[rosbif]

My Last 10 Forum Posts block has suddenly started behaving strangely. On themes with larger text it only displays the last two posts then resets and with smaller font themes it manages three then resets. It does scroll those posts ok, resetting at the end of the post.

Any ideas?

[BrokenCrust]

It seems to be working for me - the default theme / not logged in / with FF3 - it shows 10 posts. Are you viewing with IE8 ?

Marquee is best avoid IMO since it isn't supported that well in all browsers including IE8 - plus it offers a cheesy ninety's user experience.

[rosbif]

Ah it is IE8, of course that's what's changed. Do I just have to grin and bear it for IE8 then? Interestingly the Upcoming Events block from CPGNuCalendar works fine...

[rosbif]

Oddly enough on another PC using IE8 it works fine...

[rosbif]

Anyone?

[Phoenix]

Enclose the scrolling content within a <div> e.g.

PHP:

<?php
	$content = '<div style="text-align:center"><b>'.sprintf(_LASTMSGS, 10).'</b></div><marquee align="center" direction="up" scrollamount="2" scrolldelay="70" onmouseover=\'this.stop()\' onmouseout=\'this.start()\'><br /><div>';
	while (list($topic_id, $topic_last_post_id, $topic_title, $forum_name, $forum_id, $username, $user_id, $poster_id, $post_time) = $db->sql_fetchrow($result)) {
		$post_time = formatDateTime($post_time, '%b %d, %Y '._AT.' %T');
		$topic_title = check_words($topic_title);
		$content .= '<img src="'.$iconpath.'/icon_mini_message.gif" alt="" />
		<a href="'.getlink('Forums&amp;file=viewtopic&amp;p='.$topic_last_post_id.'#'.$topic_last_post_id).'"><strong>'.$topic_title.'</strong></a>
		<i>'.sprintf(_LASTPOSTBY, '<a href="'.getlink('Your_Account&amp;profile='.$username).'">'.$username.'</a>', '<a href="'.getlink('Forums&amp;file=viewforum&amp;f='.$forum_id).'">'.$forum_name.'</a>', $post_time).'</i><br /><br />';
	}
	$content .= '</div></marquee>';

Note the <div> after <marquee ...> and </div> before </marquee>.

The reason that the CPGNuCal block appears to work is that the scrolled content is within a table.

[rosbif]

Fantastic, simple as that. Thank you!

[Cybermonk]

Thank you very much.. this fixed my problem that users with IE8 have to use compatibility mode to display this block properly

[Cybermonk]

Help

I upgraded my forums from CPGBB to ForumsPro 2.0.3 and now i have exactly the same problem with the block-ForumsPro-scroll-Last_10_Posts

I opened the file in editor.. but i have no idea where and what to change in this block to fix the scrolling in IE8.

Here is the block:

Code:

<?php
/*
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | CPG Dragonfly™ CMS                                                |
  | Copyright © 2004 - 2005 by CPG-Nuke Dev Team                      |
  | http://www.dragonflycms.com                                       |
  | Dragonfly is released under the terms and conditions of the GNU   |
  | GPL version 2 or any later version                                |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Myndworx Asylum Software                                          |
  | This software is developed by the programming crew at the Myndworx|
  | Asylum for the Programmatically Insane.                           |
  | Copyright © 2005, 2006 by Myndworx Asylum and the original author |
  | listed below.                                                     |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | block-ForumsPro                                                   |
  | Provides a block to display recent posts in your Froums.          |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
  | Last modification notes:                                          |
  | $Source: /cvsroot/mwa/MwA_Software/Modules/ForumsPro/html/blocks/block-ForumsPro.php,v $                      |
  | $Revision: 177 $                                                  |
  | $Author: jday29 $                                             |
  | $Date: 2006-05-02 23:11:11 -0500 (Tue, 02 May 2006) $                                         |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
*/
if (!defined('CPG_NUKE')) {
	exit;
}

