Personal Sticky Threads
 

What are "Personal Sticky Threads"?

Personal Sticky Threads (aka "Personal Stickies") is an Add-on for vBulletin that will allow your users to sticky threads that only they will see as stickied; these "personal stickies" will appear beneath normal sticky threads. This Hack was originally designed by Mephisteus for vBulletin 3.5, and re-released (with his permission) for vBulletin 3.7.x. This hack requires a couple of File Edits, and should be attempted by those who are comfortable editing vBulletin source files. That said, I have included modified detailed instructions that should make installation straight-forward and easy.

Special thanks are owed to Mephisteus, for allowing an updated re-release for vBulletin 3.7, and to john1744 and zendive for improving upon the query alterations. As I typically disclaim with my other Add-ons, I am generally a neophyte at this sort of stuff and I tend to modify hacks and tinker with pre-existing code to get the results that I want. That said, please use this discussion thread as a community-support and mutual learning opportunity.

Finally, if you like this hack and install it, please:


Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7.x Series

Installation

Installation is straight-forward. Simply download the attached archive, decompress on your local hard drive, and review the Installation.txt file for the specific steps. There are, broadly, four steps:

1. Import product-personalsticky.xml
2. Upload the two images into their respective folders
3. Perform two file edits to forumdisplay.php
4. Perform four template edits to three templates.

Add-Ons

This modification can be further customized:

• Limit to Specific Usergroups (iRO Wiki, imported from 1.0.3b)

Version History

• 1.0.3c: Updated for vBulletin 3.7.3 (August 28, 2008)

nice one!

Great stuff.

Sadly, I don't really go with file edits... It just makes more work when upgrading.

other than that, nice hack!

This thread is worth it....even for the file edits!

Absolutely. Unfortunately, there's no way around them for this sort of functionality; I couldn't find any hooks that existed that allowed me to modify the pre-existing queries, and I didn't want to add any new queries. As it stands, the two (minor) file edits to a (single) file enable this hack to keep overhead low/non-existent. That said, you are totally right -- these file edits would have to be something that would be maintained while upgrading.

Glad that you like it! Some great work by coders far better than I went into this add-on; be sure to Mark this Add-on as Installed if you go with it. :) Thanks!

REally nice hack

but like Fresh Froot said .. editing templates is a pain specaily when upgrading

so maybe you can do something about it

I'm totally open to suggestions! Like I said, I'm still pretty new at this, so if anyone knows of better hooks that accomplish the same thing as these two minor file edits (less than a few characters each) without adding any queries, like the file edits accomplish, please let me know! I'd love to learn. :)

Great mod , i remmber there is another mod it is add a favorite thread for you !

I think what is really needed is a bookmark feature so people can tag threads of interest and then be able to find them. Having those thread stuck to the top means that they are always in your face. I suppose its the right answer for some applications, but not the general case, IMO.

Anybody know of a well-done bookmark hack?

yeah nice work and thanks for sharing. I might hold off on this. I have a feeling some members might think it is global and will go crazy with it until they realize it is only showing for them lol.

yup, this really nice, "install"

I keep getting that error message I have been over everything a million times and I dont know where I am going wrong, can anyone help please.

That's weird. Are you using unmodified vBulletin 3.7.3 Files? Did you make sure to apply the two file edits only to forumdisplay.php?

Thank you! I hope you enjoy this add-on, and if you do, please mark it as installed.

The "addon" was a step in the direction I was going to see if it could be added. While I am looking for a per user group (preferably ACP controled) I would also like to be able to control how many personal stickies any particular user group can actualy have.

Fantastic Mod! PLEASE figure a way to cut out the file and template edits.

The edits to FORUMDISPLAY.PHP appear to be causing the following database error:

Templates I don't mind, since we have only 2, but I don't want to be modifying files. Will tag to watch for a change.

great mod! altho it is a pain to add when you have alot of styles

Installed cheers.

A great addition!

Great mod. Can you have options to allow only certain groups access to it?

Absolutely. This is one of the add-ons listed on the original post and requires tinkering with a plug-in.

Apparently, you did not apply the file edits appropriately, or were using an unclean version of forumdisplay.php. Please make sure you're using the forumdisplay.php from vBulletin 3.7.3 and follow the directions exactly.

Thanks again!

Can you define usergroup permissions for this function?

Very good Idea:)
User will feel more mighty with that...thanks.

Yes, absolutely. Look at this posting. You basically edit a couple of lines of code, and you're all set.

Thanks! Will install.

Thanks, Alfa1. Please mark as installed :)

I always do so, right after I install a mod.

Very nice! Works like a charm, Thank You!

Edit. One small problem. It is showing up twice, once about the normal stickies and once again below the normal stickies.

Attachment 87008

Another problem, regestered members do not see the icon image. It works, in 2 places, but the little icon is missing.

EDIT: Once a person posts in the thread they have stuck, then the icon will show up.

i would like also to see this mod as a full plugin with no file edits and if possible no template edits. good luck

Great hack - got a question thought

I have this enabled on my forum - but I want it so only certain members can access this feature (ie depends on what usergroup their in)

How can I make this possible? So that only certain groups can use this?

Hi there. I'm glad that you like it. Please "Mark as Installed" so that I can keep you informed of any changes and improvements I make.

Re: your question, the first add-on for this patch can limit it by usergroup:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=141

Beautiful! Thank you for your prompt support!

(i clicked mark and it went back to this page) - so I hope I did it correct :D

You are most welcome, and yes, you are all set. Thank you!

The Add-on that I linked you to is the basic principle by which you can limit by usergroup; it just requires some minor tinkering with the plugin and you can get it to be a special benefit; I use it, for example, for my subscribers.

I'm pretty much a noob here, was able to get this somewhat functional. The only problem I can see right now is instead of the .gifs showing, instead it says "Personal Sticky Thread" (in thread tools it just says Unstick This Thread; no image).

Any ideas what I need to do to remedy this?

TIA

Hose

*edit* nvm, fixed in myself. Forgot to add the .gifs to the skin directories

GREAT Mod...

wonder if there is a way to incorporate this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165550 to work with it??

i try to add it

but i get a databese error
when i add this line

AND threadid NOT IN ($personalstickysq)

from


someone knows whats going?


edit: it seems to work even if you dont add the editions in forumdisplay.php, in vb 3.8.0

in threadbits template i get this error, i have checked and rechecked it

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

The conditional on line 14 appears to be missing its end tag (</if>). The template will not function properly unless this is fixed.

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.