Using [HELP] from other modules

[gary.brain]

Hi guys, most likely a simple "no" but was just wondering if it was possible to code in the [help] feature used by a self created module.

What I am looking for is having the ablility to tags words in a self coded cmps style module but use the window popup for the key word from the [help] wiki.

Any way great tool, lots of work to get the content filled

Best Regards

G

[pegasus]

If you want to modify the autolink output, you can take a look at vault/special_plugins_autolink.php. For a quick alternative output, you can create a plugin that runs on hook bbcode_fetch_tags with the following condition:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'ajax' AND $_POST['do'] == 'autolink')

You will need to print the XML output before the end of your plugin. Since you only want to do this for HELP tags, you probably also want to check that the

$threadinfo['namespaceid'] == HELP_SPACE

[gary.brain]

thanks for the reply and I will have a look.

The goal is to have little ? icons next to database search results or table/graph output that has nothing todo with forum threads.

Time to read some more.



G.

[gary.brain]

Hi again, been trying to get this to work but not sure how it all fits together.

I dont want to change the look and feel of the help autolink, what I need to find out is the commands to hook into the code. Here is an example.

I have written a CMPS module that greps data from a file, I then use this data to produce the output. If a certain value / condition is true I then want to link this to a Help Wiki entry.

I can manual do the following where I know the autolink span value but was wondering if/how to use a function line bbcode_fetch_tags('error code 1') where "error code 1" is a wiki:help page.

<? foreach ($cf_name as $k => $v)
				{?>
				<tr>
					<td class='bcheader' width='200'><? echo $v; ?> : </td>
					<td class='bctext'><? echo trim($cf_status[$k]) != 'Ready' ? '<span id=\"autolink_12_15_1\" ><a href=\'\' class=\'\' style=\'color:red\'>Warning : </a></span>' . $cf_status[$k] : '<span style=\'color:darkgreen\'>'.$cf_status[$k].'</span>'; ?></td>
				</tr>
				<?} }?>

I am not a developer at heart and just dabling so forgive me if I am not using the correct wording.

Best Regards

G.

[gary.brain]

Hi, I have been playing around and now completly lost.

My goal is to create an icon on a page that pulls the wiki:help entry like you would if you were on a post.

I cheated by taking the source code for the span as I can't seem to figure out if its possible to use the hook. (im not a developer (I prefer reading packet captures)) so forgive me if I seem to be talking nonsunse.

What I would like todo if possible is to take an icon, create a href around it and then use a function/hook to call the specific help page .e.g. gethelp("help page name").

I dont want to change any of the look and feel and it is perfect, but just tying to find an easier way to code it into the php pages.

Best Regards

Gary

[pegasus]

Okay, what I originally thought you wanted was to make the hover popup for links to Help articles show something other than the Help content. It sounds more like you want to link to a Help page from another static page that doesn't use the BB-Code parser.

For using the popup, it seems like you are already halfway there with the span. You also need to add the following near the footer of the page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/special_autolink.js"></script>

[gary.brain]

Spot on, that seems to have got it, just need to work out why its 100% across the page but I think I am missing the CSS that controls it.

thanks.

G

[pegasus]

In your module's plugin code, add the following line:

$show['special_css'] = true;