Sharing your link list via RSS and OPML

On 06.04.05, In HowTo, Templates, By Yoshi

Well, a few folks have already asked me in the future versions to be able to share their linklists with other people by using OPML or RSS. (via OPML mainly to import into other sites, such as Furl) Here’s a handy “tutorial” for accomplishing this. (Actually it’s more of a template guide.) Instead of actually typing the code in for your template, I figured it’s much easier for you to download the templates instead. You can find them here.

these should work “right out of the box”, assuming your main weblog is weblog1. If you have any questions, let me know, it’s pretty straightforward. If you would like to see some working demos of this, then hit my keywords page on my main site. You’ll also see the newest and latest features I’m working on with 1.1 of the Linklist Mod as well.

 
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Creating a shoutbox

On 06.01.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

There are many different ways to create a shoutbox. (or Tagboard, or whatever you may want to call it. I call it a shoutbox because of DA) You can use a service like Zonkboard or a php script like tagboard. You can also create one using EE’s own abilities! Let me show you how I did it.

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Skinning and stuff

On 05.28.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

Because there are still some of you that are looking for a skinning tutorial, allow me to point you in the right way. domesticat’s skin tutorial is perhaps one of the most popular ones. jules has more on this as well. She used domesticat’s tutorial. : )

No one is going to want to skin their site like mine, trust me LOL it ruins a lot, and because i have to parse PHP on input, it makes things tougher for me to implement certain types of tricks like inline comments. (but I do use this technique on my RSS feeds.)

 
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Updated Photolog Templates

On 05.26.04, In HowTo, Templates, By Yoshi

I’ve updated the photolog templates. There are now brief instructions on what to do with them, which helps if you didn’t read the post about how to install. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know. Meanwhile, the updated templates are now in the download area to the left. : )

 
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EE: RSS 2.0 or Index Comments

On 05.24.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

Lynda has written up a great inline comments tutorial that you can use within your RSS 2.0 or index templates. This gives you the ability to view comments right there on the home page with an entry without having to actually go to the comments page.

If you like to have that feature, check this out. Very handy! Thanks Lynda!

 
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Tip for Recent Comments

On 05.22.04, In HowTo, Plugins, By Yoshi

jules wanted a way to link directly to a comment using the Recent Comments tag, and this seemed to work just great:

<a href=”{permalink=”weblog/comments”}#{comment_id}”>link to comment</a>

The addition is the #{comment_id}. Because EE auto puts in an anchor tag using the comment_id, this makes it easier to link directly to that certain comment.

 
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Inserting formatting buttons to your comments

On 05.12.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

It’s not overly hard to put in a bunch of formatting buttons for your comments. By formatting buttons I mean buttons that will insert a bold, or italic tag. I’ve uploaded an example for you to take a look at. It fully works as an HTML page and has comments for what code you need to insert into your own templates. Have a look!

formatting_button_sample.html

(to save this file, right/control click the link and save)

 
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Creating Member Avatars for comments and entries

On 03.28.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

This is a pretty simple process. With the new ExpressionEngine PB2 release, you can easily allow your members to have a member avatar. I’ll explain how I did it here.

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Sub-domains with EE

On 03.06.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

Rick has given instruction on exactly how to set up multiple subdomains (or domains for that matter) to point to other templates in your EE installation. Here’s the summary:

This feature now works. We haven’t documented it yet but will soon. In the mean time here is how you do it:

First, you need to replace your index.php file with a copy from the latest build. Replace the one at your site root, not the one you access your CP with.

In order to have a weblog accessible from its own subdirectory you must:

- Put a copy of index.php and path.php in each subdirectory.

- The path.php file in each folder must be opened and you must make sure that it contains the correct path to your backend files.

In addition, you must add the following variables to your path.php file:

$template_group = “name”;

$template = “index”;

$site_url = “http://yoursite.dom/subdomain/”;

$site_index = “index.php”

Notes: The $template_group and $template variables allow you to specify what gets shown by default in that particular directory. Normally you specify the default template in your control panel. This allows you to override it manually, and specify which template gets shown.

The $site_url variable must contain the URL to the particular folder that the path.php file is located in. This is so that links will all work correctly. Again, this manually overrides the CP preferences.

The $site_index variable should indicate the name of the index page in the directory. Usually this will be “index.php”

Read the full forum post here.

 
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Chatterbox

On 02.22.04, In HowTo, By Yoshi

Because I like to “showcase” my top commenters, I made a little box for those who comment the most. It’s a “top 5 list” of the people who have commented the most. Just insert this EE code where you want it to show up:

{exp:query sql=”SELECT DISTINCT name, email, url, count( email ) AS count FROM `exp_comments` GROUP BY email ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5″}

<a href=”{url}” target=”_blank”>{name}</a> – {count} retorts<br />

{/exp:query}

That will give you the top commenters for all your weblogs with the commenter with the most comments on top. If you want to narrow down by weblog, then add a WHERE statement saying “WHERE weblog_id=#” where # is the weblog ID number. Therefore the query will read: “SELECT DISTINCT name, email, url, count( email ) AS count FROM `exp_comments` WHERE weblog_id=1 GROUP BY email ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5″

 
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