You love the 'similar threads' function and you are sick of duplicate threads just because your users don't use the search function?
Why not just combine them?
This Add-on will grab the thread title the user typed in and it will load a small box (using Ajax magic ) with 5 similar threads just like the 'similar threads' function that you can normally find under an already posted thread.
The box also tells the user to search through the similar threads first BEFORE starting a new one.
Features:
- indicated if you already subscribed to one or more similar threads
- hover over the title and it gives a little preview of the thread's content
- no edits whatsoever needed, just import the product file, enable the Add-on and it works (well, it should )
- you can turn it off for certain forums or
- you can turn it off completely without leaving any code that messes your templates/files
- it can be translated
- don't like it anymore? Remove the product and you'll never see that Add-on again
Known issues:
- none
Things to consider:
It uses jQuery to get the information from ajax.php. jQuery is great and you can do many great things with it and unlike the vBulletin method it's quite easy to understand.
Here's the version I use: http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/do...s&downloadBtn=
Just download the file from the location and put it into the 'clientscript' folder on your server without renaming the file.
Import the attached file using the Product Manager. Go to your vBulletin settings and search for 'Check for similar threads?'.
Enable it.
Important:
It adds 2 new templates, it changes 1 template and it edits 2 files. I highly doubt that it will break you vBulletin but do a back-up and be on the safe side.
Version history:
2.0 -> this release
1.0 -> outdated (made for vB 3.6.*)
I have a "I'm selling" forum with categories as subforums, and then "I'm buying" forum with categories as subforums - all same subforum names for "selling" and "buying" parent forums.
Now i want to use your mod to display the following: if user enters the thread named "electric guitar" in "buying" forums, he could get similar threads picked from "selling" forums... So before writing a new tema that he wants to buy something, he can see if theres a thread selling what he wants. Is that possible with your mod + some additional modification of it?
Also, i checked the templates, and in "showthread_similarthreadbit_ajax" template there's a $simthread[forumtitle] mark. I'll explain what i want you to understand at first:
as i said, i have "buying" and "selling" forums with the same titled subforums (let's say they have such subforums: guitars, drums, keyboards). Now, when your mod with the help of Ajax is showing $simthread[forumtitle] in the resulting table, it would look like it is taken from "guitars" forum, but no idea if it is from "selling" or from "buying" parent forum.
So the perfect output would look like:
Selling: guitars
And template would look like this:
$simthread[parentforumtitle]: $simthread[forumtitle]
Question: is there some mark that would be possible of showing something like $simthread[parentforumtitle], or is there a way for me to create it somehow?
Not working for me...
Updated to 1.3 but when it searches, it returns no results..
Have you tried using more keywords? I put test in a thread about 20 times, and I started a new one with Test, and it didn't find it. But then when I tried something a little more detailed of a thread already on the system, it found it.
Phrase Manager, search for "answer your question" in this product and edit.
I changed both messages............
<span class="smallfont"><strong>Notice:</strong> When you enter a thread title the system will search for similar or duplicate threads which have already been posted. Please check those threads to avoid posting the same content. Thanks!.</span>
and
No similar threads found. You may proceed to create a new subject thread without any duplication guilt!
Is there a way to remove these messages altogether? I read every single post on this thread to look for an answer but couldn't find one..
[Ajax] Check for similar thread before posting a new one Details »»
) with 5 similar threads just like the 'similar threads' function that you can normally find under an already posted thread.
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11-14-2009, 09:45 PM
