Request: 'Choose Rpg Character Code' to work in V5

[Wormopolis]

currently, when you choose users in plugin settings, it stores them by their user NUMBER. that is wht most plugins are going to use to find a specific display name.

as for thinking outside the box, its never a guarantee a code will work with another code. sometimes one code will completely destroy an element that another code would be looking for (an example would be trying to run too many main page hacks in v4.5). sometimes you can change the order the codes run to make them play better, and sometimes not. there is NO way someone can forsee what every other coder out there could possibly do.

if you had a code that replaced a clickable display name, with an image that was no longer clickable, that would be an example of destructive coding. nothing makes that image an alias to what it used to be. if your code left it as clickable, then the surrounding anchor tag would still have usable data.

the code Im in the middle of, lets the admin create "Alters" for members. you can have more then 1 alter per member. an alter is basically a fake member, complete with display name, avatar, personal text, post % (a percentage of the owner's total post count), location, gender, join date, birthday, and signature. you can optionally leave any of those entries blank and they wont show. when a member makes a post, he will have a drop down of all the alters associated with his id somewhere at the top of the post. when he chooses one, and submits the post, the alter id gets associated with that post with a plugin key. when that post displays, it uses the plugin data to convert the mini-profile to that of the alter.

I had a v4.5 version of this code working, Im just trying to convert all the code over to work with the new layout.

[Tohsaka Rin]

Yeah, we were looking at the old 4.5 code and just discussing it since we were very unsure on how it worked overall (we actually did not use it on our site but others do.) We had nothing to do anyway since the database was down and there was no ability to work on anything anyway!

(I love you.)

[Former Member]

Awesome news.

[Wormopolis]

alright.. so this is what I have so far. Im sure there will be bugs somewhere. and there are a few things I want to change later, like how the mini-profile data gets displayed. right now its sort of in a fixed order and cant be changed.

admins add characters for the members into the plugin settings. when the member goes to post, it shows a drop down next to the submit button. when the post displays, it should show the alter profile to the left of the post, as well as the alter sig below it.

in the profile, I added a new tab that when you click it, it will list all the stored alters for that member.

give it a shot:
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[Tohsaka Rin]

Well, when trying to designate any user id's it won't let me. It always comes up "no results found". I always had a problem with this, even when trying to manage other plugins it would never allow you to fetch a user...

Not sure how to solve this...cannot test it without being able to put in a user id...heh.

[Picasso]

I just tried this plugin and I think it's great. Thank you for this Worm!

Would there be an ability to change the fields at a later point? For example, manually changing 'birthday' to 'age' ?

Also a small thing I found was in the Location field. I wasn't able to write two letters, for example, 'New York' wouldn't work but 'NewYork' would.

[Wormopolis]

Mar 2, 2013 7:29:14 GMT -8 Tohsaka Rin said:

Well, when trying to designate any user id's it won't let me. It always comes up "no results found". I always had a problem with this, even when trying to manage other plugins it would never allow you to fetch a user...

Not sure how to solve this...cannot test it without being able to put in a user id...heh.

so it wont let you start typing anyones username or display name?


Picasso:   as I said, the way the UI works I cant do custom fields just yet.  What I am thinking of doing is setting up something similar to how the forum templates work.  using a HTML box, you can create your mini-profile however you want, and insert in variable names that it replaces with what you have stored.  you could easily store "birthday" as an age instead and give it a new label of "Age:". but I havent go that far yet.

[Tohsaka Rin]

so it wont let you start typing anyones username or display name?

Yes, it would not let me type their account name/username at all. When I go to do this it always just comes up that there are no results. This has been happening for quite a long time now. My first encounter with it was when I was trying to work on the DTT from Jordan where you can go into "Build" to modify plugins and whenever it asks you to designate any sort of user to specific plugin functions, or well, to designate a user for anything.. it will never fetch the information.

I can type in the account name, user name, hell I can try putting in just a single letter like "a" or "A" and nothing will ever come up.

I had posted this as a sort of bug about a month ago but no one got back to it. From what Jordan said about his plugin when I mentioned it is that it is something to do with proboards itself and not something I can fix (as it is part of their code that we cannot modify or work with to make it function properly.)

I do not know all the details, no one would really tell me why or what causes it.

[Wormopolis]

is this a betazone board?

what I did on mine, was go into the accounts that wouldnt show up for display name. I changed the display name to something temporarily, then changed them back. they started showing up then. it didnt work on their username still, but I could at least access them through display name.

[Tohsaka Rin]

Mar 2, 2013 23:13:07 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

is this a betazone board?

what I did on mine, was go into the accounts that wouldnt show up for display name. I changed the display name to something temporarily, then changed them back. they started showing up then. it didnt work on their username still, but I could at least access them through display name.

I will test this out and get back to you. I thought I had done something like that before but I will see what I can do again. Once I double check if that fixes the issue temporarily I will post an update message here.

[Picasso]

Thanks Worm. I found that it worked perfectly until I tried to get my staff members to use it as well. I filled out an Alter for all of them. Out of the three staff members, only one of theirs worked. Another staff member either had no alter appear when they clicked it from the dropdown, or only their username changed to the Alter's.

My other staff member had the alter appear in the 'most recent posts' section, but not in the actual thread.

conflictingrivals.boards.net/

This is my URL if you're interested. Sorry if I'm repeating a bug you are already aware of.

[Wormopolis]

I suspect its because of apostrophes

I'm


remove the apostrophes for one of the accounts and see if it starts working. if it does I have to add in more stuff to catch and replace them.

[Picasso]

I tried removing the apostrophes from the alters, but it still doesn't work for two of my staff members

Thanks

[Wormopolis]

can you link me to a post where the Alter didnt finish and who the member is?

[Tohsaka Rin]

Hm. So I went and renamed all the testing accounts (multiple times to temporary names) that we were using to test things out and the names still do not want to show up in the list to "add members."

Do we have any idea why, or what, causes this?