Captcha & IMG tag & Lack of Acronym

[Jbugman]

Hello All,

Well, I was expecting more from the update, although at the end of the date, its not supposed to be a feature released update. My problems/concerns

1. Captcha - Its still highly weak IMHO, putting the graphic behind it doesnt really help. I was expecting more of a twisting letters like the google one. Its not hard to do and do safely.

2. Lack of Acronym manager - Now I thought this would have been included, especially as you have some very public customers whom I sure this would have been a handy feature. Also, if you have changed all your preg_match I would have thought it would have been easier to include

3. IMG tag - Doesnt seem to resize the incoming image, and still no option to allow images from your own domain which are dynamic. Any chance of adding in the extra filter for this?

Apart from this, its a lovely update and shows just how nice IPB is compared to VB.

One last thing, what is the super-duper feature that IPB expects all competitors to copy or am I just really blind (forgive me, only 2 hours of sleep and back to work!)

J

[UBERHOST.NET]

One last thing, what is the super-duper feature that IPB expects all competitors to copy...

THE PRICING! :lol:

Actually, it was the Personal Portal to which Matt was referring. But then, he probably said that on just two hours of sleep, lol.

[ErwinB]

2. Lack of Acronym manager - Now I thought this would have been included, especially as you have some very public customers whom I sure this would have been a handy feature. Also, if you have changed all your preg_match I would have thought it would have been easier to include

You can add a custom BBcode for that...

[Darksbane]

You can add a custom BBcode for that...

What the heck is an Acronym manager?

[ErwinB]

I don't really understand what he means by an "Acronym Manager", but to define an acronym in a post you can use a custom BBcode, so I don't think a new feature is needed.

[Jbugman]

Hello All,

Ah, ok, I have not experienced the portal as I don't use it, never mind.

With regards to the acronym, I am not sure what your getting at. If a user posts say the words "Welcome to IPB", I want the user to be able to mouse over the words IPB and up pops a box saying "Invision Power Board". I do not want the user to have to put in something like [ definition ] IPB [/ definition ] for it to work (which is what bbcode is?)

Thanks

J

[tzrtim]

they was saying portal as in the profile page is now new and is really a portal profile :P Check a profile and see it for yourself.

[Jbugman]

Oh I see...... neat although not the wow factor I was expecting, sorry!

J

[RobertMidd]

Hello All,

Well, I was expecting more from the update, although at the end of the date, its not supposed to be a feature released update. My problems/concerns

1. Captcha - Its still highly weak IMHO, putting the graphic behind it doesnt really help. I was expecting more of a twisting letters like the google one. Its not hard to do and do safely.

See my sig for the Captcha's I have made for IPB2.1.x.

Are these any good (especially the GD2 enhanced).

The GD2 enhanced uses random value for each character of the original code to give the font size, angle, pos x, pos y, font colo(u)r.
Each charachter of the code is also shadowed (to give 3D effect) with random offsets of the values used in the original code to give the angle, pos x, pos y, font colo(u)r
The speckled overlay uses random colo(u)rs as does the lines that are overlayed.

[beeman]

Hello All,

Ah, ok, I have not experienced the portal as I don't use it, never mind.

With regards to the acronym, I am not sure what your getting at. If a user posts say the words "Welcome to IPB", I want the user to be able to mouse over the words IPB and up pops a box saying "Invision Power Board". I do not want the user to have to put in something like [ definition ] IPB [/ definition ] for it to work (which is what bbcode is?)

Thanks

J

what you want then sounds like exactly what the bad words filter dose (enter a word and it changes it to whatever you tell it to change to) not 100% sure if <a or [url tags can bee used in the bad word replace but if it can then you have all you need :D

[Mat Barrie]

what you want then sounds like exactly what the bad words filter dose (enter a word and it changes it to whatever you tell it to change to) not 100% sure if

It can in fact be used in the badword filter :)

I tried by making a BBCode, "defn", with option enabled. Replace with "<acronym title='{option}'>{content}</acronym>" - so you could enter "[defn=Invision Board]IPB[/defn]" and it would replace it with the widely accepted Acronym tag. In the badword filter, you could then replace "IPB" with that example and it would work.

Unfortunately, you DO have to create the BBCode in the exact format I did, because IPB refuses to parse BBCode where content is before option in the replacement. So it does look rather counter-intuitive.

[ErwinB]

I still think the easyer way is to add a custom BBdoce. It's pretty easy to do.

[Jbugman]

I have actually found two mods that combined together to do what I want, its just a shame that its not in the main core set of IPB.

Never mind!

J