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papa: I guess from what you’re saying your developing the site on a local machine & want it available out on the net?

The problem with doing that (as you’ve found) is that the name of your computer is different in different places. This isn’t helped by redirecting through a frameset. If you set your server in WP options to “localhost” it works for you but not anywhere else, if you change it to your servername it’ll break for you.

Your options are to upload your site somewhere else (i.e. paid hosting) or to get a domain name to actual point at your computer (try dynamic dns sites, e.g. https://www.no-ip.com or https://www.dyndns.org ).

With one of those you can put that whatever dynamic DNS name you come up with in your server name and it’ll work from there (as long as you’re online, although there is a way around that). You can still put your frameset around to hide the real domain.

Hope that makes some sense.

lisa: It just looks like a standard “comment” plugin for the ask a question bit. The list of questions/answers are just put together on the blog into posts & style appropriately.

Basically: Allow people to send in questions whenever they want as comments (e.g. to your email) and then post answers on the blog on a daily/weekly basis.

At least thats what I think is going on!

Updated again (yawn)

Now includes support for IRC online status (all networks).

Really should stop working on this now.

According to this page you need to add the following code…

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>

…into the functions.php in your theme directory.

Hope that helps,

I can see the time showing up (under the title of the comment).

Can you be more specific about what’s wrong?

You just need to put code like:

<?php your_function_name(); ?>

In your sidebar where you want it to appear. The function name is whatever function in your plugin generates the output. If you haven’t got one (i.e. your “content” is in a variable) just do a dummy function to echo it out.

Hope that helps.

filosofo: If you’re wanting to allow people to extend a form you need a few basic steps.

Firstly, take the form element name & append a number, e.g. name=”qualification1″. For each added qualification increment that number – so you’ll end up with a list of form elements like 1 to X.

When the form is submitted you can then do a loop through the returned form until you hit a blank (i.e. the end of the array).


$x=1;
while($_POST{'qualification' . $x}!='') { $qualifications[$x]=$_POST{'qualification'.$x};
}
$options['qualifications']=$qualifications;

Haven’t checked the code, but that *should* give you an array of qualifications. You can should be able to save this data with update_option as normal (apparently WordPress will serialise arrays automatically, although I’ve not tried it).

Test this with a sample HTML form you’ve built up yourself.

Incidentally, it’s not really AJAX if you’re just adding extra fields to a form. Well… you could do it that way, but you’d be better off with some simple Javascript.

Hope that helps,

IM Online has been updated!

Now includes non-widget support for those of you who don’t want them. Degrades gracefully between both systems as you switch them on/off.

Quick a knack to this, might even write a tutorial. Hm.

Feedback please ??

I’d suspect that the “Executable PHP Widget” would allow you enter PHP code into a Widget on your sidebar and do all sorts of fantastic (dangerous) things!

Not sure what you’re asking there Robin, but to use widgets on your blog you need the Widget plugin and a compatible theme.

As mentioned I am working on a non-widget version (which will work on all WordPress blogs) and hopefully that won’t take too long!

Updated with support for Skype.

Thanks for the feedback folks.

Updated with a layout bugfix (thanks sharonme).

selder2: Just looking at that line of code you’re missing an ‘ at the end (before the last bracket).

Better late than never, a plugin and widget version is now available for download!

Download & installation instructions

Let me know what you think ??

Well, that gives me something to do tomorrow ??

Ta for the heads up.