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Carsten

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22.03.06 at 21:59:48

This mod lets admin create a list of words to appear as links in posts, IM's and signatures.

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added hotlinks to post preview

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fixed special characters in "link text"

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ver. 1.2 - added hotlink description as label on mouse over hotlink

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ver. 1.2 - oups - fix in Hotlinks.pl for qoutmarks in description

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ver 1.2b - more quotmark fixes in profile/signature

« Last Edit: 12.09.06 at 19:40:07 by Carsten »

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Larian Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 310	Reply #1 - 23.03.06 at 09:50:13 Very good idea! Thanks! Larian
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Karl-Heinz Bloody Novice Offline Posts: 24	Reply #2 - 24.03.06 at 15:37:21 Hi Cartsen, Looks great! How many links can the board handle without slowing down. Best, Karl
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #3 - 13.04.06 at 20:44:47 Hi Carsten its possible to make Hotlinks in Board Description too?
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Outumuro Hacker God Offline Posts: 569	Reply #4 - 14.04.06 at 11:09:30 Also could it work in post preview?
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Carsten Mod Author of the Year 2003 Offline Posts: 3251	Reply #5 - 15.04.06 at 21:49:17 Outumuro wrote on 14.04.06 at 11:09:30: Also could it work in post preview? Done - new package attached to first post.
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #6 - 15.04.06 at 22:01:05 Hi thnx for update. 8)
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Outumuro Hacker God Offline Posts: 569	Reply #7 - 16.04.06 at 06:12:46 Thanks Carsten. Pushing for that Mod Author of the Year award again... aren't you?!
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MF-B Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 410	Reply #8 - 20.04.06 at 18:12:47 Not working with hotlink like "text" if edit hotlink with board. If manual added value in vars file like Code: "text" this working
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Carsten Mod Author of the Year 2003 Offline Posts: 3251	Reply #9 - 28.04.06 at 23:56:43 @MF-B - yep - fixed special characters in "link text". All changes are in "Hotlinks.pl". New package attached to first post. Thx. for reporting. @Outumuro - nope, looks like the next award will be "per decade"
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MF-B Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 410	Reply #10 - 29.04.06 at 14:49:23 @Carsten Aha... OK... I attach Russian lng file for this mod.
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MF-B Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 410	Reply #11 - 30.04.06 at 20:33:40 @Carsten Now Hotlink with " " does not delete...
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Reply #12 - 11.05.06 at 21:03:48

Outumuro wrote on 16.04.06 at 06:12:46:

Thanks Carsten.

Pushing for that Mod Author of the Year award again... aren't you?! Grin

Hahahaha, that should explain why he took a long coding break on the Y2 project.... allthough..... naahhh, Carsten just deserved the rest after suffering of coders burnout doing so much work on Y2.

And for what it is worth.... if there is one guy that (like Michael Shumacher) deserves to prolong his title it is Carsten.

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Outumuro Hacker God Offline Posts: 569	Reply #13 - 12.05.06 at 11:37:32 From the looks of the upcoming Y2.2/2.5... the whole YaBB Dev/Mod community is deserving of an award. Things are looking mighty bright in YaBBville these days.
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Stewart Gilray Fulltime Hacker Offline Posts: 196	Reply #14 - 24.05.06 at 16:16:13 What would be really cool is to make it work not only with whole words, IE... Say I have a link already posted... http://www.play.com/music/item/234463434/item ETC... I'd like to be able to do this.... http://www.play.com/ replace with http://playcom.at/tnms etc Currently that doesn't work, that I know of.
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #15 - 11.09.06 at 20:50:14 Hi Carsten, a very nice of our User. Its possible make the links with Mouse-Over-Feature on links? That display your Link name of the links.
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Reply #16 - 11.09.06 at 21:42:31

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Hi Carsten,
a very nice of our User. Its possible make the links with Mouse-Over-Feature on links? That display your Link name of the links.

Not sure i understand this correctly - do you want the url as a label on mouse over? If so do this:

In the modded Load.pl find:
Code:

		if($tmptarget) {
			$htmpc = qq~<a href="$htmpb" target="_blank">$hfont1~;
			$htmpc2 = qq~$hfont2</a>~;
		}
		else {
			$htmpc = qq~<a href="$htmpb">$hfont1~;
			$htmpc2 = qq~$hfont2</a>~;
		}

and replace it with:
Code:


		if($tmptarget) {
			$htmpc = qq~<a href="$htmpb" target="_blank" title="$htmpb">$hfont1~;
			$htmpc2 = qq~$hfont2</a>~;
		}
		else {
			$htmpc = qq~<a href="$htmpb" title="$htmpb">$hfont1~;
			$htmpc2 = qq~$hfont2</a>~;
		}

