Using our Future Scanner Button on your site

If you're looking to get the word out about your future-related content you may want to place our new Future Scanner quick button at the bottom of your posts. This button will display the current rating for your piece and will enable people to quickly add votes to the total. In the event that the piece has not yet been future scanned, this will allow people to scan it for you. There are two substitutions that you must make in the code:

{your url}

Insert the permalink of the page the button will appear on here. You must url escape your url.

{your title}

Insert the title of your page here.

<a href="http://memebox.com/futurescanner/new&link={your url}&">
<img alt="Vote for {your title} on the Future Scanner" src="http://memebox.com/futurescanner/button?link={your url}"/>
</a>

or using javascript:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
link="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2006/09/02/russian-moon-mining";
title="Russian Moon Mines Proposed for 2025";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://memebox.com/javascripts/futurebutton.js" ></script>
	

or in php:

<?php
	$link = {your url};  
	$headline = {your title};
?>
<a href="http://memebox.com/futurescanner/new&link=<?= urlencode($link) ?>headline=<?= urlencode($headline) ?>"> 
<img alt="Vote for <?= urlencode($headline) ?> on the Future Scanner" src="http://memebox.com/futurescanner/button?link=<?= urlencode($link) ?>"/>
</a>
	

or download our Wordpress Plugin

1. Download here.
2. Upload to your plugins directory wp-content/plugins
3. Activate in the Wordpress control panel under the plugins tab (on the righthand side)
4. Add to your sidebar under Design->Widgets

Note not all Wordpress templates include a sidebar on individual posts and the Future Scanner Button only appears on individual posts. Of particular note, the default template will not show sidebars on single post pages. You can add the sidebar or use a different template.

Advanced

In addition to the required url and title, you may optionally supply other parameters, any of these that you would like to apply should be added to the href of the outer anchor(<a>) tag:

description

Description text to appear in the scan, users can alter this when they scan your article.

tags

Tags relevent to your article's content, specified as a comma separated list.

category

The Future Scanner category to assign the scan to, upto three may be specified as a comma separated list. You can use any category from the lower set of buttons in the masthead.

scantype

The scan type to use for this scan, upto three may be specified as a comma separated list. You can see the available scan types on the submit scan page.

year

The year most relevent to your article. You can use any year from the upper set of buttons in Future Scanner the masthead.

You can add them to your links or define them in javascript. An example using all of these would be:

							
<a href="http://memebox.com/futurescanner/new?category=Space%2CEnvironment%2CEnergy&description=Russian+cosmonauts+could+begin+visiting+the+moon+in+six+years+as+part+of+a+3+stage+mission+culminating+in+a+mining+operation+by+2025&link=http%3A%2F%2Fnexus404.com%2FBlog%2F2006%2F09%2F02%2Frussian-moon-mining&scantype=Forecast&tags=mining%2Chelium3&title=Russian+Moon+Mines+Proposed+for+2025&year=beyond">
<img alt="Vote for Russian Moon Mines Proposed for 2025 on the Future Scanner" src="http://memebox.com/futurescanner/button?link=http%3A%2F%2Fnexus404.com%2FBlog%2F2006%2F09%2F02%2Frussian-moon-mining"/>
</a>
	

Which looks like this:

advanced options in Javascript

You can also use the same additional options with our javascript like this:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
link="http://nexus404.com/Blog/2006/09/02/russian-moon-mining";
title="Russian Moon Mines Proposed for 2025";
description="Russian cosmonauts could begin visiting the moon in six years as part of a 3 stage mission culminating in a mining operation by 2025";
category="Space,Environment,Energy";
scantype="Forecast";
tags="mining,helium3";
year="beyond";
//--></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://memebox.com/javascripts/futurebutton.js"></script>