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Post by nunubutt »

Hm...they way i see it, if we were to implament all these features, we hvae have a whole new program hehehe

***Hm...the way i see it, if we were to implement all these features, we have a whole new program hehehe***

Are u refering to me with that Dictionary? :D
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Post by Plasma2002b »

lmao..... a little hint there, ryan?
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hehe..

nunubutt: Sorry that you had to the butt of that joke -- I've been waiting impatiently to bust out that dictionary on someone. :)

[ not my idea, either, I saw it used on another forum somewhere.. but I'm thinking I may have to adopt it as a standard reply for those who earn it.. ]
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Post by fuuucckkers »

I agree with what everyone has been saying.

In the words of Star Trek caption Picard:

"Make it so."

(That is to Mark and Ryan) :wink:
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Post by nybbles »

How about an away message for each person. For example, an extra note for one person, but not for everybody else.
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Post by Anthony »

maybe this could be done the same way as the away msg that does not show up in the profile... You would just use the %n to figure out who the person is and what away msg they get. (or maybe it would not work at all..)
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Post by Michael »

That would be possible, but would almost require some sort of scripting, like with an IF-ELSE statement.

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if %n == ScreenName1 then
     { away message }
else
     if %n == ScreenName2 then
          { away message }
     else
          { away message }
Something like that. It would be kind of complicated...
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I just did this!

Post by metal fan 49 »

It's funny that this is here now, cause just today I wrote a javascript that sends a message to specifc people. It works by attaching the user's screen name to a link with the %n control, then uses javascript to parse out the screen name. This screen name is then used in a switch statement that has a case block for all the people I want to respond too. I also wrote a little replace function that fixes screen names that have spaces in them that would screw up the switch statement.

In profile or wherever-

<a href=thepage.html?name=%n>My message to you!</a>


This goes on the webpage-

<script language="javascript" src="talk.js">
</script>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
var hst = document.location;
var myString= "" + hst;
myString=myString.substring(myString.lastIndexOf('=')+1,myString.length);
talkTo(myString);
self.close();
</SCRIPT>


talk.js-

function replace(theString, replace, replaceWith){

while(theString.indexOf(replace)!=-1)
theString=theString.substring(0,theString.indexOf(replace))+replaceWith+theString.substring(theString.indexOf(replace)+replace.length,theString.length);

return theString;

}


function talkTo(myString){

myString=replace(myString, "%2520", " "); //I have a bunch of these because what it replaces the space with doesn't seem to be constant across different computers for some reason
myString=replace(myString, "%20", " ");
myString=replace(myString, "%25", " ");


switch (myString.toUpperCase()){
case "GIRLFRIEND":
alert("Hey baby, I love you!")
break;
case "PARENTS":
alert("At the library")
break;
default : alert("I don\'t have anything written for this username, but let me know and I'll add ya!");
}
}


This works well, but the only thing bad is that people can read the messages I want to give to other people if they have half a brain and just realize to manually add the name to the end of the URL. Oh well.
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Post by SeKtOr »

i would love this feature :D
i know c++ and those if-elses... java im learning and not tooo sure
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Post by metal fan 49 »

I re-wrote the script, this time in PERL so it can be used as a CGI and open inside the buddy info window.

The link in the away message should be-

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<a href="http://yourperlserver.com/cgi-bin/message.cgi?%n" target="_self">Click here!</a>
And the perl script-

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl

$screenname= $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};

$screenname =~ s/%2520/ /gi;
$screenname =~ s/%25/ /gi;
$screenname =~ s/%20/ /gi;

$screenname = uc $screenname;
$message= 'I don\'t have anything written for this name, but let me know and I\'ll add ya!';

if($screenname eq 'METALFAN49')
{
  $message= 'Hi Me! I guess I have got a working PERL CGI!';
}
if($screenname eq 'GIRLFRIEND') 
{
$message = 'Hey baby, why don\'t you meet me Billy\'s house?.';
}
if($screenname eq 'PARENT') 
{
$message = 'College is fun and the studying is going great!.';
}

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

print <<EndOfHTML;
<html>
<body>
$message
</body>
</html>

EndOfHTML

This is good if you have a server that you can use PERL on. You can add more stuff to the html part to add color and whatnot if you want to. Was a fun lil' project to learn some perl to write cgi's :D
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