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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[Carnage]

Doesn't work very well if a group has no messages. Otherwise, looks good.

[Miss T]

does this work in 4.1 ?

[sweetpotato]

Installed, thank you.

[Antidepresiv]

Any way i could display this on a custom php page, rather than on forum home ? I would like to add it to my dropdown menu.. Thanks..

[yin9]

Thanks cellarius, works well in VB 4.1.0 PL2. Installed, 5 Stars.

[nacaruncr]

installed in my web. It's look so fine
It like me so much

[PreciseDemise]

This is great Social groups are a huge part of my community and this is a fantastic mod for improving their visibility, Thanks a tonne =D

[Miss T]

Right now you check on thread level

i am using your mod and i cannot get the display to show "read" when i apply the "mark group as read" - it continues to display as if unread...

is this something you have heard before?

[sross]

I need this to be on the groups homepage, can someone give advice on how to call {vb:raw cel_sgfh} on the groups homepage template and have it show the data there? Thanks

*worst case I could put it at the top of my english subforums but not sure how to call it there either. It would be awesome on the groups homepage though right at the top..

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Antidepresiv

Any way i could display this on a custom php page, rather than on forum home ? I would like to add it to my dropdown menu.. Thanks..

This would be very useful.