New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

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* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

It appears as if you have uploaded the files incorrectly. Please drag and drop the contents of the upload folder (use Ctrl+A to select all files) to your public_html folder.

Chris

[MoonShine123]

Thanks that fixed it ;D

[uofa]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

It appears as if you have uploaded the files incorrectly. Please drag and drop the contents of the upload folder (use Ctrl+A to select all files) to your public_html folder.

Chris

Hello, first of all this looks awesome and can't wait to try it XD
2nd sorry if this is a noob question :P

when you say "Upload all files from the "upload" folder to your forums directory." in the readme.txt
do you mean the individual folders like: admincp, dbtech,includes or the CONTENT of them? im confused because by uploading the folders as they are named, doesnt that replace the folder already in public_html?

[DragonByte Tech]

Please drag and drop the contents of the upload folder (use Ctrl+A to select all files) to your public_html folder.

It will not replace the folders it just adds files to those folders.

Chris

[insidegames]

i would like translate this plugin in german. can you add then the new xml file for the user and a demo site in german language??

[DragonByte Tech]

We do not supply translations with our products, as we cannot officially support them. However, we have a Translations forum here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f91/
That forum is our preferred method of showcasing translations as we link to this forum in every release thread, and we have prefix filters that let people see all mods for their chosen languages


Fillip

[RedTurtle]

This is a wonderful mod but unfortunately is not compatible with vBSEO.

Since so many people use vBSEO and do rewrite their member profile pages, is there any chance there will be a workaround provided for vBSEO users?

Without vBSEO activated, the link to a notification is in this format:

http://domain.com/usertag.php?do=profilenotif&tab=quotes

and with vBSEO on, it should be like this:

http://domain.com/members/adminuser-1.html?tab=quotes#quotes

for it to work properly but instead the URL comes out like this:

http://domain.com/members/adminuser-1.html#quotes

Is there something we can change in notifications_list.php so that we are able to keep our vBSEO setup AND use this plugin?

It looks like ?tab=quotes needs to be inserted in the URL but not sure where.

Thank you very much.

[RedTurtle]

Update: Got it working with my vBSEO setup.

For my member profiles I am using the following URL rewrite format:

members/[user_name]-[user_id].html

Therefore the notifications links that this plugin generates need to be changed.

In upload/dbtech/usertag/hooks/notifications_list.php, make the following changes:

On line 14, change:

'link'   => $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/usertag.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=profilenotif&tab=mentions',

To:

'link'   => $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/members/' . strtolower($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . '-' . $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] . '.html' . '?tab=mentions#mentions',

On line 23, change:

'link'   => $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/usertag.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=profilenotif&tab=usertags',

To:

'link'   => $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/members/' . strtolower($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . '-' . $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] . '.html' . '?tab=usertags#usertags',

On line 32, change:

'link'   => $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/usertag.php?' . $vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl'] . 'do=profilenotif&tab=quotes',

To:

'link'   => $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . '/members/' . strtolower($vbulletin->userinfo['username']) . '-' . $vbulletin->userinfo[userid] . '.html' . '?tab=quotes#quotes',

This is for my specific vBSEO URL rewrite format. If you're using a different format, you'll have to modify the code to be compatible.

Hope this helps someone else out.

[Makaveli007]

I have been using this mod on my forum for a long time. It works great, however of the past couple weeks/months I have noticed a steady increase in the amount of time it takes to load a users profile, or when loading a users own profile through notifications.

I have traced the issue down to being this mod. If I disable the mod, profile speeds go back to normal.

I should point out that the usertag tables in the database are huge. The mod is very popular on my site and has been used extensively. It is not uncommon to have a profile page that shows over 1000 pages of mentions.

Is there any way I can speed profile/notification page loads besides clearing out old mentions?

[DragonByte Tech]

Could you please re-post this issue over @ our forums here: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=51 ?

That would be an issue that requires significant time to investigate and fix - time I simply do not have at this moment

vBulletin.org posts will get buried, whereas on our forums we will always have a directory of issue reports that we can look back on. Thanks


Fillip