Miscellaneous Hacks - T-VBhoroscopes Addon -daily updated content

This is a quick vb-horoscopes feature to add to your forum.
I just made this and tested it on my forum, working fine as shown demo below

Requirements:
php fopen on
ADDED : IF fopen is not ON on your webserver , download the second zip file called gethoroscopes.php and replace the one in your cron folder with this one that uses Curl instead of fopen.
Installation :
-Upload the files to their respective locations
-Install the product using the VBulletin product manager
Your done !

You can test your script directly by going to your scheduled task
and using "RUN NOW" you should see the script output and then you
can go check your page at http://urforum/dailyhoroscopes.php


License :
- Your are allowed to query our website using the cronjob once everyday
Leave on default installation and you will not be breaking any rule, or only change the HOUR and MINUTE of runtime.
- You can freely modify the template the way you wish, all you need is
to leave the $result reference where you want it for the script to function
I will also appreciate if you share us with your modified template !

- You are required to keep the copyright text in your template, however if
you prefer to remove it, you can only do that after contacting me and recieving permission to do so ( free of charge ofcourse )

DEMO
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/dailyhoroscopes.php
or choose a sign
http://www.tchatting.com/forum/daily...php?sign=aries

If you use this and wish to recieve support please click INSTALL

[thepub]

what is chmod and where do I find it?

[lebanon]

Let me try to get answers one by one ,
LastOne , for some reason the path to the cron seems wrong
...public_html/forum/./includes/cron/ge...
Go to your scheduled tasks and manually fix the path , it should point to forum/includes without the dot in the middle, fix the path and it should be fine.

Thepub , seems a permission issue, most servers allow writing data by files since the user owns the directory, u should consult ur host on your permissions however here is common solutions : make sure u uploaded the 0 bytes txt files included or create the txt files manually before writing into them
ie : create leo.txt scorpio.txt etc ..
Then try chmod 777 * in that folder using telnet or using an ftp client it could work too you just connect using for example cuteftp , hightlight the txt files , right click and checkmark read/write/excute .
Konstantinos , actually yes they only are available in english , however, they can using a php code passed to google or bablefish translator then achieved by your server but its up to you to count on the "automatic translation" services

regards

[thepub]

oh my I am lost

[PoetJA-1975]

http://www.tchatting.com is down - does this mean T-VBhoroscopes is down as well???

Jacquii.

[TTG]

Originally Posted by PoetJA-1975

http://www.tchatting.com is down - does this mean T-VBhoroscopes is down as well???

Jacquii.

Yep .. mines been down for a few days now.

[PoetJA-1975]

hmmmm - wonder who LEBANON gets the horoscope content from?

Jacquii.

[TTG]

Originally Posted by thepub

what is chmod and where do I find it?

Click here and all will be revealed :up:

[lebanon]

well yeah , the hack is down but only till tomorrow !
It will be functioning as normally , as i have been traveling back to my home country abd a problem occured on the server, am fixing it and am relocating the site to my secondary server too.
It shouldnt happen again , anyway sorry for the inconvience caused to this hack users !
in 24 hours it should be back to normal !

[project-Buckfas]

Thanks Lebanon. I was wondering what was up!

[PoetJA-1975]

I too was wondering what was up - ALSO thanx for the update and the BRILLIANT modification. I read an interesting article about having horoscope content on websites. 1/3 or the visitors logon ONLY to read their horoscopes... The other 2/3 stay to see other content on the site...

So when I had someone ask me about the horoscope mod - there's a bit of concern naturally :P

Anyway - if you don't mind me asking - where & how do you get the horoscope content?

Again - Thanx! Very nice hack

Jacquii.