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  • Jeroi
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Topic: Suggesting [IMPORT] BBcode

So if you have external txt file which includes bbcodes and foorum post that you want share in multiple forums....

1. your txt file is in http://domain.com/file.txt
2. You make forum post: [import]http://domain.com/file.txt[/import]

Now forum would generate forum post from external txt file.

Reason why:

When you have post which you want to share mutliple forums, but the post is not complete, you would want to update only txt file which updates every forum post right away, without multiple editing on multiple forums. Also import would only use BBcodes and text importing. So usual php codes and such would not work. Also suggesting if forum dosent use most used style of bbcodes etc. [list type=decimal][li][/li][/list] etc. This because [IMPORT] tag would need to support some generic BBcode in order to have mutliple sites support same BBcodes.

Additionaaly you could think this like this:

Normal: Write post, stored mysql, view post from mysql
With [IMPORT] tags: Write post, post stored to mysql, get post from mysql, view output from [IMPORT]

2 Reply by Jeroi (edited by Jeroi 2008-06-02 20:33)

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Re: Suggesting [IMPORT] BBcode

well my suggestion would make extra coding into forums i think, the developed idea is:

1. Write [import]...[/import] and submit
2. Save thread and make new filed called ImportedID
3. Import text from external domain
4. Handle imported text
5. Save imported text to new mysql database: ID, Importedtext, Updated

View:
1. Open thread
2. Get thread from mysql
3. Check if thread has [import] tags used
4. Get imported text from database acording thread impirtedID
5. Check when was last update of txt file, if not updated in 1 day update database from remote txt file
6. Post mysql saved text to viewer+post imported text (Thread can have normal text + import tags. Allow only one import/thread)

Edit:
1. Get thread from mysql, view original mysql (without replacing [import] tags) text as output and write into quote etc. -> imported text.

Author:
1. When author comes to view thread, allow him yo update threat right away from remote textfile to database
2. Output updated mysql database

If file not found:
1. Use last updated databse stored text.