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@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 18:33:13

Content Display 3.4.03.01

For Snitz 3.4.02 and 3.4.03

Initial Release September 13, 2002
Updated December 26, 2002 (3.4.03.08)

Beta Release! Do not mess with this unless you are quite
aware of what you are doing

There is no security working with this right now
so once again I warn you not to use this in production.
I will have no sympathy for people running here to
post that their entire site has been hacked, ruined or
the polar ice caps melted because of this beta.

Download:
http://www.skepticfriends.org/download/contentdisplay34.zip

Alternate Download(Snitz Bitz):
http://www.snitzbitz.com/mods/details.asp?Version=All&mid=63

Demo available at:
http://www.skepticfriends.org/

User name: demo
Password: demo

Please report here any bugs or readme errors or ideas you would like to
share to improve this MOD.

Special thanks to Rob Poretti for the original MOD.

File changed in 3.4.03.08 - December 26, 2002
Added function CDchkForumAccess to inc_contentdisplay.asp

Files Added or changed in 3.4.03.01 - December 25, 2002
Added bookreviews.asp
Assorted security and formatting fixes in content.asp

Changes in 3.4.03.06

Added a parameter to content.asp for links so that all links are dynamic meaning any display mode can point to article.asp, news.asp or topic.asp

Renamed news2.asp to newsleftmenu.asp

Renamed article2.asp articleleftmenu.asp

Added or changed in 3.4.02.06

Added a parameter to content.asp for links so that all links are dynamic
meaning any display mode can point to article.asp, news.asp or topic.asp

Switched news.asp2 and news.asp so that news.asp is the "clean" version

Switched aerticle2.asp to article.asp so that article.asp is the "clean" version

-----------------------------

Added or changed in 3.4.02.05

Added news.asp - comes with side menu but you have to add your own include files.
I left some there so you can see where they go.

Added news2.asp - Clean version of news.asp

Added 2 new display modes to content.asp

Added or changed in 3.4.02.04

content.asp
Numerous HTML fixes in every display mode. Other changes made to simplify the table structure.

---------------

Added or changed in 3.4.02.03

added article2.asp
- This is a "clean" version of article.asp which means it has no left side
menu and no mysteriously missing include files to irritate you all to no
end. I left article.asp with this as a starting point for those of you that
desire a left side menu. Both article pages started as default.asp so you
can use the same idea to make you default.asp have a left side menu or use
it as a template for other pages you would like to have a left menu on.

Added contentdisplay_tester.asp
-which is default.asp with evertything stripped off except for the Content
Display MOD. You can use this page to try out new display modes and help
me debug HTML errors ; )

################################################################################
Beta Release! Do not mess with this unless you are quite aware of what you are doing.
################################################################################

OVERVIEW:

The Content Display mod allows one to take forum posts and flexibly format that
content to display on any asp page. It's intention is to create homepage's with
dynamic content from within the forum -- to give it that "portal" look & feel.

It is loosely based on the Content Management mod with some ideas taken from
the Slash Mod. (Thank you for the initial inspiration to the authors of both
those mods!) The functionality, flexibility and ease of use of the Content
Display mod, I feel is much better...

This is version 3.4.02 which has a number of new features, lots of display issues
resolved, some bug fixes, and more programmability for those that are ASP programmers.
You can now enter header text and table width where you call the Content Display sub.

Access users, please double check this! Do not take this for granted as I
haven't worked with Access for some time. By the way, you don't HAVE to have a
DB backend... the editor and the content.asp file will work "standalone."

HOW TO USE IN PRINCIPLE:

The "content.asp" file should be used as an "include" in any page that you want to
display content in. It is usually put at the top of a page -- in the header perhaps
and the syntax for this is the following:



The next step is to call a sub from that include file which returns the content
wherever you need it displayed. To do this you will type something like this:

<% DisplayContent 0, 3, 2, 12, 0, 5, 200, 0, 5, 1, 1, 0, "Top News Stories", 300, "news.asp" %>

DisplayContent is the name of the sub and the various numbers and text are a list of
parameters that define how the content is collected, filtered, sorted, formatted, etc.

