Acronyms

Posts: 597 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:11 pm

I added a wonderful new feature to the forums today: certain acronyms, when you hover your mouse over them, will show a popup explanation. The systemwide acronyms I've currently added will be identified by a dashed line under them, such as:

DMG

There's nothing you need to do differently when posting your message; the system will automatically underline the acronym and show the popup on mouseover.

If you want to create your own acronym in a message, use the "acronym" BBCode as follows:

Code:

[acronym="Bulletin Board System"]BBS[/acronym]

Which will then show the following (mouseover to see it):

BBS

You can, of course, make any text you like into an "acronym", such as your own name:

Foul

Enjoy!

Posts: 1347 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:16 pm

Is this a php3 feature? If so, I know some places that need it! Smile

Thanks. Neat function.

Posts: 597 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:18 pm

I don't believe it is (phpBB3). We're running phpBB2 here, and it's an add-on.

One limitation I should mention: the acronym system is case sensitive, so for example "dmg" will not pull up, only "DMG". Unfortunately, there's no way to add case variations, so I had to just pick the most commonly used.

Foul

Posts: 1117 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:24 pm

serleran wrote:

Is this a php3 feature? If so, I know some places that need it! Smile

Thanks. Neat function.

If you want to use it somewhere else and they don't have it added in, you can still do it if they have HTML enabled on their posts.

Use <acronym title="text">what you want to acronym</acronym>

If they don't enable HTML, then you're SOL. Wink

Posts: 2130 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:41 pm

TG

FF

Smile

Posts: 2525 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:54 pm

ROFLMAO!
Bored with this already, but I'm sure someone'll put it to good use.
JM2C BTW.

Posts: 2130 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:55 pm

TRW

Posts: 597 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:06 pm

Sigh.

Posts: 2525 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:10 pm

S.
Having second thoughts yet?
ROFLMAO

Posts: 597 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:12 pm

Only when someone manages to make Grandstanding Collector solely through acronym posts.

Foul

Posts: 1117 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:19 pm

ORLY?

Posts: 105 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:24 pm

lol a new toy to play with. l33t speak rules imho. Brb after I have pwned some DoW noobs. Razz

Anyway, enough of my precious time has been spent with too much cutting and pasting to carry on with this so I will leave it alone now.

And finally, Grandstanding Collectors.

Posts: 1291 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:52 pm

I'm just trying to ignore it, hoping it will go away (Though Blackmoor deserves points for getting acronyms in for FF & TG Very Happy

)

Posts: 2938 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:04 pm

Scott---

Are the acronyms stored only in that post, or does the site permanently recognize them and store them in a db or somesuch??

Posts: 2525 · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:24 pm

ITAL?
Well there ya go. Answered my own question. Still laughing, but no longer ROFLMAO.

Posts: 1291 · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:12 am

mbassoc2003 wrote:

ITAL?
Well there ya go. Answered my own question. Still laughing, but no longer ROFLMAO.

Took me three goes to read it you irritating sod Laughing

(or should that be ROFLMAO?) Very Happy

Posts: 3189 · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:16 am

gyg wrote:

Took me three goes to read it you irritating sod Laughing

(or should that be ROFLMAO?) Very Happy

You can always just quote that message and read it without having to keep moving the mouse over. Wink

ShaneG.

Posts: 597 · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:58 am

grodog wrote:

Scott---

Are the acronyms stored only in that post, or does the site permanently recognize them and store them in a db or somesuch??

Nope, it's only for that post. The forum-wide acronyms are set by me.

Foul

Posts: 2938 · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:50 pm

Do you have a list of the forum-wide ones available, so that we check them out, see if any are missing, etc.?

Posts: 597 · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:26 pm

Nope, you'll have to discover them on your own. Smile

Foul