Status of Logician Hacks (vb2 -> vb3 porting)
 

Hey there,

I receive many questions about the porting of my hacks so I wanted to inform everybody in this thread. I'll try to update this thread in time. Here is the status of my hacks:

Hacks Already Ported into VB3:
[vB 2.2.x] Dynamic Announcements: Programmable Forum Home Announcement/Message with conditionals 05.Sep.2002 173 => vb 3 version here
[vB 2.2.x] Trap Banned Members: They cant logout. 17.Apr.2002 63 => vb 3 version here
[vB 2.2.x] Message Editing Hierarchy 24.May.2002 42 => Xenon ported it here.
[vB 2.2.x] Clean Sweep Private Message Box 10.May.2002 49 => Erwin ported it here.
[vB 2.2.x] Download Thread 12.Jul.2002 224 => vb 3 version here
WebTemplates 3.x: VB Integrated Content Management System => vb 3 version here


Hacks Currently Being Worked ON:
N/A


Hacks Obselete:
These hacks are obselete and will not be ported into vb3 because vb3 already has them as a default feature:

[vB 2.2.x] Advanced Templates: Dynamic Templates Changing according to different conditions 08.Sep.2002 161
[vB 2.2.x] Confirm Unsubscribe From All Threads Requests 29.Aug.2002 24
[vB 2.2.x] Automatic Greeting Email/PM/Threads for Member Birthdays 10.Jun.2002 233
[vB 2.2.x] Change "Subscribe to This Thread" link to "Unsubscribe" if already subscribed 27.Feb.2002 85

Hacks I don't plan to port into vb3:
[vB 2.2.x] Logician NEWS: Drag Any Message to Your Main Page 31.May.2002 102
[vB 2.2.x] PM/Email Notification for Pending (Moderated) Messages 07.May.2002 4
[vB 2.2.x] Display Board Authorities in Forum Home 22.Jun.2002 19
[vB 2.2.x] Prevent Shouting (ALL-CAPS) in Subject Field (For Non-English Boards) 13.Feb.2002 5
[vB 2.2.x] Send Part of User's Reply with Email Notification 09.Feb.2002 40
[vB 2.2.x] Fast access to forum rules from anywhere
(If you need "Send Part of User's Reply with Email Notification" or "Fast access to forum rules from anywhere" hacks in vb3, open a thread in modification requests forum and pm the thread to me and I'll give you the hack code in your thread.)

Hacks Waiting in my to-do list to Port:
[vB 2.2.x] RealTime Template Compressor: Reduces page sizes, loads pages faster, saves Bandwidth 29.Aug.2003 85
[vB 2.2.x] Easy Unsubscription From Admin Email (Unsubscribe Newsletter Link ) 20.Mar.2003 8
[vB 2.2.x] Advanced Password Rules 23.Jul.2002 68
[vB 2.2.x] Greet Members' Xth posts via Email/PM/Thread automatically 14.Jun.2002 58
[vB 2.2.x] Display Thread Raters: Who rated how? 04.Jun.2002 30
[vB 2.2.x] Date blinks to get attention if viewed message is older than X days 22.May.2002 18
[vB 2.2.x] HTML Email Feature 03.May.2002 42
[vB 2.2.x] Fast Access to Visibility/Invisibility 28.Apr.2002 31
[vB 2.2.x] Show Thread Subscribers in All Threads 25.Mar.2002 22
[vB 2.2.x] Numeric Required User Profile Field 16.Feb.2002 8
[vB 2.2.x] Who might this New User be? 22.May.2002 162 => One note for who might this new user be hack: I need to find a different algorithm to port this hack because vb3 password system has changed so dramatically that it made this hack impossible to match new users for passwords. So this calls for some new thoughts and more work to port the hack. Thus this has lower priority in my to-do list atm.

As you can see I have quite long to-do list so I thank you for patience and understanding and extend my apologies if you are waiting for one of these hacks.

Great list, Logician! I wish every major hack developer here would offer such a list :)

Of the Hacks in your To-Do List, the one I'd like to see soonest is Who might this New User be? What can we do to change your mind?? :squareeyed:

If you ask Kathy to add it to her to-do list, you can consider it delivered. ^^ But even in this scenario I need to find a wise way to match passwords in the new password system which made it very hard for me to port this hack as it salts passwords uniquely.

[high]* the Sandman goes to send Kathy a PM...[/high]

Logician, what is Kathy's username? I would like to send her a PM concerning the hack as well. Like "the Sandman", I view this particular hack as virtually essential to maintaining decorum on our fairly large community. I've had the hack for over a year now and I simply couldn't imagine upgrading until it was in place. It's important in keeping the trash out and avoiding multiple registrations.

Kathy and Sandman are the owners and admins of Admin Zone Forums.

what it means :D *smile*

30. june release date or 3 Weeks counted from beginning the first post would mean it would be ready in 2 weeks?

I know only one thing!
I waited sooo long before i convert my 2.3.0 board into 3.0.0, the only reason for this was the webtemplates could not be ported to vb3.0.0 .. so. in vb2.3.0 i worked many weeks on dynamic pages and it was a big hooray when the first user visited this new kind of website .. in just a few days this section (all webtemplate pages) appeared to be the most visited and most important websitesites on www.spieleplanet.com .. the dynamic and information in webtemplates could pull out nearly everything and nearly an infinity loop of options and layouts..

