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[AJAX] vBShout v2 on your vBadvanced CMPS v2!
This is not essentially my hack, it's a group effort originating in the vBadvanced forums.
The following instructions will allow you to add vBShout v2.0 by Zero Tolerance as a fully collapsible module to your vBadvanced CMPS homepage v2.0.0, and remove it from your Forum Home [if you want]. Note, you must have both the vBShout product and CMPS installed with vBulletin 3.5.0 - it may work with Betas, but I really don't know. This is a group effort from a few guys over at the vBadvanced forums, which includes Scotty2k and vbusers11 - I take no credit for this, I just spotted a problem with how the vBa forums was parsing postbits there. Plus the integration wasn't getting much attention over there and it would be a shame for users of vBShout and vBadvanced to miss out on this. :) 1) Create a new template based module called 'Shoutbox' in CMPS [ACP > vBa CMPS > Add Module > Template]. 2) In 'Column', choose 'Center Column'. 3) Set 'Active' and 'Update All Pages' to Yes [assuming you want it to be active, and update all pages]. 4 a) TO ADD AS A CENTRE MODULE - IF YOU DO THIS DO NOT FOLLOW STEPS B OR C! In 'Template Content', paste the following code [this relies on you running your CMPS & vB in the same folder]. This will add a template to the selected Style called 'adv_portal_vbshout'. Code:
<td class="alt1" align="left" width="100%"> In 'Template Content', paste the following code [this relies on you running your CMPS & vB in the same folder]. This will add a template to the selected Style called 'adv_portal_vbshout'. Code:
<td class="alt1" align="left"> Edit your 'forumhome_vbshout_shout' template [ACP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > YOUR DEFAULT STYLE > forumhome_vbshout_shout], and replace it's contents with the following. Code:
<tr> http://www.mysite.com/vbshout.php?do=archive The above, again assumes you have CMPS & vBa running in the same folder. Replace www.mysite.com with the address of your website. If your CMPS & vB are not installed in the same folder, you will need to replace all instances of 'vbshout.php' in the template and in 'Module Link' with the path to where you have vBShout installed in relation to your CMPS. For example if you have CMPS installed in the root folder, and vBshout within a folder called 'forum' you would need to replace all instances of 'vbshout.php' with '/forum/vbshout.php'. Removing vBShout from your Forum Home - IF YOU FOLLOWED STEP 4 b) YOU HAVE TO DO STEP 5 - YOUR VBSHOUT WILL NOT RENDER CORRECTLY ON YOUR FORUM HOME! IF YOU HAVE YOUR SHOUTBOX AS A CENTRE MODULE ON THE CMPS, AND WANT TO ALSO HAVE IT RUNNING ON THE FORUM HOME, DO NOT PERFORM THIS STEP! 6) In your ACP go to [ACP > Plugin System > Plugin Manager] - find on that page 'vBShout [Template Alteration]' and uncheck the box which will deactivate it. That's all there is to it folks, a very simple fix to the problem. |
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Don't thank me, I'm just the messenger. :)
BTW, awesome domain! [high]* FleaBag envies you... [/high] How did you get hold of that? |
Why we abducted it, of course. :alien:
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thanks for relaying that here :D I'm loving the module!
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Wonderful!!! Thanks very very much
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[high]* Brandon Sheley install
[/high] worked great :) my members where missing the shoutbox on the portal ) thank you a million times for letting us know about this |
Great. What, if i only have a "Loading" in my Shoutbox Content (www.webgurus.de) ? I think i have edited the path to vbshout.php everywhere (2 strings found) because i have vba and vb35 in different folders.
Thanks, Wachtmeister //edit: i've missed 2 vbshout.php :) |
Very nice but i want the shoutbox streched out as large as the navbar above the rest. Is this possible? :)
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I also noticed, that the content does not refresh automatic. Is this a bug or just notpossible?
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Wachtmeister there are 3 vbshout references in the template maybe you've mist one :)
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I'm not sure about that one. To be honest in the excitement I never thought of checking to see if that was the case. I will take a look at this to see what I can do...
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The refresh seems to work just fine for me. Is it working properly on your default installation of vBShout?
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Regards, Wachtmeister |
Glad to have this..... I did remove the time of shouts from mine so it would look better and not cause users to have to scroll.
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Everything works fine with the exception of one problem. Within the shoutbox itself, if you click on someone's name, it tries to take you to:
/member.php instead of (in my case) /forums/member.php Can someone assist in resolving this issue? |
Did you place vbshout.php in the /forums directory?
