Can't display more than one EVB on the same page with button-new.js

Yep, critical bug !

Can you try using the other button javascript and report on how that one goes ? Maybe there is an issue with the newer one that I haven't encountered yet (use button-old.js).
Also, please attach the wordpress template as you modified it and the HTML of the page with the multiple buttons that don't work

BTW, I suppose you are doing this on your own Wordpress installation and not wordpress.com which doesn't allow javascript ?

<script type="text/javascript">
	url_site = "<?php echo get_permalink() ?>";
	</script>
	<script src="http://mysite.ro/sites/all/modules/drigg_external/js/button-old.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

This is the code I am using on wordpress with the old button which works. The new one does what drupalina said.

Would somebody be interested in a plugin for wordpress which inserts automatically the code required without any php files editing? Somebody is doing this for me and I can share it if you need it.

unmicdra, thanks for the test. The old button is the one I have running on production for a hacked D5 site I have. Until I figure out what's broken with the other one, stay with that one.
Can one of you attach the HTML generated for the incriminated page ? Or send it to me if you're not live yet and don't want this to be public

unmicdrac, please share your wordpress plugin. I would like to use it myself on a site.
Also, if you want, I can include it in the distribution of this module

I will sure share the plugin, but first I have to test it a little to be sure it does what was supposed to do. And then I have to translate it to English, as now all is only in Romanian, my native language. So, please excuse me, if my English is not that great.

PGiro, if you think it would help people you can include it in the package of Drigg external, that's fine by me.

If all works well I'll attach it here on Monday or Tuesday, that depends on my free time, as I am not working in the online industry and I do have a job.

@drupalina :
- I've enabled my personnal contact form.
- I know the old button is slowwwwwww, that's why I've been trying in my spare time to get another version working better.
- in version 1.1, I switched button.js to be the former button-old.js so that people use the working one by default until I fix the new one. I have just checked the package and indeed, using 1.1, you should use the "button.js" script
- which browser have you tested on ?

@unmicdrac : great ! Once we get everything working, we'll see if we can get wordpress to put it up on their site. (I doubt it but you never know!)

Go drupalina's message and confirmed the issue with the button-new.js file. Unfortunatly, this seems to be due to a limitation by browser for security reasons. I hadn't run into it because I was testing on the same domain.

There doesn't seem to be a way to solve this so if I am able to speed up the button, it will be through other means.
Of course, the easiest way to speed it up is to let each javascript run as fast as it can but you will be hitting your server really hard on each page display with multiple buttons and I can't afford that..

Here's another try on the new button which should minimize the slownes. Copy paste into your button-new.js file and use that script in your pages.

if(!window.DRIGG_EVB_i) { 
  //first time the button script is executed in the page
  function DRIGG_EVB_process_buttons() {
      DRIGG_EVB_j++;
      if (DRIGG_EVB_i==DRIGG_EVB_j)
       return;
       
      var full_url=base_url+'drigg_external/display_button?url='+escape(DRIGG_EVB_urls[DRIGG_EVB_j]);
      frames['DRIGG_EVB-'+DRIGG_EVB_j].location.href=full_url;
      window.setTimeout(DRIGG_EVB_process_buttons,1000);
  }
  var DRIGG_EVB_urls=[];
  var DRIGG_EVB_i=0;
  var DRIGG_EVB_j=-1;
  var base_url="http://your.site.com/";
  window.onload=DRIGG_EVB_process_buttons;
}
if (!window.url_site) 
  var url_site=""; 
  
DRIGG_EVB_urls[DRIGG_EVB_i]=url_site;
var div_id='DRIGG_EVB-'+DRIGG_EVB_i;
document.write('<iframe scrolling="no" allowTransparency="true" name="'+div_id+'" id="'+div_id+'" src="'+base_url+'sites/all/modules/drigg_external/loader.html" frameborder="0" style="border-color:gray;border-style:solid;border-width:0px;" scrolling="0" width="50" height="73"></iframe>');
DRIGG_EVB_i=DRIGG_EVB_i+1;
delete url_site;

If y'oure feeling brave, change window.setTimeout(DRIGG_EVB_process_buttons,1000); to DRIGG_EVB_process_buttons() and you'll get no throttling of calls to the server.
You can adjust the wait period between button loading by change 1000 (=1 second) to whatever you want.

Please report your findings

You see, the thing is, yahoo can fine tune its button to the core whereas I had to provide a mechanism that works for all possible cases. Now it's time to optimize it on your installation :)
Here are some ideas:

1) In terms of performance, I believe the issue is not "getting the data in the database" but the fact that the IFRAME loading the vote button is itself making tens of HTTP requests for all the CSS & javascript. Since most of it is not needed, I was planning on replacing the print drupal_add_css() in the header with the actuall CSS & JS needed on my site. Another idea would be to inline the required CSS & javascript in the button template. That will get us closer to digg/yahoo/etc buttons.

2) Using setTimeout is also slowing things down because it creates a new javascript context so it's doing it as many times as there are buttons. Either remove setTimeout() alltogether [but I think that will be bad because it will slow down page loading] or change it to setInterval(DRIGG_EVB_process_buttons, 1000) and report back your results.

3) I was thinking the same thing about the loader, try removing the "src" attribute of the IFRAME in button-new.js

Sorry I can't post anything but I'm going to work now... Can you try these and report back ?

Tried the new version, the hit on the server on half a second delay it's not that big. And I do not have a vps or dedicated server, but a small reseller account. And we know how full are webservers today on shared hosting, dont we? Now only a couple of folks are using it, will see when there will be a lot more.

About the plugin I was talking about, the guy who should be doing it dropped it on last minute, he told he was way to busy to take free work right now. I cant blame him. Anyways, I found a plugin for wordpress for Sphinn, I think I can manage to modify it for our needs. Just give me untill tomorrow.

Attached is the plugin which I was telling you about. I adapted it after http://www.michellemacphearson.com/wordpress-plugin-sphinnit-button/ and works quite well on wordpress 2.6.3 and even on the new wordpress 2.7 beta 3. Modify lines 88 and 147 to suit your needs and then customize as you like. I have translated all of the user configuration in Romanian and of course left the link to the author. Should be really easy to make the changes for anyone who ever opened a php file and edited it.

I am closing ths thread as fixed and will poen a new thread on performance issues