comics hack v1.0

little hack for vbulletin / vbindex

you can use this for daily comics, babe of the week, ...

Features
- Admin control panel
- Comics page
- vbindex thingy

I included an example script wich downloads some daily cartoons ... (Dont use it! its just an example)
this script only works on unix with wget installed and access to shell

It works this way:
- you post the url of an image on a thread (for example: weekly babe)
- use that threadID and the url of the image to add the comic in the adminCP
- Now users will be able to post comments to your image

example
vbindex example

update
- I changed the comicsbit a little
- fixed the vbindex error
FIX FOR THE 404 ERROR

If anyone installed it and uses it for other things then daily comics, please send me some screenshots

[zertox]

first you make a new thread and you post the daily comic there
[ img]http://www.yoursite.com/comics/yourcomic.gif[/img ]
now you have a new thread, this thread has an ID, thats your "threadid"

in the url you type the url of the image
for example: http://www.yoursite.com/comics/yourcomic.gif

[koggit]

Thanks. I understand now.

How do I find out if I have telnet/ssh access? ^_^

[zertox]

ask your hosting provider

[koggit]

Alright. I just installed it and have two problems.

The biggest one is the Modify Comics thing giving me a 404, so I can't remove the one I already messed up. The second is it not showing up on the vB Index, only on /vB/comics.php (and yeah, I did do the comicsvbindex.txt instructions).

I'm going to call my provider right now about the telnet/ssh access, but I'd appreciate it alot if you could IM me on AIM, screen name Koggit45. If you have AIM, that is.

*Edit* Just got off the phone with them and I have SSH access.

[zertox]

I dont have aim, you can email me( or msn, same address) jw@zertox.com

[GoTTi]

I got problem with admin file.

The requested URL /testboard/admin/comicsadmin.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

I can't manage the comics, so I assume I wont be able to delete them threw there.

How do I get this to work.

I can add comics, just not delete.

[GoTTi]

Fix for the 404 error we get when you view the Comics Admin threw Admin CP. 2 edits in the instructions...

1. this code on line 12:

PHP Code:

  maketableheaderview("Manage Comics"); 


needs to be

PHP Code:

  maketableheader("Manage Comics"); 


then in the admin/index.php addition, the code needs to look like this:

2.

PHP Code:

// comics by zertox - [url]http://www.species.be/[/url]
makenavoption("Add comic","comicsadmin.php?action=AddNew","|");
makenavoption("Manage comics","comicsadmin.php?","<br>");
makenavselect("Comics Options","<hr>");
// /comics by zertox - [url]http://www.species.be/[/url]
// ************************************************* 


this line:

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Manage comics","comicsadmin.php","<br>"); 


needs a ? after comicsadmin.php

PHP Code:

makenavoption("Manage comics","comicsadmin.php?","<br>"); 


[zertox]

upload it to the folder with your comics
chmod the dir 777
chmod this file 777

run it a few times

[GoTTi]

how do i make the comics.php file make a new page when the comics get to a certain amount?

[zertox]

set a LIMIT 1,10 in the sql line
then make a button that changes that line to 10 - 20
....