So I don't use the second code you gave me at all? I just add this after what I already have there, right? And do the rest of it like you said? The first code and the template edits? I just want to be sure. :)

yea, im using 2.2.3 and im slowly converting every thing over to 2.2.6, skip the second part and add that after it, it should work, it checks to see if its the first post and the edit post time isnt up and updates the description

Will the description box ALWAYS show up for the Admin then? Because I saw it on the first post of a message that is over a week old. :)

if you want the admin to always edit it change it to this

If you want the description box to not show when the edit time is up but only show for an admin, change this:
to this:

Thank you very much. You were about 2 steps ahead of me on all of this. I was about to ask you each time for what you put in the next message before I finished the last message. :) That's what I call reading someone's mind. :) Thanks again for all of the help with this. It works great! :)

No problem :)

Very handy for a news-centric site like mine. Now I can go through and add descriptions to past news articles as well as current ones!

Thanks for a great hack, and to slynderdale for the terrific editpost addition!

Works like an absolute charm!

http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/forums/f...p?s=&forumid=2

Thanks all!

Couple of quick questions:

Is it possible to have the description come up under the title of a thread on the thread's first page?

Also, how would it be possible to have the descriptions show up on a vbPortals front page?

in showthread just add:
$thread[description]
where ever you want the thread description to be showed, hmm, i dont have vbportal but if they use like $thread[title] and stuff, just add $thread[description] where you want it and see if that works, if it doesnt, pm me and ill help you out

Actually I'd want to be editing postbit, wouldn't I? Seeing as I want the description to come under the thread title (which doubles as the title of the first post in the thread).

Is that possible?

No, Slynderdale's right, you would do that in the Showthread template. That is where I have mine. :)

OK I've upgraded to 2.2.6, everything seems to be working except the changes I make to threads_editthread don't seem to be taking effect - nobody can edit their thread descriptions. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

*Bump*

make sure you have the query that updates the description, if you dont have it, it wont update

This doesn't work with 2.2.6 - nothing shows in editpost and nothing shows on forumdisplay. I have tried on 3 seperate board installs, none of them work. Anyone have any input?

pm me, ill help you out

Thank you sir, very generous of you.

This still doesn't work for me on 2.2.6. Anyone else having any problems?

Still not working, anyone else having this problem?!

dope man I just installed it

Ahhh man I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. All the file edits, queries and the template edits are there. :(

i did the edit addon by Slynderdale, and i have the same problem that GameForums seems to have...

I did all the changes correctly, i try to edit a post and and add a description on it, seems to go ok but there is no description on forumdisplay..

I try to make a new test subject with despcription and it works fine !

i have 2.2.6 and didn't have to skip the second code etc.. i found

so i don't understand either i'm doing wrong, please help us

thanks :p

*Bump*

Anyone able to help, please? I'd love this feature to be working as it used to.

This has to be one of my fav hacks, nice work, i liked it so much i even made a template mod for it, which is based on the big thread one

http://www.vbulletintemplates.com/mo...=&threadid=971

Installed!

Great hack! ^_^

The lack of working-ness is most annoying. :(

For some strange reason I upgraded to 2.2.7, and it now all works great. Cheers. :D

hallo. it`s great hack! thanx! I have only one problem - when someone post new thread and DON`T insert DESCRIPTION in the field then hack take a bit from $message text and put into $decription field. Can i fix it so if NO decription inserted - that`s mean NO description at all??? Or where can i configure numbers of symbols inserted from $message?

I hope you understand my ****ing english (sorry for that). If you already discuss it before just give me a link, please (i have not much time to serash all pages)

thanx a lot!

Good Luck

Nice hack, my members gotta vote if they want to have it yet, but I personally dig it. Have it running fine and ran into no problems on my local vb instance (2.2.9)

Btw, I wonder if it is possible to have an option for a user to NOT view the descriptions, via an option set in the UserCP etc? Would that be feasable or require a lot of change?

It doesn't work for me >.< and I would like to see an addon like the one above.

I get this error:

Database error in vBulletin 2.2.9:

Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO thread
(threadid,title,lastpost,forumid,open,replycount,p ostusername,postuserid,lastposter,dateline,iconid, visible,attach,helpoption,sticky,description)
VALUES
(NULL,'s','1043706789','95','1','0','LOD-squa','1','LOD-squa','1043706789','0','1','0','','0,'s')
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 's')' at line 5

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Monday 27th of January 2003 05:33:09 PM
Script: http://forum.lod-squared.com/newthread.php
Referer: http://forum.lod-squared.com/newthre...ead&forumid=95

is there anyway i can get descriptions to be available only in certain forums

nice, i am going to install it!!

Works perfectly fine on vB2.3.0, thanks for such a great hack!!!

can somegive me a screen shot of forum display for this hack ??

Thanks

hello, i did this althogh the hack is working fine...when applied to the edit post template and .php file,

I am still not able to edit the sub title ?? the changes doesn't reflect at all.

Kindly help me here with the edit post thingy ??
I am running on ver 2.3.0 !
Thanks much

Uninstall and do it over, it's worked perfect for me since the hack came out. I'm running vB2.3.0 also.

Add-on - This'll add thread descriptions to your search results like for 'Get new posts' etc.

Hello,

I just mixed up the suggestions by 3 hackers here ( Scott MacVicar, Austin Dea, Slynderdale ) and installed it on my forums. Its working very fine without any problems on stable release of vB 2.3.0 .

Thank you very much for the hack to all 3 of you.

I just have a small question, rather a minor change, which i am not sure, how to do it. I hope to get some help on this issue :

When a Thread description ( i call it sub title ) is given for a particular thread, the actual Height of the cell in the forumdisplaybit increases, which makes the threads with description look bigger. Isn't it possible to retain the same height as that of threads with No description for the threads with description also ??
Infact, I just tried to remove the <BR> in forumdisplaybit template, but then again, if the title is small, the description starts off from where the main thread title ends, which shouldn't be the case.
The description should always be below the main thread title and now, i want it to have the same height as that of threads with no description.

I have also attached an image along with post which clearly indicates the difference in height.
Referring to that image : What i am looking at is the Second Posting with description should have the same height as that of the Sample Posting, which has no description. How can i do that, if it is possible ??

Thank you for any help here.

Cheers

Is this the hack that when you mouseover it shows teh person's last update?