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

[Zighinno]

Originally Posted by 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?

Some problem for me

[Makaveli007]

Had an issue with this mod, that I was able to fix on my site, but wanted to bring to your attention. The issue also affected Advanced Post Thanks. I am running the latest version of both, and vb 4.2.0.

The problem is in the profile tabs. Whenever clicking on any of the pages to view previous mentions/quotes/thanks an error would be received by the browser "Too Many Redirects"

I narrowed the issue down to being the "perpage=20" part of the link. If that part is removed, the error doesn't happen.

I fixed it by editing the php files to remove all instances of "&perpage=$perpage" from the class_profileblock.php file.

[andy_mcguire]

Hi DBTech, I installed the plugin as a trial, but found when a tagged post had been soft-deleted, the user could still see the mention/tag in their "notifications" tab, and also on their profile. When the thread was moved to a hidden forum, the mention/tag disappeared from their view (from their profile, and from their notifications drop-down). Is there a way to make if the post is soft-deleted, it too hides the mention/tag?

(System is vBulletin 4.1.x)

EDIT: Submitted a ticket on your forum DBTech.

[Jackchan]

Well, I want to disable the statistics next to username, it does not display properly.

There have any options or trick to do that?

Thanks.

Found answer on forum anyway.

[DragonByte Tech]

For the sake of posterity: It's the "Manual Postbit Deployment" setting - turning it off without performing manual edits will effectively disable the stats


Fillip

[furnival]

Very useful post -- thanks. Found the solution for those of us with standard member profile URLs posted on DBTech's ecellent site: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f51/p...187/#post46344 On edit: actually that DBTech htaccess change didn't work for me. I had to set VBSEO to not rewrite my member profiles and that has worked.

Originally Posted by 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.

[DragonByte Tech]

Problem is, I've not been able to come up with a way to do that that doesn't also break for non-vBSEO users


Fillip

[CountRock]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Problem is, I've not been able to come up with a way to do that that doesn't also break for non-vBSEO users


Fillip

Just a thought, what about an option in the settings menu to check if vbseo is installed, if it is write a URL in one way, if not the regular way.

[DragonByte Tech]

The problem is the "one way" for vBSEO. I cannot figure out how to get URLs to specific tabs to work in vBSEO.

Fillip

[g00gl3r]

Any way to get the landing tab on the profile to be ?tab=mentions instead of hashMentions?

Doesn't work otherwise on mine by the looks of it.