SMF 2.0 Beta 3 Public Released!
Author: JayBachatero17 Mar
The wait is finally over. The first public beta of SMF 2.0 is here!
Simple Machines is extremely proud to announce the long awaited release of the first public beta of SMF 2.0… View the link for the full announcement.
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How to use your MDA as a modem for your laptop via Bluetooth.
Author: JayBachatero16 Mar
For quite some time now, I’ve been trying to use my MDA as a modem for my laptop with Vista, for when I’m not home. Last night I was able to figure it out. It’s pretty easy to do. Your laptop needs to have bluetooth device enabled and paired with the phone. Here are the steps to get this working correctly.
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How to use the SMF user system outside of SMF
Author: JayBachatero22 Feb
I wrote this article a while back for the doc site.
Call SSI.php before anything else.
How do I show a login/logout form?
How do I redirect users after they login/logout?
How do I restrict access to certain areas of my pages?
Extras
Hooking the SMF user system with external applications is a common issue people have. This document will help explain how to accomplish this. The first thing you will need to do is change the files that you are going to implement this on into php files. So if you have a .html or .htm extension proceding the filename of the file, rename the file with the extension at the end being .php. The reason for this is so that the php content can get parsed as php and not as html. You may ask yourself: By doing this, will it have any effects on my current page? Well the answer is no. Everything will show just the way it did before.
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Java Snippets
Author: JayBachatero31 Jan
Since I’m back to school and taking my 3rd semester of Java, I’ll have to write lots of small programs. I decided to post them here. Who knows. Maybe they will be useful to some.
New Laptop
Author: JayBachatero31 Jan
Recently my laptop has been acting up. It’s been getting real hot. The temperature is averaging 65C. So I went ahead and contacted Dell support. Told them the issue and they didn’t ask too much questions. They just asked for address and are going to send me another laptop in a few days. Seems like I’m going to have to install Ubuntu again and struggle getting WiFi to work on it. Last time that I tried to get it to work, it was a mission to do but I was able to get it working.
Well That’s all for now. I’ll post an update when I get the new one. Maybe I get lucky and it comes with another OS that is not Vista Basic.
How to recount posts for members in SMF.
Author: JayBachatero28 Jan
Something that members ask from time to time is for a way to recount the total posts for their member. A while back I wrote a small script to do this. To prevent the script from overloading the server it’s done in small steps. It still needs some work but here it is. Hope it comes in handy to some.
Recount User Posts File Download
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 | < ?php // Load SSI.php require_once('SSI.php'); // Turn this on. error_reporting(E_ALL); // Are we allowed in here? isAllowedTo('admin_forum'); $_REQUEST['start'] = !isset($_REQUEST['start']) ? '0' : (int) $_REQUEST['start']; // Header step and footer. show_header(); // Check if it exists. if (!empty($_REQUEST['start']) || (empty($_REQUEST['start']) && isset($_REQUEST['recount']))) recount(); elseif (isset($_GET['start']) && $_GET['start'] != -1) // Give a link to start echo ' <h2><a href="', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], '?recount;start=0">Start Post Recount</a>'; // Footeeerr. show_footer(); function recount() { global $db_prefix; while (true) { // Only run this query if we don't have the total. if (!isset($_SESSION['totalMembers'])) { $request = db_query(" SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT m.ID_MEMBER) FROM ({$db_prefix}messages AS m, {$db_prefix}boards AS b) WHERE m.ID_MEMBER != 0 AND b.countPosts = 0 AND m.ID_BOARD = b.ID_BOARD", __FILE__, __LINE__); list ($_SESSION['totalMembers']) = mysql_fetch_row($request); mysql_free_result($request); $_SESSION['recountedMembers'] = 0; } // Lets get the members and their post counts. // Make sure that we only get boards that have posts count enabled. // !!! On a big board 200 might be a bit to high to count. $request = db_query(" SELECT m.ID_MEMBER, COUNT(m.ID_MEMBER) AS posts FROM ({$db_prefix}messages AS m, {$db_prefix}boards AS b) WHERE m.ID_MEMBER != 0 AND b.countPosts = 0 AND m.ID_BOARD = b.ID_BOARD GROUP BY m.ID_MEMBER LIMIT $_REQUEST[start], 200", __FILE__, __LINE__); $total_rows = mysql_num_rows($request); $_SESSION['recountedMembers'] += $total_rows * 200; // Get all the results and assign the correct value. while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($request)) db_query(" UPDATE {$db_prefix}members SET posts = $row[posts] WHERE ID_MEMBER = $row[ID_MEMBER]", __FILE__, __LINE__); $_GET['start'] += 200; if ($total_rows < 200) $_GET['start'] = -1; nextStep(); } } function show_header() { global $steps, $timestart; if (isset($_SESSION['totalMembers']) && !empty($_GET['start'])) { $timestart = time(); $total_members = isset($_SESSION['totalMembers']) ? $_SESSION['totalMembers'] : 0; $fake_start = $_GET['start'] + 200 >= $total_members ? $total_members : $_GET['start'] + 2; $percent = round(100 / $total_members * $fake_start, 2); } echo '< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>SMF Member Posts Recount</title> <style type="text/css"><!