# Get the name of the module from the filename
# Filename should be in the format:
#   block-$module_name[-center][-scroll][-extra_info].php
# 
# Where:
#   $module_name is the name of the module
#   -center is added if this is a center block
#   -scroll is added if this is a scrolling block
#   -extra_info is added if there is extra information for this block (ie. Last 5 Topics, Last 5 Posts, Hottest 5 Topics, etc)
$block_file_info = explode('-', substr(basename(__FILE__), 6, (basename(__FILE__) - 4)));
$mod_dirname = $block_file_info[0];

global $db, $prefix, $sitename, $cpgtpl, $user_prefix, $CPG_SESS, $currentlang;
global $forumspro_base, $forums_list_all, $forums_list, $forumspro_prefix, $board_config;

include(BASEDIR.'modules/'.$mod_dirname.'/common_setup.php');

# Make sure the ForumsPro module is active
if (!forumspro_check_installation(true) || !is_active($forumspro_base)) {
	$content = 'ERROR';
	return trigger_error(sprintf(_FPRO_FORUMSPROISINACTIVE, $forumspro_base), E_USER_WARNING);
}
forumspro_setup();

# Get the list of forums the user is allowed to read (auth_read)
$content = '';
$forums_to_query = forumspro_get_auth_forums_list(0, 0, 'auth_read');

if (0 == count($forums_to_query)) {
	return;
}

# Query the latest topics from the forums the user has privileges to read (auth_read)
$result_topics = $db->sql_query('SELECT t.*, f.forum_id, f.forum_name, u.username, u.user_id, u2.username as user2, u2.user_id as id2, p.post_username, p2.post_username AS post_username2, p2.post_time, pt.post_subject'.($board_config['topic_post_text_enable'] ? ', pt.post_text AS last_post_text, pt2.post_text AS first_post_text' : '').' FROM '.$forumspro_prefix.'topics t, '.$forumspro_prefix.'forums f, '.$user_prefix.'_users u, '.$forumspro_prefix.'posts p, '.$forumspro_prefix.'posts p2, '.$user_prefix.'_users u2, '.$forumspro_prefix.'posts_text pt'.($board_config['topic_post_text_enable'] ? ', '.$forumspro_prefix.'posts_text pt2' : '').' WHERE t.forum_id IN ('.implode(', ', $forums_to_query).') AND t.topic_poster = u.user_id AND f.forum_id = t.forum_id AND p.post_id = t.topic_first_post_id AND p2.post_id = t.topic_last_post_id AND u2.user_id = p2.poster_id AND pt.post_id = t.topic_last_post_id'.($board_config['topic_post_text_enable'] ? ' AND pt2.post_id = t.topic_first_post_id' : '').' ORDER BY t.topic_last_post_id DESC LIMIT 0, 10');
$topics = array();
while($row_topic = $db->sql_fetchrow($result_topics, SQL_ASSOC)) {
	$topics[] = $row_topic;
}
$db->sql_freeresult($result_topics);

if (1 > count($topics)) {
	$content = 'ERROR';
	return trigger_error(_FPRO_THEREARENOPOSTS, E_USER_NOTICE);
} else {

	# Add the topics to the template
	require_once(BASEDIR.'includes/ForumsPro/display_topics.php');
	forumspro_template_add_topics($topics, 0, '', false, $forumspro_base);
	$theme_path = forumspro_template_add_theme_path();
	$cpgtpl->assign_vars(array(
		'L_LAST_POST_BY' => _FPRO_LASTPOSTBY,
		'L_REPLIES' => _FPRO_REPLIES,
		'L_VIEWS' => _FPRO_VIEWS,
		'L_IN_FORUM' => _FPRO_INFORUM,
		'L_ON' => _FPRO_ON,
		)
	);
	
	# Add the content to the block
	ob_start();
	$cpgtpl->set_filenames(array('block' => 'blocks/'.str_replace('.php', '.html', basename(__FILE__))));
	$cpgtpl->display('block', false);
	$content = ob_get_clean();
	$cpgtpl->unset_block('topic');
}

Could someone please tell me what i have to change in this block? I cant find marquee so i have no idea what i have to change.