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Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

I found that I was making mention of a lot of people that my friends back home wouldn't know. At first I was simply describing them in my posts, but then I realized it was a wast of effort.

So I made a people hack - the admin interface lets you add/edit/delete people's bios. There is a variable in the config file to toggle on and off topic parsing. When the post/comment is parsed, it searches for people's names you have added - and turns the name into a link automatically. The link opens a window including the bio.

The bio information isn't parsed for anything, so it can hold HTML code as well.

It's very simple, but it does the job. You can see it in effect http://www.redpointlife.com/joseph/ and you can download the relevant files from http://www.redpointlife.com/joseph/b2people.zip

hellhound · Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Posts: 38

link dead? Sad

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Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

Sorry - should be fixed now.

Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

Just realized that this topic doesn't really have a very good description of the functionality.

So I made some screenshots.

This is a shot of the admin interface as you first see it. You can get to this by clicking on the "People" link this mod adds to the menu at the top.

This is a shot of the screen you get when you "Edit" a person. Note, right after you add a name to your list of people, you are taken to the editing screen for that person.

This last shot is a shot of the window that pops up when you click on a person's name. Pretty straight forward I think.

Oh yeah, and all these thumbs and images were uploaded using this hack.

Tank · Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 37 Location: Filthydelphia

that's a dope hack and useful for so many things. thanks!

evelyne · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 11:33 am Post subject: Trouble getting it worked

I'm having trouble to get it done. Don't know where I went wrong. Possibly I have to CHMOD some of the files or something to another value? The administration of this peoplehack is working, but the linking when posting isn't working. Someone know where to look?

Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

It doesn't sound like a CHMOD problem. Are you sure you completed all the steps - especially

evelyne · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:02 pm Post subject: problem found

I found the problem, the code shouldn't be inserted after line 239 but after line 293

evelyne · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 3:04 pm Post subject: problem found 2

think it's better not to talk in linecode.
The first line has to be insterted somewhere within the function:
function the_content($more_link_text='(more...)', $stripteaser=0, $more_file='') {
}

and the second one between:

function comment_text() {

}

Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

I assume it's working then?

Good point about the line code - I'll update my download when I get the chance.

evelyne · Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2002 5:33 pm Post subject: working

yes, it's working. You can see it in action at http://www.veel-in-een.nl and http://www.ejzonjee.nl, both in Dutch

Garfizh · Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 28

This error is found in the admin page of People:
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /u/web/wizard/b2peopleadmin.php on line 111

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /u/web/wizard/b2peopleadmin.php on line 132

What could possibly be wrong here?

This one is in my blog:
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /u/web/wizard/b2-include/b2functions.php on line 280

Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

Garfizh, it's dying on the following query:

CHECK TABLE b2people

which means you probably don't have permission to do a CHECK on your host. You can rectify this, by simply doing the following;

Visit: http://www.mysite.com/b2/b2peopleadmin.php?action=install

Then comment out lines 109-111 which should be

Jessabelle · Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 3 Location: Portland, ME

I was going through the "readme" file to see what to do after adding all the names into the mod, and for some reason I'm not finding the file "b2menutop.txt" which in the readme file it says:

"b2menutop.txt
added
3 b2peopleadmin.php People after line 3"

I'm wondering if I'm just misunderstanding the instructions? or if I'm not doing something right?
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Joseph · Joined: 28 Oct 2002 Posts: 27 Location: Waterloo, Canada

It's a file that b2 installs - it's in your b2-include subfolder