Trying to create a scenario in phpBB when a logged in user clicks a link or button (which I can put in the header file), one set of forums is displayed. When user clicks another link in the header, another set of forums displays. I have a large phpBB board, and need to have it where one view shows 15 forums, and then a second views shows the other 15 forums. This would be good for really large boards.
An idea I had was to set up a phpBB usergroup (for example, usergroupF). This usergroup would have permissions set to be accessible for forum view 2 (15 out of the 30 forums on board), but not to forum view 1 (the other 15 out of 30 forums).
So if a user was in usergroupF, they could see the 15 or so forums in forum view 2, but not see the 15 or so forums in forum view 1.
So, when a visitor first sees board, or when user first logs in, they first see forum view 1. If they click on a special link, they are given temporary existence as a member of usergroupF. For this user, forum view 2 would now be visible, but not forum view 1.
Then they click on the link again and their existence as a member of usergroupF would be removed, and they would only see forum view 1.
When I am referring to a link, I mean something that could be simply be put into the over_header.html file of the theme. As far as what could create this switching of usergroups, it seems like a jQuery snippet may be the way to go. For example, I found a simple tutorial here:
http://www.randomsnippets.com/2011/10/09/how-to-hide-or-show-content-based-on-links-or-urls-via-javascript-jquery/
All the query would do is add user to usergroupF, or remove the user from usergroupF.
Two different versions of the script could be created - one to add the user to usergroupF, and one to remove the user from usergroupF. These could be shown depending on if the user was a member of usergroupF, using simple phpBB if statements, so only one link would be visible at a time.
The end result would be a huge board, with 30 forums, could have 2 separate views a user could switch back and fourth between (each with only 15 forums visible). This would be good for membership based sites using phpBB, such as a site integrated with aMember and phpbb.
I guess the question is if it's possible to give a user temporary access to a usergroup, using something such as a jQuery script, or is there a simpler way of creating this. Any suggestions for getting started with this? Thanks for any suggestions.
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I find myself having to interact with a web page that hides state in various places so that one cannot easily share it as a URL, for example this page which allows users to look up information from city zoning applications:
https://aca.cityofberkeley.info/community/Default.aspx
You can interact with the page all you want, but the URL in the location bar will remain the same as the above.
Currently, city staff provide users with instructions like "Load this URL, click on the 'Zoning' tab, enter DRCP2020-0010 under the 'Permit Number' field, click 'Search', then when the records come up, click 'Record Info' and then select 'Attachments' from the dropdown menu, then click on the PDF document that says '2020-10-21_DRCP_APP_PCKT_2801 Adeline.pdf'". I would like to be able to replace these instructions with a URL.
Another example is the website where video from city council meetings is archived:
http://berkeley.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=cbebb4e6-5b83-11eb-920e-0050569183fa
It would be nice to be able to produce a link which brings up one of the meeting videos, and seeks to a certain timestamp like 53:40, so that I can refer to something specific that was said at a meeting.
Looking at the pages that are loaded when I follow the instructions in each case, I can see that there are some POST forms, cookies, hidden input fields, and so on.
Is there some kind of tool that I can use to create "deep links" to pages like these, that were generated using non-URL hidden state, which will allow me to quickly share what I'm looking at with another user?
What I'm seeking is similar to the frmget "bookmarklet", which changes the forms on a page to use GET instead of POST. Sometimes this succeeds in producing a URL which captures form submission query parameters. However, it doesn't work for these applications, for whatever reason.
This question is possibly related to the idea of capturing a web page's DOM state using "browser screenshots" and a script called html2canvas. A possible solution might involve getting and setting cookies in a bookmarklet. Ideally something that produces a normal "https://" URL would be ideal, but if it is impossible to solve the problem except by outputting a "javascript:" URL (bookmarklet) then that is acceptable to me (in spite of the security implications). Thanks.
That seems like not a programming matter. It seems like the site has some security issues as well.
QUESTION A: About Zoning
Here are some links you can use
Direct link to Zoning (I've found it via Advanced search from the site):
https://aca.cityofberkeley.info/CitizenAccess/Cap/CapHome.aspx?module=Planning&TabName=Planning&TabList=Home%7C0%7CBuilding%7C1%7CHousing%7C2%7CPlanning%7C3%7CFire%7C4%7CLicenses%7C5%7CPublicWorks%7C6%7CCurrentTabIndex%7C3
A strange link to the list of files (I've found it via downloading a file, then going to chrome://downloads, then right-clicking the file I've download. The link has been the following):
https://aca.cityofberkeley.info/CitizenAccess/FileUpload/AttachmentsList.aspx?iframeid=ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_attachmentEdit&module=Planning&isInConfirm=False&isdetail=True&isaccountmanager=False&isAdmin=True&isPeopleDocument=&agencyCode=BERKELEY&isForConditionDocument=N
It still doesn't give the direct link to the file, but it it gives the list of attachement of the previously opened Zoning record.
Currently I have no idea what file is triggered by javascipt:__doPostBack('attachmentList$gdvAttachmentList$ctl02$lnkFileName','').
In any case, based on what we have, step one, and then step two seems like minimize the path to download the file. I guess there could be a way to download the file directly, but I currently don't see any easy way. Maybe someone else could figure it out.
QUESTION B: About video
I've used an embed link that shows all the attributes that can be used.
There is a pretty strange but working way to give the exact timestamp. Change starttime from the link below:
https://berkeley.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=cbebb4e6-5b83-11eb-920e-0050569183fa&starttime=0&stoptime=undefined&autostart=1
So replacing 0 for 3600 will rewind the video forward by one hour (3600 seconds):
https://berkeley.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=cbebb4e6-5b83-11eb-920e-0050569183fa&starttime=3600&stoptime=undefined&autostart=1
The problem here is that ... you cannot rewind back manually that particular hour (it just gets kind cropped out). But it works to show the exact episode.