-- body { background-color: #E5E5E5; margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 10pt; } #header { font-weight: bold; font-size: 200%; } #content { background-color: #CECED7; border: 1px solid #8B9AAA; padding: 2px; } #footer { font-size: 12px; text-align: right; font-style: italic; } #container { width: 50%; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; } h2 { margin: 0; margin-top: 0.5ex; margin-bottom: 0.5ex; padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom: 1px dashed black; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; } h3 { margin: 0; margin-bottom: 2ex; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; } input { margin: 2px; } .status_bar_border { height: 20px; width: 450px; background: #ffffff; border: 1px solid silver; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; padding-right: 4px; text-align: right; } .status_bar { height: 16px; margin: 2px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-align: right; } .bg1 { background: #3dc0df; } .bg2 { background: #C9DDEC; } .percent { text-align: right; color: #000; font-weight: bold; padding-bottom: 5px; } .codebox { background-color: #cccccc; font: normal 10px "Courier New", monospace; border: solid 1px black; padding: 5px; white-space: nowrap; overflow: auto; width: 95%; } --></style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> SMF Member Posts Recount </div> <div id="content">'; if (!empty($total_members)) echo ' <h2>Recount Status</h2> <h3 style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; font-weight: bold;">Overall Process</h3> <div class="status_bar_border"> <div class="status_bar bg1" style="width: ', $percent, '%; white-space: nowrap;">', $percent, '% (', $fake_start, ' out of ', $total_members, ' members) </div> </div>'; if (isset($percent) && $percent == 100 || isset($_GET['start']) && $_GET['start'] == -1) echo ' <h1>Recount Complete</h1>'; } function show_footer() { echo ' </div> <div id="footer"> <a href="http://jaybachatero.com">JayBachatero.com</a> </div> </div> </body> </html>'; } function nextStep($step = null) { global $timestart; @set_time_limit(300); if (function_exists('apache_reset_timeout')) apache_reset_timeout(); echo ' <h2 style="margin-top: 2ex;">Recount Paused!</h2> <h3>This recount has paused to avoid server overload.</h3> <form action="', $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], '?start=', $_GET['start'], '" method="post" name="auto_submit"> <div align="right" style="margin: 1ex;"><input name="timer" type="submit" value="Continue" /></div> </form> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- // -->< ![CDATA[ window.onload = autoSubmit; var countdown = 3; function autoSubmit() { if (countdown == 0) document.auto_submit.submit(); else if (countdown == -1) return; document.auto_submit.timer.value = "Continue (" + countdown + ")"; countdown--; setTimeout("autoSubmit();", 1000); } // ]]></script>'; show_footer(); exit; } ? > |
Simple Machines Forum Releases SMF 2.0 Beta 2
Author: JayBachatero20 Jan
Simple Machines Forum is pleased to announce that the second beta of SMF 2.0. This release includes many new features such as
*Added paid subscription feature
*Added search engine tracking
*Numerous improvements to the WYSIWYG editor
-Click article to read more about the feature updates.
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GreaseMonkey Script — Go to next field UIBO website.
Author: JayBachatero30 Oct
I got tired of having to press tab each time when I enter my SS number in the Unemployment Insurance Benefits Online website so I made this GreaseMonkey script. I’m not so good in JS but it gets the job done. I’m pretty sure it can be written better.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 | // ==UserScript== // @name Unemployment Insurance Benefits Online by JayBachatero // @namespace http://www.jaybachatero.com // @description Go to next field when entering ssn. // @include https://ui.labor.state.ny.us/UBC/home.do // @version 1.0 // ==/UserScript== // The name of the fields we are going to look for. var ssn_fields = new Array( ['ILoginForm.SSN1_KEY', 3], ['ILoginForm.SSN2_KEY', 2], ['ILoginForm.SSN3_KEY', 4] ); // Current field. var current_field = 0; function goToNextField() { // Stop right there. if (current_field > 2) return; // Field properties. var id = ssn_fields[current_field][0]; var field_properties = document.getElementById(id); // Current value. var current_value = field_properties.value.length; // Check the current field. if (current_value == ssn_fields[current_field][1]) { // Increase the current_field current_field = current_field >= 2 ? 2 : current_field + 1; // Move to the next field. document.getElementById(ssn_fields[current_field][0]).focus(); } // Only if the current field is not the last one. setTimeout(goToNextField, 500); } // Start it. setTimeout(goToNextField, 1000); |
Where have I been?
Author: JayBachatero9 Jul
Wow it’s been a while since I write here. A lot has happened in the past few months. I started my first semester in college in January. It went ok I guess. I’m majoring in Computer Programming. I also got myself a laptop. I got a Dell Inspiron 1501. It’s pretty good.
The only and best thing that happened since my last post was that I went on vacation to D.R. (Dominican Republic) after having three years w/o going. I enjoyed my self out there. It was great. Lots of drinking and what not. I didn’t even want to come back.
(Un)fortunately With my trip to D.R. I became less attached to the PC. Seems like I’ve lost lots of interest in Programming and PC related stuff. One of the biggest things that I’ve lost interest is in SMF. As some of you may have noticed I barely post there. All I do is lurk from time to time. I myself don’t know the exact reasons for the lost of interest. There are many factors affecting me there ATM. I’m still trying to decide what to do. Also my current job is taking a lot of time away from me so that is affecting me as well as far as being on online and so on. I come home too tired to code. So this has me looking for a new job. I’m trying to find a job that’s programming related. The current one is not even remotely close to it.
I started working on rewriting BuyTickets123.com. I’m slowly working on that as well but since there is no motivation its taking me longer than usual to get things done.
Well thats it for now I guess. I’m just trying to get myself back together and get that motivation and time to do what I once loved and enjoyed doing…
Introducing SMF 2.0
Author: JayBachatero8 Apr
Simple Machines is proud to announce that the next version of SMF will be version 2.0 – in recognition of the scale of the changes implemented since SMF 1.1. As well as adding new features such as a WYSIWYG editor and custom profile fields, SMF 2.0 makes considerable changes “under the hood” with improved caching and database abstraction….
