Hi from Cupper

[amused]

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As it makes changes to every post that contains a quote, and stores those changes in the DB, it is not uninstallable. If we every needed to remove it, it would permenantly fuck up ever post on the forum that contained a quote.

This is what I've never understood about forum software. The programs always mix presentation with content in the database. That seems so ass backwards after learning CSS and the importance of keeping presentation out of the HTML. Why does forum software do that?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

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As it makes changes to every post that contains a quote, and stores those changes in the DB, it is not uninstallable. If we every needed to remove it, it would permenantly fuck up ever post on the forum that contained a quote.

This is what I've never understood about forum software. The programs always mix presentation with content in the database. That seems so ass backwards after learning CSS and the importance of keeping presentation out of the HTML. Why does forum software do that?

I am guessing back-compatibility with databases created in versions of the board software that predate CSS.

[Svartalf]

Kindly point to the scientific paper that shows that bears can detect necessary minerals in plants without taste being involved. I would love to read it. How do they tell otherwise? Can they hear the minerals in the horsetails? Or is this some hitherto unknown ursine ESP?

My money is still on the sense of taste.

It might not be so much the minerals being a taste component than a sense of well being after eating the plant?
and no, that's just launching an unfounded hypothesis, not trying to support a theory.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Kindly point to the scientific paper that shows that bears can detect necessary minerals in plants without taste being involved. I would love to read it. How do they tell otherwise? Can they hear the minerals in the horsetails? Or is this some hitherto unknown ursine ESP?

My money is still on the sense of taste.

It might not be so much the minerals being a taste component than a sense of well being after eating the plant?
and no, that's just launching an unfounded hypothesis, not trying to support a theory.

But they would need to have some way of telling the difference between identical plants that would or wouldn't give this sense of well-being, surely?

Plus, even if they simply remember the locations of the equisetums that "make them feel good", that "feeling good" can still be best explained as an evolved response and not as a conspiracy by inorganic minerals to make bears eat them for the greater good of the planet!

[FBM]

I have to wonder if cupper3 was expecting the Spanish Inquisition right from his very own welcome thread? Still with us, cupper3?

[Pappa]

Works for me.

Do you mean the multiquote thing or the linkback mod?

The multiquote.

(I use prosilver)

I was talking about the linkback mod.

[cupper3]

I think the trick is to manually locate the cursor at the end of each quoted post by clicking there just outside the quote tag, then hit return to move it down a line, then hit the next quote button, repeat.

The cursor was outside the quote tag. I just repeated the exercise, making sure of it. Same result.

Another thing I like about vBulletin is that clicking on the quotes automatically takes you to the post where it was lifted from. Some time ago administrators tried to mod this forum to do the same thing, but messed it up. It is possible to do, though. At Rational Skepticism that function works flawlessly.

Unlike RS, we have the Subsilver theme available to our members, and the linkback mod doesn't work with that theme. Also, the mod is no longer supported by the developer who created it, so any software update could theoretically cripple it permenantly. As it makes changes to every post that contains a quote, and stores those changes in the DB, it is not uninstallable. If we every needed to remove it, it would permenantly fuck up ever post on the forum that contained a quote.

I found the answer at http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... #p12971487... someone asked for a mod and apparently it is built in.

Now, how does one best wrap URL tags around a word... like this without having to manually edit the code?

Works for me.


PS - cupper, there is a URL tag button in the header of the post dialogue window. Google BBcode to see how to work it different ways.[/quote]

I understand how it works (been playing at coding HTML since 1995) but the question was how to invoke the link function without having to manually edit it so only the text, rather than the URL, show.

[Azathoth]

Code: Select all

[url]http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php[/url] 
[url=http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php]rationalia[/url] 

return

http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php

and

rationalia

respectively

[cupper3]

Code: Select all

[url]http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php[/url] 
[url=http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php]rationalia[/url] 

return

http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php

and

rationalia

respectively

Yes, I know how to do that manually.

What I am asking is if I highlight a text section, and then press the URL button in the editor, I will only get this

I then would have to manually edit it to get this result.

In vBulletin, all I have to do is highlight the text, and paste in whatever URL I copied.

Do you see what I am trying to get at?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Generally, PHP is not as computer friendly as vbulletin.

[hadespussercats]

Code: Select all

[url]http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php[/url] 
[url=http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php]rationalia[/url] 

return

http://rationalia.com/forum/index.php

and

rationalia

respectively

Yes, I know how to do that manually.

What I am asking is if I highlight a text section, and then press the URL button in the editor, I will only get this

I then would have to manually edit it to get this result.

In vBulletin, all I have to do is highlight the text, and paste in whatever URL I copied.

Do you see what I am trying to get at?

I know what you mean. I find it a bit of a drag, too.

[cupper3]

Generally, PHP is not as computer friendly as vbulletin.

vBulletin is written in PHP, so that should not be the issue.

I guess one has to get used to the way phpBB does things.

[Mallardz]

If you're still taking greetings....
Hi!
That is all.

[rachelbean]

Zilla calls PhpBB, PHP

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Zilla calls PhpBB, PHP

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