You can use the template modification plug in, which makes it real easy, but even easier is wait for vb 3.7 which has thread prefixes included. It should be released very soon.

How do I add this prefix links on navbar?
(ex: attached)

I have a question, I am currently working Thread Prefixes in 3.6.7, What if I update --> 3.6.8 , I have to reinstall everything?

very complicated install.. took me 45 mins, but it works great!

thanks.

3.7 introduces native prefixes - what's everyone going to do? Any plans on a conversion script?

How do I remove the prefix from the 'Get New' section?

http://www.caraudiojunkyard.com/foru....php?do=getnew

I'd appreciate this as well :)

This question has been asked over at the vB forum and no one from vB has volunteered and answer, and Mystics is shown in ACP as a contributor to the official vB package. :confused:

Bob

There is quite a bit of work to be done. The way TP stores the prefixes is very simple, but vb does it differently, in a proper database kind of way.

If someone is good at SQL it is all quite possible though. Needs about 4 or 5 steps. Any SQL experts out there?

Okay, looking at the database in phpMyAdmin, it looks doable, save for a few things I don't know:

• I can't find where the TP prefixes are stored.
• I can't find the relationship between a post and a native thread prefix. It is not in the "post" table.

If anyone can answer these, I could most likely whip up a PHP script.

^ Moment of stupidity. It's all in the "thread" table. Will see what I can whip up. :D

Mwahaha! I've done it. ;) Easy peasy. I'll post some code here - I'm not really one for writing scripts for other people (with the random problems people run into), but this should assist someone else (I've used the ezSQL class here):

What I've done is pre-created the native thread prefixes matching the ones I currently use.

If only it were that easy (it doesn't work!!).


For each old forum that had prefixes, you need a new prefixset.

Table: prefixset
prefixsetid, varchar(25), for example if we are reading forumid 14, import14
displayorder, int(10)


The prefixset title needs to be inserted into the phrase table:

Table: phrase

languageid: 0
fieldname: prefix
product= vbulletin
text = prefix set title (eg "imported from forum 14, Off topic")
varname: prefixset_xx_title

where xx = prefixsetid eg prefixset_import14_title


This prefixsetid has to be assigned to the forum number:

Table: forumprefixset

forumid, int(10), eg 14
prefixsetid, varchar(25)


In each prefixset, the individual prefix ids are inserted:

Table: prefix

prefixid, varchar(25), no spaces! so maybe forumid like 14_001 then 14_002 etc. If you had 10 prefixes in forum 14, then we need 10 prefixids.
prefixsetid, varchar(25), from above
displayorder, int(10)

Each prefixid needs the prefix text read from the original thread prefix list for the forum inserted into 2 fields (title plain text and rich text). These are stored in the phrase table:


languageid: 0
fieldname: global
product= vbulletin
text = the old thread prefix text
varname: prefix_xx_yy

where

xx = prefixid
yy = title_rich or title_plain

eg prefix_import14_title_plain


Then each thread in the forum with a prefix from the old system has the corresponding new prefixid inserted into it:

Table: thread

prefixid, varchar(25)


The only bit I'm not sure about is:


Table: forum

lastprefixid, varchar(25)


Repeat for all forums.
Optionally transfer forum settings from old to new (mandatory thread prefix etc, but this can easily be done manually).
Finally, you have to rebuild languages.


Right, there's the challenge!

Dude, it was real easy for me. All of my thread prefixes have been transfered over. All I did was create my old prefixes in 3.7 admincp, the prefixids matched my old prefixes.

I see what you've done. It works, so long as your existing prefixes have no spaces in, and you only have one "set" of prefixes. My different forum id's all have different sets, and I have spaces in my old prefixes. :(

The Spaces can not be a big Problem. With only one Query you can turn all Spaces to Underscore that can be used in the native Prefix Mod.

It's just the Problem to create hundreds of Prefix-Sets by Hand.

I am half way there.... :)

OK, I have written a script that does the whole job of converting to 3.7.

To keep things separate, I've posted it here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165761

I hvae to reinstall all of it because it f...t up my forum, i can not see new threads or anything.

This is the message i get.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/3/h/hjornet/www/hjornet/includes/functions_databuild.php on line 1841

what is the easiest way to get by this??

Had to upload and revert the templates to fix it.

Is there a way to exclude the thread prefixes from the rss feed output at all?

