Social Group and Album Enhancements - Cel User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated)

What does it do?

• Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome).
• If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
• Instead of the statusicons, you can show the group's icon
• If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.

Things to set in AdminCP/Options:

• use template hook to output or - more flexible - make manual template edit
• show member of / subscribed to /nothing
• sort by name or last message date
• limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
• restrict use by usergroup
• show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
• show buttons to open new discussion etc.
• apply custom css to grouptitle
• trim group description to max length or disable
• parse bbcode in group descriptions
• use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
• show groupicon instead of statusicon, and choose whether you want to show original size or resized to standard statusicon size

Looks

• Out of the box: copies the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
• Fully templated.

Install/upgrade

1. Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
2. Import the product file.
3. Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.

Technical stuff

• 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
• 2 plugins
• 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
• a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
• 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.

Limitations

• Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting)
• 3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under a version 3.8.0 or higher

Version history

• 4.0.006: fixed minor display bug when no discussions yet in group and fixed encoding issue reported by Been_Told
• 4.0.005: fixed small PHP 5.3 issue
• 4.0.004: fixed group's icon styling issues (thanks to ZexTasy for some useful hints) and added resize option, implemented suggestions (f.e. using template hook now)
• 4.0.003: Adapted to vB4 beta 3, first public release
• 4.0.001: Ported to vB4 alpha 1
• previous see 3.8 versions here.

The 3.8 version of this mod can be found here.

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[suneka]

very nice, work fine in 4.1.5

[MNNLeafre]

Is there any way to fix this? Whether its making it work or just hiding/removing it
It just shows <span style etc etc
I have HTML Markup installed (which is what it should be doing, but it's not. Not sure if I should have posted here or there.)
And Point Market, where the glows are coming in place.

[cellarius]

That is not added by my mod, sorry.

[vanquish.securi]

Works great on vB4.1.7 default temp. installed.

[MrD]

HI,
works fine in 4.1.8.
but TMS gives me one Error.

i think, this part is not present in forumhome

{vb:raw forumhome_markread_script}

[angeljs]

I can't get this to work. I'm running 4.1.9, and whether I use the manual or auto template edit, nothing shows on the forum home page, even with the default style.

[The Ottoman]

Quick question:

I have my groups seperated in different categories. How would I go about sorting the categories of groups in the same way as categories of forums are seperated?

Great Mod... love it and it works great on 4.1.8

[customcolor]

can this be used on any other template like forum display? if so..how..
i know that the vb raw doent work

[cellarius]

Tested and working fine in 4.1.10.

Regarding the last two requests: This addon neither supports seperating the groups by category nor adding the list to another page.

To achieve the latter, one theoretically would have to change the hooks of the plugins accordingly and change the code to register the output for the template one wants to use (untried).

[Kraxell]

Hey cellarius

Do you have a german versoin of this mod?