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United-Forum Nivo Slider Widget
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Mod Version: 1.1.0, by Mooff (Member) Mooff is offline
Developer Last Online: Nov 2013 I like it Show Printable Version Email this Page
vB Version: 4.1.4 Rating: (19 votes - 4.89 average) Installs: 145
Released: 18 Jul 2011 Last Update: 19 Jul 2011 Downloads: 1274
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Based on the Nivo Slider - all credit for slider awesomeness goes to them.
vB4 implementation goes to me.


What it is:
A slider for cms articles, it gets the articles via database, uses (if possible) the previewimage there and resizes it to slider size *update 1.1.0 cropping function included.

Livedemo on a Big Board (>2.000.000 posts)
the nivo slider on our site is customized to fit our heavily customized cms. Default look of this addon is shown in the picture below


facts about the nivo slider
Originally Posted by nivo slider homepage
- ~ 600.000 downloads
- 16 transition effects
- a ton of options
- different available themes
- ...
Installation
  • upload all files (attached zip file) in the folder where you do need them - this has to be the same folder you will set via $slider_img_filepath (see picture)


  • create a new php-widget and insert the following code:

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  • set refresh time to something big!
  • save - add the widget to your layout - enjoy


Custom settings:

At the top of the php-widget code you can see the following:

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If you change $maxwidth and $maxheight you need to edit the nivo-slider_uf_theme.css file, here:

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Width and height have to be the same value in your php-widget and in the css file.

In additon to these settings i also included a "value/relevance function". Meaning the slider doesn't show your latest 5 articles, but instead weights them based on age and comments.

As older an article is the less likely it will show up in the slider.
More comments make it more likely.

This behaviour can be easily changed. I didn't include an if condition cause every board has different needs and i don't know whats best for you.
In addition conditions like "articles just from this section - or these sections, or this category, with a minimum of 10 posts" can be included via one single if condition. Again, i don't know what your board needs or what your category names are.

You can also modify the preview length (more words, less words), the preview style (color fontsize, fontweight .... Again different forums different needs. It's highly customizable.
Support:

Support and requests for the slider itself should be asked here http://nivo.dev7studios.com/
Same goes for different slider themes - a lot is possible, even thumbnails - again this is part of the nivo slider and not the vb4 implementation.

If you have any questions regarding the settings - or want different settings (which have to do with vb4) - ask, and i'll try to come up with some code // show you where you have to put what.


Slider not working. No idea why?

You will find a FAQ in the first comment, which will be kept up to date:
FAQ


The widget here is completely free. No charge, no branding.
But, we do not mind donations either. If you want to give us something. Since we are advertising free and fan based we are happy about every small donation.
( On Forumhome bottom right paypal button: http://www.united-forum.de/forum.php )



That's all
Hope it works for you.
Regards Mooff

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  #121  
Old 10 Aug 2011, 23:58
Sm1th146 Sm1th146 is offline
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Hmm I'm still having problems. I changed the file folder to the one of my personal computer but not everything is completed. Only 2 articles show up on the slider even though on the custom settings it is set for more and I read this message with the debug on...


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  #122  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 00:00
Mooff Mooff is offline
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We are using the following modifikation:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=230417

All our articles are forum threads and comments show up in both the thread and the article.
(In my opinion that should be a basic vbcms function, but isn't)

Anyway. That does work very well for us.


The slider doesn't pick a random picture, it does use the article previewpicture which is selected by the vbcms system (which can be a http-picture or an attachment).


If it doesn't show images from your articles something is wrong. Please follow the steps in the faq. And yes, that thumbnail view in your slider link is possible with the nivo slider.
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  #123  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 00:05
Mooff Mooff is offline
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@Sm1th146

please use the newest version, it has more debug.

In default mode the slider uses only articles which are not older than 40 days. Could that be a problem? That could be easily changed.
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  #124  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 00:49
Sm1th146 Sm1th146 is offline
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I just re-installed the newest version and still running into a similar problem. The articles are with in the last 2 weeks so that isn't a problem. Here is the error I am receiving...


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  #125  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 00:53
Mooff Mooff is offline
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Debug shows that you have 4 articles within the last 40 days.
Out of those 4 articles 2 have a previewimage. And since you set 'show_articles_without_image' to false it does show the two articles which do have a previewimage and not the other 2.
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Old 11 Aug 2011, 01:45
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Originally Posted by Mooff View Post
The slider does use the pictures which vb4 stores in the databasefield "previewpicture" and resizes them. You do not need to manually add images except 1.
You need a fallback image if your article does not have a previewimage (or something goes wrong during resizing), then the fallback is shown.
Hi - I still cannot get the slider to show my images, the fall back image displayed no problem - any ideas?
thanks
Andy
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Old 11 Aug 2011, 02:07
Mooff Mooff is offline
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Please go through the faq in post two and see if that does help.

If it doesn't please post the debug (last faq question).

Regards Mooff
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  #128  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 02:11
andycaps andycaps is offline
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Hi - I do not get any error messages, just my fall back image. I have gone through FAQ and everything appears to be set correctly?
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  #129  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 11:12
tintin74 tintin74 is offline
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Great MOD! Thank you!

I've tried to develop a module for Vbadvanced CMPS but with no luck. I'm not a programmer. Does anyone could build this for us?

I think it's not so difficult for people with programming experience.

After building this I get this error:

Class 'vb_Types' not found


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Thank You
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  #130  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 13:11
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I dont have an error per say but it shows up all wrong.
Check the image.

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  #131  
Old 11 Aug 2011, 13:20
Mooff Mooff is offline
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I received a question via private message about slider timings. Since that might interest other site owners aswell.

How do I slow down the image timings, at the moment its a bit fast?

Answer:
That is a setting for the nivo slider: http://nivo.dev7studios.com/#usage
There you can see what you can change. I'll give an example for the timings.

Search:

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Replace with:

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This changes the pause Time between slides from 3 seconds to 6 seconds.


@croft
please go through the faq and post the debug you get (last question) if the other questions do not help.
It does look like a combination of a jquery (either to many jquery files or old jquery version or no jquery at all) issue and some problems with saving the resized image to file. Debug will help with the last one. If you can't find the jquery problem a link to the site where the slider is implemented would help.

Cheers
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Old 12 Aug 2011, 01:47
CharlieDelta CharlieDelta is offline
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Hi Mooff. I have this installed and looks good. I have one problem the link to the article when clicked takes me to my index page. When you hover over the link it shows the proper URL however.
Last edited by CharlieDelta; 12 Aug 2011 at 16:04.
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Old 12 Aug 2011, 17:24
CharlieDelta CharlieDelta is offline
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Originally Posted by CharlieDelta View Post
Hi Mooff. I have this installed and looks good. I have one problem the link to the article when clicked takes me to my index page. When you hover over the link it shows the proper URL however.
I ran a debug and there were no errors.

Any ideas?
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Old 12 Aug 2011, 17:52
Mooff Mooff is offline
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Hi,

i need a live demo of that redirect bug. Doublecheck if the hover urls really are correct. If they are i can't think of a reason why it shouldn't work.
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Old 12 Aug 2011, 18:47
CharlieDelta CharlieDelta is offline
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Originally Posted by Mooff View Post
Hi,

i need a live demo of that redirect bug. Doublecheck if the hover urls really are correct. If they are i can't think of a reason why it shouldn't work.
www.canadianriflesregiment.com. Bottom of content.php page.

I just checked the hover URL's and they are correct.

Thanks
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