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Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week/Fortnight/Month Nomination v1.636
Developer Last Online: Oct 2011
On my board (USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D), we get many comments daily or weekly on many different topics and there are so many topics in the community that to be honest, we had a tough time remembering the topic being reviewed to offer a timely comment or response. Obviously, we needed a weekly/monthly topic nomination system with which we could get our community to commit to one topic as a group and then comment on it during the course of the week/month.
Cruising vB.org at warp speed, I failed to find a nomination system readily available. Hence, I quickly wrote this mod (on my way to the bridge). Acknowledgement: This release would not have been quickly possible without the existence of most hacks released at vB.org, especially the "Thank You" hack by Abe1, which provided this mod basis structure. Our thanks and all the merit goes to Abe1. A nice set of button and awards images have also been kindly provided by PrinceEdward to whom we also extend our thanks. Many constructive feedbacks have been given by those members at the vB.org community who downloaded the first releases of this Mod, the implementation of which has led to an improved version of the Mod. We extend our thanks to those members. What this mod does It adds a "Topic Of The Week/Month" nomination system to your community. What is Topic Of The Week/Month? Topic of the Week/Month is a contest that select posts on which your community can commit to as a group and then comment/discuss on them during the course of the selected week/month. Any listed topic (post, thread) is eligible for the Topic of the Week/Month selection. What determines a Topic Of The Week/Month? Topic Of The Week/Month is based on a simple nomination system. Throughout the selected forums, members with adequate permissions can nominate their favorite topic by clicking on the award nomination button below the post. The five topics with the most votes during the course of the week/month are automatically displayed on a nomination thread including a poll feature. At the end of the week/month, the first three topics with the most votes are the award winners of the contest. Features:
Installation instructions Version 1.63
Enjoy Update in version 1.01 Nominated posts titles hot linked in the poll to actual thread/post of the forum Update in version 1.1
Update in version 1.2
Update in version 1.21
Update in version 1.22
Update in version 1.3
Update in version 1.35
Update 14/07/2008 in cron file I noticed that some code instructions fail to work properly depending on the PhP version been used. If you are running the v 1.35 and TOTW on a weekly basis and if for some reason, your cron file failed to work and create a new nomination thread on Sunday 13, July 2008, please use the attachment "updated-cron-14-07-2008.zip". The instructions are given in there. Update in version 1.40
Update in version 1.50
Update in version 1.51
If you are running v 1.50 with weekly cycle time and noticed that a new nomination thread has been created but the display title is still that of the previous thread (week 30), then this is for you. Do not delete the newly created nomination thread (with title week 30). On Monday 21st July, 2008, after 00:10AM, proceed as follow:
Topic of the Week-Month Nomination v1.51 Updated Prod and Cron
Topic of the Week-Month Nomination v1.51 Updated function
Update in version 1.60
Update in version 1.61
Update in version 1.62
Update in version 1.621
Update in version 1.63
Update in version 1.635
Update in version 1.636
Feedback are welcome and implementation of constructive suggestions will likely be carried out during weekends only, as I am kept busy with other matters during working days. Also, feel free to add improvements in those files and post them. To other coders: feel free to add improvements to the Mod (files) and post them. I will directly use your updated files for the next version of the mod. Supporters / CoAuthors Show Your Support
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#912
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I just installed this, but the nomination icons are not showing up in posts. I do use the post-bit version of threads. Anything I need to do to fix this?
Thanks, Ray |
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I love the mod, but no matter what i do i cannot get the button to show up. all i get is a clickable text "Nominate this post". A ny ideas?
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Same here... No response here yet - can someone chime in? Thanks.
Ray |
#915
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i kow he included a read me file in with the upgrade that explained some posbit edits, but it still didn work
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Does this function properly yet with the new Beta 2 of Blog 2.0 by chance?
Was just curious, I was thinking of upgrading... Thanks! |
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Just an idea ok. Are you guys sure you put the images in the images folder of your style? Not the images of the VB folder? Again, just an idea.
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#918
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well, i just have 1 style besides the default. And yes i'm sure i have put the images in the right folder
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It says The Administrator(s) did not defined a receiving forum for hosting poll results of the TOTW/TOTM contest.
but I set the forum ID, does it take time for it to be posted? |
#920
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I didn't catch this bug when I reported the fix for the incorrect thread titles for monthly contests - sorry Data. It's a similar bug caused by creating threads at the last day of the month. To fix, in the ./includes/cron/nominate_topic_cron.php file,
FIND 2 occurences of: Quote:
Quote:
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If you set it for fortnight contests, it will create the thread on the 15 or the last day of the month (will be changed to the first day in next version). If you set it for monthly contests, it will create the thread on the 1st day. |
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