BBInsertBar

hutstein · May 2006

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BBInsertBar

[-Stash-] · March 2007

You can use the BBCodeParser with this extension as well. Also, there's a bunch of changes and improvements to this extension as it looks like it's been abandoned...

Would be good to get this improved...

Edit 2007-05-10_15-41: I've hacked together a bunch of the changes mentioned above into an unofficial 0.1.9 - this *still* doesn't fix the JS/IE issues, but it does make it a whole hell of a lot lighter on your pages.

circuit · May 2007

stash,

you might remember helping me out by adding a youtube button to the bbinsertbar.

the only problem is,

1. it doesn't work when switched over to html. the code seems to generate <youtube></youtube> tags, when (i think) it needs to generate <video type="youtube">video id</video> (i will try test this out)

2. i would quite like to add support for google video. apparently the HTML code for this is <video type="google">docid</video> ...i assume it wouldn't be hard to add that, and the BBCode equivalent.

3. finally... how about a button that generates a link to an MP3 file? this would work wonderfully with dplayer.

i have just tried FCKeditor, but it really is too heavy and fancy. i like the simplicity of BBInsertBar, and safari users seem to have reasonably good luck with it.

skube · June 2007

So how does one go about adding a youtube button the bbinsertbar?
Edit: As mentioned, grabbing the un-official 0.1.9.zip above takes care of this, now I just have to figure out how to add others such as Google, MetaCafe, etc.

liquidguy · June 2007

So if anyone's interested I've basically completely rewritten the JS in this plugin to get it working in IE. I haven't *fully* tested it, but so far it's working in IE6, FF, Safari, Opera.

skube · June 2007

Will it work with the un-official 0.1.9?

liquidguy · June 2007

Yes, I built it using 0.1.9.

I'm going to work on it some more today. I've got most of the JS set, but I also want to re-format the markup it uses. Basically, none if it is unobtrusive, and there's a lot of overhead on it. My goal is to make it as lean as possible.

I'll keep you updated.

liquidguy · June 2007

*phew*, that took a bit longer than I thought. Ok, let's call this unofficial version 0.2, shall we?

BBInsertBar v0.2

New Thangs:

Completely re-written Javascript functions
Works in both BBEdit/HTML mode
Confirmed working in:
- Firefox 2.x
- Camino 1.5
- Safari 2.x
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explorer 7
Now prompt-free! Replaced the annoying prompt popups with a much easier-on-the-eyes overlay
Image button now shows you a live preview of your image before you post.

Things yet to do:

I'd like to clean up the HTML further, but I didn't have enough time...
The color bar formats weirdly in both IE's. It's still usable, but doesn't look as nice as FF/Safari.
I didn't test this with smilies on. Can someone double-check?
YouTube option still a no go. I'll take a closer look if there's enough need for it.

rayk · June 2007

Hmm I still can't seem to get it to work in IE, when you click on the buttons in menu it just takes you to top of page and does nothing. Using BBCodeParser 1.0.2 with this. And it's damn brocken in Opera too:

rayk · June 2007

Okay, 0.1.9 Works with IE if user ticks BBcode button. Anyone know how to remove text and bbcode options and just set it to BBcode by default? Thanks :)!

[-Stash-] · June 2007

For the video stuff - now that JQMedia is here, we should ditch it from the insert bars IMO ;) Or perhaps even just have the video button popup a message saying "Just paste the link in and the video will be inserted as if by magic" or something equally silly ;)

rayk · June 2007

It would be cool if there was a feature to change font size - at least 4 levels or so. Guess fixing JS in IE comes first huh?

liquidguy · June 2007

Okay, 0.1.9 Works with IE if user ticks BBcode button. Anyone know how to remove text and bbcode options and just set it to BBcode by default? Thanks :)!

Um, well yes the very definition of text mode is that BBCode is disabled :P.

The buttons should be hidden when in text mode.

And... I don't think I'll support Opera. It's too niche.

