The <off topic> thread

[Frontcannon]

3yr olds cooking show

I somehow found this strangely appealing.

[theonlychad]

oh man i just watched Wednesdays episode of south park and it was hilarious. You have 0 friends is the name of the episode and it made fun of facebook lol.

[vista?]

It's a bit of random question but is there any possible way of creating an RSS feed from content off a web page which you must first login to access?

Edited April 9, 2010 by vista?

[Kemaru]

Genius.

<- NOTE: Contains violent language. Nothing you wouldn't hear on TV, though...

As some of you might've noticed, I've been absent for a week or two. Our internet connection broke down, and I've been busy with school and personal stuff. I'm going to Portugal next week so I won't show up much next week either...

EDIT: ^ Vista: I think if you did that, you'd have to log in to see the feed.

Edited April 9, 2010 by Kemaru

[vista?]

Only problem is that this page doesn't have a feed by default so I would have to use an online service to create the RSS feed except that's impossible when the page can only be viewed through logins which the RSS service will not be able to understand and as a result, it will start making an RSS feed of the login page.

[Rubrica]

Why not find a script or something that publishes the content of the page to another, publicly accessible page? That should work, unless you don't want people seeing the content of the page (but then why create an RSS feed?).

[vista?]

I hadn't thought of that actually. But the problem of not being able to access data unless you log in is what the issue for me.

Although, using RSS for this task of mine leads me to the question of whether it is possible using nothing more than HTML & Javascript to find a piece of text on the data page (ignoring the issues of logging in) and display this on another page as a "dynamic" element if that makes sense.

I do hope I haven't confused anyone.

[Rubrica]

Oh, I didn't realise that you meant for the RSS feed to be private as well. In that case, I'm afraid I have no idea how to help you.

[Mike Ryan]

I hadn't thought of that actually. But the problem of not being able to access data unless you log in is what the issue for me.

Although, using RSS for this task of mine leads me to the question of whether it is possible using nothing more than HTML & Javascript to find a piece of text on the data page (ignoring the issues of logging in) and display this on another page as a "dynamic" element if that makes sense.

I do hope I haven't confused anyone.

If you could be a bit more specific: is this your page? Or another page? Instead of JavaScript, PHP works great with file includes.

[ImAnOwl?]

im missing a soft brush eraser in PDN.

[Sarkut]

im missing a soft brush eraser in PDN.

Not sure whether you know that reducing the Transparency - Alpha

setting of your Primary color in the Colors window will reduce the strength

of the Eraser tool's action.

Also, using Clone Stamp with the anchor point set on a 100% Alpha layer

with the Transparency - Alpha setting of your Primary color lowered

gives an even better soft eraser brush emulation

[vista?]

If you could be a bit more specific: is this your page? Or another page? Instead of Javascript, PHP works great with file includes.

I've been reading about file includes but all I want to include is a set of numbers from a page, not the entire page itself, can this be done or am I barking up the wrong tree?

EDIT: To clarify, let's say I was insane about you and I wanted to display the number of posts you have "live" on another web page how would I have a "live embed" of this particular data using HTML & Javascript?

Edited April 9, 2010 by vista?

[BoltBait]

I've been reading about file includes but all I want to include is a set of numbers from a page, not the entire page itself, can this be done or am I barking up the wrong tree?

EDIT: To clarify, let's say I was insane about you and I wanted to display the number of posts you have "live" on another web page how would I have a "live embed" of this particular data using HTML & Javascript?

If the page you are making has access to javascript, it is easy. Remind me later this weekend and I'll send you the codes.

[~L1ke 20 N1njas~]

In order to "celebrate" the new forums, here is an unfunny joke which is half-baked as standard.

When Rick Brewster takes up knitting as a hobby, what does he end up renaming Paint.NET to?

Paint.Knit (Funny eh?)

Now then, how likely is it that Rick would ever take up knitting as a hobby and end up renaming PDN?

I found that quite amusing, actually. The thing is, all these kids at my school continually say "knit" or "nit" instead of not.

For example, my band director said, "Who plans on helping at the xxxx event next Friday?" A random kid raised his hand and said, "I will." While the teacher was writing down his name, he shouts nit. And for some reason everyone at our school finds this act quite hilarious. The band room erupted in laughter, of course.

[theonlychad]

I found that quite amusing, actually. The thing is, all these kids at my school continually say "knit" or "nit" instead of not.

For example, my band director said, "Who plans on helping at the xxxx event next Friday?" A random kid raised his hand and said, "I will." While the teacher was writing down his name, he shouts nit. And for some reason everyone at our school finds this act quite hilarious. The band room erupted in laughter, of course.

ahhh! Ye olde band days. I played a tuba in high school. Even marched in the 2004 memorial day parade in washington d.c.(that was the year they opened the wwII memorial). I was a fat kid carrying an 80 pound silver sousaphone. I got heat exhaustion that day too puked my guts up in a parking lot lmao!

[Rick Brewster]

ha ha ha zzzzzzz

Oh sorry I fell asleep half-way through the joke.

[BoltBait]

I've been reading about file includes but all I want to include is a set of numbers from a page, not the entire page itself, can this be done or am I barking up the wrong tree?

EDIT: To clarify, let's say I was insane about you and I wanted to display the number of posts you have "live" on another web page how would I have a "live embed" of this particular data using HTML & Javascript?

Here's how I've been following you...

<HTML>
<BODY>
<script language="JavaScript">
text="";
// create a request object so that we can connect to the web service
req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
if (req) 
{
   // setup a callback function for when the XML has been loaded
   req.onreadystatechange = processStateChange;
   // specify the URL of the web service
   req.open("GET", "http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/user/48773-vista/", true);
   // go get the data
   req.send();
}

function processStateChange()
{
   // is the XML ready for use?
   if (req.readyState == 4) {
       text = req.responseText;
// find your post count
document.write(text.substr(text.indexOf("posts'>")+7,6));
document.write("<BR>\n");
   }
}
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

You need to be logged in for this to work... since guests can not view profiles. Works in IE (the standard browser for the world). If you want this to work in other browsers, you'll have to ask someone else how to modify it for that broken browser.

EDIT: OK, technically, this shouldn't work at all due to cross-site security risks. A proper solution would be to do the "get" and the processing server side.

[ImAnOwl?]

hmm... each time i go in to "competitions" internet explorer seems to chrash...

[Kristopher]

OoOOo shiny new forums. I need to visit here more often methinks.

[BoltBait]

hmm... each time i go in to "competitions" internet explorer seems to chrash...

Are you using IE6? If so that could be the problem.

[ImAnOwl?]

im using the latest version of IE... but it works now, just rebooted (restarted?) my PC...

[Crazy Man Dan]

Dunno. I went and tried it in IE8, and it locked the browser.

[pyrochild]

hmm... each time i go in to "competitions" internet explorer seems to chrash...

Dunno. I went and tried it in IE8, and it locked the browser.

Works for me...

[chrisco97]

me too...

[ImAnOwl?]

it now works for me too...

Edited April 10, 2010 by ImAnOwl?