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Radianation
Junior Member
USA
186 Posts |
 Posted - 27 April 2004 : 04:27:33
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I have a request similar to glinted's, but slightly different and more complex.
I want to specify a topic as a news item for the center content of portal.asp. I would like to be able to specify how many "featured" topics in the cms config. The featured topics are listed by their date up to the max number specified. Each featured topic is also assigned to an actual forum category.
For example, a generic forum category called "news items" could be setup with only moderators having the ability to start new threads. Then the moderators could specify this topic as featured. It shows up on portal.asp. Users can reply to the featured article and carry on a discussion which shows up on the portal.asp as "read comments" or something. Then it takes you to the topic.asp=XXXXX where they can view and reply as normal.
Now, having a special news category is only a suggestion. In theory, a moderator could specify ANY post in ANY category to be a featured post. A user contributed topic might be featured if it's a good one... Thus allowing moderators to not only write their own, but also showcase other users writings.
Is this possible? Anybody willing to assist in making this happen? Thanks for listening to my idea / reading.< |
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Radianation
Junior Member
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - 27 April 2004 : 04:30:39
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cont... I think all that needs to be done is add a field for 1/0 (1 = featured) to the forum_topics table. Then have some type of an interface similar to make topic sticky. After that, it's simply a SQL call in portal.asp, searching for topic_featured=1 (or whatever) and order by date... Am I mistaken?
oh yeah, and we don't want to display the entire post if it's too large. Maybe just have a paragraph or two and then do a "conitnued..." or "more" hyperlink at the bottom of it.. along with the "view user comments" link ??< |
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Radianation
Junior Member
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - 18 June 2004 : 04:48:47
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| Is there a new version coming anytime soon? =)< |
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 18 June 2004 : 05:57:41
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quote:
Originally posted by Radianation
Is there a new version coming anytime soon? =)
What's up with this version?< |
The UK MkIVs Forum |
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Nertz
Junior Member
Canada
341 Posts |
Posted - 18 June 2004 : 08:35:40
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David,
Great mod! Suggestion: would you consider supporting images in your CMS editor for next release? Forum code image tags didn't work in 1.1, they display as text on the portal page, as shown here in my portal test site.
cheers,
Nat< |
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that use our children unjustly as "instruments" of power.
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 18 June 2004 : 09:10:06
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| It should support images already? I'll have a look at the code over the weekend.< |
The UK MkIVs Forum |
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Nertz
Junior Member
Canada
341 Posts |
Posted - 18 June 2004 : 09:27:12
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David,
Thanks for replying so quickly. I'm sorry, feel so stupid right about now. It appears the display images in post setting in forum feature config was turned off. That fixed it. Sorry again for the false alarm.
cheers,
Nat
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Sadly, most Family Court Judges wrongfully reward opportunistic gold diggers
that use our children unjustly as "instruments" of power.
www.fathers-4-justice-canada.ca |
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gazraa
Starting Member
United Kingdom
8 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2004 : 09:27:32
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David - great mod but I think I've found a slight bug in one of your mods to your mod. I think it's the one that allows moderators to moderate content in admin_cms_content.asp.
in your mod you put:
if Session(strCookieURL & "Approval") <> "02403420121" then
if Session(strCookieURL & "Approval") <> "02403420121" then
scriptname = split(request.servervariables("SCRIPT_NAME"),"/")
Response.Redirect "moderator_login.asp?target=" & scriptname(ubound(scriptname))
end if
end if
I think you got the number in the second if statement wrong, it should be:
if Session(strCookieURL & "Approval") <> "02403420121" then
if Session(strCookieURL & "Approval") <> "15916941253" then
scriptname = split(request.servervariables("SCRIPT_NAME"),"/")
Response.Redirect "moderator_login.asp?target=" & scriptname(ubound(scriptname))
end if
end if
if you do it the way you had it, when you want to add content you keep getting the login screen and then you can't get to the list of content to edit.
Other than that, a great mod. It's just a shame I can't get my host to make portal.asp the homepage  < |
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2004 : 06:09:06
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| That add-on was done by someone else, thanks for pointing it out though< |
The UK MkIVs Forum |
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proeder
Junior Member
Australia
230 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2004 : 07:42:49
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| Why not adding a redirect from your hosts default page to portal.asp?< |
Looking for german Snitz forum? Suchst Du ein deutsches Snitz Forum?
Hier findest Du eins...
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1222 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2004 : 09:13:27
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| Looks like the forum is in the root and not in a /forum/ folder. You could put some code at the top of default.asp that checks the referrer, if the referrer isn't your own site then redirect to portal.asp.< |
The UK MkIVs Forum |
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proeder
Junior Member
Australia
230 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2004 : 11:58:42
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| Yeah but that would enforce vistors to go in any case over portal.asp in the forum. Most of the ISPs have a set of default pages; I would simply take another one in the list (which needs to be set to a higher priority though) and put only the redirect in it.< |
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Hier findest Du eins...
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PeeWee.Inc
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1893 Posts |
Posted - 28 June 2004 : 12:10:10
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I just renamed default.asp from the forum to forumhome.asp and then renamed protal.asp to default.asp. A bit of code to edit, but really easy to do  < |
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gazraa
Starting Member
United Kingdom
8 Posts |
Posted - 07 July 2004 : 17:58:53
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peewee - i'm about to do a similar thing by renaming the files. Can you give a bit more info about how much other code changing is required to make this work?
cheers< |
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aspwiz
Junior Member
250 Posts |
Posted - 22 July 2004 : 15:43:42
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David....
I've mad a few mods to your mod (see it in action on the yet unreleased version of my site - http://www.webforumz.com/v2)
The thing is, I want to allow the public to publish articles and wondered if you, or anyone else has approached this functionality for portal mod?
Public articles would first need to be approved by a moderator / admin before sending them live.
Any suggestions?< |
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