/me - irc feature

[/me - irc feature]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

What does this modification do?
This modification simply duplicates the /me feature of irc. It will replace "/me does this action" with "* username does this action".

Installation

1/

Upload the me-hack.xml file via the plugin uploader in the AdminCP

Please Click Install!
If you installed this modifcation please click the install button. It'll help you keep up to date with future releases and important bugfixes, security updates.

[El_Muerte]

use:

$mepattern = '/(^|\s)\/me([^\r\n]+)/is';
if(preg_match($mepattern, $this->post['message']))
{
	$this->post['message'] = preg_replace($mepattern, '$1<b>* ' . $this->post['username'] . '$2</b>', $this->post['message']);
}

this requires either nothing (begin of the post) or a whitespace character before the /me

also note the changed preg_replace

[utw-Mephisto]

You are A HERO Works !!!

[-mk-]

YAY that worked great!
Thank you very much

[El_Muerte]

You might also want to add the following plugin

global $vbulletin;
$mepattern = '/(^|\s)\/me([^\r\n]+)/is';
if(preg_match($mepattern, $previewmessage))
{
    $previewmessage = preg_replace($mepattern, '$1<b>* ' . $vbulletin->userinfo['username'] . '$2</b>', $previewmessage);
}

under the hook: newpost_preview

and

$mepattern = '/(^|\s)\/me([^\r\n]+)/is';
if(preg_match($mepattern, $reviewmessage))
{
	$reviewmessage = preg_replace($mepattern, '$1<b>* ' . $username . '$2</b>', $reviewmessage);
}

under the hook: newreply_form_reviewbit

with this the preview of a post will also get the right update

or simply download the attached xml file (note: I made it a product because of the 3 linked hooks)

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

You might also want to add the following plugin

global $vbulletin;
$mepattern = '/(^|\s)\/me([^\r\n]+)/is';
if(preg_match($mepattern, $previewmessage))
{
$previewmessage = preg_replace($mepattern, '$1<b>* ' . $vbulletin->userinfo['username'] . '$2</b>', $previewmessage);
}

under the hook: newpost_preview

and

$mepattern = '/(^|\s)\/me([^\r\n]+)/is';
if(preg_match($mepattern, $reviewmessage))
{
	$reviewmessage = preg_replace($mepattern, '$1<b>* ' . $username . '$2</b>', $reviewmessage);
}

under the hook: newreply_form_reviewbit

with this the preview of a post will also get the right update

or simply download the attached xml file (note: I made it a product because of the 3 linked hooks)

Where is the attachment, sir?

[El_Muerte]

doh, forgot to save the post.
it's there now.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

doh, forgot to save the post.
it's there now.

How about when editing a post?

And thank you.

[Moparx]

thanks El_Muerte

Now all we need is a fix so that when quoting a post with /me in it, the quoted /me uses the quoted persons name instead of taking on the name of the person replying

[El_Muerte]

I've been working to revamp this plugin, so far so good except for the quoting issue.
The problem with quoting is that it's not use who posted it, so I've been going through a couple of ideas:

1) rewrite the /me in the quote to reflect the original user
2) use the username from the quote param to replace the /me

the problem with 1) is that it needs to be rewritten to a vbcode, so I could change the rewriting to use something like [action=username]description[/action]

with 2) you have the issue that not always a username is provided in the quote

I think I'm going for the rewriting as a whole base, just like with the automatic URL detection. Ofcourse this has the issue that current /me's won't be replaced correctly.

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by El_Muerte

I've been working to revamp this plugin, so far so good except for the quoting issue.
The problem with quoting is that it's not use who posted it, so I've been going through a couple of ideas:

1) rewrite the /me in the quote to reflect the original user
2) use the username from the quote param to replace the /me

the problem with 1) is that it needs to be rewritten to a vbcode, so I could change the rewriting to use something like [action=username]description[/action]

with 2) you have the issue that not always a username is provided in the quote

I think I'm going for the rewriting as a whole base, just like with the automatic URL detection. Ofcourse this has the issue that current /me's won't be replaced correctly.

Maybe Kirby has an idea of how to handle the quote part.