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Skins

phillybilly — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:55:31 +0000

looking for help in creating new skins for an efiction web site. We have limited technical skills.

hits counter for custom pages and index page and text resizer for the site

Kate — Sat, 13 Jan 2018 15:33:53 +0000

Hi

would be nice to utilise the hits counter so it can be used on other pages and areas of the site not just for the stories. I would like to add this to the index page in the recent content and also available to use as an option on custom pages. I had trouble adding in php hits as the script does not like the php includes tag.

also I just had another idea, could the text resizer be included to work on the site like a block as I had to search for one for the whole site. This wuld be nice feature and useful. It could be in a block and also a finished linked to us block please.

regards Kate

Review responses

SnoWhiteSally — Sun, 09 Apr 2017 19:36:04 +0000

I'd love an option where you the author and the reviewer can communicate more than once, instead of them having to leave a new review.

Unable to migrate chapter text from data base.

Bob — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:44:51 +0000

We're in the process of creating our efiction software data for a mobile site software, but the migration can't locate the text in each of our chapters. We can migrate from the front end but it will take much more time. I'm hoping someone can explain where the text is stored for each chapter.

bob

Review / Rating system

Sheepcontrol — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:08:49 +0000

Hi, I have a question regarding the reviews and ratings (not the age stuff):

Currently, you can either have:

Reviews with a rating

Reviews without ratings

Ratings without reviews

(All depending on the given configuration)

Now regarding kudos, how would you like to see this?

Would the kodu be like a rating, just that it's either a "like" or nothing at all, or a review without text combined with a rating, then again, isn't the kudo already a "thumbs up" thing? :think:

Tell me ...

Something like Bad Behavior?

Sue — Thu, 28 May 2015 11:03:16 +0000

I've just noticed the link on the bottom of this forum and checked it out. Looks impressive. Perhaps something like BB might be a good option for "Insert Name Here", especially for installations of it on shared hosting. Anything that could limit resource use and reduce bandwidth has got to be a good idea.

MOVED: (Ad) banner rotation

Sheepcontrol — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 01:26:00 +0000

This topic has been moved to Feature Requests.

http://forums.efiction.org/index.php?topic=8729.0

Allow characters in a category to filter down into sub-categories

Tarlan — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:13:50 +0000

eFiction 5.0 is great news!

The best way to describe a feature I'd like you to consider is to illustrate with an example, which I hope is clearer than the last time I asked about this possible feature as it was sadly misunderstood.

I have a multi-fandom Fiction archive that has a category for The Magnificent Seven. The fandom has a number of Alternate Universes, which I have made as sub-categories as it makes it easier for the reader to find what they want instantly without having to go to the advanced search. The problem is that I want to put the list of main characters in the top level category ONLY (The Magnificent Seven) and have them filter down into the lower level sub-categories automatically.

At the moment, I have a choice of:

1. setting each character up ONCE in the top level category (The Magnificent Seven) and then having to assign the story to BOTH that category AND to the sub-category
Disadvantage: the story is now listed under both top and sub category rather than just under the sub-category

Or

2. setting each character up in both top category AND in each of the 15 sub-categories.
Disadvantage: impossible to search for all stories with a particular character as the identical character name is now listed in the search under 16 different char ids.

At the moment, my way around it is to use a combination of option 1, and then when I have free time, going into pHpAdmin to manually add the charid to the story and remove the higher level category. It's obviously not idea and only works as I have a VERY small archive with low volume of traffic.

My thoughts:

table character
col1: charid (system generated unique key)
col2: character name
col3: description

table character-category
col1: charid
col2: catid

eg:
table character: 99, 'Chris Larabee', 'Leader of the Seven'
table character-category row 1: 99, 124
table character-category row 1: 99, 125
table character-category row 1: 99, 137
table character-category row 1: 99, 138

This way a single character can be assigned to multiple categories, and the admin could even be given the option when setting up a sub-category as to which character(s) can be filtered down from the top level.

Group membership

Sheepcontrol — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:26:30 +0000

So, moving on to the next issue:

Member groups/levels/permissions

In theory, it exists in eFi 3.5, but it's not excessively documented, so this needs to be completely redone.

Now I am scratching together different permissions that an admin might want to assign, for now I am using the name groups, but let's see where this is going, nothings carved in stone, except, well, for stone carvings .... erm, where were we?

So groups planned so far are:

Member (registered, approved)
Trusted Member (no spam check on posts, no flood control - trusted fellas)
Author (no further rights than to post stories, depending on the configuration, this group can be self assigned)
Trusted Author (Can post stories without moderation)
Archive moderator (will check and approve - or not - newly posted stories, can moderate story reviews) - limited to one ore more fandoms/sections
Global archive moderator (like the moderator above, but also: can add challenges, news, adds tags if needed/or only request tags, not sure here)
Admin (messes up everything)

Do you think that's sufficient or do we need more groups? Hit me

Better anti-spam control

BlackFalcon — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:10:33 +0000

I hate to say this, but my current archive is getting hit with a ton of spam ATM. Disabling anonymous reviews doesn't help, cause the bots and human spammers can beat the current simple captcha. I say for a new version demands better spam control.

That's why I suggest Are You A Human? for anonymous reviews and registration. It stops all bots, and would greatly reduce the spam the staff of an archive would have to deal with.