I'd like to have items in my feed not look like this:

[Falcons] Friend Says Pete Carroll Not Interested In Falcons

but like this:

Friend Says Pete Carroll Not Interested In Falcons

it's a great mod!!!

it's perfect with 3.6.8 patch2 :up:

thanks a lot!:)

How did i can personalize the colour of each prefix?
for example, i have in "EXAMPLE" category 5 type of prefixes....(exp1-exp2-exp3-exp4-exp5)
i want to make a 5 different colors for each prefix (exp1 RED) - (exp2 BLUE) - (exp3 GREEN) ....ext...

it's possibile?
thanks!

Can a pre-fix be editted by the mods/admin?

EDIT: found the other mod, sorry.

One Maybe Bug:

When Searching with the Full Search Form, when including a Text, and choosing a Prefix, the search results are for all the threads in the specified forum, not all the threads that include the Prefix AND the included text!! :( :confused:

I think the logic should be that the results show Only the threads that have Both options, the search text and the Prefix!! :rolleyes: :confused:

(Is there an additional Option I should select in order to Get the Filtered results that match Both Options?? :confused:)

When Searching Only for a Prefix, and not including a search text, I receive an Error message to Include a search Text; would be Great that I can include a Prefix and search in all the Forums I like the Threads that are using that Prefix!! :rolleyes: :confused: (Is this a Bug Too?? :( :confused:)

In the Thread List of each Forum, the Filter of Threads that have a Prefix works OK!! ;)

I'm using vB 3.6.7 PL1, and seems to work Fine!! ;)

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

inciaro, I think you may have done a template edit wrong, because my search works as expected (3.6.8 PL2). I can search successfully for a prefix with no search text, and I can searcg for text and a prefix, and it return only threads or posts with the text and the prefix.

I'll double check the file and template, Edits then!! :rolleyes: :o

I appreciate your Confirmation about this issue, Pottsy!! :up:

My Best Regards!! ;)

:)

Anyone?

Nope... I've tried it again and same Wrong Results!! :( :confused:

I'm running it in vB 3.6.7 PL1; perhaps is an incompatibility with some other Mod I've installed, or is some Bug in the Code!! :( :confused:

Idea for Next Update: Would be Great, at least for Forums, to be able to Massive Assing Prefixes of those Individual Forums (one by one because Prefixes are Individual Per Forum) to the Selected Threads, (like when you Move, Copy, Open, Close, Thread from the List of Threads in a Forum), so that Assigning the Prefixes would be Fast!! :confused: :rolleyes:

Does this Mod have that Functionallity?? How can I do it?? because that Process with Hundreds or Thousands of Threads is ETERNAL!! :rolleyes: :eek:

My Best Regards!! ;) Great Mod!! :up:

:)

i love you man
I all day chase after users that not Mtigim the captions, and you rescue me
Thank you very much great!!!!

I have seen some sites using images for the prefixes in place of the text. Has anyone seen this and know how it's done?

I'm very interested in this but cant find a hack for it anywhere.

Anyone running this on 3.7 beta 5?

Amena, you will do the job too much easy with Template-Modifikationen durch TMS, works fine in mosts skins, recently I try it, LOL.

sorry for asking this (if the question had been answered) that this hack works for vb 3.6.8 P2?

yeah, do ;)

what a mess... the template edits aren't even written right...

1) Find this code:

Doesn't even exist

Not to mention there are like 6 template edits.... pfft come on get up to date...

Hello.

Question 1: Do I have to set some specific Options (Settings) for the "Full Search" Form to allow me to Search for a Prefix without specifying a Search Text?? When try to Search only for a Prefix without introducing a Search Tex, vBulletin return a Search Error Page asking for that Field to be Filled!! :confused: :(

Question 2: Do I have to set some specific Options (Settings) for the Search Results to be only the Particular Prefix Results?? When I specify a Prefix for the Search, the Results include not only the Threads that have that Prefix, but also the Threads that contain the Search Text, (remember question 1)!! :confused: :(

I've tried this Mod with vB 3.6.7 PL1, and now I'm trying it with vB 3.6.8. PL2, with the same Two Errors happening!! :( What Should I Check?? :confused: What Can I do?? :confused:

My Best Regards. I Like This Mod a Lot!! ;)

:)

I need to get mine to look like this. With the Prefixes intergraded with the categories:

Anyway to remove the "Prefix" Column from the searches? Just only show the Prefixes in the Forum their assigned to?

lol ever noticed that this option is a standard in the vbulletin version 3.7.x , in your admincp you can add the prefix