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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.
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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.
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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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 [^]
How's that for a challenge [^]
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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.
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.
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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'
what exactly sucks about active.asp ? it does 'exactly what it says on the tin'
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Adapt the search to MySQL or SQL Server and it does quite well. There are versions of both around and they do fine.