The Weblog of Trenton & Nichole Adams

5Mar/0810

Bible Mod v0.1.0 released

Author: Trenton

I released Bible Mod v0.1.0 for phpbb3 yesterday. It supports bible gateway currently, by converting bible verses into links.

Eventually I plan on submitting this to the phpbb3 mod database for official inclusion.

Note that it is really in alpha stages. I think I need to hook it in at other locations throughout the phpbb3 code, which I haven't examined yet. I also included code that disables parsing of text before storage, as I think it is a bad way of doing things because the post parsing becomes permanent. I will probably move that into it's own mod eventually as well. Hopefully before requesting addition to the official mod database.

Features I plan on adding are as follows.

  1. enable or disable the mod. I am hoping that the phpbb guys can accept the code into the main phpbb code. It can be disabled by default, as most people won't use it.
  2. An AJAX bible verse selector that uses your preferred bible.  The plan is to have it connect to a bible site and grab the bible text directly from there, and insert it into your post.  Sometimes people want just a link, and other times they want the entire text in there.

I posted this first on the phpbb3 forums. The current version is on my site.

Feel free to give me some feedback.

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