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Also, can someone post how to remove the time that is in front of the usernames from within the shoutbox module? It was posted in the other thread as to how to remove it from forumhome, but that code is not the same in the CMPS module.
Thanks! |
What do you have for your module link?
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I'll post how to remove the time [which I now intend to do myself] from it later tonight. I'll also amend any .php references that need to be updated to work correctly. Will try to sort out a side module too, although I'm not promising anything. ;)
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Thanks, the perfect addon!
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Also, when my users are in the shoutbox, the following appears in "who's online"
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Hmm the same problem is present with vBShout. I think that would need to be fixed as part of the hack itself; although I'll certainly take a look tonight.
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I've installed it and in general it works fine. However, I am having one problem.
Actually it's the same problem I've had with the vBShout, which you can read about in that thread. In a nutshell, whenever someone was on my forums home page, if you looked at Who's Online it would say they were viewing the shoutbox. The link would be to the forums home page, though. I tested this myself, on myself, by going to the forums home page, refreshing, then going straight to Who's Online. Sure enough, there it says I'm viewing the shoutbox, with a link to the forums home page. Now that I've installed this add-on, the problem has been expanded to my main cmps page, too. If I'm looking at that page, then jump to Who's Online, it says I'm looking at the shoutbox, with a link to my main cmps page. I don't consider this to be a problem with this add-on, I think it's simply an effect of a problem/issue with the underlying vBShout hack. I've checked the hack's plugins to the Who's Online system, and compared to others, and both are fine. As far as I can tell, there's no problem with the plugins. I don't even know for sure that the problem is the hack itself; it could be something with vBulletin--I'm starting to think that if a page (like index.php) gets output from another page (like vbshout.php), then for some reason vBulletin considers vbshout.php to be the page the viewer is on. Whatever the problem is, although I've documented and explained it, I have yet to get any help or suggestions. Maybe, FleaBag, you could have those people over at vBadvanced, who wrote this add-on, look into it, if they're familiar with the hack already? :) |
Basically I think you've hit it on the head... Here's how I see it. vB sessions obviously update every time a page is loaded. For instance I used to have a frame with a news.php file [custom code] pulling my news in a different format. This page was obviously loaded after the index.php, so Who's On-line picked up my location as news.php. Now obviously this is working slightly differently with vBShout, as it's pointing to index.php, but say's you're viewing vbshout.php. View your vbshout.php in your browser, looks like XML to me. The template on the CMPS, and Forum Home are including that XML file to get the shouts onto the page. As a result, the session makes vB think you're on vbshout.php [which is right, because it was the last vB page loaded] yet you are still in fact on index.php [the reason for it linking back to that page]. I think vB is the problem, at least when handling the way vBShout works, and the way sessions are generated needs to be updated.
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I was mistaken, I just realized. It's not pointing to index.php even though it says viewing the shoutbox. It is, in fact, pointing to vbshout.php.
I wonder if there's a way to make index.php (or the main cmps PHP file) send new session info or update session info at the END of the script, in other words after vbshout.php has been called? |
This is a stab in the dark but I'm guessing a session is updated around the time global.php is called. So every time global.php is called you'll be recorded as viewing the .php file in which that reference runs. So as it stands, I don't see how it could be sorted. I'm not a coder though heh.
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any news on removing the Time ?
thx |
Is there any way to move the shoutbox to right or left corner by removing the font and color selector ?
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The font and colour selector are not present in this version... With regard to moving the time, I didn't get a chance last night sorry.
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one more thing...the hack works a treat...apart from thoe mentioned.
but.... smilies show up as red "x"`s.....and the member.php issue is still a problem..click on a members name, and i get a page cannot be displayed error |
Still not looked at removing the date - sorry.
Gizmo, where are your forums on your server, and where is your CMPS? Did you edit any of the template? |
@FleaBag .. thx 4 publishing our modification here.. more user more ideas :-)
I tried to fix the member.php problem ... here is my result: Find in the template forumhome_vbshout_shout: PHP Code:
(change YOUR-FORUM-PATH/ to your forumfolder!!! example: forum/member.php?{$session...... ) PHP Code:
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I could not test it yet, but it should work .. please give us feedback, perhaps FleaBag can edit his first Thread with this changes. |
It works great and i love the instructions you guys put up, but i dont see the Smilies link. Is there a way to add it?
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