Pligg This! v2

[tones]

I have seen much discussion on Pligg this buttons, firefox extensions, bookmarklets etc, in particular I was looking at a way to automatically populate the summary. If you have used, or tweaked?, the Digg This extension, the url paramter of &bodytext=..... does not work.

I have tweaked the Digg This! extension code a little so that it now works: highlight some text on a page you want to submit, use the Pligg This toolbar button or context-menu entry and a new tab will open, url, title AND summary all populated for you.

Add the following to the bottom of the digg() function in the Digg This! extension

    var contentArea = document.getElementById('content');
    contentArea.addEventListener('load', addsummary, true);
}

function addsummary(){
    var body = window.content.document.getElementById('bodytext');
    body.value = notes;
    var contentArea = document.getElementById('content');
    contentArea.removeEventListener('load',addsummary,true);
}

Note the use of the Global 'notes' variable, you will have to declare this and tweak the beginning of the function to make it global as well.

var notes ='';

function digg(){
.....
    var selectedObj = getSelectedText();
        if ( selectedObj)
        {
            notes = selectedObj;
        }
.........
}

Any cgi programmers out there, we could hook up to make a Pligg This! extension generator, so people would fill in their site name and url, the script goes away and just replaces the few occurences of Pligg this and the url in the extension.

Cheers, T.

[tones]

Have attached an example .xpi file which should be easier than modifying the digg this extension (for starters I have not put the code in a jar file, it really is not needed for small extensions).

1) Download the zip file and extract it to a folder somewhere.
2) Open up the install.rdf file and change the <em:name> and <em:description> contents to suit.

 eg <em:name>Not Pligg This, Something Else!</em:name>

3) Open up pligg.js and change line 63 to your domain

var domain = 'http://www.pligg.com';

4) Optionally change the summary count on line 81 if you altered this in your pligg install

var limit = 150;

5) Open up pligg.xul and change all occurances of "Pligg This!" to suit.
6) Open up winzip or similar and create a new zipfile, making sure it has the extension of .xpi NOT .zip
7) Drag in install.rdf, chrome.manifest, and content folder in one. DO NOT drag in a folder that contains these items, it must be these items themselves.
8) Optionally change the icons, naming them pligg-24.png and pligg-16.png
9) You done!

Please feel free to seek clarification. T.

[silent1643]

is there a demo or something of this?

[tones]

This is a firefox extension, you can't "demo" it. The only way to see this in action is to follow the instructions above.

T.

[tones]

Silent 1643

I have quickly tried this for your littleubuntu site, allthough have only changed the domain, everything else is still Pligg This!

Save this file to your desktop, then drag it into an open firefox window to install

http://firefox.spatialviews.com/file...ubuntu_0.1.xpi

Now, with the extension installed, select some text on a page, right click and select Pligg This from the menu. There is also a toolbar button

T.

[mathcv]

Hi!
Exelent plugin!
Simplify the work.... =)

This is my contribute:

Install plugin online

1)Insert in you page before </head> this code:

<script language="javascript">
function isGecko()
{
var agent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
return (agent.indexOf('gecko') > -1);
}

function doInstall(aExt, aLang)
{
var xpi = null;
var lang = (aLang != null ? "-" + aLang : "");

switch (aExt)
{
case "ejecutar":
xpi = {
"Publica esto!" : {
URL: "/directory/nameofplugin" + lang + ".xpi",
toString: function () { return this.URL; }
}
};
break;
}

if (xpi != null)
InstallTrigger.install(xpi);
else
alert("Please select a valid extension!");
}
</script>

2)Modify "/directory/nameofplugin" by the corresponding directory, without .xpi, is already inserted...

3)And make the link of this form....:
<a href="javascript:doInstall('ejecutar');"">DOWNLOAD PLUGIN</a>

Finishhh




Tones: i make one plugin, whith you instruction, public, and work perfectly, but don't show icons...

Can view my plugin please?

http://www.hepatitisc2000.com.ar/noticias/firefox/publicar/Publicar_en_HepaRed!.xpi

I thinks wath the trouble is in chrome.manifest file...

Thanks for advanced...

[tones]

Hi, thanks for the install code!!

I managed to install the example extension you posted ok, with images. By default, the toolbar button with image will not be there, you will need to right-click your toolbar and select customize. Then drag in the rather rubbish yellow icon with the green tick.

Tones

[mathcv]

oooohhh !! is maggic! ajajja

Yeah now view the icon...
Now understand everything...

Thanksss!