Forum Activity for @michael

Adds & Banners on Follow Me Skin

Design and Skin Customization

You can use the "Template Name in Source" developer tool to understand which templates control those locations:

Docs: "Developer Tools: Template Name in Source"
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/modules/932/developer-tools#template-name-in-source

hoping for clue with loading chat attached images

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ok, cool, so the url is ok, and the image is ok, great. What we need to figure out is what is interfering with the javascript in his instance that is causing the lightbox to break.

First thoughts:
* Are there any available updates for his phone laptop, if yes, install them.

Is the issue also there if he visits:
https://(YOUR SITE).com/chat/mobile

Can you get him to take a video of it happening with the CONSOLE open (hit F12 and navigate to the CONSOLE tab in chrome or firefox)

Somethings blocking it, just searching for clues as to what that may be.
updated by @michael: 05/26/20 06:40:36PM

An error was encountered loading the media URL

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because its a strange thing to ask:
* "Here is a list of songs to play, some of them don't work."

Why are you asking the player to play a list of songs where some of them don't work.

The default player is JPlayer:
https://www.jplayer.org/latest/demo-02/?theme=0

The adjustment would need to be done by them.

An error was encountered loading the media URL

Using Jamroom

If this is a common issue for you try different hosting. Files should not go bad after they've been uploaded.

A - Z Artist / Profiles page - Audio Pro

Design and Skin Customization

One thing that helped me get started were the developer books by O'Reilly publishing. Really like the way they get straight to the point.

Recommend this one:
Amazon: "Learning Php"
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-PHP-Introduction-Popular-Language-ebook/dp/B01E9LU2BM

Jamroom has a bit more to it than that, but it comes at the problem of: "How do I build a community website and keep it customizable" from the developers perspective.

Wordpress is a bit more focused on making configurations and customizations available in a non-developer setting.

In Jamroom the skins determine what functionality is available to the end user as well as the colors and fonts.

So areas that are useful for studying are:
* php
* html
* css

Thats the bones/skeleton of the system, then customization begins at:
* smarty (which is VERY similar to php, just slightly different syntax)

A - Z Artist / Profiles page - Audio Pro

Design and Skin Customization

Same thing as the ABC's put a link on the column headers with a sort by parameter
That $base_url will be whatever the current url is, but will have the sort_by parameter stripped out of it.

Its better to do that kind of logic stuff in a module on the php side of things before getting to the template in order to keep the templates simpler, but it will work in a template too.

Then you'll need a couple of IF/ELSE to determine whether the link should be DESC or ASC

Docs: Template Blocks
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/module-developer-guide/3126/template-blocks


and use that sort_by in the jrCore_list

Docs: jrCore_list: Order By
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/module-developer-guide/89/jrcore-list#order-by

using the post variable:


updated by @michael: 05/24/20 07:06:42PM

Idea for an option in polls

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You don't care that anybody could build a bot that just cycles their pole choice up to a million while they're sleeping. Turning your poll system into an open invitation to start a DDoS attack on your site?

Guy 1:
* builds a bot to make his and win, sets the amount of votes to 10,000.
* wins

Guy 2:
* didn't win last time, so also build a bot and sets it at 20,000
* wins

Third time you have a battle and instead of your server loading your site for your real visitors it now splits that time between visitors and bots thereby slowing it down for your actual users.

That's not a concern?

hoping for clue with loading chat attached images

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If he uses the 'download' button instead, does that work? or if he right-clicks the image which normally opens in a light-box and chooses "Open in a new tab" does the image show?

If it does show then there is something effecting his javascript which may be a browser issue or it could be a browser plug-in or something related to some sort of extra javascript (perhaps an advert) that shows on the page.

An error was encountered loading the media URL

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We've built a tool to determine if the file exists on the server. Once the the tool is run it marks all the entries in the database that do not have files on the file system so you can delete them.

@metalscore check your CONSOLE to see what the error is. Is it a 404 error or something different.

Files don't go bad except for if there was some issue with the hosting. Which should be very rare and fixed by your hosting company. The most likely cause for need of this tool is if a file failed to upload correctly or the database was moved without the file system.

An error was encountered loading the media URL

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Actually, that's not going to work because the stream_url_error does not have the ID of the audio file that failed with it.

We'll build a tool into the jrAudio module that checks for 404 not found files and adds a flag to them, then you can use that while you're doing something about re-uploading.