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Search for Glory

2008-07-16T02:00:30-08:00

Has anyone tried this online game?

Beside shooting blood everywhere and doing quests for others, talking to monsters that I’ll never find in real life ... I found this game interesting for surviving ( although are lot’s of topics to be covered ).

A difference from Wikipedia ( you only have content ) this game kind of force you to read about topics / ideas / concepts ( learning without knowing it )

Idea of the game: Win credits for solving questions and use the credits to post your own questions for other users to solve!

Take a look around you can find the concept useful for you.

Search for Glory - Develop yourself in a fun way

Question about Related Entries Module

2008-06-09T07:43:07-08:00

Hello there, it’s me again.

I was coding around a particular page of my site when I came across a little problem regarding weblog relationships, and remembered hearing something about Related Entries Module from Solspace.

Problem:

I have a page where I display the latest weblog entry (a review of a game) with it’s Title, Subtitle, Body, etc. This weblog entry is related to another weblog entry (the game itself) using the Relationship custom field. Also, that related weblog entry (the game) is related to many other weblog entries (the platform, genre, company, etc) using the same method.

When I want to display the review, I can only retrieve information of related entries to that particular weblog entry, but I can’t retrieve info from the related entries of that related entry. So I can’t display the platform of the game from that review, for example. Dunno if it makes sense, but anyway.

Would the future Related Entries Module sort this out? Is there any other workaround for this? I haven’t really bothered to investigate much about it, but I’ll try to find a solution while I wait for an answer.

Thanks in advance.

*goes off to eat something*

Friends Module (?)

2008-04-05T11:39:59-08:00

I discovered the planned “Friends Module” in the documentation area.

Now, I wonder what the status of this interesting project is.

Could you give me an idea of the planned release date?

Thank you very much.

MISC

Damn hype…!!!

2008-05-26T18:27:02-08:00

Am I the only one that can’t sleep dreaming about ExpressionEngine 2.0 and all the new modules that Solspace is developing? Argh, time goes by so slow when I’m waiting for something special.

The new CP of EE v2.0 is so f***ing awesome, and I can’t wait to see what new features have been included. But what really catches my attention is the new modules that are waiting to pop out after the new release. Friends, Subscribe, Video and that Related Entires module… uff, need them so badly. I can’t wait to upgrade my site and implement those modules. Just need to figure out how on earth I’m gonna afford all of ‘em.

I think my friends are right when the define me as a workaholic.

*shuts laptop and tries to sleep again*

How should I manage a really HUGE gallery?

2008-05-16T14:03:28-08:00

Hello everybody,

I’m new to EE world and I actually need some guidelines on to how I should deal with my project needs. Instead of writting everything again, I’ll just copy and paste what I posted over at EE’s forum.

I just purchased the commercial license of EE along with the discussion module. I was very happy with everything (relationship between entries, custom fields, etc), all stuff that WordPress doesn’t offer, which is our current “CMS”.

Now, with WordPress there is this plugin which enables my staff to create, batch upload and manage galleries and albums in a very simple way.

Now that we’re moving everything to EE, I’m trying to figure an easy way me and my staff can do the same task. Just so you understand the magnitude of our need, it’s a videogame website and as you can imagine, we need to handle thousands of screenshots. That’s more than four digits there.

Anyway, by what I have seen so far, the gallery module is rather different to what we are used to using.

For example, I can’t find a way to batch upload screenshots. As far as I know, I have to upload them to the batch folder through FTP, and then go adding them one by one to the database. Asking my staff to do this process everytime we recieve new screenshots from the companies is kind of frustrating.

Apart from that, I’m wondering which is the best solution to manage such a high quantity of screenshots. Imagine something like this or this but running on ExpressionEngine. How should I handle this?

Should I create a new Gallery for each Game title, and update it whenever new screenshots come out? Should I use just weblogs? I’m totally lost here. I need an easy and quick way to handle a large amount of images.

I still haven’t explored the other features like watemarking and stuff, but I’m sure that stuff fits into our needs.

If you’re curious to see the site, here’s the actual version running on WordPress and here’s the new version running on ExpressionEngine. I’ve only got part of the index done by now. Still lots of work to do.

After writing that message, I came across this GX module of yours. It sounds a bit like what I was searching for, but I’m really not sure since I haven’t found a complete list of features, how it actually works, screenshots. Only the little info that’s on the main site. I don’t think I want to let my users upload images from the front-end.

What I need is a simple way to batch upload screenshots of a game to a gallery and assign that gallery to a weblog entry (which would be the Game itself, not a post). And also, a simple way to batch edit the uploaded screenshots to add titles, alt tags, batch watermark, etc. I know this may sound like something impossible, but it’s what we was using on our WordPress installation, and it was free. That’s why I’m surprised I can’t find something of equal potential or even better, being EE a professional solution.

Does Gallery Extended module offer in any way what our site needs?

Thanks in advance for your attention.

Tag module or Extended Gallery?

2008-05-16T00:51:50-08:00

Hello, I am checking out the site to see if there is a module or something that can help me out.
I am working on a website for a client. For this client I made a Gallery and its possible to relate the entries with a weblog in a weblog custom field. This works reasonably well, but the list of images that they can choose from will become huge. That is not very user friendly. They also want to be able to relate more then one image to the entry. I think all of this should work in a more user friendly way. Does anyone have an idea if I should do this with the Tag module or the Extended gallery module?

To make it a little more clear what I need I will temporarily open the site.

If you click lees meer in the Funfair category you will find some thumbs. When they click it you go to a detail page with a larger version of the picture and a description that is entered in the weblog. On that page I want my client to be able to have more pictures.

Thans!

Entry Update Notification

2007-11-06T16:58:50-08:00

I noticed docs on this… does it exist?

I’m trying to figure out a way to notify the author of a question when it is answered. Answers are handled via a SAEF. Would this handle it?

Thanks,

Rick

Functionality similar to Solspace’s “Mine” area or section 4 of the website?

2008-03-23T15:56:45-08:00

An unusual request for a project has me thinking it might be something similar to the Solspace Mine section of the site:
http://www.solspace.com/software/mine/
Where customers and also technicians could sign-in and see documents matching items they had purchased for support and installation.
The project doesn’t require the PayPal functionality, the items would need to be manually added to the customer’s profile by the client Admin.
Can anyone help me with what I would need to do to setup something similar, just in terms of the general logic of assigning sets of data to a user, and I guess it would need Member Templates, new to me.
One thing I can think, is I was worried about managing the users, I think now I can see there would only be so many items, and those would need there own set of data to be matched to the customer who purchased them.
I’m sort of new to the whole IA thing, since database implementation baffles me, before EE that is.
thanks for any suggestions.

XML Walk

2007-07-16T15:30:12-08:00

Hmm, just stumbling through the solspace docs and see… XML Walk! Very cool guys! This sounds like something like what I was hoping for out of the FeedGrab plugin.

Any idea when this will be available?

Gotta say that solspace does the most kick-ass, Web 2.0-y plugins for EE. Ahead of the curve my friends.

ExpressionEngine 2.0 compatibility

2008-03-14T11:41:53-08:00

Hi folks.

Does solspace team already working on EE 2.0 compatibility?
http://expressionengine.com/ee2_sneak_preview/
Here I read that

Although third-party add-ons for the 1.x version of ExpressionEngine will not work with 2.0, the changes necessary to make them work are minimal.