Tricked Out News Mod needs some feedback

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:19 am

Maybe add the bookmarking stuff to the Category page? For example http://www.horror-code.com/article-category-1.html

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:50 am

The problem is that the fpdf class does not support html output by default, that why I used html2fpdf class in Content Plus. This class extends fpdf functionality and allow to use a most common html/css tags.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:01 am

I have a test for the pdf html fix. It can be downloaded at Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! I still need to work on image display. The printpdf.php file is the only one changed so I only put that one file for download. Just replace the one in the News folder with this updated one.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:15 am

That doesnt seem to do anything for me, looks fine on your site though?
http://www.horror-code.com/article-printpdf-3.html
Edit: Nevermind I see in printpdf it all depends on the tag, more to add though

One other thing, clicking the link doesnt bring you to the story page

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:47 am

TY. You got to love them issues.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:05 pm

OK. the same link above is to another fix. It fixes the link back to the article issue, image display in pdf and some other html fixes. The images will only work if they are in http://sitename/imagelocation format. if the image is in /imagefolder/image format, it will generate an error when viewed as pdf. That is the next thing I'm gonna address. It is only one file, the printpdf.php file.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:24 pm

Seems to work a bit faster. Im not sure what you meant about the images, the logo right? I ask because I never got any errors. The story link works, excellent. Thanks again

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:11 pm

I think he means if you use a relative link instead of an absolute one. Meaning if you link your image with http://www.yoursite.com/images/raven.jpg it will work, but if you use ./images/raven.jpg it won't.

At least that is what I think he meant.

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:00 am

Ah that makes sense, I handnt even thought of changing anything that specific yet. I figure as long as theres a logo in there, although I am wondering about the size, Im sure thats an easy change so it can wait.

I wonder, would it be possible to get the actual story image to load as well, or instead? It would probably be slower with both right?

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:25 am

Sorry I should have made that clear. I was talking about the images inside the story. If you add an image to the article itself, it has to be an absolute link in order to work with the pdf. It you use an image with a transparent background, you will get an error that says something about that image type in not allow. Like I said, much left to do. Thanks again for the feedback and the ideas.

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:57 am

Found another bug. In the "Bookmark links" & "Tag This" blocks the urls in the link show as httpwww..........

The "Bookmark This" blocks seems to be fine.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:27 pm

Just to give a heads up, this project has been moved to Trickedoutnews.com
My hosting contract expires next month with the other hosting company and my sites have had ftp security issues with them so I decided to make a switch and add a new domain too. Also RC 2 is ready for download. The biggest changes are the comments look more like a forum post and the pdf images have been disabled until I can make it easier to use it with the wysiwyg editor.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:11 pm

nuken, I sent you a pm about the blocks.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:30 pm

Thank you Palbin.

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