OOC Chatter

[Kaikoga Koi]

Yo my dude! Welcome my dude!

[Kuni Yasu]

Is it possible to add custom BbCodes to phpBB? We've got temperatures/distances conversion problems about every game, if it was possible to have something like a [temperature farenheit=85] that would automagically print 30°C/85°F in the post, that would solve the issue once and for all.

Possibly, but that's probably something I'd have to ask for the board admin to tackle, and they're rather busy. Google will translate it for me, and I'll remember to do it going forward

Can you check if you have the enough rights to access the page described here?

If so, add the following doublet:

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[fahrenheit]{NUMBER}[/fahrenheit]

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<form onmouseenter="result.value=' / ' + (({NUMBER}-32)*5/9).toFixed(2) + ' °C'">
<span>{NUMBER} °F</span>
<output name="result"/>
</form>

Then this one:

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[celsius]{NUMBER}[/celsius]

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<form onmouseenter="result.value=' / ' + ({NUMBER}*9/5+32).toFixed(2) + ' °F'">
<span>{NUMBER} °C</span>
<output name="result"/>
</form>

(check the box for them to be displayed among standard options, and add a helpful description text if you feel like it)

If I got my code right, from now on, typing either:

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[fahrenheit]85[/fahrenheit]

Or:

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[celsius]29[/celsius]

Should display something like (rounding is a thing) on hover*:

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29 °C / 85 °F

If that works well, I'll try to do a similar plugin for distances later.

*I didn't find a simple way (i.e. without adding a script tag) to have it show up directly on page load. If any coder lurking around has an idea, may they speak.

Testing the first one on my forum just does a nice job adding the °F without doing the calculation and adding the °C result. But this is quite cool. (I also may have an older version of things over there.)

[Moto Mitsuki]

Testing the first one on my forum just does a nice job adding the °F without doing the calculation and adding the °C result. But this is quite cool. (I also may have an older version of things over there.)

If it doesn't show up the conversion, is there really a point?

Here's a simpler version that might actually work (I had very much forgotten document.write() was a thing):

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[fahrenheit]{NUMBER}[/fahrenheit]

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<span>{NUMBER} °F / 
<script>document.write((({NUMBER}-32)*5/9).toFixed(2))</script>
 °C</span>

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[celsius]{NUMBER}[/celsius]

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<span>{NUMBER} °C / 
<script>document.write(({NUMBER}*9/5+32).toFixed(2))</script>
 °F</span>

[Kuni Yasu]

Testing the first one on my forum just does a nice job adding the °F without doing the calculation and adding the °C result. But this is quite cool. (I also may have an older version of things over there.)

If it doesn't show up the conversion, is there really a point?

Here's a simpler version that might actually work (I had very much forgotten document.write() was a thing):

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[fahrenheit]{NUMBER}[/fahrenheit]

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<span>{NUMBER} °F / 
<script>document.write((({NUMBER}-32)*5/9).toFixed(2))</script>
 °C</span>

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[celsius]{NUMBER}[/celsius]

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<span>{NUMBER} °C / 
<script>document.write(({NUMBER}*9/5+32).toFixed(2))</script>
 °F</span>

That appears to work.

[Saibankan]

Testing the first one on my forum just does a nice job adding the °F without doing the calculation and adding the °C result. But this is quite cool. (I also may have an older version of things over there.)

If it doesn't show up the conversion, is there really a point?

Here's a simpler version that might actually work (I had very much forgotten document.write() was a thing):

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[fahrenheit]{NUMBER}[/fahrenheit]

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<span>{NUMBER} °F / 
<script>document.write((({NUMBER}-32)*5/9).toFixed(2))</script>
 °C</span>

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[celsius]{NUMBER}[/celsius]

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<span>{NUMBER} °C / 
<script>document.write(({NUMBER}*9/5+32).toFixed(2))</script>
 °F</span>

Think I got it.

[Moto Mitsuki]

Actually...

