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sblum

08-11-2004 10:00 PM

Complete Thread Description Hack 1.7

Complete Thread Description

Version: 1.7
vBulletin Version: 3.0.3
Updated and Adapted by: Steven Blum
Install difficulty: Pretty easy

Updates:

Updates in 1.7:

All known issues fixed. If a post error message is encountered in making a new thread, the threaddesc will reappear in the form along with the title and the message.

Updates in 1.6.2:

Adjustments in instructions to clarify and make a couple steps much easier. Also, fixed a problem that would cause threads with both descriptions and ratings to display on 3 lines instead of 2.

Updates in 1.6.1:

soft-deleted threads will now display properly

Updates in 1.6:

Fixed an error that would come up if you tried to edit a thread description and add an apostrophe.
Fixed an error that would make it so announcements didn't span the whole table width.

Description:
This is basically a massively updated and modified version of eXtremeTim's thread description hack located here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=60697

This hack emulates thread descriptions as seen in IPB, displaying them right below the thread title. Also, an optional step puts thread creator in its own column, basically making it look like most other forums.

Features:

Users are allowed to leave thread descriptions upon initial posting of a thread
Users with permission are allowed to edit thread description within the same time limit allowed to edit a thread
Thread description shows up in Searches as well as Forumdisplay
Thread description also shows up on the first post of a thread, right next to title
Added: Forumdisplay like most other forums making thread creator display in a new column - this step is optional and included in another txt file, but strongly recommended (it looks pretty retarded the other way)

Nobody was doing updates or answering questions, so I took matters into my own hands! This is my first officially released vB hack. Everything works perfectly on my forums, but if you have any problems with this let me know.

Note: I've discovered that if you have it set so that people can not edit the thread title after a certain amount of time, they will be unable to edit thread description, which is as intended. However, admins will also not be able to edit the thread title, which is not intended. On my forums I do not use such restrictions so it's not a problem, and I don't have any plans to update this hack accordingly, sorry.

Demo

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Sorry, no screenshots are available right now, I'm currently at work and have no image manipulating program other than mspaint. You can see it in action at my forum. If you receive any errors or there are any bugs, please let me know and I'll try to get it fixed.

And always, if you like this hack, please click install. Thank you!

Edit: Added the threadstarterinowncolum (like i have on my boards and IPB has) text file... You want to do this before you add thread description. It's pretty easy to do it after, the search just won't work 100% due to an extra line involving threaddesc. I have tested these modifications, and it works 100% fine for me, but back up your templates anyways and report any errors here.

turbidblue

08-12-2004 08:27 PM

thank you so much! installed flawlessly without any problems!! I have been waiting for a solid release of this hack for sometime now!!

thank you so much!

[high]* turbidblue clicks install
[/high]

p.s. I was wondering how you got your forum to have the thread starter in its own box on the forum display? mine is right below the thread title, well now thread description!

thanks again!

;)

sblum

08-12-2004 08:28 PM

Good to hear, thanks for the positive response.

P.S. That's just a simple template edit you can find at www.vbulletintemplates.com - under the thread title "Forumdisplay like IPB" or something to that effect.

turbidblue

08-12-2004 08:29 PM

thanks so much! i have had this installed for no more than 5 minutes and my members are going nuts with it!!

you rock ;)

sblum

08-12-2004 08:34 PM

I just realized that if you haven't edited the thread starter to display in a different column, you'd have to edit the thread description to appear in the threadbit a different way as to not create 3 lines for each thread... I'll add the instructions to the txt file.

turbidblue

08-12-2004 09:49 PM

thank you for that, i tryed the edits found on vbtemplates, but for some reason it kept throwing my display out of whack, so instead i just added the thread desc. right after the title :)

xoxo

sblum

08-12-2004 09:52 PM

I noticed some problems with the vbtemplates modification, too, that I ended up changing manually. I forgot about that. Maybe I should include info on how to do that template mod in the file, too..............

turbidblue

08-12-2004 09:57 PM

i would be even more fond of you if you could ;)

xoxo

sblum

08-12-2004 11:04 PM

Well, there you go. You should do the thread starter in own column first, because if you don't the find+replace won't be exact because of the extra line for the threaddescription hack in threadbit, but any reasonably intelligent person should be able to figure it out. I tested it and I'm 99% sure it should work fine.