..but one, really bad day, the server collapes and much data was lost, i had to build up everything new from zero.
So i decided to upgrade the board to vb3.0.0, it is a also great thing this new version of vBulletin, but without the webtemplates www.spieleplanet.com is only driving on 50% of the possibilities users could have with the webtemplates

.. it is really naked now :( ..

one thing you have to know:
.. if i would win in a lottery. .maybe i will.. i will give you a part of it .. you do a very great job .. maybe one day i am millionare .. than you will be it too ..

..my baby www.spieleplanet.com is next to my wife a very importand thing to me.. and your works did this part to a very nice place where freinds, me and all the 10 Million visitors i had spend their time in the last 3 years :D

..so i would do anything to help you finishing up the news version webtepmplates.. just tell my a m if you need somthing ..

happy greeting from Germany
Daniel L. (spieleplanet.com)

wow very nice&praiseful comments thank you! I didn't know any of my hacks meant so much for some people. Let me give you some good news then: ;) Vb3 version of webtemplates is mostly ready. I have some little work to polish it, then some more work to test it before releasing. Still no promises but I believe it will be released in 2 weeks.

Ps. I wish you win the lottery! ^^

This is one of my favorites. ;)

Fast Access to Visibility/Invisibility

Thanks Logician! VBTemplates is looking good :D If you need a beta tester i'm your guy.

Logician, your links to Dynamic Announcements and Trap Banned Users are mixed up. ;)

Webtemplate production is taking sometime, sorry for that. In the meantime I released a easier to port hack: Download Thread.

Its number of installers were more than that of webtemplates anyway. ^^

:( I'm still up for testing :) Basic HTML pages only tho, I don't have any pages that use the more advanced features at the moment.

Logician - Do you have a new date or time frame in mind for completing the vB3 webtemplates hack?

Thanks!

Sorry all I can say is "soon". I have things to deal with at the moment. As soon as I have some spare time, I'll finish it. It is already mostly finished but of course there are still things to do like test it, fix bugs, write help files, write install instructions, write upgrade instructions etc.

I can test :D

I'm begging to test, lol.

Are you begging to test or use? ^^ I still have to write the install instructions etc. so that I can send it to test users.

Both :D I was dumb enough to upgrade to VB3 without checking if the old WT would work :( I guessed as no chanegs to VB2 files were changed it would just work, I was wrong :D

But if you need people to test before you release, i'm up for it when you are ready.

I assume that it CAN port the vB2 webtemplates, right?

i will test it if you really want test user .. send it to me anytime .. night,day no matter :D and tell me what to test beside normal installation and creating news templates with news queries :D

..really .. i would test it

greetings

Logician - I note that you've put this in your 'Obselete hacks' pile. Does vB3 have an automated method for this then?

"This" is?

Sorry I thought I'd posted it in the hack thread itself, then saw your progress link and posted it there instead :(.

I was referring to your Birthday Greeting thread. I used it all the time for my members, had it customised to include HTML, sounds etc. Was a nice hack :cool:.

I see.

I didnt plan to import this hack because its primary feature (greeting birthdays automatically) are already covered by vb3. However if I recall correctly, somebody already released a hack for vb3 for creating greeting threads for birthdays so I'd say check it out.

Thx. will do :).

Checked it out, but it's not as good as yours to be honest.

Hi Logician :) .. still waiting for the great WT 3.0 .. do you any idea when you will finish it ?

Yep, i'm itching for WT3 :(

hehe i cant wait .. but we have to wait until its finished .. i hope it will be something like this month ..

Sorry guys some unexpected things suddenly came up. We need to do some major repairwork in the house, I can hardly commit time for my business, let alone webtemplates.

Is it possible to release what you have as beta? I just need something that will use my WT2 info and display basic html. No fancy stuff needed :D

This is what you get for making an outstanding hack :D

Thats a no then, lol.

Oh well, stuffed for now I guess. Can I revert to VB2 without loosing posts etc?

you can not downgrade from vb3 to vb2. PM me your email and I'll send you the part I have finished. There is no guarentee it will work bugless but I see you are desperate so I'm hoping that this can help you a little. But please note that I can not spare extra time to fix bugs of the script I'll send to you. So if it does not work, you need to wait for the official release. Hope this helps a bit.

Edit : Second thought: Instead of email, give me access (vb admin cp, phpmyadmin, ftp) to your server so that I can install it for you. It will take a lot of time to compile a "how to install document" if you try to install yourself.

If your still up for it, mail it to john@addison-net.co.uk and I might be able to work it out. I'm in need but I don't expect you to set it up for me, I see you have much more important things to do.

But if I can't figure it out and you have some time over the next week or so i'll get you access. My site is hosted by GameSpy, i'll send a mail to them on Monday morning requesting an account for you. If they don't respond with 24 hours i'll send you my details, i'm sure I can trust you :D

Thanks again!

email sent. try to figure out installing yourself (file structure is pretty same with vb2 version) and if you are stuck, you can give me access so that I'll check it out.

whoops .. me too please :D admin@spieleplanet.com .. is my email ..maybe i can be also lucky with a beta :D

hmpf .. just in need of it ..

I already sent it to you yesterday

ok got it now the second time :D

@john you managed installing this?
i will begin now a try out .. can you givbe me some hints?