This is really something I can use. Thank you. I am looking into also buying the pro version. Although I get this error after installation when I go into a thread:

Fatal error: Class 'vB_Template' not found in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/dbtech/usertag/hooks/postbit_display_complete.php on line 9

I hope you can help. Thanks!

I am quite interested in this... but...

a) I don't think I want the Thread tagging (separate tagging, not @). Can it easily be disabled?

b) I think using the semicolon is going to be too much for dumb users :) What about the option of making it something more like BBcode, like [@username] and that way there is also a toolbar icon (like a megaphone -> shout icon), and the dialog input box can just ask "username to shout at" or whatever. Just an idea.

c) I see on your forum you're already considering group/category shouts, that sounds like a very good idea.

d) Kind of a follow-up to (b) now that I think about it :) My forum usernames have this regex "^[A-Z0-9 ]+$", with that in mind I am wondering if there is a simpler way as to not require the semicolon to activate the tagging...

Mike

I believe that has been fixed now, re-download the zip and re-upload all the files :)

You'd have to remove the contents of the taglist template. That should kill it, and you didn't even have to use fire! :)

A toolbar icon is a good idea, thanks! I'll write that down for future versions.

You still have a space in your username, which means matching on space won't work.
Also, not every forum has that regexp ;) To get it working properly, we had to step away from a simple regexp and onto more advanced parsing, so I think our best bet is to go with that BBCode toolbar icon :)


In other news, a small fix for HTML characters not appearing properly in thread tags (& being shown as & etc) has been released :)

Awesome!! All good now! Thanks for the fast update. I am tagging....

EDIT: I tried to tag all my staff in my Admin forum informing them of this new mod. So I added all their usernames in the editor like this: @username; @username; etc. After posting, I see the their names are now linked to their userprofiles. But there is no mention of the post under the "Mention" tab on their profiles though. The profile page also don't finish loading. Can you please advise.

Thank you.

Does the postbit still update with incremented "mentions" count?

Additionally, can you open the dbtech_usertag_mention table and see if the mentions inserted properly there?

I don't see any count in the postbit for 'mentions' in the postbit.

Sorry, where to check this? :o

I don't like having to type out @username and then having to include a Semicolon...

Also, you didn't cache any of the templates in your modification.

Is it possible to make it similar to Twitter with just @username?

the table would be checked in phpmyadmin or a similar mysql tool. Sorry I can't be of more help atm but I am currently without a net connection :(

sorry, Twitter style is not possible because ; is the only way we can detect the end of am username.

I'll look into template caching, thanks :)

Would just like to let you know that this is now working perfectly!! And it is really awesome!! I would recommend this to everyone!

And thanks again for your great service mate!!

fantastic, installed!!