¡Personalized URL Link for each category!

[hprod]

Hello everybody!
Here I explain you my problem and a possible solution that could be a MOD:

Problem:
I have each Category relationed with a web page.
I would like to show the link of that web each time a topic belonging to that category is showed.

Solution
Maybe it is possible to add a form box at the creation category option where you can specify the name and url of the relationed web page, and after that show the link when a topic of that category it is showed.

May you help me to build this hack!?
Thanks a lot!!!!

I love YaBBSE and this FREE community!

[Shadow's Pawn]

Where did you want this link to be shown?  Did you want the category name to be a hyperlink to the page?

If you mean what I am thinking, this shouldn't be too difficult to code in..

[hprod]

I would like to show an hyperlink (with a description) to that page.
It could be shown like in this picture:


Thanks a lot Shadow's Pawn

[Shadow's Pawn]

I believe you want look in messageindex.php for this line

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   echo '
      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
         <tr>
            <td><a name="top"></a>' . $displayLinkTree . '</td>
         </tr>
      </table>';


then just add another table column to that with your link and description.  You'll probably want to align the column to "right."

Hope that helps.

[Anguz]

you could also put the link in the product description, which shows at the top of messageindex too, and hack display so it shows the board's description too... that way you're using the existing code to save information for each board

[Anguz]

I haven't tested this at all, but it could work  

in Sources/Display.php search for:

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   $result = mysql_query("SELECT b.ID_CAT,b.name,c.name,c.memberGroups FROM {$db_prefix}boards as b,{$db_prefix}categories as c WHERE (b.ID_BOARD=$currentboard && b.ID_CAT=c.ID_CAT)") or database_error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
   list($curcat,$boardname,$cat,$temp2) = mysql_fetch_row($result);
   $memgroups = explode(',',$temp2);

and replace with:

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   $result = mysql_query("SELECT b.ID_CAT,b.name,b.description,c.name,c.memberGroups FROM {$db_prefix}boards as b,{$db_prefix}categories as c WHERE (b.ID_BOARD=$currentboard && b.ID_CAT=c.ID_CAT)") or database_error(__FILE__, __LINE__);
   list($curcat,$boardname,$bdescrip,$cat,$temp2) = mysql_fetch_row($result);
   $memgroups = explode(',',$temp2);

and now search for:

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      <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
         <tr>
            <td valign="bottom"><a name="top"></a>' . $displayLinkTree . '</td>
            <td valign="bottom" align="right">
               <font size="1" class="nav">' . $previousNext . '</font>
            </td>
         </tr>
      </table>

and add after:

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   ';
   if ($ShowBDescrip)
   {
      echo '
      <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="' . $color['bordercolor'] . '" class="bordercolor"><tr><td>
         <table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" border="0" bgcolor="' . $color['bordercolor'] . '" class="bordercolor">
            <tr>
               <td align="left" class="catbg" bgcolor="' . $color['catbg'] . '" width="100%"  height="30">
                  <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
                     <tr>
                        <td width="100%"><font size="1">' . $bdescrip . '</font></td>
                     </tr>
                  </table>
               </td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      </td></tr></table>';
   }
   echo'

and hope it works and that it does what you want... let us know how it went

[hprod]

Thks a lot Anguz and Shadow.
I have been looking for other solution. See it:

- As there is a description field for each category, I write the url there. But the url doesnt turn into an hyperlink when it is showed. How can I do that?
- And I would like to show description at the top of each topic showed from that category. Maybe Anguz solution is the answer. isnt it?

[Anguz]

yes, that's exactly what I was suggesting...

use html in the board description cause they aren't passed through the ubbc thing

[hprod]

Anguz,
I did the code modification you wrote but it didnt work. The result is the same as if without any modification.
Maybe the problem is the variable:
$ShowBDescrip
it hasnt a value.
is it a Boolean?
Where does it take a value?

And, guessing it works... this hack will show category description at each topic, but I would like to parse URL in descriptions into hyperlinks. How can I do it?

Thanks again for your great help!!!

[Anguz]

sorry about that...

in Sources/Display.php search for:

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function Display()
{

and add after:

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   global $ShowBDescrip;

and to create a link in the description, just use html

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<a href="http://domain.tld/" target="_blank">your link text</a>

[Anguz]

please let me know if it worked so I don't worry about having made another mistake anymore

[hprod]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM!!!

Anguz, thank you very much.

[Anguz]

cool  

I tried taking a look at your forum but couldn't, so I'm glad you're telling me

I got this error message

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access to this document on this server.
Apache Server at marianistas.org

[hprod]

Try this one:
http://www.marianistas.org/foros.php
If you cant get into, maybe your ip is banned for any reason. Send me your IP and I will give you permission.

Thanks again!

[Anguz]

Try this one:
http://www.marianistas.org/foros.php
If you cant get into, maybe your ip is banned for any reason. Send me your IP and I will give you permission.

Thanks again!

you're welcome

no, I couldn't load the page, got the same error... I'll send you an IM with my ip in a moment... thx