"Bookmark This Thread" hack

[Moonwolf]

Another one of those minor hacks that are so minor it's embarassing to say it's a hack at all.

Open showthread template

Find:

</head>

Insert Above:

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
var bookmarkurl="http://your.domain.here$REQUEST_URI"
var bookmarktitle="$threadtitle"
function addbookmark(){
if (document.all) {
  window.external.AddFavorite(window.location.href,document.title);
  } else {
  alert("Use Ctrl-D to add a bookmark in Netscape Navigator.");
  }
}
</script>

Note you need to replace "http://your.domain.here" with the URL to your domain -itself-, not to the forums.

e.g. Forums on http://www.underlight.com

Code will read:

var bookmarkurl="http://www.underlight.com$REQUEST_URI"

The $REQUEST_URI part will fill in the path and variables to the thread you're book marking.

Then, in the showthread template, find:

<smallfont><img src="images/sendtofriend.gif" border="0"> <a href="sendtofriend.php?threadid=$threadid">Email This Page to Someone!</a></smallfont>

Add below:

<br>
<smallfont><IMG SRC="images/bookmark.gif" BORDER=0>  <a href="javascript:addbookmark()">Click to here bookmark this thread!</a></smallfont>

Upload a bookmark icon, and you're all set.

Kath

[Edited by Moonwolf on 06-07-2000 at 10:19 AM]

[Joe]

You may want to change this:

<br>
<smallfont><IMG SRC="images/bookmark.gif" BORDER=0>  <a href="javascript:addbookmark()">Click to here bookmark this thread!</a></smallfont>

to this:

<br>
<smallfont><IMG SRC="images/bookmark.gif" BORDER=0>  <a href="javascript:addbookmark()">Click here to bookmark this thread!</a></smallfont>

Happy Day

Thanks for the hacks Moonwolf.

[Craig A]

huh ? What's the difference ?

[Joe]

Click to here bookmark this thread! should be Click here to bookmark this thread!. Nothing big, but it just reads a bit better... dont think you so?

[Craig A]

Oh! I was looking VERY carefully at the code...

[thetakerfan]

great job with this one, never saw this before.
Works great, incredibly easy, and quite useful

[eva2000]

hehe another great addition... at this rate i don't think vbulletin forums will look like vbulletins.. lol

[phumphries]

Love it. Is there a variable to insert the domain automatically? My users are on an Intranet and some, due to configuration errors beyond my control, have to access the site by its IP address while others use its name.

[phumphries]

Actually, I looked at the code a little more closely, and the bookmarkurl and bookmarktitle variables are not being used. So, the actual URL is already being inserted.

I eliminated the bookmarkurl variable and changed:

window.external.AddFavorite(window.location.href,document.title);

to

window.external.AddFavorite(window.location.href,bookmarktitle);

so that the shorter Thread Title is used.

In looking around, I also found another JavaScript to display a message instead of a link for non IE users:

<br><smallfont><IMG SRC="images/bookmark.gif" BORDER=0>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
  if ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4)) {
    var url=window.location.href;
    var title="$threadtitle";
    document.write('<A HREF="javascript:window.ext');
    document.write('ernal.AddFavorite(url,title);" ');
    document.write('onMouseOver=" window.status=');
    document.write("'Bookmark this thread!'; return true ");
    document.write('"onMouseOut=" window.status=');
    document.write("' '; return true ");
    document.write('">Click here to bookmark this thread!</a>');
  } else {
    var msg = "Bookmark this thread!";
    if(navigator.appName == "Netscape") msg += "  (CTRL-D)";
    document.write(msg);
  }
</script></smallfont>

Just stick this between the "Send E-mail" and "Printable" links.

Now, I have to decide which I like better. Argh! Decisions!!

[Edited by phumphries on 07-31-2000 at 11:42 AM]

[thetakerfan]

nice job phumphries.
But, I don't use text, just the img, so the non IE users will just have to figure it out themselves...
but then again, I'm just testing the board out, so I'll figure something out for those damned NS users later.
I just HATE that 7% of people that use NS.

[phumphries]

What would we need "if" statements for if there where only IE users?

[thetakerfan]

good point. If it wasn't for all the wonderful NS users out there, we would never have to deal with all the cross-browser compatibility issues, and all the formatting errors, etc. Now WHAT would the world be like without all of that???
Thank goodness for NS, thats all I have to say!

[datman99]

Works like a charm....Thanks

[monica]

Hi ,

I carefully checked my "showthread template". I didn't find any
"send this link to a friend" in the code. Where do I insert this
Bookmark image. Plz help

[MUG]

As you may notice, this thread is two years old. That may explain it.... (vB 1.1 was out at the time)