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Ready for Halloween? Paranormal Nuke! |
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 gdt writes "Our newest nuke site is a paranormal news site. Visitors can submit stories of ghost encounters, ufo sightings, and any other strange occurances that give you the chills.
The site is fallingskies.com
Of general interest to the Nuke community, this site features our heavily modified Submit_News module, which allows visitors to include up to 5 images with their story submission. Images are resized with ImageMagick and formatted by the Submit_News module before submission.
Feel free to try it out, even if you don't have a ghost story for us :)
We may offer this modified module to the general public soon..."
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Posted on Thursday, September 30 @ 02:12:49 CEST by VinDSL |
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Re: Ready for Halloween? Paranormal Nuke! (Score: 1)
by milkdaddy on Thursday, September 30 @ 02:51:00 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | WELL DONE!
This is a great enhancement.
you have to release it to the public. PLEASE! |
Re: Ready for Halloween? Paranormal Nuke! (Score: 1)
by gdt on Thursday, September 30 @ 02:58:00 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | There are still a few things I have to do. Right now, admin stories are totally broken, since the database tables were modified to make this work. I also am going to make the main (front page) image inside an href linking to the main story, as an easier way to get the the full story than clicking Read More. The only way to do that is by modifying mainfile, i believe, which means in order to implement this you'd have to replace 3 pretty important files in your nuke install, so of course I'll have to make sure it works properly before i put anyone's site at risk. I figure about 2-3 weeks of solid testing should do it.
I'm glad you like it! I think it makes the site a lot more interesting, more images is always better. |
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Re: Ready for Halloween? Paranormal Nuke! (Score: 1)
by milkdaddy on Thursday, September 30 @ 04:53:40 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | yes that's great. even if you have to modify those files you could always include an instruction file for those that don't mind manually making the changes. at the end of the day this new feature would be useful and speed up the webmaster bottleneck that we often experience, e.g. in my case I have to first upload the images via ftp. this takes up a lot of time. also in the kind of website I'm running (an entertainment portal) a lot of the public relations companies shy away from submitting because they have to also email me their images and it can be quite complicated for them.
I believe that this new feature you've just done, including a WYSIWYG editor will greatly reduce the editor's time spent editing and uploading files etc. |
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Re: Ready for Halloween? Paranormal Nuke! (Score: 1)
by gdt on Thursday, September 30 @ 17:06:52 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | I could probably whip up a quick how-to, but it would be pretty minimal. Basically, you need to know how to take file uploads with php (google search, its really easy), then you need to modify /modules/Submit_News/index.php pretty much everywhere the story is passed in via post, which means on first preview, subsequent previews, and on finl submit. You need to modify the form to include 5 uploads, and you have to check after upload that you did in fact receive an image file, and not some malicious php file or something.
Then, create a folder for the images, chmod 777 or at least give apache full rights to it, and have your script copy the images to that folder and insert tags into the story text for each. On previews, you'll want to see if a replacement image came in, and delete the old if so.
Sounds complicated, but it wasnt too bad. You also need to modify the tables _queue and _stories to include the path to the images so you can delete them from within /admin/modules/stories.php
haha good luck. seriously, though, it wasnt too bad. took 3 days, but its definitely reproducable. |
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Re: Ready for Halloween? Paranormal Nuke! (Score: 1)
by smotrs on Friday, October 01 @ 15:45:06 CEST
(User Info | Send a Message) | I have a Library module that I've been using (heavily modified version of the download module) that does alot of what your talking about. At first it felt over whelming, but now looking back at it, it wasn't that complicated at all. Mostly because when I was doing it, I had just started learning php, now it's a breeze to go through and make mods.
I've been thinking about doing something along the same lines as your stories module, but seeing as how you may be willing to release it soon, I'd rather use something existing then have to go through re-creating the wheel so to speak :) |
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