THE NEW CONTENT.ASP FILE:
There are a lot of changes-- basically re-written to be more modular and easier to modify for
asp programmers. A lot more functionality. I will discuss on Snitz Forums how to easily
create more display modes and other cool features.

New Display Modes are:

Article and News

There is a header template that is super easy to customize.

* Make sure that you also have these includes in each page that you want to
use the Display Content mod.

The top of your page should look something like this:








The very bottom of your page should have:



To use this outside the forum the includes should look like this:








The very bottom of a page outside the forum should have:



These are, for now the necessary includes.

DEPENDANCIES:

You should have the MSGICON MOD and the AVATAR MOD
installed BEFORE you install this mod.

Message Icons and Avatars may be commented out if you know what you are doing and display
modes that do not use these features can be used.

INSTALLATION

(Read this carefully):
Copy to your main forum directory:

content.asp
article.asp
article2.asp
inc_contentdisplay.asp
contentdisplay_tester.asp

Copy all of the images into your "image" directory.

Add the following to inc_iconfiles.asp:

'Added for Content Display
Const strIconEmailCD = "email.gif|18|18"
Const strIconBlank3CD = "blank.gif|3|1"
Const strIconBlank10CD = "blank.gif|10|1"
Const strIconBlank20CD = "blank.gif|20|1"
Const strIconEditCD = "edit.gif|28|16"
Const strIconViewDocCD = "viewdoc.gif|15|15"
Const strIconGraphic1CD = "updat4.gif|47|10"
Const strIconGraphic2CD = "machineadd.gif|13|15"
Const strIconBullet1CD = "ballbullet3.gif|12|12"
Const strIconBullet2CD = "bullet2.gif|9|9"
Const strIconNewCD = "new10.gif|28|12"
Const strIconHotCD = "hot_animate.gif|44|16"
Const strIconSpecialCD = "arrow.gif|15|15"

Replace the getCurrentIcon function with this:


function getCurrentIcon(fIconName,fAltText,fOtherTags)
	if fIconName = "" then exit function
	if fOtherTags <> "" then fOtherTags = " " & fOtherTags
	if Instr(fIconName,"http://") > 0 then strTempImageUrl = "" else strTempImageUrl = strImageUrl
	tmpicons = split(fIconName,"|")
	if tmpicons(1) <> "" then fWidth = " width=""" & tmpicons(1) & """"
	if tmpicons(2) <> "" then fHeight = " height=""" & tmpicons(2) & """"
	if lcase(left(fIconName,7)) = "http://" then 
	getCurrentIcon = "<img src=""" & strTempImageUrl & tmpicons(0) & """" & fWidth & fHeight & " border=""0"" alt=""" & fAltText & """ title=""" & fAltText & """" & fOtherTags & " />"
	else
	getCurrentIcon = "<img src=""" & strForumURL & strTempImageUrl & tmpicons(0) & """" & fWidth & fHeight & " border=""0"" alt=""" & fAltText & """ title=""" & fAltText & """" & fOtherTags & " />"
	end if
end function

NOTES:

1) Make sure that you have correct category, forum, topic, author or msgIcon ID's.
Look in your db to get those ID's

2) Don't use DisplayModes 5 and 6 -- 5 is something custom that I use -- IT WILL NOT
WORK WITH YOUR FORUM. 6 is for and XML/XSL mode that I will be working on next.

The following include files will be necessary(maybe more I have forgotton)

GETIMAGE.ASP and GETPHOTO.ASP

Place getimage.asp and getphoto.asp in the root of your website. They do not go in the forum.
The root is one level above the forum. So where you place those 2 files you will see your
forum folder. These files protect your avatar and photo images from being easily linked to(
leeched) to save your bandwidth.

TO USE ARTICLE.ASP, NEWS.ASP and CATEGORY.ASP

You will need to designate a forum category for news and/or articles(note the CATEGORY_ID)
You will then need to create forums for articles and news(Note the FORUM_ID)

Then in your content sub you will want to point at the category or even better the forum for articles or news.
Don't forget that if you want it to go to articles the last parameter would be "articles.asp"

If you are using the left menu version there are places to hard code(for now) the FORUM_ID in the lenk to forums and news.

