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Kurt
Starting Member
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 Posted - 27 March 2001 : 21:09:26
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This mod allows you to distribute forum topics to any other website by allowing them to embed a javascript file inline with their HTML.
A demo can be seen at http://www.digitalcrack.net/forums/link.asp?TOPIC_ID=12.
A demo of the link builder can be seen at http://www.digitalcrack.net/forums/setupLinks.asp.
The required files can be downloaded at http://www.digitalcrack.net/snitz-syndication.zip.
I apologize if something like this has already been done, but I needed it for something and decided to make it available. 
This script is useful if you would like to include recent or high activity forum threads on any other page of a website without actually imbedding any ASP or dealing with connections. It also allows other people to put links to your topics on their websites, completely inline with their HTML.
Any comments can be sent to kurt@nicefire.com
Edited by - Kurt on 27 March 2001 21:30:43 |
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Kerry
Average Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 27 March 2001 : 21:24:46
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Awesome idea, Kurt!  I use something similar to allow local site's to get their weather feed from mine (in beta: http://www.cantonweb.com/weatheron.htm) but I never thought about forum posts.
...er, could I trouble you for a working link, tho? I can't seem to get it with that one. 
-Kerry
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Kerry
Average Member
USA
553 Posts |
Posted - 27 March 2001 : 21:29:34
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Nevermind - I didn't look to see that the forum had coded it with http://forum.snitz.com as part of the link. 
A straight copy-paste worked fine.
Kerry
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 27 March 2001 : 21:32:10
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Sorry about that link, it's fixed now.
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Rob Poretti
Junior Member
Canada
435 Posts |
Posted - 27 March 2001 : 21:44:38
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Totally Kewl!
Thanks Kurt!!!
Rob
Rob Poretti
Sascom Marketing Group ~ Toronto
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 01:07:19
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It's been updated. 
I added a way to output the links using either XML or Netscape's RSS format. Theoretically you can enter the location of the RDF file into the mod portion of Slashcode or PHP Nuke and have them seamlessly integrated onto a site. I haven't tried it though.
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Brent Trevel
Junior Member
Canada
122 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 02:22:16
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Kurt,
Wow, great idea! This is such a good way to spread access to your forum with very little work and coding required on the linkers part. I do like, indeed, I do very much!
Mwahaha, soon the day will come when all websites will feature MY forums 5 most recent topics! Ahem. Sorry.
Sincerely,
Brent Trevel,
Combat Intelligence
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wedont
Junior Member
Canada
344 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 16:00:10
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Thanks Kurt, totaly awesome!
Question: The links include posts from "Private forums" which results in the visitors being sent to an error page! Could it be possible to prevent these posts from being included in the "syndication_links" ?
Also, when a topic is x pages long, could the "syndication-link" send the visitor to the latest page?
Wedont
snitz ver3.1 sr2
access 2k.
Edited by - wedont on 28 March 2001 16:02:53 |
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 16:23:28
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Heh... I didn't even think about private forums. That's an easy enough fix, I'll do it later this evening.
The page numbers thing will be put in too.
Good ideas.
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 18:20:53
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I added options to hide private threads, and also an option to jump directly to the last page of a thread.
To jump to the last page of a thread, you must now replace the "link.asp" file found in the forums directory with the new one included in the Zip file. There is only one very small change made to that file, so it will not affect anything else that uses it.
I also cleaned up the links the script generates a bit. I was getting an especially long query string.
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wedont
Junior Member
Canada
344 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 19:02:00
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Hi Kurt,
Thanks for the Modif, I ran into this error with the new version (output:javascript)
runtime error
line1
error:syntax error
Probably minor !!!
Wedont
snitz ver3.1 sr2
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 19:07:55
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Can you give me a link to where you got that error? I'm not able to reproduce it.
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 19:28:39
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Oops, found it. I left out a space in one of the options for a SQL String.
It's fixed now, go ahead and grab the Zip file again and replace syndicate.asp with the new version.
Edited by - Kurt on 28 March 2001 19:29:32 |
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wedont
Junior Member
Canada
344 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 19:33:49
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Great!
Btw, is the download fixed (no rush! )
Wedont
snitz ver3.1 sr2
access 2k.
Fantastic! It works great Kurt, thanks again!Its a god'sent.
Edited by - wedont on 28 March 2001 19:46:30 |
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Kurt
Starting Member
30 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 19:38:58
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Yeah, it's fixed.
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wedont
Junior Member
Canada
344 Posts |
Posted - 28 March 2001 : 20:12:12
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Just a thought Kurt:
Your Mod could also be made into a "desktop button(icon)" that users could (download, copy/ paste)use to open a popup mini window in there screen to check the recent activities on the forum !(could include:first 12 letters+date/time ?)
Sorry for saying so, but i think that would be a totaly brilliant marketing device!
The "QuickSnitz" !
Wedont
snitz ver3.1 sr2
access 2k.
Edited by - wedont on 28 March 2001 20:40:27 |
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