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sci_test wrote:

I'm online but my main account's sig is still showing the offline one. 

That's because you've still got Scimonster capitalised in the URL for the sci_test sig. I'm afraid that the project search itself does not work if everything is lowercase so case-insensitivity for usernames is sadly impossible.

For those of you using Firefox who use Megaupload and all those sites that leave you waiting before you can download something, by the way, I highly recommend the firefox addon Skipscreen which cancels the wait and clicks the download button for you!

I think I shall attempt the "action=projects&type=least" today. I think being able to advertise your projects with the least views or loves or whatever may be quite appealing to some.

Cool! I'm working on a signature that advertises some of the API's features in a while, but I'm waiting until I can work out how to stamp text returns onto existing images in order to allow sigs to hold user info.

Can anyone think of a way the API could be applied to user images? You know, the icon image on the main site? It only takes files so I was at a bit of a loss... a rotating user image would be pretty cool!

Mmm, I think the API would somehow have to be inside or be accessed by an image file to work. I've never heard of that working anywhere else before...

I have no idea...

What I'm finding really annoying with php is that there's no way of doing letters (a) to (b) of [ ]. You can only do letters (a) to a+(b) of [ ]. This means a load of calculating how far ahead you want b to be each time!!!!!!

That's interesting to know! It certainly is a very useful tool, I got so fed up with waiting for downloads to start.

Last edited by sparks (2011-07-25 05:51:41)

Out of interest, then, do all firefox addons automatically work with chrome or is it up to the developer to bring out a chrome version?

Useful to know, thank  you 

Thanks for the feedback, LS97!

number of posts is a good idea, it should be working in a few hours (I'm getting some sleep first) providing I don't run into any odd problems.

There is already a custom online/offline text part to the API though last time I checked it always returned the offline text for some unexplained reason, I'll take another look tomorrow!

action=onlinestatus&type=customtext

nathanprocks wrote:

why are the images so big?

do you mean the user profile images? Because Scratch does not resize them upon upload and I have yet to work out how to resize them with PHP before they are returned.... At some point in the future all thumbnails will hopefully be optionally resizeable. Ordinarily I would resize them using the resize attributes in <img>tags but Scratch does not seem to accept a page as an image if there's even the slightest bit of HTML on it...

sparks wrote:

nathanprocks wrote:

why are the images so big?

do you mean the user profile images? Because Scratch does not resize them upon upload and I have yet to work out how to resize them with PHP before they are returned.... At some point in the future all thumbnails will hopefully be optionally resizeable. Ordinarily I would resize them using the resize attributes in <img>tags but Scratch does not seem to accept a page as an image if there's even the slightest bit of HTML on it...

stange... it shows the right size now. i mean on the first page, some images such as the custom online/offline image showed almost half the size of the screen.

sparks wrote:

I forgot to talk about the +1. This idea is still being turned around in my head and people are welcome to make suggestions!

Firstly, it wouldn't be part of the API as it will be storing AND returning, I'd have to ask the Scratch team's permission to use one of their databases for that one, or move it to one of my own sites' databases.

Secondly, I imagine it as a small piece of code that a Scratcher can place in one of their posts, say an image tag to show the number of supports, and what is being supported, then an URL tag to take the clicker to a php page that adds their "support" to the count.

Ideally I would ask the Scratch team to add two little pieces of code to the forums, one that lets me send the scratcher name you are currently logged into the forums with to the support page so that you only get one support per Scratcher (rather than IP based support). And a second that lets the page redirect back to the page or post with the support button on it.

I would suggest that maybe a few default graphic settings could be selectable, so button colour and what the button shows, and then allow people to customise the button a little in the future, such as adding their own text to the button etc.

It may be possible to actually get a text return showing the names of all supporting Scratchers, which would work very well for polls

Uses for this would probably be for suggestions that scratchers make, rather than the the current posting of "+1 I support". It is advantageous to that system in that the number of supports can quickly be seen on the first post - don't supports would be an option but have the same negative points as a dislike button (perhapse an optional?). It's uses with polls would be neat too, if the image could return a list of all supporting Scratchers then users would no longer have to update the first post to show the number of poll supporters.

erm... wow, I'm losing any sort of structure in this post but suggestions, ideas, thoughts, all welcome 

I'm working on something a little like the above, where you can 'like' a topic (no relation to facebook don't worry) all the post author has to do is put in a url with the topic id in it (check the url when you click on a topic: scratch.mit.edu/forums/topic.php?id=12345) so like as follows: http://scratchliketopic.com/index.php?id=12345&ret=image would return an image (this is not the real address just an example.) I currently have a working, check if this topic exists and I am just working on the mysql database stuff. It will store the user's ip (if that's alright with the scratch team) in a list along with the topic id.

It will show an image that says '(no.) likes' and a user can click on it to like the post.

Here it is so far where it just puts in 1 like whatever the id is but it only works with a valid id

Edit: it also uses your text rendering code sparks so I'll release the source soon

Last edited by RUMCHEERYPOOPOO (2011-07-26 06:13:46)

sparks wrote:

RUMCHEERYPOOPOO wrote:

I'm working on something a little like the above, where you can 'like' a topic (no relation to facebook don't worry) all the post author has to do is put in a url with the topic id in it (check the url when you click on a topic: scratch.mit.edu/forums/topic.php?id=12345) so like as follows: http://scratchliketopic.com/index.php?id=12345&ret=image would return an image (this is not the real address just an example.) I currently have a working, check if this topic exists and I am just working on the mysql database stuff. It will store the user's ip (if that's alright with the scratch team) in a list along with the topic id.

It will show an image that says '(no.) likes' and a user can click on it to like the post.

Here it is so far where it just puts in 1 like whatever the id is but it only works with a valid id http://scratchloveit.netne.net/topicrat … ;ret=image

Edit: it also uses your text rendering code sparks so I'll release the source soon

You won't need the Scratch team's permission to pull IP's any more than sigpoll, that dragon egg hatching thing or any other separate applications like that    It sounds like a nice idea! Contact me if you need any help 

I just feel a bit evil doing it 

cool thanks, I've now done the bit that checks the mysql table, and it works! I just have to make it so people can add a like!