DETAILED FUNCTION INFORMATION:

DISPLAY CONTENT FUNCTION PARAMETERS:

sub DisplayContent(ContentType, ContentID, TopicStatus, DisplayMode, DisplayOrder, TopicCount, MessageLength, SubjectLength, Ornament, Special, SafeMode, ForumStatus, HeaderText, TableWidth, strLink)

ContentType: (Where the source is derived from)
0 = display topics from a specific category ID
1 = display topics from a specific forum ID
2 = display from a specific topic ID (single topic is returned)
3 = display topics from a specific msgIcon ID (msgIcon mod must be installed)
4 = display topics from a specific author ID

ContentID: (the ID of the category, forum, topic, msgIcon or author that the source is derived from)
0 = displays all content with ID's greater than 0 (zero)

TopicStatus: Returns open, closed or all topics
0 = returns closed topics
1 = returns open topics
2 = returns open or closed topics

DisplayMode: (how the material is formatted and returned to the calling function)
0 = Link Only: Displays topics with links into the actual forum topic
1 = Basic: Displays topics with message next to topic link
2 = Split: Displays topics on top with links to the message below
3 = Detailed: Displays topics with message & details next to topic link
4 = Topics Deluxe: Displays topics with subject link, details & author's photo/avatar next to message
5 = Custom: Return raw data - So it can be formated using HTML! (n/a - do not use)
6 = Future: Use XSL file to format output (n/a - future use)
7 = Graphical: Same content as Article(4) but w/Snitz type table layout & icons.
8 = Graphical 2: Same content as Detailed(3) but w/Snitz type table layout & icons.
9 = Horizontal: Using DHTML -- Coming Soon!
11 = Basic Graphical: DisplayMode 1 with Graphical Bar
12 = Basic News Display
13 = Article Display
21 = Split Graphical: DisplayMode 2 with Graphical Bar

DisplayOrder: Order for the Displaying Returned Topics
0 = By Last Posted Date
1 = By Topics Order field (Topic Order mod must be installed)
2 = By most View Counts
3 = By most Replies
4 = By msgIcons value (msgIcon mod must be installed)
5 = By author
6 = By original post Date
7 = By ForumID (useful when ContentType = 0)
8 = By CatID (useful when ContentType = 0)

TopicCount: Maximum number of topics to display (integer - any value from 1 to 9999)

MessageLength: Maximum number of chars in each Topic message...
0 = full message
nnnn = number of characters to display (Integer - any positive value)
Note: (Except when DisplayMode = 0 -- then Message is not shown in Acronym Title)

SubjectLength: Maximum number of chars in each Topic Subject...
0 = full subject
nnnn = number of characters to display (Integer - any positive value)

Ornament: Type of ornament to display
0 = no ornament - plain
1 = Bullet 1
2 = Bullet 2
3 = Graphic 1
4 = Graphic 2
5 = msgIcon
6 = numbered
7 = numbered graphic
8 = special (hot, new or special topics)

Special: Check for new, hot and special topics
0 = no checks
1 = check if new/hot/special

SafeMode: Specifies string processing using specific functions
0 = Return EXACTLY what is in the database with no processing whatsoever
1 = Use FormatStr function which is a little safer but keeps most of the formating.
2 = Use CheckStr function which is what is used in the post.asp file
3 = Default: Use my new StripAll function which removes all forum code and html tags.
4 = Use the stripForumCode function -- removes only Forum Code
5 = Future: Custom Function

ForumStatus: Returns content based on Private/Hidden Forums
0 = Displays any topic.
1 = Does not Display topics that are in Hidden or Private Forums.

