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Carefree
Advanced Member

Philippines
4217 Posts

Posted - 01 November 2012 :  09:23:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My brain disease causes rapid mood swings (laughing one minute and yelling at people the next) and other symptoms which makes me a REAL PLEASURE (how's that for cynicism/sarcasm?) to live with. Lately I've gone completely blind a couple of times, but each episode only lasted 15-20 minutes. I suspect it'll be permanent soon and that will likely reduce the speed of my mod authoring.... So if anyone has an idea for a mod they want written (or collaborated on), let's hear them before I can't do it any more.

AnonJr
Moderator

United States
5768 Posts

Posted - 01 November 2012 :  10:03:04  Show Profile  Visit AnonJr's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Sounds like this guy: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70334 could use a scribd.com plugin. I know they have some special embed code, and I suspect a one-off of the YouTube mod (or some similar) could work.

If you're feeling really ambitious, you could look at abstracting out and making the code a little more general purpose so you put in the type of tag, the template for substitution, etc in an admin panel instead of diving into the code every time you want to support a new embed tag. As I said, a bit of an ambitious project.

Having written a MOD or two myself I know that sometimes the idea is the easiest part.
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Webbo
Average Member

United Kingdom
982 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  02:33:35  Show Profile  Visit Webbo's Homepage  Reply with Quote
In IP.Board 3.3.4 if you put a link to a video or image it automatically envelopes the link with the relevant codes so that the video or image displays thus taking away the need for the poster to embed the link into the correct code, something that many posters struggle with.

How's that for a challenge
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golfmann
Junior Member

United States
450 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  10:14:35  Show Profile  Visit golfmann's Homepage  Reply with Quote
How about a search the WORKS well?
Have it break itself up into search pieces somehow so it doesn't time out!

Load out x number to view then have a "continue search?" scheme of some kind to press on looking if wanted or needed. It could load most relevant 1st or by date or whatever.

The search sucks, always has. The fix helped, but if you don't only search titles you're not gonna get anywhere 99% of the time.

The active topics is nothing to write home about either, frankly. Maybe it's my other mods that keep reloading it or something, but I am not a fan of it the way it is now.

Edited by - golfmann on 03 November 2012 10:16:58
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20595 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  11:03:56  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The search is crap because it uses very generic sql in order support lots of different databases, to improve would require a search page for each different flavour of database.
I generally use search2.asp and don't very often have any issues finding stuff.

what exactly sucks about active.asp ? it does 'exactly what it says on the tin'

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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin

Portugal
26364 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  12:25:28  Show Profile  Send ruirib a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Adapt the search to MySQL or SQL Server and it does quite well. There are versions of both around and they do fine.


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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20595 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  14:41:03  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I have activated the sql full text search here, not sure why it wasn't as I'm pretty sure it used to be, anyway search.asp now points at the fulltext search.

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golfmann
Junior Member

United States
450 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  19:24:01  Show Profile  Visit golfmann's Homepage  Reply with Quote
It seems I get time outs unless I parse a search down and click exact OR use titles only. I HAD search2... maybe I am set up wrong or it ran off.... :)

I wouldn't mind trying to SEARCH and find these pointers. :)

While I'm waiting around.... ;/

Edited by - golfmann on 03 November 2012 19:29:18
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golfmann
Junior Member

United States
450 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  19:33:03  Show Profile  Visit golfmann's Homepage  Reply with Quote
For example:

I just did a search using " adapt search to SQL Server "

I guess I'm not being clear enough for it....
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golfmann
Junior Member

United States
450 Posts

Posted - 03 November 2012 :  19:52:33  Show Profile  Visit golfmann's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I installed ver 7 search into mine and it DOES work better over there.

So put your hair down.... :)
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HuwR
Forum Admin

United Kingdom
20595 Posts

Posted - 04 November 2012 :  03:21:05  Show Profile  Visit HuwR's Homepage  Reply with Quote
it really depends what you search for, did you ask it to find 'all words' 'any word' or 'exact phrase' ?

just try something like 'sql search'

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Etymon
Advanced Member

United States
2395 Posts

Posted - 05 November 2012 :  05:21:37  Show Profile  Visit Etymon's Homepage  Reply with Quote
No MOD requests for ya CareFree, just sorry to hear 'bout the condition that's plaguing you.
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Carefree
Advanced Member

Philippines
4217 Posts

Posted - 08 November 2012 :  14:30:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by AnonJr

Sounds like this guy: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70334 could use a scribd.com plugin. I know they have some special embed code, and I suspect a one-off of the YouTube mod (or some similar) could work.

If you're feeling really ambitious, you could look at abstracting out and making the code a little more general purpose so you put in the type of tag, the template for substitution, etc in an admin panel instead of diving into the code every time you want to support a new embed tag. As I said, a bit of an ambitious project.

Having written a MOD or two myself I know that sometimes the idea is the easiest part.


Simply preventing non-members from viewing and downloading a file is easy enough. I did something like that for somebody a while back, making the contents of links non-viewable in a post unless you were signed in. That could easily be adapted to a certain user group or number of posts, etc. I will have to search for it, cannot remember any more details.
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