Project I'd like to do - Get the latest champs (etc) box onto favorites page

This is something I'd quite like to have a crack at, but looking at the code I can't work out how you;d do it. I have managed to move things about in the arcade code before so I'm not totally clueless, but I just cannot work out how you'd go about this.

Basically, the box that displays latest champs, random games, newest games, etc, that displays on the arcade home page - it does not display on the favorites page, (which is otherwise a very similar page in appearance), and I'd like to try and get it to do so.

I'm not looking for someone to do this for me, but I wondered if anyone who grasps the arcade code might know what I should do.

I can find the code that actually generates the boxes, but what i can't do is work out how I would make that code display on the favourites page.

[Hippy]

I never thought of this but It would take me a while to figure it out .. but if it interests stangger5 he can explain it so you can do it ..he is a master with how this arcade ticks..
I am sure he will see this ..
He has been busy with life and other.

but I will speak to him..

Regards
Hippy

[Mark.B]

Thanks Hippy, appreciate it.

It's just something I'd like to do, and I fancy the challenge of learning that aspect of the (often tricky) ibProarcade code.

[stangger5]

Let me see what I can come up with and I`ll let you know..

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Ok,,I have it done...

Do you want the Arcade Announcements: to show on My Favorites page ??

You need to edit three files (Skins and mod_favorites) and get info from anther one(arcade)..

Lets start small...

Look at arcade.php file and find this:

PHP Code:

        // Newest Games
                $DB->query("SELECT g.gid, g.gtitle, g.gname, g.gcat, cat.password, cat.active FROM ibf_games_list AS g, ibf_games_cats AS cat WHERE g.active=1 AND cat.active=1 AND g.gcat=cat.c_id AND trim(password)='' ORDER BY g.added DESC LIMIT ".$this->arcade->settings['games_new']);
                $firstnew = true;
                while($newgline = $DB->fetch_row()) {
                        if($firstnew) {
                                $firstnew = false;
                        } else {
                                $new_games .= "<br />\n";
                        }

                        $new_games .= "<img src='arcade/images/{$newgline[gname]}2.gif' alt='' width='20' height='20' /> <a href='".$ibforums->base_url."act=Arcade&amp;do=play&amp;gameid={$newgline['gid']}'>{$newgline['gtitle']}</a> ";
                        }
                // End Newest Games 

The code above,,you`ll need to change every $this to $main..

Paste that code in the mod_favorites,, right before:

PHP Code:

$this->html .= $main->html->favorites($the_games,$stylecolumns); 

Then add $new_games to the above,,like this:

PHP Code:

$this->html .= $main->html->favorites($the_games,$new_games,$stylecolumns); 

Now go to you skin file and look for:

PHP Code:

function favorites($game_list,$stylecolumns) { 

add $new_games to it..

PHP Code:

function favorites($game_list,$new_games,$stylecolumns) { 

PHP Code:

global $ibforums;
return <<<EOF 

Add this below that:

PHP Code:

                <div class="tborder">
                        <table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='4'>
                        <tr>
                        <td align="center" width="20%" nowrap="nowrap" class="blockhead">{$ibforums->lang['infobox_newgames']}</td>
                        </tr>

                        <tr>
                              <td class="alt2" align="left" valign="top" style="width: 20%;padding-right:7px;padding-top:5px;padding-bottom:5px;">

                        {$new_games}

                        </td>
                        </tr>
                        </table>                
</div> 

That should get you started..

[Hippy]

Like I said if anyone can do it is the man above..

thanks stangger5 .. was a pretty good idea ...

2 thumbs up

[Mark.B]

Thanks for you great help with this, after quite a bit of trial and error I think it's working:

Attachment 137125

The only thing that doesn't work, is that on my modified arcade's main page I call the vBulletin bbcode parser (to parse smilies in the Latest Comments section).
This gives a php error on the favourites page so I had to comment it out:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/bowlandcentral.com/httpdocs/testvb/includes/class_bbcode.php on line 258

Not really a major problem, but I'm intrigued as to why it doesn't work.

[Hippy]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

Thanks for you great help with this, after quite a bit of trial and error I think it's working:

Attachment 137125

The only thing that doesn't work, is that on my modified arcade's main page I call the vBulletin bbcode parser (to parse smilies in the Latest Comments section).
This gives a php error on the favourites page so I had to comment it out:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read_slave() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/bowlandcentral.com/httpdocs/testvb/includes/class_bbcode.php on line 258

Not really a major problem, but I'm intrigued as to why it doesn't work.

nice job bud ..I was bord last night and I got the page to display perfect with one issue .. no more favs showed LMAO .. I was tired ..
and was just testing to learn..


I figure something was out of order .. may play later..

as far as the error .. stangger will know best .. I dtill need my morning coffee

[stangger5]

Did you move the $lboard query that reads the comments ??
Then put $lboard in the output..

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by stangger5

Did you move the $lboard query that reads the comments ??
Then put $lboard in the output..

Not by the looks of it, as $lboard is not present in mod_favorites.php.

The comments do show up though, just the smilies don't parse.

I shall have a further play around tonight, $lboard appears dozens of times within arcade.php so I need to work out which bit to copy over.