Display Testing Ground

Test out your ability to post pictures, flash animations, and such in this thread.

This will probably have a lot of jibberish as people try to figure out to do things in the forum.

rowson_initiative.pgn
embedCfBasic("3162603632", "100%", "350", "pgnurl=bd_knight/rowson_initiative.pgn&orientation=horizontal&tabmode=false", "", "");

I think the following chess flash display may work here:

I'll post instructions sometime in the next week on how to do this.

What's your version of phpbb and forumactif ?

Maybe i can help, i will install the same forum version with easy php on my PC and give you back the modified files if i succeed.

I have a mod that does [pgn]... pgn text ...[/pgn]

HangingKing: I think I finally figured it out. I had to unclick 'disable html in this post' and 'disable BBCode in this post' at the bottom of the reply editor. Also, users may need to go to their profile and under preferences make sure to set 'Always allow BBCode' and 'Always allow HTML' to 'Yes.'

Also, I had to change an admin setting to accept html in posts.

There is a trick for displaying FEN also, without integrating fancy flash or java.
The forum supports censure i think ?

So if you replace
[fen]* by <img width=200 src="http://things.thingmajig.org/mfen/mfen.php?fen=
and [/fen] by ">

You will have this :

HK: that is very cool!!!

And i think you can apply the same principle with [pgn]* and [/pgn] and replace with all the stuff of your flash header.

The user has to copy only the pgn between the bbcode tags.

Let me try.

[pgn][ECO "D08"]
[Annotator "Rowson and Shereshevsky"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[TimeControl "120+12"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. a3 Nc6 5. e3 dxe3 6.Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Bxe3 Nxe5 8. Nf3 Nxf3+ 9. gxf3 Be6 10. Nc3 Kc8 11. O-O-O Nf6 12. Ne4 Nd7 13. Ng5 Bd6 14. Nxe6 fxe6 15. Bh3 Re8 16. Rhe1 a5 [/pgn]

You can use flashviewer in a less computationally expensive way, so it only shows the board when you click it (though it doesn't seem to be working right now):

(show chess board)(hide chess board)

So normally if in the censure you replace

[pgn]* by the long string below

<div><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://chessflash.com/releases/latest/ChessFlash.swf" width="100%" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://chessflash.com/releases/latest/ChessFlash.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value='orientation=H&tabmode=true&light=f4f4fF&dark=0072b9&bordertext=494949&headerforeground=ffffff&mtforeground=000000&mtvariations=FF0000&mtmainline=000000&mtbackground=ffffff&pgndata="

and [/pgn] by this one

'"/></object></div>

It should work.
I do not know how the censure is working on forumactif, but it should not be more different than phphBB standard.

I just tested on my forum, not working. The censure doesn't understand, the string is too complicated.

Sorry, but basically this is the idea.

HangingKing wrote:I just tested on my forum, not working. The censure doesn't understand, the string is too complicated.

Sorry, but basically this is the idea.

Oh well. The flash viewer seems good on its own. I just posted on how to post using the chessflash site. Sweet!

Admin advice, do not allow every html tag, since it can become a security issue.
In the admin panel if you can, allow only the tags you need : <img>, <div> and <object>

It only gives me the general option of allowing html in posts, not of picking which tags. Forumotion assures me they take measures to ensure security. Let's hope they are right.