That's a pretty strange site.
I'm using express-handlebars as my template engine and I have created an 'Article' template. I have 5 articles in total. I need to show the user each article but randomly. How would I create a 'Next' button that could reload the page with a new article?
I have thought of using a cookie in the browser and implementing some sort of array within it to decide the next article to be shown (the array will be randomised).
As with loading the articles, I have thought of creating a new page for each article and then redirecting the user to a random page when the click 'next', but that wouldn't be making much use of the template engine.
I don't have code to show as I'm looking for a concept that would work.
I want the user to open my website, be shown a random article, click next and another article appear. I don't want each user to have the same sequence of articles (obviously with many users this is impossible but I'd like to minimise it).
For 5 articles,
1. track the articles already read by a user via cookies
2. add a query parameter to the article template link like randon=1 so as to respond back with a random article and another parameter not_in=*already read article ids* to exclude these ones.
I'm kind of a beginner to WIX Code. I have this site which I have made i.e www.rat-store.com. I am facing three problems which I know might get solved with some code but I don't know how to do it. Here are the problems:
In manual payment, I need to accept some form input from the user on a page and only if the user agrees to the terms and enters the correct date should the submit button get activated following which an otherwise collapsed image should also reveal (it's the QR code to make payment; Image 1) (www.rat-store.com/manual-pay-rat)
Image 1
I'm trying to link a repeater background to a page but it's not working. I have to create a button inside the repeater to do this. Any workarounds? I know an image will work but the thing is that the motive is to create a kind of a list which will keep on incrementing in the future and I can't just keep on drag-dropping images, text and then group them up and link. (Image 2) (www.rat-store.com/shop-by-events)
Image 2
Since WIX Stores doesn't have an inbuilt cancellation feature I built a form to substitute for the same but I want that no two same order cancellations are submitted i.e. a customer can only submit his/her cancellation request for a particular order number once. The next time s/he tries to do that it should show that the request already exists. (Image 3 and Image 4) (www.rat-store.com/cancel-orders)
Image 3
Image 4
Some help with the code and approach would really be great. I'm almost finished with my site; Only these last few things bother me. I'm attaching a screenshot of each page, serially w.r.t the question number. P.S: The order number is the number generated for each order by the Wix store app itself. I have nothing to do with that. The customer needs to enter his/her number and if that is valid we will process the request. Apologies for the length of the post.
I looked at "Generating HTML Page on the fly" on this website, but most of it was over my head.
I have a 2 part question that I would like assistance with please.
I want to fill a narrow vertical container, <div id=”counter”> with the numbers 1 .. <xx>.
<xx> is determined by the record count of a database, filtered “on-the-fly”, by the user choosing a category (no problem there – I have an SQL background)
Eg. Category1: 1 .. 200
Category2: 1 .. 6
These numbers could change over time, as I want to allow users to add content to the database (vetted of course).
I have viewed a number of website source code pages (of similar ideas eg. Surgicalexam.com), but they have all been hard-coded and are distinct pages per category.
I have created a small website of a similar nature to that, hard-coding all the images and links, but I am looking at 3000+ images (as a starting point here), and they differ per page.
I have created this scenario many times in stand-alone apps and from past experience, I thought perhaps, I could create a javascript routine which would use a loop to
• print the numbers to the <div> using the getelementbyID ( ).
• Fill an array with the record number, a title and an image link.
Question 1: Is this possible or am I beating a “dead horse”?
If it is possible, any suggestions would be gratefully accepted.
Part 2:
My current idea is that, as the user hovers the mouse over any number, a mouseover ( ) event will occur that will read the appropriate array record and display the <title> as a tool-tip-text.
If the user clicks the number, a function (I have yet to write) will read the appropriate array record and attach the image link to an <a> tag, and subsequently display the appropriate image to the screen.
Question 2: repeat of question 1.
I have viewed a number of website source code pages (of similar ideas eg. Surgicalexam.com), but they have all been hard-coded and are distinct pages per category.
Why are you so sure about that? You can't see php-code, because it is executed on the server. There is no way to know if it was hardcoded or by php
Answer:
It is possible.
If I understand this correctly, you want to read some data from a database and if the user clicks / hovers something, you want to load more data?
You have to splitt this into two things:
Load data with PHP from the db (Server side)
If you want a live, visual feedback you need JavaScript (and/or CSS3) to do changes. (Client side)
One possible solution is to create a API with php (maybe REST-like) and then call that api with JavaScript.
You could also do everything with PHP but this will require a reload of the website on every click. PHP cannot do changes On-The-Fly.
First of all you should learn the basics about web development.
And most important: If you decide to learn Web-Programming: learn about security, too. For example things like Cross Site Scripting and SQL-Injection. Never trust data coming from a client (e.g. JavaScript)!
I'm looking to set up a Google Analytics experiment where we test two pages and tack if a user clicks one of a set of links (don't really care which one of the set).
However, the links will all go off-site and I was hoping to avoid adding a redirect somewhere in between.
What I'd love to do is have a bit of javascript that's called and is counted as a 'conversion' in the experiment, that way I could call it any time one of the buttons is pressed. I don't really care which button, just looking to track the total.
I'm testing this with the following code on two page:
Tracked Link
This is supposed to correspond to a goal I set up like this:
So far after three hours (and I've been clicking the link) there are no results howing up in the test.