[PORT] Who quoted me Plugin
 

This Plugin is a Port of Gamingforces vB 3.0 Mod
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...8&page=3&pp=15

[ Feature Description ]
This is a very popular feature on my community since it allows people to easily track who's been quoting them. This is very useful because it allows you to easily check up on who's been replying to you!

How does it work?

1. John quotes Paris in a reply and also quotes Nicole.
2. The hack recognizes that John's quoting Paris and Nicole and adds 2 entries to the quotedata table.
3. Paris and Nicole can see in their "Who Quoted Me?" page that John has quoted their post.
4. Paris wants to see the post with her quoted on and she clicks the link. She is brought to the post!
5. Everyone is happy and John enjoys a Chalupa from Taco Bell.*

For such a useful feature, it's incredibly easy to install!

You can easily modify the number of results to display for the user! Just change the $zig in the whoquotedme.php file!

What line are you referring to below, I can't see any file edits in the instructions.

Sorry I don't know how to change the Description... :(

It's the old one. Of course You don't have to make changes. The Plugin does it. Read the Install.txt for more Informations.

Greetings
Roland

Actually yes, that whole line is wrong - since installing the product does it all.

Use the "Edit Modification" link (right hand side of the post).

THX a lot! I've corrected it.

For a german Version of my Port visit:

http://www.vbhacks-germany.com/forum...ead.php?t=2481

Until now no Bugs was reported by the german Community.

Greets
Roland

another bug: PHRASES...

you have english and german language texts in the same template, think of it!!! use $vbphrase[] variables!

Ops a little translation error. I have updated the zip file.

THX!

Roland

Did GamingForces give you permission to migrate his hack?

Thanks!

No.... :o

Since Gamingforce wasn't online for a long time. I ported it for a Friend. Then I recived mails from People who want it too. So I posted it at vbhacks.de a time ago.

I thougt that the english-speaking community would like it too.

If one can only post PORTS with authorisation of the author. I apollogize and please delete this Thread.

The Copyright is still in the install.txt

Sorry

Roland

I suggest you try again to get his permission. Without permission of the author it is not possible to redistribute (modified or not) his/her work. As a community of coders we take copyright seriously, and unfortunatly this is one of the side effects of that.

Will keep it up one more week to give you the chance to get permission.

THX I've send him an email. I will post his answer here postiv or negativ when I recive it.

Ok, and good luck.

How would I restrict this so that only certain usergroups can use it?

Thanks for finally porting this! My users love it!

Might be rather difficult, what with gamingforce.com vanishing.. :nervous:

Seems unlikely you will get an answer, which is a shame - but once again it highlights the problem of porting abandoned hacks. :(

Actually, I think it highlights the anal rules about porting hacks. If an author releases a hack to the public, the public should be able to modify, update, etc. the code without permission as long as credit is given.

The stupid mindset that people are "stealing" other peoples' freely-distributed work is what causes a huge logjam in development of hacks for new vb versions.

Porting a hack needs permission? Stupid.

It's not stupid if the author is active and/or contactable. It is a bit naff if they seem to have just vanished for months and abandoned their code.

Yes it does, as it is protected by copyright ;)

If you don't mind the author potentially returning and sueing you for taking over their intellectual property, then you run that risk, but we don't allow it here...

Chris

Protected by copyright, huh? I highly doubt anyone here has their work copyrighted.

If someone is re-releasing freely-distributed material FREELY, then there's no problem. If they were making a profit off it, that's another issue.

Or how about putting a message like this on the forums...

When you post your code, it becomes public, open-source material, and others are free to modify/re-release the code as they see fit.

Make them agree to it before the post will appear on the website.

Until now i havent an answer neither email nor ICQ.

:disappointed:

Anyone got a screenshot of this. I think it's what I'm looking for but I'm not installing until I'm sure.

K

Everything released has a personal copyright due to it being their illectual property, something we cannot waive legally...

Chris

As Chris already said, most things released are automatically placed under copyright.
See also this link: http://www.intellectual-property.gov...protection.htm

Followed attachment instructions to the letter under 3.5.2 and when I go to whoquotedme.php from user cp, although the table seems OK, I don't see any quotes listed.

and the system is not working on all situations... if you edit a post and add a new quote, the quote is not parsed inside the system, it is just when you post a new reply...

I hate to take the thread off topic but with a million different liscencing schemes such as the GNU, etc, can't we have our own vb.org liscence where hacks released here can be updated and ported to new versions so long as its not redistributed on other sites, etc etc etc. Yes the author has to choose to use it but its one step closer to making vb.org a better place.

exactly! this would be a huge improvement.

desnt work for me on 3.5.3

I'm in the same boat. All's well except that nothing actually appears in the "Who Quoted Me" list.

Mine works... but... reported posts in private forums showed up to end users! Doh!

Uninstalled.

Yikes. I need to uninstall just in case the above happens to me.

Is there any way to make this also work for when a user types in the quote tags himself, or uses the 'quick quote' plugin? It currently only works when the user actually uses the 'reply' button

Yes - I did a local fix for that when we used 3.0 - I never bothered with this on 3.5.

Super cool... does this work for 3.5.4?

Some controversy about the port! I allow this port but I will be creating an all-new version soon.

That would be great, I'm very much looking forward to seeing that, Gamingforce!!! Thank you.

Would be very great because it's not working with vBulletin 3.6!

Any chance this plugin/product can be upgraded for 3.6.0 ?