turbidblue

08-12-2004 11:17 PM

thanks! i will give it a go and see how it turns out :)

turbidblue

08-12-2004 11:33 PM

worked like a charm! thanks alot! i really appreciate it! :)

FleaBag

08-13-2004 12:07 AM

Oustanding, this is just what I was looking for. :)

wrongful

08-13-2004 03:55 AM

I could be wrong here, I don't know much about PHP but in the following edit in search.php

Code:

######

 

#Find#

 

######

 

SELECT $previewfield

 

thread.threadid, thread.threadid AS postid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,

 

thread.replycount, IF(thread.views=0, thread.replycount+1, thread.views) as views, thread.sticky,

 

thread.pollid, thread.open, thread.lastpost AS postdateline,

 

thread.lastpost, thread.lastposter, thread.attach, thread.postusername, thread.forumid,

 

#################

 

#Add right after#

 

#################

 

thread.threaddesc

shouldn't

Code:

thread.threaddesc

Code:

thread.threaddesc,

wrongful

08-13-2004 04:24 AM

Also for some reason when I edit the threads, and change the thread description, it isn't updating. I have checked all of my edits. :(

sblum

08-13-2004 05:06 AM

Does anyone else have the same problem that wrongful is having? It works 100% for me

turbidblue

08-13-2004 11:15 PM

works 100% here too :)

wrongful

08-14-2004 08:42 PM

Ok after some testing I came to the following conclusion:

It is only not letting me edit the thread desciptions of threads that are older than 10 minutes, which is the time limit to edit the thread title set in the admincp options. Since I am an admin, this rule shouldn't apply to me. I think that's what the problem is. :)

sblum

08-16-2004 06:59 AM

I'll check it out wrongful, but that means that there's other conditionals set somewhere while editing a post to check if you're an admin that I don't know about. I'll check it out tomorrow and try to figure it out.

wrongful

08-20-2004 02:56 PM

I have a huge problem. Whenever someone edits a post, and uses and apostrophie, you get a database error:

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin 3.0.3:
Invalid SQL:
UPDATE thread
SET title = 'gfdsgds', threaddesc = 'gdfgs'', iconid = 0
WHERE threadid = 4110

mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''gdfgs'', iconid = 0
WHERE threadid = 4110' at line 2
mysql error number: 1064
Date: Friday 20th of August 2004 11:56:02 AM
Script: http://www.wrongfuldistribution.com/forums/editpost.php
Referer: http://www.wrongfuldistribution.com/...itpost&p=34096
Username: Terry Norris
IP Address: 69.1.28.89

sblum

08-20-2004 04:45 PM

Sorry abou that, can't believe I overlooked it. If you've instaleld this hack prior to 8/20, open up editpost.php

Find:

PHP Code:


		
			
            $threadupdate[] = "title = '" . addslashes(htmlspecialchars_uni($edit['title'])) . "', threaddesc = '$edit[threaddesc]', iconid = $edit[iconid]";

and replace it with:

PHP Code:


		
			
            $threadupdate[] = "title = '" . addslashes(htmlspecialchars_uni($edit['title'])) . "', threaddesc = '" . addslashes(htmlspecialchars_uni($edit['threaddesc'])) . "', iconid = $edit[iconid]";

wrongful

08-20-2004 06:47 PM

Awesome, thanks!

turbidblue

08-20-2004 10:34 PM

thank you, i was just about to post that error too!

your fix, fixed it ;)

xoxoox

sblum

08-21-2004 02:01 AM

Thanks for bearing with me, guys. First hack I've released, but seems to work well.

ambrosious

08-21-2004 03:29 PM

HELP?!

