Forum Styles

[Sam_Spoon]

I'm looking for a little help apending Proboards forums into the forum_styles file so I can perform a thread suck.
What language is that file written in? PHP?
FYI, the format is as follows:
http://tscelebs.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=newsreaders&action=display&thread=13291&page=45

[cybormatt]

Sam,
You are the first to ask about this. The file is written in XML with embedded javascript. Basically, you're telling IHG how the URLs of the forum should look for each page that it is going to suck. I'll get back to you on an appropriate entry for this. I never built a front-end editor (like I did for the host file), so you'll have to put it in manually

[Sam_Spoon]

I did look inside the file in the hope that there would be a entry similar enough to the Proboards url that I could do it myself. But all the existing entries are different enough to confound a non-coder like myself.

Thanks again for your time, Matt. Much appreciated.

[cybormatt]

Sam, thankfully, the proboards is very similar to vBulletin style used here on DS. Don't worry too much about the coding part. Most of it is actually understanding regular expressions and using them to find the patterns. I have concocted the following entry:

<forum id="ProBoards">
<urlpattern>http:\/\/.+\/index\.cgi\?.*thread=[0-9]*</urlpattern>
<searchpattern><![CDATA[function(threadURL) {
return threadURL.match(/http:\/\/.+\/index\.cgi\?.*thread=[0-9]*/) + "&page=" + linkIndex;
}]]></searchpattern>
</forum>

I don't have an account on this forum, so I can not test it. You will have to add it and let me know if it works. If it does, I will add it to the next release for everyone to use.

[Sam_Spoon]

I'm running a test as we speak and so far, so good. If you were a woman I'd give you a kiss but since you're not, please accept a manly handshake and slap on the back instead!

[cybormatt]

Okay good... a handshake and a slap on the back will do. I will add it to the next release :)