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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 11:06 AM

  Could someone write-up a short tutorial on creating a plugin for Xanthia?
  
  I am looking for something that I can pass it variables from the theme and have it return an image with a link built from the variables, sort of like the topic icon but a different image.
  
  
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• Topiatic
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 12:33 PM

  Have a look at the 'Example' modules plugin for adminlinks, it should give you a very good idea of how to do what you need to do... should be very simple.
  
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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 02:00 PM

  Will do, thanks!
  
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 18, 2006 - 08:14 PM

  Mike,
  
  Also take a look at the smarty documentation on plugins. The only two plugin types you'll likely write are template functions and modifiers.
  
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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 02:49 AM

  Ok thanks to both so far, now I have one more question..
  How would I get the sites fully qualified URL from within a plugin?
  IE http://www.postnuke.com
  
  
  
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• markwest
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 04:28 AM

  Mike,
  
  Use the API pnGetBaseURL. For use in templates there is the equivalent template tag .
  
  

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  <!--[pngetbaseurl]-->

  
  
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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 06:53 AM

  Thanks Mark!
  Working out nicely, I am creating a Digg This Article Plugin for news articles.
  If I get it working cleanly then I am also going to do it for SlashDot too.
  
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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 08:55 AM

  Ok next newbie question.
  I have to urlencode all of the inputs, I have gotten all of them to encode EXCEPT the URL I have to pass, the relevant code is below
  
  

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  $baseid = pnGetBaseURL();
      $baseid .= "index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=";
      $baseid .= $articleid;
      $baseid = rawurlencode($baseid);

  
  
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 12:36 PM

  Would this help:
  

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  $baseid = pnGetBaseURL() . "index.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=" . $info[sid];

  
  Then, I;m not using Short-URLs, so i wouldn't know what happens what the output will be when using short-urls.

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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 03:14 PM

  I'm not having a problem with the variables for the plugin, the OUTPUT of the plugin needs to be urlencoded so the entire URL can be passed in the URL for the submit.
  
  
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  Posted: Sep 19, 2006 - 03:35 PM

  Oh, I thought you were having trouble building the URL..
  On this plugin thing for Digg This for WordPress: http://www.seoegghead.com/blog/seo/how-to-get-dugg-digg-for-wordpress-plugin-p113.html
  
  They're using urlencode and not rawurlencode.
  
  I could be wrong though, just trying to help ;)

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• MMaynard
  
  

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  Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 01:04 AM

  I tried urlencode as well, it is just this part that isn't encoding..
  And it is driving me insane... lol
  
  
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  Posted: Sep 20, 2006 - 01:35 PM

  Maybe you should be using XHTML symbols rather than ?(?) and &(&)?
  
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  Posted: Nov 19, 2006 - 03:23 AM

  I posted a possible solution for a digg-it button here
  
  
  
  edited by: come, Nov 19, 2006 - 04:31 PM

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