HeaderText: Set Header Text here. Whatever you want the header to say for all modes
Example = "Top News Stories"

TableWidth: Set the width you want the box to be
Example = 500
Example = "95%" (percentage width)

strLink: Set the link you want to point to
"topic.asp"
"news.asp"
"article.asp"
Make your own page and just enter it here ex: "sports.asp"

SportsBettingAcumen.com

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 18:43:08

I just wanted to be the first to post :-)

Anyone have idea'a why I cant get the forums color and fonts to show up in the mod?
As a test I have tried striping everything but a basic table and the mod and have tried to use it inside and outside the forum. No matter What I do or where I place it, it will not show

@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 18:48:18

I said it in the last post in the previous topic but try searching and replacing strDefaultFontColor with strForumFontColor. I'm sory I didn't catch such an obvious one earlier but I have both set at the same color so for me there's no difference.

@tomic

SportsBettingAcumen.com

MarkJH
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1722 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 19:17:26

Have to say @tomic that this really is an awesome MOD. I've been tweaking with it for the last couple of hours and got it looking juuuust right.

A couple of questions though; a) how would I remove the entire HeaderText part at the top of the display so that it just starts with the topics and b) how would I stop the pages opening in a new window? I want all links to open up in the same window. Thanks.

If it's any help, this is my DisplayContent:

<% DisplayContent 0, 0, 2, 3, 0, 5, 200, 0, 5, 1, 3, 1, "Blah blah blah", 310, "topic.asp" %>

Bandlink.net - http://www.bandlink.net/
Bandlink Music Forums - http://www.bandlink.net/forum/

Edited by - MarkJH on 07 January 2003 19:18:02

@tomic
Senior Member

USA
1790 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 19:45:07

If you locate the following at the very bottom of content.asp and simply remove it all you should get the result you desire. If you do remove it then you obviously won't need to include the header text in your sub call.

Sub WriteHeader(HeaderText) ' Writes text and selected color to Header. Yours to easily customize //////////////////////////

Response.Write "	<tr>" & vbCrlf & _ 
		"		<td valign=""top"" align=""center"" colspan=""99"" width=""100%"">" & vbCrlf & _
		"		<table border=""0"" cellspacing=""0"" width=""100%"" cellpadding=""4"" background=""" & strImageURL & strHeadCellBGImage & """ bgcolor=""" & strHeadCellColor & """>" & vbCrlf & _
		"			<tr>" & vbCrlf & _
		"			<td valign=""top"" align=""center"">" & vbCrlf & _
		"			<font face=""" & strDefaultFontFace & """ size=""" & strHeaderFontSize & """ color=""" & strHeadFontColor & """>" & vbCrlf & _
		"			<b>" & HeaderText & "</b>" & vbCrlf & _
		"			</font>" & vbCrlf & _
		"			</td>" & vbCrlf & _
		"			</tr>" & vbCrlf & _
		"		</table>" & vbCrlf & _
		"		</td>" & vbCrlf & _
		"	</tr>" & vbCrlf
End Sub

@tomic

SportsBettingAcumen.com

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 20:52:45

Thank you for the quick reply. I have changed every strDefaultFontColor to strForumFontColor in content.asp and in inc_header_nohtml.asp

but nothing changed :-(

Can you think of anything else I can try?

jkmcgrath
Junior Member

USA
145 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 21:47:19

Funinbc, Dont you want the strHeadCellColor ect?

@tomic, When I place this outside the forum the images cannot be found. The message icons can. Strange.

Delta Force Seals

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 07 January 2003 : 22:51:55

well it looks like this :

case 3 ' ///// Detailed: Displays topics with message & details next to topic link
counter = counter + 1
Response.Write "<tr>" & vbNewLine & _
" <td valign=""top"">" & vbNewLine & _
" <table border=""0"" cellspacing=""0"" cellpadding=""3"" width=""100%"">" & vbCrlf & _
" <tr>" & vbCrlf & _
" <td valign=""top"" bgcolor=""" & strForumCellColor & """ width=""100%"">" & vbCrlf
Call WriteOrnament(Ornament, counter)
Call WriteSubject2(SubjectLength, T_Topic_ID, MessageLength, strLink)
if Special then
Call WriteSpecial(Special)
end if
Response.Write " <br>" & vbNewLine
Call WritePostingDetails(T_Topic_ID)
Call WriteMessage(SafeMode, MessageLength)
Response.Write " <br>" & vbNewLine
Call WriteTextBar(T_Topic_ID, strLink)
Response.Write " <hr color=""" & strHeadCellColor & """ size=""1"">" & vbNewLine
Response.Write " </td>" & vbNewLine & _
" </tr>" & vbCrlf & _
" </table>" & vbCrlf & _
" <br>" & vbCrlf & _
" </td>" & vbCrlf & _
" </tr>" & vbCrlf

any ideas?