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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #17 - 11.09.06 at 22:23:39 Hi thnx. works. i will ask the user if he want this.
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #18 - 12.09.06 at 10:25:22 Hi Carsten he dont want see links as label. Maybe make a Descriptionfield in Setting for every links for label? For Example Link: http://www.grafix-world.nl Linkname: GrafiX World Description label: a Support Forum
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Carsten Mod Author of the Year 2003 Offline Posts: 3251	Reply #19 - 12.09.06 at 17:56:57 @Jet Li - nice idea - done now. New zip package attached to first post.
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #20 - 12.09.06 at 18:00:28 thnx. will try it. 8)
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #21 - 12.09.06 at 18:18:23 ok works great Carsten. thnx. http://www.grafix-world.nl/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1158012812
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mick Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 337	Reply #22 - 12.09.06 at 18:26:21 Thank You very much, Carsten! And JetLi for asking Greetz Mick
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Carsten Mod Author of the Year 2003 Offline Posts: 3251	Reply #23 - 12.09.06 at 18:34:08 ver. 1.2 - oups - fix in Hotlinks.pl for quotmarks in description
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aerow90 Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 253	Reply #24 - 12.09.06 at 18:39:34 jap, really good thank you both
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #25 - 12.09.06 at 18:48:48 @Carsten if I hover the links with FireFox 1.5.0.6 Browser I have a underline, but I have no checked. In IE Browser are ok. In Signature are ok too with both browsers.
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Carsten Mod Author of the Year 2003 Offline Posts: 3251	Reply #26 - 12.09.06 at 20:20:54 Quote: @Carsten if I hover the links with FireFox 1.5.0.6 Browser I have a underline, but I have no checked. In IE Browser are ok. In Signature are ok too with both browsers. That's due to the different way IE and FF handles css sub-styles and inline styles. In FF only the "base" 'a' css is overwritten by the inline style - not the 'a.hover' style.
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #27 - 12.09.06 at 20:44:18 Carsten wrote on 12.09.06 at 20:20:54: That's due to the different way IE and FF handles css sub-styles and inline styles. In FF only the "base" 'a' css is overwritten by the inline style - not the 'a.hover' style. aha, thnx for this info.
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mick Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 337	Reply #28 - 13.09.06 at 21:14:05 Hoi, look there: http://www.info4alien.de/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi?num=1158181365 There is no mousover at "ABH". If I delete the Code: [img] [/img] in the text before, everything is ok. Greetz Mick
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Jeff Moderator Offline Posts: 2533	Reply #29 - 23.09.06 at 10:34:19 Hi Carsten in Search Result page the Hotlink not linked. Only display as Text.
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Flowageboy Bloody Novice Offline Posts: 45	Reply #30 - 11.04.07 at 22:36:21 Got the following error when I installed it English/hotlinks.lng - Can't find required language file. Please inform the administrator about this problem. There was no English/hotlinks.lng file in the download. Help please. Thanks
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Flowageboy Bloody Novice Offline Posts: 45	Reply #31 - 11.04.07 at 22:39:00 nevermind...the file was there but installing it was not in the instructions.
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Imp_In_Training Hacker God Offline Posts: 575	Reply #32 - 15.04.07 at 22:07:53 Question for those of you running this mod. Is anyone experiencing a problem viewing avatar images in the private messages? Just trying to isolate the cause. Checking all the mods that alter InstantMessage.pl.
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alexant Hacker Wannabe Offline Posts: 86	Reply #33 - 16.04.07 at 00:35:30 No problems at all.
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Imp_In_Training Hacker God Offline Posts: 575	Reply #34 - 17.04.07 at 03:35:27 Alright... thanks.
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Reply #35 - 30.08.07 at 03:01:37

I installed this mod and everything went just fine. It all seems to be working properly.

I noticed that i was unable to add more than one hotlink?

I also cannot find the hot link that I added anywhere in my board?

Any idea what I may have done wrong? Where is this hot link supposed to be located at in my board?

[dummyEdit] Never mind. Tongue

I figured it out. [/dummyEdit]

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Reply #36 - 23.09.07 at 01:51:10

The hot links work similar to what you might see on wikipedia ... where certain words in an entry are hyperlinked to take you to other wikipedia entries.

Whenever anyone uses the word or phrase you indicated in your hot link entry, it will automatically be hyperlinked.

One thing I noticed about this is that I cannot edit entries. I can bring them up to display, but I can't change any of the information contained. If I want to change a hot link, I have to delete it and make it from scratch.

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Carsten

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Reply #37 - 23.09.07 at 09:36:46

Imp_In_Training wrote on 23.09.07 at 01:51:10:

... One thing I noticed about this is that I cannot edit entries. I can bring them up to display, but I can't change any of the information contained. If I want to change a hot link, I have to delete it and make it from scratch.

Not true - only thing you can't change is the "Hotlink text" and that's how it's intended to be. Selecting a hotlink to be edited allows you to edit the properties for that specific "Hotlink text" - not the "Hotlink text" itself.

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Imp_In_Training Hacker God Offline Posts: 575	Reply #38 - 21.10.07 at 09:35:34 Oh... ok. I was trying to change the Hotlink text. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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ford_forgotton Bloody Novice Offline Posts: 4	Reply #39 - 06.04.08 at 17:46:43 Has anyone tried this on 2.2.1 yet? I just upgraded my forums last week and we really miss this mod. We use a ton of acronyms, and so the hotlink feature would show the full description of the acronym (when you hover over it), and then link you to a page showing a full mechanical breakdown of the part/system described by the acronym.
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stooz Bloody Novice Offline Posts: 5	Reply #40 - 15.04.08 at 19:23:23 I have tried it but it fails on 2 instantmessage.pl changes. Im not sure it needs them
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ford_forgotton Bloody Novice Offline Posts: 4	Reply #41 - 17.04.08 at 04:33:04 well, I went into boardmod and used the editor to DELETE the action to edit the instantmessage file, saved it, then let boardmod install it, and....... ..... It appears to work in 2.2.1!
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Reply #42 - 03.09.08 at 20:08:40

ford_forgotton wrote on 17.04.08 at 04:33:04:

well, I went into boardmod and used the editor to DELETE the action to edit the instantmessage file, saved it, then let boardmod install it, and.......

..... It appears to work in 2.2.1!

Hi,
why I didn't see your Post? We missed this Mod,
was one of the most importand Mods in our Board.

Now I installed it (after deleting Step 6 and 7, in
YaBB 2.2.2).
Thank you!!

Greetings
Mick

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mick Hacker Expert Offline Posts: 337	Reply #43 - 14.10.08 at 18:04:10 Runs this way with Y2.3
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