Updated Google Tap Distribution 10-22-2003

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 08, 2003 Posts: 30

Bill,

Code:

This was pasted from a text file not a browser so it should represent the actual text. So its just &, not & amp (take out the space Wink

).

Nuke Cadet Joined: Nov 13, 2003 Posts: 3

Okay, here we go...first off, thanks for your amazing work audioslave, its highly appreciated.

I implemented googletap and it woorks great, my forums are all converted to html.
It left me with one problem tho:

I have a shop hack on the forums, based on a points sytem, now when i try to get to my shop, i get an error:

http://www.t100.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=shop_effects&action=specialshop&shop=Special

is what the original url should be

http://www.t100.org/forumsshop_effects-action-specialshop.html&shop=Special

is what GT converts it to, and leaves me with the message: Shop Name Must Be Passed!

any ideas or pointers on how to fix this?

Thanx in advance,

Peter

Private Joined: Nov 07, 2003 Posts: 37

hmmm i seem to be getting somewhere with the google tap of matyscripts centre forum block, but i have hit a problem.

I understand the concept of replacement of urls etc, but i am completely lost on this one !!!

The centre block links to last posted topic goes to:-
http://www.motorhomefacts.com/forum-viewtopic.html&p=213#213

this is incorrect but you can see the url has been tapped, the correct url for the last post is:-

http://www.motorhomefacts.com/postt95.html#213

now how do i get around this ???
because somehow the posts dont tie up with the section of the page reference (i.e. the #213) instead of being the original 213 post its now 95 for some reason ???

Here is the line from the block that plucks the last topic id etc out:-

Code:

$TopicTitleShow = "<a href=\"modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=$topic_last_post_id#$topic_last_post_id\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">$topic_title</a>";

Am i missing something really obvious ???

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:39 pm

fuzioneer,
Do this inside of the block code to convert it over to GT. Hope that helps you out.

Find:

Code:

Replace With:

Code:

<A HREF=\"forums-profile-viewprofile-u-$uid.html\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"> $uname </a>

Find:

Code:

<A HREF=\"modules.php?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=viewprofile&u=$uid\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"> $uname </a>";

Replace With:

Code:

<A HREF=\"forums-profile-viewprofile-u-$uid.html\"STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"> $uname </a>";

Find:

Code:

Replace With:

Code:

Find:

Code:

Replace With:

Code:

P3ter,
I realize there have been huge problems with forum mods and GT, some problems have left certain site owners very frustrated. I have taken this into account and the next version will alleviate the need to code every piece of the forum. Using "smarter" regular expressions and not just grab-all conversions will help weed out the regular forum code from the forum module and not convert uneeded links. The beta should be out shortly of this next step in GT development codenamed "GT NExtGEn" stay tuned! For now, you can uninstall the Forum-related code, refer back to the default code in the CVS, or try to deal with it. I know it is a big pain, but this is a growing process for many of us, mainly me, and I appreciate everyone's patience. Stay tuned for the "GT NExtGEn" it will be worth the wait, hopefully Wink

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:08 pm

BTW, Audioslaved, will this GT-NG distro solve the right-block problem? I mean, in my site, all right blocks are not tapped. I don't want to play around with each block, so I leave them currently as-is.

- irving
http://www.IrvingEvaJoan.com

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:25 pm

irving, the GT-NG is an architectual upgrade meant to make GT module-based in order to cut down the resource time of duration constant preg_replaces for huge arrays.
This unfortunately means that blocks are not going to be supported, unless of course the block is correspondant to the module that is loaded. I know this is bad for some, but I plan on setting up a site soon, where developers and members can work together on providing module downloads, pre-converted block downloads. I started a thread some time ago, of what blocks people would like to see included in the distro (meaning tapped), and recieved 0 replies to my knowledge. If you are interested in having your blocks converted, find that thread and put a few in there, preferably with the link you downloaded it from. Others like you and I can convert these, and hopefully GT will catch on to the point where a seperate site will be necessary to archive and provide downloads for GT-related files, tutorials, and downloads.

