DMOZ 'Open Directory Project' Module for PHP-Nuke

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by Polo
...i like your dmoz module... did you made it?

Yes and no! I'm in the process of VinDSL'ifying one, as 'they' say. I've been thinking about making a DMOZ module for PHP-Nuke for quite a while. This has been attempted several times by others, but nobody ever seems to get it right.

What I've done is combine several other works and put them together in one cohesive WORKING package, using various techniques. The core program is phpODP 1.5a:

http://www.bie.no/products/phpodp/

This is the program I started with:

http://www.bie.no/products/phpodp/phpodp.zip

And, merged it with:

http://www.internetintl.com/dwodp.php

And:

http://www.musiquall.com/odp/odp.rar

Here is the result:

http://www.lenon.com/modules.php?name=ODP

My contribution to 'the project', other than making it work correctly by patching the code, is to have designed a center-block and hack the 'meta.php' file in PHP-Nuke to force a switch to 'charset=UTF-8' when viewing phpODP pages, instead of using 'charset=iso-8859-1' like the rest of PHP-Nuke. This allows 'foreign' character sets to display properly.

As far as I know, I have the only fully functional DMOZ module in Nukedom...

[Oldfrog]

I missed this somehow. Congratulation's Vin! (this from a guy that couldn't spell PHP a month ago, still has never written any, but has managed to figure out enough about certain scripts to edit them a very little) I pretty much figured that I had learned my last language but the more I see of this the more interesting it looks.

Also, from the way you described the process you did make it, out of parts that didn't work, but you figured out how to make them. Somehow I hadn't gotten the idea that modesty was going to be one of your character traits. Guess that I was wrong.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by Oldfrog
...from the way you described the process you did make it, out of parts that didn't work, but you figured out how to make them...

That's the good thing and bad thing about PHP. Since it's a scripting language, a lot of the time there is only one way to do something. Once someone figures it out, everyone else uses the same code; and that's the good thing about PHP. The problem is figuring out how to do it right in the first place.

I don't know how many ppl have tried this in the past, but I know it's not for want of trying. As far as I can tell, I've got the only 100% functional PHP-Nuke Open Directory Project module out there. I'll run it for a while to make sure, then release it.

Whatta ya think? VinODP? The VinDSL Project? Open Directory DSL?

Hahaha! Is that more like it?

[luchtzakje]

That's cool Vin DSL, where can I download it?

greetz,

Bart

[Vin DSL]

I haven't released it yet, Bart. I'm still playing around with the code...

If you want to roll your own, you can get the various pieces at the links in my first post.

[Oldfrog]

Whatta ya think?

What I think is that the

I'll run it for a while to make sure

makes you a whole lot smarter than a lot of other folks I've seen who might actually have had something if they had thoroughly checked it first.

Congratulations, again!

[luchtzakje]

Look who got his own Open Directory Project DMOZ?

http://www.luchtzak.be/Open_Directory.php?

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by luchtzakje
Look who got his own Open Directory Project DMOZ?

http://www.luchtzak.be/Open_Directory.php?

I'm getting a 'blank' page, Bart...

[luchtzakje]

Seems to be a glitch.

Now it seems to work.

[jason]

Stilll blank for me...

--Jason

[Spathiphyllum]

luchtzakje, your project (http://www.luchtzak.be/Open_Directory.php?) is coming in loud and clear in Tejas.

[Vin DSL]

Originally posted by jason
Stilll blank for me...

--Jason

Dittos!

[luchtzakje]

Originally posted by Vin DSL
Dittos!

Well sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I think it depends on www.dmoz.org ...

[jason]

Originally posted by luchtzakje
Well sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I think it depends on www.dmoz.org ...

Well, we're making some progress. This time I see the navbar and page headers, but instead of ODP categories I see

Warning: fopen(): Circular redirect, aborting. in /home/luchtzak/public_html/Open_Directory.php on line 92

Warning: fopen(http://dmoz.org): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/luchtzak/public_html/Open_Directory.php on line 92

Warning: file(): Circular redirect, aborting. in /home/luchtzak/public_html/Open_Directory.php on line 93

Warning: file(http://dmoz.org): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/luchtzak/public_html/Open_Directory.php on line 93

Warning: join(): Bad arguments. in /home/luchtzak/public_html/Open_Directory.php on line 93

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/luchtzak/public_html/Open_Directory.php on line 94

Don't you just love trying to get distributed apps working?

--Jason

[Vin DSL]

Heh! Tricky little sucker, isn't it?

I spent 3 weeks, off 'n' on, getting the 'page title' to work right...