Blogroll Modifications

I’m mucking around with my blogroll. I’m totally stealing the code from “They see me Trollin’” and reworking it to my own needs.

What this means to you. First of all.. I added a ton of blogs to my blogroll. I’ve changed some of the names to start with “X–” if the blog hasn’t been updated in a while. I was able to add all these additional blogs without having the list totally scroll off my screen. Secondly, I had to classify all of the blogs.. I -think- I got it right.. but if your blog is mis-classified (and you care) drop me a comment and I’ll move you around.

Specifically I read my blogs through Bloglines. That way I can easily see who’s updated without having to click through to every blog. Because of this I can’t individually tag each link with something like “blogrolljs-pal-hunt-pri”. Instead I have the blogs saved into different folders depending on their topic. I have a folder for each class.. and a “Wow” folder (for all you altoholics or those who are only vaguely wow related). I use special PHP code to pull the blogroll in from bloglines.

Code (for the curious):

<img src="img/pal.png" title="Paladin Blogs" onclick="changeDiv('pal','Paladin Reading')"/>
<img src="img/lock.png" title="Warlock Blogs" onclick="changeDiv('lock','Warlock Reading')"/>
...

        <div class="blogrolljs-wow"><?php
           $servername="rpc.bloglines.com";
           $path="/blogroll?html=1&id=Nibuca&folder=WoW";
           $fp = fsockopen($servername, 80, $errno, $errstr, 4);
           $bloglines="";
           if ($fp) {
              fputs($fp, "GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
              fputs($fp, "User-Agent: " . $HTTP_USER_AGENT);

              while(!feof($fp))
              { $bloglines.=fgets($fp, 4096);
              }
              fclose($fp);
              $htmltext = preg_replace("/^HTTP.*\r\n\r\n\s*/s", "", $bloglines);
              echo ($htmltext);
           }
?></div>
</ul>
<ul><div class="blogrolljs-pal">
        <php
           $path="/blogroll?html=1&id=Nibuca&folder=Paladin";
           $fp = fsockopen($servername, 80, $errno, $errstr, 4);
           $bloglines="";
           if ($fp) {
              fputs($fp, "GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
              fputs($fp, "User-Agent: " . $HTTP_USER_AGENT);

              while(!feof($fp))
              { $bloglines.=fgets($fp, 4096);
              }
              fclose($fp);
              $htmltext = preg_replace("/^HTTP.*\r\n\r\n\s*/s", "", $bloglines);
              echo ($htmltext);
           }
?>
<div></ul>
<ul><div class="blogrolljs-lock">
        <?php
           $path="/blogroll?html=1&id=Nibuca&folder=Warlock";
           $fp = fsockopen($servername, 80, $errno, $errstr, 4);
           $bloglines="";
           if ($fp) {
              fputs($fp, "GET $path HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n");
              fputs($fp, "User-Agent: " . $HTTP_USER_AGENT);

              while(!feof($fp))
              { $bloglines.=fgets($fp, 4096);
              }
              fclose($fp);
              $htmltext = preg_replace("/^HTTP.*\r\n\r\n\s*/s", "", $bloglines);
              echo ($htmltext);
           }
?>
</div></ul>

etc..
...

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function changeDiv(name,title)
{
   var d = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
   for(var i=0;i<d.length;i++)
   {
      if(d[i].className.indexOf('blogrolljs') != -1)
      {
         if(d[i].className.indexOf(name) != -1)
         {  d[i].style.display = '';
         }else{
            d[i].style.display = 'none';
         }
      }
   }
}

changeDiv("none","None");

If I wasn’t lazy I’d turn the file-fetch into a function.. but meh, I can’t be bothered.

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