My little dream... how to proceed?
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:52 am
Okay, I'd like to design a tool to interface with message boards.
Here's what I imagine:
Someone loads a local html file. This slaps a frame to the top of the pages. The frame has a text area, and a main button, and maybe some radio buttons for settings and sub buttons.
When at a reply page, like this one, the quote data already in the textarea is loaded into the text area of the frame. It may be parsed a bit.
the user types into the frame's textbox, and pushes a button. This text is parsed for special codes such as :hugegrin: and these get replaced with matching [IMG] codes to a private image host... this will allow custom smiley codes
Then the parsed text is sent to the text area in the main body of the browser, ready to be submitted.
The http and support files are local.
This little http should be small and eaily ported to any machine, to be opened, to jump to said message board, and auto-add the smilies.
In its most complex form, the http would open a file in the same directory called EmoCodes.txt, and load a list of :: keywords and be ready to swap them for [img] the matching tags. EmoCodes.txt would just be a set of keywords and picture locations. There might even be a button to add a new keyword and file location, right on the form.
A friend said PHP was the language to learn. I know some C and some Basic.
How does this little miracle occur?
Here's what I imagine:
Someone loads a local html file. This slaps a frame to the top of the pages. The frame has a text area, and a main button, and maybe some radio buttons for settings and sub buttons.
When at a reply page, like this one, the quote data already in the textarea is loaded into the text area of the frame. It may be parsed a bit.
the user types into the frame's textbox, and pushes a button. This text is parsed for special codes such as :hugegrin: and these get replaced with matching [IMG] codes to a private image host... this will allow custom smiley codes
The http and support files are local.
This little http should be small and eaily ported to any machine, to be opened, to jump to said message board, and auto-add the smilies.
In its most complex form, the http would open a file in the same directory called EmoCodes.txt, and load a list of :: keywords and be ready to swap them for [img] the matching tags. EmoCodes.txt would just be a set of keywords and picture locations. There might even be a button to add a new keyword and file location, right on the form.
A friend said PHP was the language to learn. I know some C and some Basic.
How does this little miracle occur?