to your Home Page
• Parses title and content to your front page.
• Not a FLASH Based Slider.

Other features:

• Ability to use external website Feeds. Good if you have a new website or want related news.
• Automatic Image resizing
• Option to Scale or Stretch Images
• Option to remove copyright and gain locked features.

Frequently Asked Questions

Demos:
A live version can be seen on MMORPG Games. Installation Instructions included inside.

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Q: It's not working. Error?
A: Make sure RSS Syndication is Turned on, on your forum.
Go to Settings > Options > External Data Provider > Enable RSS Syndication

Q: It's not parsing any data?
A: Try switching the rss feed as a test

Demo

Scroll down to first post for more images.


Update log: 3/27/2011
v.1.08
-Fixed Copyright issues
-Fixed overlapping with navbar and forumslider if navbar used pulldowns in css3 or javascript
-Fixed core components to improve performance
-Fixed Aesthetics - Looks cleaner.

[daveaite]

Hey all, just giving a nice update. We've been using this on our main site: http://buypoe.com, and a bunch of others have been using it with no problems.

Errors tend to occur when you put the wrong rss feed, or an unsupported rss feed into the vboptions for forumslider.

So try multiple types of rss feeds. The one I use is:

http://buypoe.com/external.php?do=rs...s=120&count=10

so replace buypoe.com with your url.

phpbb and smf versions - we want to release, were still determining if theres enough of a demand for them.


Another common error we see with people is there images aren't being placed into the slider. You cannot used attached images, they must be bbcoded because this mod uses data from your rss feed, so whatever shows there, will be displayed.

It currently does/does not support other languages. We have not tested this.

-David

[Alfa1]

Please make this available for vbadvanced CMPS.

[rwoscott]

Still doesn't work, I've tried the url as you supplied abocve, and I've tried the RSS feed directly out of my main forum, and I still get the same error.

Warning: DOMDocument::load(http://www.redandwhiteonline.com/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=2) [domdocument.load]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /home/fslider/public_html/core/include.php on line 27

[daveaite]

Okay, I recently got that error, and that is usually after an upgrade.

All you have to do is, take the php code supplied with the package, and open the php widget and add it again and save.

$fsconfig = array();
$fsconfig['width'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_width];
$fsconfig['height'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_height];
$fsconfig['style'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_style];
$fsconfig['template'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_template];
$fsconfig['rss_url'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_rss_url];
$fsconfig['def_image'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_def_image];
$fsconfig['border_color'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_border_color];
$fsconfig['back_color'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_back_color];
$fsconfig['title_max_char'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_title_max_char];
$fsconfig['des_max_char'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_des_max_char];
$fsconfig['cap_height'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_cap_height];
$fsconfig['path'] = "forumslider/templates/" . $fsconfig['template'];
$fsconfig['border_size'] = vB::$vbulletin->options[fs_border_size];

include_once("forumslider/slider.php");

$output .= generateOutput($fsconfig);

So when that error occurs, just delete everything in the php widget, and re-enter it. Works.

[rwoscott]

It was not an upgrade, but a fresh install.
I've done as you said anyway, and I still have the same issue.

[Mastar]

It doesn't display: http://mydomain.com/forums/ (my forums frontpage).

However it will display: http://mydomain.com/forums/content.php/45-combat-arms (Categories).


vB 4.1.2

[strudinox]

I can get it pulling the content correctly from the RSS without error, however it doesn't pull any of the images from the content in my RSS feeds. I just get the default default.png image on all the slides.

Running v4.1.2

[daveaite]

Originally Posted by strudinox

I can get it pulling the content correctly from the RSS without error, however it doesn't pull any of the images from the content in my RSS feeds. I just get the default default.png image on all the slides.

Running v4.1.2

The way to do it is keep the image close to the top of the thread. They must also be in the thread before "saving it" in said thread. So if you were to promote it to the front, make sure the image is at the top of the thread before promoting it, as the rss page does not refresh after page edits. Be sure there are no smiley faces before your image as those count as images. Also attached images don't go into RSS Feeds. use image BBcode and it works perfectly.

Running v.4.2. See http://buypoe.com for working version or other demos on forumslider.com

[Kingdombuilder]

This mod works great for me! great job with this one...

I do however have a problem with some of the images being pulled into the slider. The text will pull in but some of the images will not. I'm my best to evaluate why some and not others. When i promote the images are there but not coming into the slider. I'm wondering if it has to do with the images being a link that was embedded vs a image attachment. Not sure just yet I'm still trying to compare. If someone has figured this out please advise.

Edit: This is the problem with some of the images not showing up in the slider. All the ones that show have been put in with a url. All the ones that do not show have been put in through the image upload. Is there a way to fix this problem?

[tekmiester]

Guys,

I had not yet removed this component from my site today, and found it to be defaced. After some research, it seems that all sites running this component have been defaced.

I WOULD ADVISE YOU TO REMOVE IT IMMEDIATELY

Buypoe.com (The developer's site) and other's using it have all been defaced.
*edited out* (which also uses Forum Slider) has also been defaced.
Nemesisguild.net another Forum Slider has also been defaced.

All three sites show a picture of David Ahmad ( of Forum-Skins.com) modified to look like he is doing something obscene.

I am not a fan of the guy or his work, but someone else seems to be very angry with him. It seems there is a long-running feud in one of his forums.

Andrew