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Thanks.

For everybody's information, the issues/questions were about a new technique to customize the chessboard size and other features, without the need of manually editing the extension files.

You can read all the details from the FAQ questions at the bottom of the pgn4web wiki page http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/wiki/User_Notes_joomla

Thanks for the feedback.

As far as the size of the chessboard is concerned, I'm afraid this is hardcoded in the code at the moment.

In order to add chessboards of different sizes to your joomla articles you have two options:

1) tweak the plugin code.
Look at the file embedchessboard.php where the square size is set in the line:

$replacement .= "&ss=26&ps=d&pf=d";

Changing the square size number "26" to a larger number will make your chessboard larger. You will also have to change the portions of code where the variable $height is set in order to take into account the larger resulting board size (manually increase the height numeric values and check the results on different articles showing different chessboards). When increasing the square size, the plugin will also look for larger piece bitmaps that are not in the package and that you will have to add manually from the main pgn4web zipfile available at http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/downloads/list

To help you in this complicated process, you might want to look at the work done by the user contributing a backport of the plugin for joomla 1.0; within the backport he also added the option for different board sizes. Look for the joomla 1.0 plugin at the joomlacode download page:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/embedchessboard/frs/

2) use a generic plugin to embed iframes.
Alternatively, lot more chessboard configuration options are available if you install a generic plugin to embed iframes in your joomla articles, such as this one:
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-a-design/popups-a-iframes/4144

Then you generate the iframe src parameter from the pgn4web board generator tool available at:
http://pgn4web-board-generator.casaschi.net

Be aware, neither of the 1) or 2) option is as straightforward as using the basic plugin, but both would give you the flexibility you want.

If I get a lot of user requests I might add the option to tune the chessboard size... but don't hold your breath.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback.

If you have PGN data that does not display 100% as you expect, please send them for review (to the email address you find on the homepage http://pgn4web.casaschi.net )

Also let me know the URL of your site!

pgn4web

Thanks for your feedback!

I'll keep your suggestions in mind for future updates.

For the time being there are a few workarounds you could try to manually achieve similar effects as your suggested improvements.

The plugin takes the standard PGN header tags (Date, Site, Event, Round, White, Black, Result) and displays their value. Other PGN header tags (like WhiteElo, BlackElo) are ignored. As a workaround to display Elo information, the PGN data could be modified manually, adding the Elo information to the White and Black header tag, such as [White "Kramnik, Vladimir (2790)"]. Far from ideal having to manually modify the PGN header values, but it would achieve the desired effect.

Same for changing the date format, anything found in the Date PGN header tag would be displayed; manually changing the date format in the PGN data would change the display.

The result information is currenlty (by design) displayed only in the header section; in order to display the result at the end of the moves, a PGN comment could be manually added at the end of the game, such as: ... 4.Qxf7 { 1-0 }

Thanks for the feedback and please send me the URL of your site (to the email address you find on the homepage http://pgn4web.casaschi.net )!

pgn4web