Guidelines for Developing on the Ning Platform

[Diego]

You can find these in the document Guidelines for Developing on the Ning Platform over in our documentation section.

Please let us know if you have any questions, comments, or feedback on all of this!

[Web Chief]

What does this mean specifically?

"Collecting Personal Data about other Users for commercial or unlawful purposes"

What are "other" users ...

[Diego]

"Other users" in this context means Ning users who DON'T fall into one of the following categories:

• users created by you,
• or members or your networks,

As well as data collection for purposes not disclosed in the terms of services of your network.

[Web Chief]

But you mean collect it somehow "IN" the platform using bots, etc., not collecting it via sign up forms for other services, email lists, etc. As long as the USER themselves provides the information, its all good. Its just when deceptive means are used to collect personal information, correct?

I'm sure this is the case, just want to be sure.

Thanks
Dave

[rommel]

Is there anyway I can make my own php script example: online.php which just displays the list of members name who are online and who are offline? I know there is a page in ning that displays allthis but can I make my own page? if yes how do I quiery the users who are online and whos offline? I appreciate very much some help.

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi rommel,

Yes you can do this, and you can then create an iframe in a text box to point to that page in order to display the results on your main page for instance. Have a look at the content store primer in order to get started.

Thanks,
Phil

[konrad]

Hi
I want to start translate ning for polish. I read that i have to ask ning to php file which i can edit. So where i should to send my request ?
Thanks Konrad

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi konrad,

You don't need to request any files in order to create a translation. Just click on Manage and then Language Editor, and choose to create a new translation.

Thanks,
Phil

[rommel]

Hi Phil,

I clicked on the link u gave and it said "page not found" anyway im reading the documentation in http://developer.ning.com/wiki/Querying_the_Ning_Content_Store, I cant quite comprehend what or how they are doing it. I just need to query some stuff from ning's database like, how many user's online, who invited who, things like this, can i please have a more "for beginner's answer" im really very new at this. I appreciate it very much,
regards
Rommel

[Diego]

Hi Rommel. You would likely not be able to do what you want. Getting a single page that displays all that data would fail due to processing constraints on the system. The way in which the Members page is implemented right now is probably the best possible at the moment.

Additionally, at this moment there is no "beginner's answer" when talking about querying the content store. If you're not an experienced developer it is very likely that you will create code that is not efficient and would cause you and your members to see page errors due to timeouts.

We are working on a simpler documentation path, starting from the basics, and we hope to have the first revisions of that available here in the dev network over the next few weeks.

thanks!

d

[rommel]

Hi,

Ok, I understand, How about some sample codes on how to use the function in xn_profile?
example: i want to use =
XN_Profile::tellAFriend ( $ destination, $ body, $ subject = null, $url = null);

- do i just write:
$query = XN_Profile::tellAFriend ( '[e-mail]', 'Hi There', 'Hi', $url = null);
echo $query;

is this how to do it?

I appreciate in advance your assistance.

Regards,
Rommel

[Donald Rich]

Yes I have 1 problem, I finished my new site, Now i want to Broudcast a message to promote it , on my page i click manage, I go down to promote your site, click Broudcast . window pops up, type in subject and body, then click send which dose nothing, no hand on the curser .

[MzLa]

HTML & CSS Basics

I'm trying to get an understanding of how this coding works. I would like to use the "BODY" portion of the social networking layout for the new pages that I create so that they tie in with the overall design of my network. However I think I'm missing something in trying to rework the actual code. Can anyone give me any assistance?

To see what I mean, visit my network . Click on the television page and then click on any page within that tab. I'm currently just pasting into that general box that pops up when you create a new page. However, when you visit these "sub" pages, I want them to be laid out like the home page with the columns and modules broken down. If this makes sense!!?!?!

Thank you in advance for your help.