[-Stash-] · June 2007

<pimp>Just use JQuery for the JS and then pretty much all browsers are supported ;)</pimp>

liquidguy · June 2007

No thanks, I'd rather not depend on yet another bloated library. But that's personal opinion, I'm sure.
Plus, the Opera bug looks like CSS, not JS.

[-Stash-] · June 2007

Not come across an opera CSS bug for a while - there's probably a better way of doing it that works for all.

liquidguy · June 2007

Well you've goated me into it. I just tried it on Opera 9.21, and it renders and works fine.

[-Stash-] · June 2007

;) Nice work. I shall try and take a look at this a little later...

circuit · July 2007

stash (or someone else); can you explain in plain english how we could add support for all media using either BBInsertBar or BBInsertBar with JQMedia? being able to add media from many sites, and add mp3s with Dplayer, would be incredibly cool.

circuit · July 2007

just tried BBInsertBar v0.2 with firefox 2.0.0.4 and nothing happened when clicking any of the buttons. reverted back to 0.19.

rayk · July 2007

Yeah the v0.2 fork is broken I think.

[-Stash-] · July 2007

With JQMedia enabled you should simply have to paste the URL of the media in and it should display nicely. If it doesn't, then we need to find out why.

Since JQMedia exists, I think it would make sense to put the effort into making it perfect (or as close to as possible) rather than wasting time adding the same kind of functionality to umpteen different extensions.

ChadFenwick · July 2007

Yes, I seem to be having a minor difficulty with this extension. Now its installed and showing up on the comments but when I click the buttons it will only enter the letters, no []'s or /'s. When I press the bold button only bb shows up, not [b][/b]. Also, a few of the buttons will not work at all. Such as center, left align, right align and a few others. EDIT: Okay, now none of the buttons work at all, doesn't do a thing... Doh! Any solutions? Thanks!

[-Stash-] · August 2007

It sounds like something's horribly broken.

I'd definitely disable the extension, then delete the folder. Download a fresh copy, extract it, upload it and then enable it.

Also, which version are you using? OS? Browser? URL for us to go and take a look ourselves?

ChadFenwick · August 2007

Well I did that a couple times, but it still happened. But I found one that works... The ForcedBBCode extension seems to be the only one that works for me. All the other BBCode ones would not show the []'s for some reason. It might be the Parser itself, not quite sure. But since I have this one working now I'm fine. I just wanted a nice bar for people to use. Thanks... But for your curiosity I was using the latest Vanilla and Windows XP, Firefox.

[-Stash-] · August 2007

I didn't ask about the versions you were using out of curiosity! But anyway, I'm glad you've found a solution that worked for you.

[-Stash-] · September 2007

If you want to use the unofficial BBInsertBar 0.2, I think I've figured out why it doesn't work for some people. I think it's conflicting with the JQuery extension, and if it's activated AFTER JQuery, it stops working. If it's activated BEFORE JQuery (and other JQ extensions) it works just fine thanks ;)

klip · October 2007

I think there is a bug in BBInsertBar in default.php on line 48.

$result = mysql_query("SELECT DefaultFormatType FROM LUM_User WHERE UserID = '".$this->Context->Session->UserID."'");

AFAIK this should be

$result = mysql_query("SELECT DefaultFormatType FROM ".$this->Context->Configuration['DATABASE_TABLE_PREFIX']."User WHERE UserID = '".$this->Context->Session->UserID."'");

if database table prefix is not 'LUM_' it causes mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in .../extensions/BBInsertBar/default.php on line 49

Nehallyn · November 2007

Yes, I also have this problem. Just pops up a warning. Everything seems to work, though.

I changed my tables to 'LUM_' to solve the issue.

monstr · November 2007

hm somehow the inofficial 2.0 doesn't work for me. when i click a button, it simply jumps back to the top of the page.
does anybody know how to fix that?

monstr · November 2007

okay, i disabled some extensions. now some buttons don't link to the top of the page and insert stuff like "bb" and "ii"
this is really weird. i hope anybody knows how to fix that, i'd really like to use the unofficial 2.0 :/

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