Addon for MTG Card Tooltips

Enables card images to show on mouseover for Magic the Gathering cards.

Description

deckbox.org provides a javascript utility that enables links to its Magic the Gathering card pages to automatically show card image tooltips on hover. For more information see the tooltips integration page.

This IPBoard plugin provides the bbcode tag [cards] that turns a simple card list into links to card pages.

This branch works on ipboard versions newer than 3.4. For older versions please check the instructions in the branch ipboard_before_3.4.

Installation

1. Download the zipfile distribution of this addon.

2. In your IPBoard admin panel go to Look and Feel -> Post Content -> BBCode Management. At the bottom of the page in the Import new BBCodes section upload the bbcode.xml from the zipfile.

3. Upload the file mtg_tooltips.php to your forum installation in the folder admin/sources/classes/text/parser/bbcode/.

4. Go to Look and Feel -> Manage Skin sets and Templates. Edit the file Global Templates / includeJS and paste the following code at the bottom of it:

   <script src="http://deckbox.org/javascripts/bin/tooltip.js"></script>
   

5. There is no step 5! After installing, use the [cards] bbcode to surround MtG card names or deck lists in your posts. The tags [c] and [card] are valid aliases and work the same as [cards].

Upgrade

Follow these steps if you already have this plugin installed and you want to upgrade to a newer version:

1. Download the new zipfile from the link at Installation / Step 1.

2. In Look and Feel -> Post Content -> BBCode Management delete the BBCode called Magic the gathering Cards and re-upload the new bbcode.xml file.

3. Re-upload mtg_tooltips.php as explained in Installation / Step 3.

Support and development

If you run into problems installing or using the plugin, please contact support@deckbox.org.

If you would like to contribute, I will gladly accept pull requests. I spent some time trying to figure out how to package this as an uploadable plugin / application for IPBoard but i have not managed to find a proper documentation for it. If anyone would like to try their hand at it, I'll be glad to repackage.