The Ultimate Quote Hack!!

IF THIS HACK DOESN'T RANDOMIZE WELL FOR YOU, DO THIS:
(by Boofo)
"You need to change the RAND() to RAND(NOW()) to make it more random with the new versions of mySQL since version .54

The NOW will seed it and make it more random that it was before. "

That should fix the problem for a lack of randomized quotes.
ALSO NOTE THIS:
There's a bit of code going around that's 'unofficial' (ie. looks like it's from this hack, but it's adjusted and now flawed), saying "ORDER BY id" in the Query that gets the random quote. This is BAD CODE as it doesn't randomize anything at all. It should say "ORDER BY RAND(NOW())" instead.

</end Hack Issue Fix>


*drumroll*

It's here!

What does this hack do:

* it's an extension (big time!) on the Admin-only controlled hack I released earlier. If you installed that hack already, it should be pretty clear for you which steps you should ignore in the Instructions for this hack. What you Cannot ignore is the step about your Admin Panel, and the lines to add to admin/index.php !

* It lists a random quote either on your Forum Home, or in your Header. Next to that, it adds a Quote List, which is just a massive database of quotes that works just like the Memberlist, but with your quotes. It's searchable, and with the Add-on (see post #2!) users can also add quotes in it (which need moderation, before showing up online).

* Quotes can be added, edited and deleted from your Admin Panel. With the add-on, you can moderate quotes from your AP as well.

* There are no hard-coded colors. All colors are taken from your style, so all pages will appear in concordance of whatever style it is you're using.

Install instructions are in the zipfile: uqh_instructions.txt

For the add-on, see the second post, instructions file: w-add_instructions.txt


Have fun!

[Mathiau]

hey all

i simply put my quotes in a table, and the words wrap with no probs!

working on adding this add-on to it now

http://66.207.199.6/forums/index.php


(hhe, keep posting that, took me forever to figure out how to make a simple table..lol still a rather newbie to this php stuff)

<!-- quotes panel -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#000000"  width="95%" 

align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0"  width="100%">  
<tr>
	
	 <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="1"  width="100%">
<tr id="cat">
	<td bgcolor="#6D1F15" colspan="" border="1" bordercolor="#42130D" width="50%" align="center"> <normalfont color="#FFF788"><b>Random Quotes 
</font></b></a></td></normalfont>
</tr>
<tr>
		<td bgcolor="#F1F1F1" colspan="5">
<font face="verdana,arial,helvetica" size="2" align="center" >
<center>
$thequote<br>
$thequoter<br>
</center>
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<!-- end quotes panel  -->

[KuraFire]

Night Owl, you can just change the permission check in quotelist.php so that ALL users can add quotes, y'know

[Night Owl]

aha! Duh. Thank you!. :lol

[ForKmaN]

I was wondering what I need to do to make it so people can see that others are browing the Quotes when they look at the 'Whoose Online' ???

Please?

[ForKmaN]

Also, can we make it so its not in Alphabetical order? But isntead in the order they were submited and added?

[ForKmaN]

Heres how i have it setup on my forums.

Combined with the Welcome Panel Hack.

[KuraFire]

Forkman: yes, all is possible.

For making it so that the Who's Online shows it when users are looking at the Quotes List, use FireFly's excellent "Add Who's Online Locations from your Admin Panel" hack - I'm using that and it works great with the quote list.

For making the default order go by ID rather than alphabetical, just find this bit of code (around line 92 in the default quotelist.php):

PHP Code:

  if ($orderby=="") {
    $orderby="letter,name";
  } 


And replace "letter,name" with "id". That way it'll sort by ID by default. If you want to reverse the order from what you get now, look at the three lines below these in quotelist.php, for they will define your default ORDER DIRECTION.

G'luck! :up:

[ForKmaN]

Thank ye!

Works a charm, where is Fireflys hack? I cant seem to find it ..

[ForKmaN]

Found it!

Works Well!
Excellent hack!

[speedway]

If anybody is watching this thread I have a question.

What would be the easiest way to add "[All]" to the letter list? I ask because if you select a letter you cannot get back to the entire listing without clicking the link to get to the list in the first place. It would be much easier to use an "all" link.....

Any ideas? :ermm:

Cheers