Need to display full question text and image in question list ! Help please !

Question

I have a site where each question is based on an image.

One uploads the image through the editor, adds the title and question text.

Now in lists I need  the whole question content displayed, includig the images.

(I understand that it slows down the page but I need the pictures visible on the lists...)

What would be the way to do so ?

Any help is welcome !!

 

There was a similar question here, but without answer so far:

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/11764/how-to-show-question-content-to-question-list

Comments

I am interested in this also. I would also like to be able to display icons if the question contains a link, image, or other embedded media.

Answer 1

Use an advanced theme or layer to intercept the q_list(...) theme function and make the change you want. See the mouseover-layer plugin for some clues.

Comments

Thank You so far !

I found a way by modifying the qa-mouseover-layer.php in the mouseover plugin. But I would prefer to have something similar in the advanced theme.

Hope it works for others:

            //    Now add the popup to the title for each question
       
                    foreach ($q_list['qs'] as $index => $question) {
                        $thispost=@$postinfo[$question['raw']['postid']];               
                        if (isset($thispost)) {
$text=qa_viewer_text($thispost['content'], $thispost['format'], array('blockwordspreg' => $blockwordspreg));
$text=qa_shorten_string_line($text, $maxlength);

//the following line was changed from
// $q_list['qs'][$index]['title']='<SPAN TITLE="'.qa_html($text).'">'.@$question['title'].'</SPAN>';
//to:
$q_list['qs'][$index]['content']='<div>'.$thispost['content'].'</div>';
                        }
                    }

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EDIT:

Now I could add images to the question lists through advanced theme:

change function q_list($q_list)    to:

function q_list($q_list)
        {
            if (count(@$q_list['qs'])) { // first check it is not an empty list and the feature is turned on

            //    Collect the question ids of all items in the question list (so we can do this in one DB query)
   
                $postids=array();
                foreach ($q_list['qs'] as $question)
                    if (isset($question['raw']['postid']))
                        $postids[]=$question['raw']['postid'];
               
                if (count($postids)) {

                //    Retrieve the content for these questions from the database and put into an array
               
                    $result=qa_db_query_sub('SELECT postid, content, format FROM ^posts WHERE postid IN (#)', $postids);
                    $postinfo=qa_db_read_all_assoc($result, 'postid');
                   
                //    Get the regular expression fragment to use for blocked words and the maximum length of content to show
                   
                    $blockwordspreg=qa_get_block_words_preg();
                    $maxlength=qa_opt('mouseover_content_max_len');
                   
                //    Now add the popup to the title for each question
       
                    foreach ($q_list['qs'] as $index => $question) {
                        $thispost=@$postinfo[$question['raw']['postid']];
                       
                   
                                   
                        if (isset($thispost)) {
                           
$text=qa_viewer_text($thispost['content'], $thispost['format'], array('blockwordspreg' => $blockwordspreg));
                            $text=qa_shorten_string_line($text, $maxlength);
                        //  $q_list['qs'][$index]['title']='<SPAN TITLE="'.qa_html($text).'">'.@$question['title'].'</SPAN>';
                            $q_list['qs'][$index]['content']=$thispost['content'];
                        }
                    }
                }
            }


Then add to NOAHs embed plugin to qa-embed-layer.php :


    function q_item_content($q_item)
        {
            if (isset($q_item['content'])){
                $q_item['content'] = $this->embed_replace($q_item['content']);
            }
            qa_html_theme_base::q_item_content($q_item);
        }       


I really dont know if this is errorfree, but at least it works.

Now I can show on each questionlist uploaded images or embedded youtube movies.

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do you have example of this how it looks?

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Yes, look here: http://www.yamemes.com

It is not perfect, as too large images are not resized automatically.
You may upload something funny and try it out...

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Looks good.
My requirements are to add thumbnails from questions and also from answers so I will definitely need some custom solution to find on freelancer or somewhere.

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You may click on SUBIR ALGO this is the replaced ASK button.
There is a possibility to have the image resized through css to Your fixed thumb dimensions, but I still didnt work with that, as the page was just a trial and is not perfect.

Answers should be similar.

So one basically needs to implement that css resizing and build something similar for the answers.

I already tried to modify the ckeditor so that it uses predefined max dimensions but I couldnt and I as well did not find anybody who resolved that. It would be helpful, as one could reduce the upload form to a single dialog window.

I would go ahead with a foto comment page, but actually I am not really happy about storing allways the huge images into the database.

Besides, I would be happy to see what You are working on, just to understand Your needs, You may email me if You want or allowed to...

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Please, paste the code, pastebin..