Module CMPS: Latest and Random Public Social Groups
 

Adds a Module which shows the last 5 public Social Groups Created

Added a module which randomly displays Groups.
Use latestsocialgroups to display the most recently created or use randomsocialgroups to display 5 random groups.
See screenshot for details

Dependencies:
VbA CMPS


How to install

Admincp => vBa CMPS => Download / Upload Module
Click [Browse]
Browse for the file "latestsocialgroups.module" or randomsocialgroups.module
2-26-2008 - Added XML files as an alternative to install.
Submit
Select pages and locations

To restrict to a specific category find in your modules folder either vba_groups.php for latest or vba_randgroups.php for random:

and replace with:

Where socilagroupcategoryid is the category id of the category you wish to show.

Tested on Vb 3.8.3
VbAdvanced CMPS v3.2

Please Click Installed if you use this.

First install , thankyou :)

You are welcome!

installed works great!

I added to the first post a Random Module in addition to the Latest Module. Enjoy!

Installed it and the modules are shown on my portal BUT

it doesnt show any group. Only if I click on "Show all GRoups"

What is wrong?:confused:

These modules only pull "Public" groups. If the only groups you have created are invite only, they will not show.

EDIT: Now that I said above I got to looking at the code and realized that statement wasn't true. Updated the Zips to make it true.

My groups are public...

Redownload the module and allow overwrite and see if that helps. If it does not, PM your site with login details and I will have a look if you want.

overwrote it and now it works well! Thanks!

Actually it worked. When I checked it again I got this message:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: ml/forum/modules/vba_randgroups.php
Line: 18

Now I reinstalled it and it works again...but I am afraid that I will get the error message above again...

Hope to install soon

Let me know if it pops up again and don't forget to click install.

nice idea

tried it again. And I get again

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/www/web99/html/forum/modules/vba_randgroups.php
Line: 18

This happens when I log out and click on "Go to Forums Index".

As soon as it was installed, my front page wouldnt load. When I removed it, it was ok again. Weird.

thaaaaaaaanks!!!!

Try this wattieuk:

Admin CP => vBa CMPS => Default Settings => Main Options => Process PHP File Modules Within A Function

Thanks for the reply but it's already turned on.

See post below.

See update in Blue in first post. For some reason, some modules are adding spaces after the closing ?> tag in the php files in your forum/modules folder. This fix seems to work with any modules that you may have installed.

thanks

How about a 'latest group comments' function?

Sounds easy enough (Famous Last Words). Give me until the weekend and I will Have this ready if possible. Please click install for this one if you use it. Thanks!

That would be awesome.

I am getting this error:
I can't find line 20.

Exactly. Thats why you need to do the file edit in blue in the first post, or overwrite the vba_groups.php file with the one in the first post. Again, for some reason, the export is adding spaces after the ?> tag. If you put you cursor at the end of that and hit delete to delete the empty spaces, all will be fine.

The zip files have been updated. There shouldn't be any more issues with headers being sent and cookies anymore.

That fixed it. Thanks for the swift update! Its looking good.
I hope it works out with the latest comments feature.

I'm getting this error with vbulletin 3.7.0 beta 3 and vbCMPS v3.0 RC2

The file you have uploaded is not a valid module file.

Not sure what that's all about. Thanks.

Jim

Zip files have been updated. Sorry :(

Thanks! Works great now.

You are welcome.

Installed without any troubles. vB 3.7.0 Beta 4 and vBA 3.0 RC2

Thanks!

Blank index page

What is your site url? PM if you don't want it public

installed but not showing any public groups... same problem. I downloaded the lastest zip

I had to uninstall then reinstall to get them to show up. But then it caused a bunch of errors so I had to take it back off again. Around 40 of them out of about 60 were from this one mod. :(

So you had 20 more errors? What were you doing, upgrading vbadvanced?

I m using vb3.7 beta5 and vba 3.0 gold... downloaded the lastest zip from the first post and installed, showing nothin...