Another feature implemented... Player profile links

[Taco John]

TJ Edit: Found a bug... No worries.. yet... read on...







Hey all...

What do Al Wilson, Chris Watton, and Josh Scobey have in common?

Beats me... But all of them have their profiles automatically linked when their full names are typed in here at the Mane...

I've spent the better part of the day working on adding this feature to the Mane, making it so that when players who are either on the Broncos roster, or are among the top in their conference in just about every measurable stat have their name typed in, it is automatically linked to the NFL.com player database, giving readers yet another frame of reference on who is being discussed...

While not every name is linked, a good number of them are...

It should be a great education tool that will come in handy for discussions around here... Just another way to make the Orange Mane posters the most knowledgable in the league...

[TheNextStep]

Now THAT is a cool feature, TJ...

Just to test it out:

Marcus Nash

[Blueflame]

Now THAT is a cool feature, TJ...

Just to test it out:

Marcus Nash

Perhaps Todd Marijuanavich.... or Darrell Russell...

[Taco John]

Nice try...


There is a little bug that I just found out about that seems to affect the board... I am trying to figure out how to get it fixed, because it's a pretty serious bug...

Everyone has probably noticed that if you hold your mouse over a thread title, you get a quick summary of the thread... Apparently, this new feature affects that summary by completley screwing up the thread title on the threads screen. (don't know if that made any sense... It's late and I'm losing my bearing...

I'll figure out what to do later... In the mean time, mods, if you see a thread title jaked because of this, simply edit the post by dropping a "fixing this" at the top of the post, and then hit the enter button about 8 or so times...

Ugh...

[Taco John]

Dammit dammit dammit...

This may not work at all... It turns out if you use the players full name in the thread title, it links to the NFL database, but not to the thread that the poster just submitted...

*augh!*

[Taco John]

ok... I turned off the thread preview feature so the board isn't completely disrupted... At least until I figure out what to do...

Ugh... Damn I hate being the one to find the new bugs...

[Taco John]

Jake Delhomme

[Taco John]

Trent Green

[Taco John]

Who is better, Peyton Manning or Steve McNair?

[Taco John]

cool.

[Blueflame]

Yes... very, very cool.

[Taco John]

There's a problem though... If you use one of these names to start a thread (ie. Jake Plummer says to the media, blah blah blah), it doesn't link to the thread properly...

And if you use the name in the middle of the thread title, it links to the thread at the beginning of the line, but once it gets to the player's name in the middle of the thread, it links to the database, AND stops linking the rest of the thread...

Hopefully this is something that can be fixed...

[Taco John]

ugh...

[TheNextStep]

Perhaps Brian Griese.... or Daryl Gardener...

Hey, no fair! Why does it work for Blueflame but not for me?

[baja]

jake plummer