Did everthing right, near as I can tell, and got this:

ambrosious

08-21-2004 07:21 PM

Anyone?

ambrosious

08-21-2004 07:52 PM

I've narrowed it down to this part of forumdisplay template:

PHP Code:


		
			
<td class="thead" width="80%">

        <if condition="$show['threadratings']"><span style="float:$stylevar[right]"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=voteavg">$vbphrase[rating]</a> $sortarrow[voteavg]</span></if>

        <a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=title">$vbphrase[thread]</a> $sortarrow[title]

        

    </td>

    <td class="thead" width="20%" align="center" background="clear.gif"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=postusername">$vbphrase[thread_starter]</a></td>

    <td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=replycount">$vbphrase[replies]</a> $sortarrow[replycount]</span></td>

    <td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=views">$vbphrase[views]</a> $sortarrow[views]</span></td>    <td class="thead" width="150" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=lastpost">$vbphrase[last_post]</a> $sortarrow[lastpost]</span></td>

</tr>

Does that look right?

gwon	08-21-2004 08:46 PM

Everything has worked fine for me, other than after installing this, whenever I post an announcement I get the following problem (it should be noted that I installed both hacks:

http://www.somethingboring.com/junk/problem.gif

ambrosious

08-21-2004 10:09 PM

Nevermind, it was in threadbit, a missing <. Works wonderfully.

sblum

08-23-2004 07:37 AM

Was the missing < in my instructions?

I didn't include the announcement changes in the txt file? Thought I did, going back to revise...

sblum

08-23-2004 07:39 AM

Open the "forumdisplay_announcement" template, find

PHP Code:


		
			
<td class="alt2" colspan="<if condition="$show['threadicons']">5<else />4</if>">

replace with

PHP Code:


		
			
<td class="alt2" colspan="<if condition="$show['threadicons']">6<else />5</if>">

It's that easy!

Text file now updated with these changes!

gwon	08-23-2004 10:51 AM

thanks for that :)

sblum

08-23-2004 05:51 PM

Any time, there's lots of weird unexpected things that can happen when adding a hack that effect other parts of the board without realizing it. This was one of them, especially because I don't use announcements very often :). If any other issues come up, please let me know and I'll try to correct them ASAP.

thangluoi

08-25-2004 11:16 AM

It works perfect when I open a new thread with a description, but when I edit a title and a description at a same time, it only works for the title, and the description still stay the same like when open the new thread.

lordofgun

08-25-2004 04:02 PM

Hi!

This works great! I just have one small problem. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Am I doing something wrong?

When I click on the NEW THREADS link or do a search, I get the following on search.php:

lordofgun

08-25-2004 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordofgun

I figured it out. Here's what I did:

in search_results template

Replace:

<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2"> </td>
<td class="thead" width="75%">$vbphrase[thread] / $vbphrase[thread_starter]</td>
<td class="thead" width="150" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[replies]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[views]</td>
<td class="thead" width="25%">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
</tr>

With:

<tr>
<td class="thead" colspan="2"> </td>
<td class="thead" width="75%">$vbphrase[thread]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[thread_starter]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[replies]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[views]</td>
<td class="thead" width="25%">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="150" align="center" nowrap="nowrap">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
</tr>

sblum

08-25-2004 06:40 PM

*sigh*, another bit of the instructions I did but forgot to add to the txt file. Adding it in. Thanks

lordofgun

08-26-2004 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sblum

*sigh*, another bit of the instructions I did but forgot to add to the txt file. Adding it in. Thanks

One other thing...

When a thread is "soft deleted," it leaves a big empty space under the LAST POST column on forumdisplay. Not a big deal since only admins will see it, but I thought I'd let you know..

sblum

08-26-2004 07:57 AM

Something I didn't consider because I very rarely delete threads.

in threadbit_deleted, find:

PHP Code:


		
			
             <if condition="$show['guestuser']">

                 $thread[postusername]

             <else />

                 <span style="cursor:pointer" onclick="window.open('member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$thread[postuserid]')">$thread[postusername]</span>

             </if>

         </div>

     </td>

and replace with:

PHP Code:


		
			
             <if condition="$thread['threaddesc']"><span class="smallfont">$thread[threaddesc]</span></if>

        </div>

     </td>

     <td class="alt2">

              

              <if condition="$show['guestuser']">

                  $thread[postusername]

              <else />

                  <span style="cursor:pointer" onclick="window.open('member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$thread[postuserid]')">$thread[postusername]</span>

              </if>

     </td>

sblum

09-12-2004 10:31 PM

Version 1.6.2 released.

sblum

09-20-2004 10:35 PM

Updates in 1.7 (sept. 20, '04):

All known issues fixed. If a post error message is encountered in making a new thread, the threaddesc will reappear in the form along with the title and the message.

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