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Posted by: DravenOn 2004/1/6 19:31:03 6093 reads

I'm pleased to announce the launch of http://www.fantasyref.com, a fantasy sports site featuring football, baseball, basketball, racing, hockey, fantasy leagues and more. Fantasyref.com is part of the http://www.FantasyAsylum.com group of companies.

This was a complete switch from their previous CMS(E-xoops), to the new Xoops 2.0.5 branch. It features news, articles and forum discussions related to fantasy sports. Custom blocks were designed for the homepage to give FantasyRef a unique appearance from the standard Xoops look.

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Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Draven Published 01/07/2004 16:57 Module Developer Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 337

No feedback?

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

loukaum Published 01/07/2004 18:05 Just popping in Joined 11/02/2003 Comments 93

Man, you have nice themes there! Congrats!!!

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

svaha Published 01/07/2004 18:35 Just can't stay away Joined 08/02/2003 Comments 896

Great site. I especially like the tabbed menu on top, where you give lots of info on a small spot.
Did you do that with script in a block?
It's fantastic.
Also going further into the archive, the presentation of the archived articles is great.
Aloha
Svaha

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Draven Published 01/07/2004 18:47 Module Developer Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 337

Quote:

Did you do that with script in a block?

Yep. I just made a custom block for WFsections with some layers and javascript to change the content based on the tab selected.

I'm going to be creating a block similar to this for the news module. Should be in the next release.

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

hsalazar Published 01/07/2004 18:56 Just popping in Joined 02/06/2003 Comments 78

Draven:

As usual, you left us all with our mouths open. Congratulations on another superb site.

Cheers.

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

svaha Published 01/07/2004 18:59 Just can't stay away Joined 08/02/2003 Comments 896

That's what I call good 'news'
Have a psychotic day too.

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

studioC Published 01/07/2004 19:12 Friend of XOOPS Joined 12/07/2003 Comments 922

hello draven, ..
it#s great ... as expected ...

have a look at that css from the ipboard. styles like a, a:hover show {text-decoration:underline;} while displaying ../modules/ipboard...

again, .. it#s great.

michael

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Draven Published 01/07/2004 20:09 Module Developer Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 337

Quote:

have a look at that css from the ipboard. styles like a, a:hover show {text-decoration:underline;} while displaying ../modules/ipboard...

Ah, in the left nav. Thanks for pointing that out.

Cheers!

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

DobePhat Published 01/07/2004 22:17 Friend of XOOPS Joined 04/15/2003 Comments 656

KUDOS ONCE AGAIN!

Are those Forums by topic blocks or by category?
I can see how to do by category...but I can't figure out by topics...do you know what DB fetch to run for forum by topic block? (hehe)

well any rate-Awesome site once again.....
Just curious, how is it in other browsers? I used to be layer crazy before I realized how messed up my site would get...but that was like a year ago....

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Mithrandir Published 01/08/2004 16:04 XOOPS is my life! Joined 06/21/2003 Comments 6320

FanTAStic, Draven.

Gotta teach me how to do those things

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Draven Published 01/08/2004 16:44 Module Developer Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 337

Quote:

Are those Forums by topic blocks or by category?
I can see how to do by category...but I can't figure out by topics...do you know what DB fetch to run for forum by topic block? (hehe)

Well the first thing I'll note is that I'm using IPB for FR.

Here is the block I created for the forum list on the homepage.

[NOTE: I didn't make this block editable, so the forum ID's are hard coded, but you can easily add an edit funtion to do this if you wanted].

FUNCTION
Quote:

function ipboard_hlist_show($options) {

$db =& Database::getInstance();

// Hockey section
$sql = $db->query("SELECT tid, title, views, posts, forum_id FROM ".$db->prefix('ipb_topics')." WHERE forum_id = 4 ORDER BY last_post DESC",5,0);
while ($result = $db->fetchArray($sql)) {
$block["hockey"][] = $result;
}

// Baseball section
$sql = $db->query("SELECT tid, title, views, posts, forum_id FROM ".$db->prefix('ipb_topics')." WHERE forum_id = 2 ORDER BY last_post DESC",5,0);
while ($result = $db->fetchArray($sql)) {
$block["baseball"][] = $result;
}

// Racing section
$sql = $db->query("SELECT tid, title, views, posts, forum_id FROM ".$db->prefix('ipb_topics')." WHERE forum_id = 5 ORDER BY last_post DESC",5,0);
while ($result = $db->fetchArray($sql)) {
$block["racing"][] = $result;
}

// Basketball section
$sql = $db->query("SELECT tid, title, views, posts, forum_id FROM ".$db->prefix('ipb_topics')." WHERE forum_id = 3 ORDER BY last_post DESC",5,0);
while ($result = $db->fetchArray($sql)) {
$block["basketball"][] = $result;
}

return $block;
}

TEMPLATE:
Quote:

<{section name=ind loop=$block.hockey}>
<{assign var="hockey" value=$block.hockey}>

<{/section}>

Topics View Posts

<{$hockey[ind].title}> <{$hockey[ind].posts}> <{$hockey[ind].views}>

<{section name=ind loop=$block.baseball}>
<{assign var="baseball" value=$block.baseball}>

<{/section}>

Topics View Posts

<{$baseball[ind].title}> <{$baseball[ind].posts}> <{$baseball[ind].views}>

<{section name=ind loop=$block.racing}>
<{assign var="racing" value=$block.racing}>

<{/section}>

Topics View Posts

<{$racing[ind].title}> <{$racing[ind].posts}> <{$racing[ind].views}>

<{section name=ind loop=$block.basketball}>
<{assign var="basketball" value=$block.basketball}>

<{/section}>

Topics View Posts

<{$basketball[ind].title}> <{$basketball[ind].posts}> <{$basketball[ind].views}>

Obviously this block isn't really made for distribution, but rather specifically for this site. But if you want to hack it you can make it work for anything you need. None-the-less, you can atleast see how it was done. It's really quite a simpe block.

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

DobePhat Published 01/08/2004 17:03 Friend of XOOPS Joined 04/15/2003 Comments 656

Thanks Once again for taking the time out to share this stuff....

Hmm...I'll be looking into it. Thank You!

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Mithrandir Published 01/08/2004 17:11 XOOPS is my life! Joined 06/21/2003 Comments 6320

One question to the forum block, though:
Why aren't the color for e.g. baseball the same in the block as in the menu?

Re: FantasyRef.com launches new Xoops site

Draven Published 01/08/2004 17:27 Module Developer Joined 05/28/2003 Comments 337

Laziness. Actually, no reason. I just didn't notice I failed to match them up.

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