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FoulFoot
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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):

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

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

Foul

Enjoy!

copycat
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:16 pm

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

Thanks. Neat function.

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FoulFoot
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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

g026r
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:24 pm

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

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 [acronym="Shit Outta Luck"]SOL[/acronym].

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Blackmoor
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:41 pm

[acronym="That's Great"]TG[/acronym]

[acronym="FoulFoot"]FF[/acronym]

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mbassoc2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:54 pm

[acronym="Rolling on floor laughing my ass off"]ROFLMAO[/acronym]!
Bored with this already, but I'm sure someone'll put it to good use.
[acronym="Just my two cents..."]JM2C[/acronym] [acronym="By the way"]BTW[/acronym].

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

Last edited by mbassoc2003 on Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:59 pm, edited 4 times in total.

Blackmoor
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:55 pm

[acronym="This really works"]TRW[/acronym]

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FoulFoot
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:06 pm

[acronym="I actually considered not even mentioning the 'acronym' code, but figured what the heck. I installed it mainly to explain our somewhat esoteric acronyms to collecting newbies."]Sigh.[/acronym]

mbassoc2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:10 pm

[acronym="Sigh"]S[/acronym].
Having second thoughts yet?
[acronym="Rolling on floor laughing my ass off"]ROFLMAO[/acronym]

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

FoulFoot
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:12 pm

Only when someone manages to make [acronym="5000 posts"]Grandstanding Collector[/acronym] solely through acronym posts.

Foul

g026r
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 4:19 pm

[acronym="That sounds like a challenge."]ORLY?[/acronym]

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simon
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:24 pm

[acronym="laughs out loud"]lol[/acronym] a new toy to play with. [acronym="elite"]l33t[/acronym] speak rules [acronym="in my honest opinion"]imho[/acronym]. [acronym="I'll be right back"]Brb[/acronym] after I have [acronym="resoundingly beaten"]pwned[/acronym] some [acronym="new people to the game/forum"] [acronym="Dawn of War"]DoW[/acronym] noobs[/acronym].

Anyway, enough of my [acronym="I don't have anything to do at the moment so though I would try my hand at this"]precious time[/acronym] has been spent with too much [acronym="fart arsing around"]cutting and pasting[/acronym] to carry on with this so I will [acronym="switch of the computer, get a beer and watch TV"]leave it[/acronym] alone now.

And finally, [acronym="this website is good but not that good. Go outside and get some fresh air. You will feel alot better."]Grandstanding Collector[/acronym]s.

gyg
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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

)

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

grodog
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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??

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mbassoc2003
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:24 pm

[acronym="Is there a limit? By which I mean, is there a limit to the amount of information you can post in the little pop up box? If there were, one would imagine it would be governed by some hexidecimal setting somewhere, so if this message conna cut out a 255 characters? All that aside, one also wonders if you can insert paragraphs and other page stout information into this section. It does pave the way for a really annoying way of structuring mesages on a board. Could you imagine having to read the messages in little pop up windows, while having to keep your mouse hovering over the acronym? Especially seeing as it disappears after five seconds. "]ITAL[/acronym]?
Well there ya go. Answered my own question. Still laughing, but no longer [acronym="Rolling on floor laughing my ass off"]ROFLMAO[/acronym].

This week I've been mostly eating . . . The white ones with the little red flecks in them.

gyg
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:12 am

mbassoc2003 wrote:[acronym="Is there a limit? By which I mean, is there a limit to the amount of information you can post in the little pop up box? If there were, one would imagine it would be governed by some hexidecimal setting somewhere, so if this message conna cut out a 255 characters? All that aside, one also wonders if you can insert paragraphs and other page stout information into this section. It does pave the way for a really annoying way of structuring mesages on a board. Could you imagine having to read the messages in little pop up windows, while having to keep your mouse hovering over the acronym? Especially seeing as it disappears after five seconds. "]ITAL[/acronym]?
Well there ya go. Answered my own question. Still laughing, but no longer [acronym="Rolling on floor laughing my ass off"]ROFLMAO[/acronym].

Took me three goes to read it you irritating sod :lol:

(or should that be ROFLMAO?)

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

Plaag
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:16 am

gyg wrote:Took me three goes to read it you irritating sod (or should that be ROFLMAO?)

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

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FoulFoot
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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

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