Searching your Ning network tags - now easy!

[ddeubel]

I cried and cried to Ning and other "developers" to make me a low cost way for members to search across the categories on our site (videos/blogs/forum/photos/second forum) but to no avail. A few said they'd do it for $700+ and I just thought, no way.

So I sat down, learned and came up with a way. Totally secure. Gives a nice page within your Ning for searching. You just enter the urls for your own site. See the public example for my own community HERE.

Go here if you'd like to purchase and download this. Only $25. Easy to follow documentation. The basic set up is without the drop down of suggested tags but this can be easily set up too, if you know a little html and how to set up a database. I documented this too. Full css to change colors to your community.

Once I've recouped my time/investment, I'll make it free. If you are an educational community - just message and I'll give it free!

Thanks for your interest and supporting one guy who spent a lot of time to give his community this valuable search tool.

[Alessandro Ferrari]

user must has access to source code of the network to make it usable.
isn't it?

now call to REST API aren't allowed anymore .

[ddeubel]

Alessandro,

No.

Any Ning creator just needs their own server to host this on. Put up on your server and embed in an extra page as directed. Link from the main page to your search. Documentation explains where to change an put in your own website addresses inside the files.

It is set up to be without a library of recommended links as per the example. But this can be added easily, if you know how to set up a database. It is explained in the documentation that comes with it.

It works through rss, completely outside Ning. Safe and secure from changes.

I just noticed it is showing a thumbnail of the videos it finds - I'll have to check into that "double" view of videos.

[Alessandro Ferrari]

ok, so it works with rss. now it's clear.

can I see the documentation?

ddeubel said:

Alessandro,

No.

Any Ning creator just needs their own server to host this on. Put up on your server and embed in an extra page as directed. Link from the main page to your search. Documentation explains where to change an put in your own website addresses inside the files.

It is set up to be without a library of recommended links as per the example. But this can be added easily, if you know how to set up a database. It is explained in the documentation that comes with it.

It works through rss, completely outside Ning. Safe and secure from changes.

I just noticed it is showing a thumbnail of the videos it finds - I'll have to check into that "double" view of videos.

[ddeubel]

Alessandro,

Find it attached.
You could make this if you have a lot of programming savvy and time. I did it and just want to make back some of the effort spent. But it is a real benefit to all networks and aggregating and search of rss is happening big time (for example - thing Twitter Search).

David

Alessandro Ferrari said:

ok, so it works with rss. now it's clear.
can I see the documentation?
ddeubel said:

Alessandro,

No. Any Ning creator just needs their own server to host this on. Put up on your server and embed in an extra page as directed. Link from the main page to your search. Documentation explains where to change an put in your own website addresses inside the files.

It is set up to be without a library of recommended links as per the example. But this can be added easily, if you know how to set up a database. It is explained in the documentation that comes with it.

It works through rss, completely outside Ning. Safe and secure from changes.

I just noticed it is showing a thumbnail of the videos it finds - I'll have to check into that "double" view of videos.

[Alessandro Ferrari]

I never even thought to copy your work, I'm just curious on how you could access to network' resource by external site. Just this.
I know how much effort a developer can spend here to make things working (I'm the developer of Smiley Script and you can't figure out how many code stealers I had to block!)

[ddeubel]

Alessandro,

I'm all open source - never thought that you were trying to copy at all! I'd actually like to put this out there free but I got a wife who saw me spend so much time on this :) So I compromised. Any educational community can get it free!

Cheers,

DD

I have presently been tweaking the ability to print rss to pdf. Do you think there is a market out there for this? You put in your rss (ie. forum etc...) and can print a nice newsletter. Here's the alpha version using the open source fivefilters.org beginning code.

Alessandro Ferrari said:

I never even thought to copy your work, I'm just curious on how you could access to network' resource by external site. Just this.
I know how much effort a developer can spend here to make things working (I'm the developer of Smiley Script and you can't figure out how many code stealers I had to block!)

[Alessandro Ferrari]

it's quite cool! :)

ddeubel said:

Alessandro,

I'm all open source - never thought that you were trying to copy at all! I'd actually like to put this out there free but I got a wife who saw me spend so much time on this :) So I compromised. Any educational community can get it free!

Cheers,

DD

I have presently been tweaking the ability to print rss to pdf. Do you think there is a market out there for this? You put in your rss (ie. forum etc...) and can print a nice newsletter. Here's the alpha version using the open source fivefilters.org beginning code.

Alessandro Ferrari said:

I never even thought to copy your work, I'm just curious on how you could access to network' resource by external site. Just this.
I know how much effort a developer can spend here to make things working (I'm the developer of Smiley Script and you can't figure out how many code stealers I had to block!)