1 Reply by dmz

(11 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 modifications, plugins and integrations)

I installed it, works well for me (IE and FF).  Thanks...

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2 Reply by dmz

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Seems to work on my site: RSS.

There's at least one poll in there.

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3 Reply by dmz

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Gnu wrote:

Yeah, but what did you hack? I have the same prob, and i'm not the greatest php-programer :s

I'm not a PHP guy by any means, but I think this works.  Change the sql query to:

    SELECT p.id AS id, p.message AS message, p.posted AS postposted, t.subject AS subject, f.forum_name, c.cat_name, pls.id as pollid
    FROM ".$db->prefix."posts p
    LEFT JOIN ".$db->prefix."topics t 
    ON p.topic_id=t.id 
    left join ".$db->prefix."polls pls on pls.pollid=t.id
    INNER JOIN ".$db->prefix."forums AS f 
    ON f.id=t.forum_id 
    LEFT JOIN ".$db->prefix."categories AS c 
    ON f.cat_id = c.id
    LEFT JOIN ".$db->prefix."forum_perms AS fp

And change the line in function putPost to this:

    if ($cur['pollid'] == null)
        $link = $pun_config['o_base_url'].'/viewtopic.php?pid='.strval($cur['id']).'#'.strval($cur['id']);
    else
        $link = $pun_config['o_base_url'].'/viewpoll.php?pid='.strval($cur['id']).'#'.strval($cur['id']);

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4 Reply by dmz

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The part you quoted me on above is the rss.php part, which I have not modified yet.  I was hoping someone else would do it for me because I'm lazy.  smile

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5 Reply by dmz

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BTW, this seems to be working just fine with 1.2.8.

Edit: one thing I'd like to see included in this at some point (or maybe someone has already hacked it) deals with using rss.php.  If I click the link in my rss feed, polls still direct me to viewtopic.php instead of viewpoll.php.  wink

Edit 2: af3's change above works just fine.  For some reason my file didn't save the first time; I put that code fix back in place and now everything is peachy.

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6 Reply by dmz

(48 replies, posted in General discussion)

Connorhd wrote:

the one thing your missing is your going to have to go metric some time, and the longer you wait the more it costs (its like the ultimate debt tongue with the ultimate interest rate to go with it)

And what you appear to be missing:

You have a car.  Its not the best, but it works.  The government says if you spend $1,000,000 for a hydrogen-powered car you'll pay less for fuel in the long run.  Are you going to drive your current (paid-for) gas guzzler and milk it as long as you can, or go into debt up to your eyeballs and make the upgrade because its the right thing to do?

Again... I still haven't said it would be a bad thing for USA to go metric.  I'm on your side so you guys are preaching to the choir.

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7 Reply by dmz

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File under: Somewhat Related

I found this a while back.  Pretty slick little online .ico maker that I've used from time to time.

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8 Reply by dmz

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You're 100% correct, although its still going to cost us billions if not trillions up-front to correct, and for that reason I don't see it happening any time soon.  So we've come full circle in this debate.

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9 Reply by dmz

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Your point obviously being that humans make mistakes?

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10 Reply by dmz

(48 replies, posted in General discussion)

Connorhd wrote:

you can't really tell us its impossible

Please indicate where/when I said that it was.  Has the UK completely switched over?

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11 Reply by dmz

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I think I'm done here because you're obviously missing my point.  Keep in mind, I've never once said converting to metric would be a bad idea.  I'm only saying that the up-front cost to do so at present is considerable, and is probably the biggest reason why we haven't done so already.  Its a gradual process and we'll eventually get there (Coke, Pepsi, etc. come in 1 and 2 liter bottles, for instance), but expecting us to switch over night is insanity.

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12 Reply by dmz

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I think those of you who continue to say "yeah right, the other 95% of us should switch" are missing my point.  I never said you should change to our system.  I merely stated a fact: the overwhelming cost to change 300 million people over to the metric system would not be a trivial task and would cost billions.

Suck it up.  It is what it is and likely won't change until China takes over the world.

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13 Reply by dmz

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You guys keep insisting that our systems of measure are "non-trivial" to "figure out" and that's only because we're "Americans" and "used to it".  Does the reverse not apply?  Someone says to me "its 100 meters away", I have no idea how far that is.  Put yourself in our shoes, try switching everything you do to pounds, feet, inches, etc. for a week and let us know how it goes.  Now multiply that by 300 million.  Then consider the cost and ask yourself why we haven't made the switch.

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14 Reply by dmz

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Rickard wrote:

Well, yes, but don't you think it's time to move on?

Absolutely!  Can we can count on you to foot the bill for migrating 300 million people and all their rulers, roadsigns, computers, etc. to the Metric System?  I'm sure the one-time cost will be negligible. smile

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15 Reply by dmz

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Rickard wrote:

The meter, quite obviously, is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second.

Now that, sir, was funny.

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16 Reply by dmz

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Rickard wrote:

The UK (Imperial) System of Measurement:

       Length
       """"""
  12 inches   = 1 foot
   3 feet     = 1 yard
  22 yards    = 1 chain
  10 chains   = 1 furlong
   8 furlongs = 1 mile
5280 feet     = 1 mile
1760 yards    = 1 mile

Brilliant! big_smile

Isn't this a carry-over from days of yore when a foot was *about* the length of someone's foot, a yard was *about* the length of a man's arm, etc?  So its not like someone just chose arbitrary numbers for those measurements.

Rickard wrote:
Bassguy wrote:

It's what I grew up with, so it makes the most sense to me.

That's the problem. You all grew up with it and therefore it makes sense to you. To the rest of us (all 6.1 billion), it makes no sense at all smile

Driving on the left side of the road doesn't make any sense to me, either, but some of you wacky Europeans do it anyway.  wink

As far as the date thing goes, I think it sounds silly to say "eleventh of September" when I can just say "September eleventh".  I guess that's just my "confused shorty language" getting in the way, though.

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17 Topic by dmz

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Has anyone else had a problem with this individual.?

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18 Reply by dmz

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I've searched around out here a bit, but haven't really come across a concrete solution for this.

What is the preferred/best method for exporting the first N chars of a post via RSS feed, vs. just the topic headline and who composed it (default behavior)?

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19 Reply by dmz

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Good deal.  So the only way to get at a non-public forum via RSS feed is if you have the uid/pwd of someone in the user group assigned to the private forum, correct?

dmz

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20 Topic by dmz

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I created a 'private' forum, but I have a public RSS feed available on my index page.  The private forum is only viewable by a certain user group.  Without digging through the code, it appears that the RSS feed does not pick up my private forum, but I wanted to make sure that's really the case and there isn't some sort of hack you can use in whatever is building the feed to get at the content of what I would like to keep private.

Does this make sense?

dmz

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21 Reply by dmz

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jabba the hutt

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22 Reply by dmz

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cheese

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23 Reply by dmz

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Sweet.  I'll check it out tonight after work.

dmz

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24 Topic by dmz

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Mine, in no particular order:

"Alien"
"Big Trouble in Little China"
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
"Fight Club"
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"

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25 Reply by dmz

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Name: dave
Age: 29
Location: sioux falls, sd, usa
Occupation: software developer, banking industry
Interests: movies, music, firearms, aquaria, programming

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