Captain Joined: Oct 20, 2003 Posts: 335

So essentially you want him to put a space after the

&

in his code posts, so that what comes after the & actually shows up in the post. Yes?

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:22 pm

Xeulas,
Man you made that sound so much easier, lol! Thx

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 08, 2003 Posts: 30

Audioslaved,

I'm sure it is just "&" (no space).

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 6:33 pm

Ronin,
I'm sorry about that, here is what you needed:

Put these statements at above all your other forum entries in the header.php and in the .htaccess.

header.php

Code:

"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=signature&id=(current|preview)_sig'",

"\\1_sig.html",

.htaccess

Code:

RewriteRule ^(current|preview)_sig.html modules.php?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=signature&id=$1_sig

Hope that works for you Ronin, let me know, alright?

-Bill (Audioslaved)

Captain Joined: Oct 20, 2003 Posts: 335

Im starting to get a handle on all this (reading php&mysql for dummies). Its noon here, but I'm having trouble keeping my eyes open so I probably missed this... I was wondering....

My forums block (which is the default, not the scrolling) has the & amp; (space between & amp; put there by me just now for display purposes) in it, but the googletapped .html files dont. (so they dont go to the actual posts, but the forum index). Which associated file should I look at to make the GT'd html files point to the actual form post?

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 2:08 pm

Well, just look at the URL, I am sure it is something like the below with or without the amp;s correctly done.

Code:

modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=$topic

What you will do is convert your long url to the .html equivalent that is used in the .htaccess, so instead of it looking like

Code:

You want to change it to look like

Code:

The above are just examples but should kinda give you an idea of what I mean, read my tutorial on converting blocks to .html for guidance, it will explain it a little better. I am trying to stress that blocks be converted manually inside the block. There is no reason to have these conversions run on the blocks, there is usually only 2 or 3 URL's in a block anyways. Plus the NExtGEn will not be forgiving to blocks for those who decide to use it.

Try out the tutorial with the forum block and let me know how you end up, if it leaves you confused, just let me know what you did and how far you got, I will walk you through some steps, and the end product will be you having the knowledge to do this without assistance as well as being able to help others and help spread that knowledge.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 08, 2003 Posts: 30

Audioslaved wrote:

Ronin,
I'm sorry about that, here is what you needed:

Put these statements at above all your other forum entries in the header.php and in the .htaccess.

header.php

Code:

"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=signature&id=(current|preview)_sig'",

"\\1_sig.html",

.htaccess

Code:

RewriteRule ^(current|preview)_sig.html modules.php?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=signature&id=$1_sig

Hope that works for you Ronin, let me know, alright?

-Bill (Audioslaved)

Bill,

I added all of the above but the first one seems to break the forums. I added all of them and received the bad URL below. If I comment out the others but have this it works. If I just add:

Code:

"'(?<!/)modules.php\?name=Forums&file=profile&mode=signature&id=(current|preview)_sig'",

I get this bad URL:

Code:

http://atvfrontier.com/postx4--.html

Nuke Soldier Joined: Jun 08, 2003 Posts: 30

Never mind Bill, my bad, the changes work great. The key is that the new entries need to have the same offset into the 2 arrays in header.php. I thought I was adding the new lines to the start of the forum "sections" but apparently I wasn't.

Simply making them the first items in the arrays fixed everything.

Thanks again for this great mod and your fantastic support.

_________________
Cheers,
Ronin
www.atvfrontier.com

Captain Joined: Oct 20, 2003 Posts: 335

HI. I read the tutorial. Totally confused right from the start, but its obviously because it is beyond my current understanding of php/mysql/GT. Didn't even try to change anything so I can't give you any steps as I'm on step 0 (smile). I can live with the forum problem for now (noone uses my forums but me anyway). I'll keep reading my php/sql dummy book and im sure it will make sense eventually.