I just finished coding a more generic plugin because we just weren't going to have a new tag for each unit. Superseding the previous code is thus here now:

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[unit]{REGEXP=/^[0-9a-zA-Z'"\.\s\x{00B0}]+$/u}[/unit]

<span>{REGEXP}
<script>
document.write((function () {
function convert(s){var t;if(null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9])+m\s*([0-9]+)?\s*$/)))return convert(t[1]+"."+(t[2]||0)+"m");if(null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s*((c)?m)\s*$/))){var r="m"===t[3]?100:1,a=parseFloat(t[1])*r;return(n=Math.floor(a/30.48))+"' "+(l=Math.round((a-30.48*n)/2.54))+'"'}if(null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+)'\s*([0-9]+)"?\s*$/))){var n=parseInt(t[1]),l=parseInt(t[2]);return Math.round(30.48*n+2.54*l)+" cm"}return null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s*°\s*C\s*$/))?(9*parseFloat(t[1])/5+32).toFixed(2)+"°F":null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s*°\s*F\s*$/))?(5*(parseFloat(t[1])-32)/9).toFixed(2)+"°C":s}

return ' / ' + convert(`{REGEXP}`);
})())
</script>
</span>

Note: There will be a warning due to using a REGEXP parameter instead of a SIMPLETEXT, which I had to because of course units are full of special characters that didn't work out of the box. Everything should still be under control even so (special characters that would allow to release the kraken are still very much forbidden; the weird one at the end is the goddamn degree symbol).

This allows to write things like:

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[unit]1m60[/unit]
[unit]30°C[/unit]
[unit]175cm[/unit]
[unit]5'6"[/unit]
[unit]1.85 m[/unit]
[unit]` + alert('toto'));(`[/unit]

And they will show as:

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1m 60 / 5' 3"
30°C / 86.00°F
175cm / 5' 9"
5'6" / 168 cm
1.85 m / 6' 1"
[unit]` + alert('toto'));(`[/unit]

Notes:

• Only height and temperature units are supported at the moment. Local fancy numbers ("1 000,00") are not supported either. Unsupported numbers/units will simply be returned as is. Ping me if you need to add other conversions.
• The big weird thing is just standard minified JS (i.e. with spaces removed and variable names reduced to the shortest possible), whose source is there.

[Moto Mitsuki]

Quick update: I had forgotten the QWERTY keyboard did not have a ° as a default, and therefore temperatures were routinely written as 80F instead of 80°F in the US (which is another unit altogether, but that's irrelevant here).

This new code:

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<span>{REGEXP}
<script>
document.write((function () {
function convert(s){var t;if(null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9])+m\s*([0-9]+)?\s*$/)))return convert(t[1]+"."+(t[2]||0)+"m");if(null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s*((c)?m)\s*$/))){var r="m"===t[3]?100:1,a=parseFloat(t[1])*r;return(n=Math.floor(a/30.48))+"' "+(l=Math.round((a-30.48*n)/2.54))+'"'}if(null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+)'\s*([0-9]+)"?\s*$/))){var n=parseInt(t[1]),l=parseInt(t[2]);return Math.round(30.48*n+2.54*l)+" cm"}return null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s*°?\s*C\s*$/))?(9*parseFloat(t[1])/5+32).toFixed(2)+"°F":null!==(t=s.match(/^\s*([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)\s*°?\s*F\s*$/))?(5*(parseFloat(t[1])-32)/9).toFixed(2)+"°C":s}

return ' / ' + convert(`{REGEXP}`);
})())
</script>
</span>

Should take care of that:

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[unit]80F[/unit]
[unit]15C[/unit]

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80F / 26.67°C
15C / 59.00°F

On that I'll stop polluting the OOC thread.

[Kitsu Murato]

I saw the Moth mon colours were added? The Otter colours are....?

At the discretion of the daughter of the Otter clan champion, but she should ask her fellow otters what they think would be good.

River mud brown and otter fur brown?

[Kuni Yasu]

I saw the Moth mon colours were added? The Otter colours are....?

At the discretion of the daughter of the Otter clan champion, but she should ask her fellow otters what they think would be good.

River mud brown and otter fur brown?

And the rainbow of Friendship! (tm)

Kidding aside, I'd expect entertainers to end up with some bright colors. Even if the shades of brown amuses me.

Also: <3 at Moto-san for all the coding nerdery.

[Moto Mitsuki]

Also: <3 at Moto-san for all the coding nerdery.

It works in real life apparently:

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Mitsuki is [unit]1m60[/unit].

Result: Mitsuki is 1m60.

Last version of the plugin should be there: https://github.com/ceithir/bbcode-unit And now this link has been publicly given, we can return to our normal schedule.