MarkJH
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1722 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 13:25:37

Had to remove Call WriteHeader(HeaderText) from line 205 but yes, that did the trick. Thanks.

Erm, so how would I force the links to open up in the same page as opposed to a new one?

Bandlink.net - http://www.bandlink.net/
Bandlink Music Forums - http://www.bandlink.net/forum/

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 20:46:30

sorry I don't want to be a pest . If no one has any idea why the forum colors are not showing up I wont ask again.

things I've tried:

striped all html from the page as in this test
http://www.funinbc.com/test.asp

I have placed this file inside and outside the forum

I have searched and replaced strDefaultFontColor with strForumFontColor

scratched my head and sat bug-eyed looking at the screen

masterao
Senior Member

Sweden
1678 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 21:13:32

Download admin_run_config.txt, rename it to .asp and copy it into the root of your website. Run the file and it will hopefully work for you.

The includes in that file use virtual and if you don't have your forums in a folder named forum, you must change them to the folder name that you use. You can remove the file after you have used it.

Jan
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FR Portal Forums | Active Users 4.0.20 Mod

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 22:03:34

Thank you for the quick reply. I did that but still no change. This is really odd

here is a link to the live front page:

http://www.funinbc.com/

masterao
Senior Member

Sweden
1678 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 22:39:30

funinbc, Which text is that has the wrong color? Is it the links in the recent post-table? If so, try removing the color-definitions for links in your body-tag.

I looked at the testpage you did, and it seems to use the forum-colors now.

Jan
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FR Portal Forums | Active Users 4.0.20 Mod

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 22:51:30

The font color is working.......... I'm getting closer !! Now if I could get the alternating forum colors to show in the posts

masterao
Senior Member

Sweden
1678 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 22:58:31

You should also decide which color to use for the other links on the front-page now. Darkblue doesn't work that well against the grey background. You could either use the forum colors for all links, or you could use a style-sheet/style-tags to fix them.

As for the alternating colors, I don't have any clue at the moment.

Jan
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FR Portal Forums | Active Users 4.0.20 Mod

funinbc
Junior Member

245 Posts

Posted - 08 January 2003 : 23:12:01

Thanks for looking masterao!
You must have had a look when I was messing around on the front-page. That is how I fixed the other fonts is by style sheets. Here is the problem

If I do not use them as you saw the forum fonts take over the whole page and it looks really bad.

If I use them then the forum font colors will not show.
This would be ok but I do not understand why others do not have this problem.

The bottom line is I am trying to get rid of the white background in the forum post on the front page. Trying to get the forum colors to show instead.

Edited by - funinbc on 08 January 2003 23:13:17

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Content Display 3.4.03.01

For Snitz 3.4.02 and 3.4.03

There is no security working with this right now so once again I warn you not to use this in production. I will have no sympathy for people running here to post that their entire site has been hacked, ruined or the polar ice caps melted because of this beta.

OVERVIEW:

HOW TO USE IN PRINCIPLE:

New Display Modes are:

DEPENDANCIES:

INSTALLATION

NOTES:

GETIMAGE.ASP and GETPHOTO.ASP

TO USE ARTICLE.ASP, NEWS.ASP and CATEGORY.ASP

DETAILED FUNCTION INFORMATION:

DISPLAY CONTENT FUNCTION PARAMETERS:

There is no security working with this right now
so once again I warn you not to use this in production.
I will have no sympathy for people running here to
post that their entire site has been hacked, ruined or
the polar ice caps melted because of this beta.