New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB3)

Advanced @User Tagging Mod: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.
This version introduces several major new features that users have requested, and some others we were unable to fit in v1.0.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Taurus1]

Hmm, that's odd. Can you show a screenshot of your forum manager setup? The one with actual forums, not the usertag one.

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[DragonByte Tech]

I don't see why that should time out for you then..
It's most likely not able to find the parent forum and keep looping infinitely, but according to that it should have no problems doing so.

Did you try what else I put in my previous post?

[Morrus]

Just a pie-in-the-sky idea for the future - would email notifications be a good idea? It would have to be controllable by the member in question, of course.

In addition, does it follow permissions (I'm thinking people the user has ignored)?

[Taurus1]

I did, and I don't get that fatal error anymore, but the two options in my ACP still gives me an internal server error. So I cannot set it up.

EDIT: And I still dont have the little speaker on my editor toolbar.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Morrus

Just a pie-in-the-sky idea for the future - would email notifications be a good idea? It would have to be controllable by the member in question, of course.

In addition, does it follow permissions (I'm thinking people the user has ignored)?

Email is planned
It doesn't follow Ignore no, but the Pro vrsion has an option to only allow notifications from friends.

Originally Posted by Taurus1

I did, and I don't get that fatal error anymore, but the two options in my ACP still gives me an internal server error. So I cannot set it up.

EDIT: And I still dont have the little speaker on my editor toolbar.

Can you check your Apache server logs for anything that might indicate the cause of the Internal Server Error?

As for the speaker icon, can you check your BBCode manager to see that the BBCode exists?
It's [MENTION]

[Taurus1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Can you check your Apache server logs for anything that might indicate the cause of the Internal Server Error?

As for the speaker icon, can you check your BBCode manager to see that the BBCode exists?
It's [MENTION]

Checking the logs now. Will get back on that.

Yes the [MENTION] BBCode is there.

EDIT: OK, I managed to fix the Internal Server Error, it seems to have been a permissions issue in my FTP.

So now I do get this error in some threads again:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method vB_Template::fetch_template_raw() in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_hook.php on line 25

And the BBCode is still not showing.Thanks!

[DragonByte Tech]

If you click Edit on the BBCode, does the image path show?
If yes, then it would appear that the image can't be found. Can you link me to your forums and I'll be able to tell you whether I did something wrong here ;p

The vBSEO error is a bug in vBSEO, they don't use the correct method to determine whether it's running on vB3 or vB4.
They need to use the following code

PHP Code:

if (intval($vbulletin->versionnumber) == 3) 


to check for vB3.
Please report it on the vBSEO forums and they should be able to fix it

[Taurus1]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

If you click Edit on the BBCode, does the image path show?
If yes, then it would appear that the image can't be found. Can you link me to your forums and I'll be able to tell you whether I did something wrong here ;p

The vBSEO error is a bug in vBSEO, they don't use the correct method to determine whether it's running on vB3 or vB4.
They need to use the following code

PHP Code:

if (intval($vbulletin->versionnumber) == 3) 


to check for vB3.
Please report it on the vBSEO forums and they should be able to fix it

OK, I will report it. Is it not possible for me to edit that myself though?

When clicking on 'edit' inside all the options there is a "Button Image (Optional)" field. In there is this : "dbtech/usertag/images/mention.png"

I had to disable the mod otherwise I will get those VBSEO errors. But let me know when you want to check it, and I will enable it again. My URL is:

http://creativx.net/forums/

Thanks again for your great service!!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

OK, I will report it. Is it not possible for me to edit that myself though?

Don't think so, I think vBSEO files are encrypted or obfuscated.

Originally Posted by Taurus1

When clicking on 'edit' inside all the options there is a "Button Image (Optional)" field. In there is this : "dbtech/usertag/images/mention.png"

Are you sure that image was uploaded?
Not that it matters until the vBSEO issue is resolved, but I'd still like to know if I was doing it wrong

[Taurus1]

Are you sure that image was uploaded?
Not that it matters until the vBSEO issue is resolved, but I'd still like to know if I was doing it wrong

Yes, I checked, it is uploaded. The image is there, in the BBCODE manager I can see it.