Miscellaneous Hacks - Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts' (AJAX)

Info:
This hack will show how many new posts/threads have been posted in forums since 'last visit' time. "New Posts" in navbar menu will be replaced with "New Posts: x (In y Threads)" which is updated via AJAX - no page refresh. User can manually check for new posts, or you can enable auto-check which is executed in defined time interval. Optionally you can enable and configure Smart Search Menu to give users ability to search only selected forum sections. See screenshots...

Installation:
Import product XML: AdminCP > Plugin System > Manage Products > [Add/Import Product]

To set options:
Go to: AdminCP > vBulletin Options > Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts'

Versions:
v1.0 - Apr 29. 2006.
-First version
v1.5 - Jun 25. 2006.
-Added - advanced searching of new posts (see screenshots)
-Fixed known bugs, code optimized
v1.6 - Jun 26. 2006.
-Advanced searching of new posts splitted into two navbar items
v1.7 - Jun 28. 2006.
-Depending on number of new posts different phrase is used
-Added links to phrases to hack options page so you can easily find and change/translate them.
v1.8 - Aug 04. 2006.
-Release of this hack for vB v3.6
v1.9 - Sep 28. 2006.
-Added Product Version Checking
-Fixed links to phrases in ACP (used to easily customize phrases)
-Added option to change text color
-Fixed bug (unneeded extra space after "SSM" in navbar menu)
-Product name changed to "Cyb - Advanced 'New Posts'"
NOTE: Before upgrading save somewhere content of "Menu Items" field to restore it after upgrade. It will be removed during upgrade process.
v2.0 - Jul 31. 2007.
-Added "No New Posts" to show when there is no new posts after user last visit
-Smart Search Menu (SSM) improved (no more need to write lines of code, just put forum IDs in setting field)
-SSM automatically hidden when there is no new posts
-A lot of improvements and optimization done, including:
*two templates removed
*improved integration with different styles (to avoid manual template edits)
v2.1 - May 03. 2008.
-Compatible with vBulletin 3.7
-Minor bugs fixed
v2.2 - Jan 14. 2009.
-New: New post check is now done via AJAX - no page refresh ;-)
-New: Auto-check for new posts every x seconds
-Ability to set order of items in Smart Search Menu
-Minor bugs fixed
v2.3 - Jan 15. 2009.
-New: Set how often user can manually check for new posts
-New: Option to colorize text only when there are new posts
-New: Option to disable product in selected styles
-Fixed some minor bugs
v2.4 - Jan 18. 2009.
-Added permissions check to fix problems where sometimes incorrect numbers are shown
-Fixed bug where unexpected content is shown on user session expiration

Mark as installed to get support and updates.

[Stefanus]

Same here, would like to see a working version of this mod.

(ver 2.1 does not work on my setup)

Originally Posted by MoMan

Any version beyond 2.2 does not work at all for me. Furthermore, I'm experiencing the same homepage (vBadvanced) problems as everybody else. My vBa menu simply says "New Posts: Checking..." and does not update. Within the forum, however, everything is fine.

I would appreciate a fix for this in the future if possible. This is truly a great modification and it would be even better if it worked on our homepage (or, if it automatically disabled itself and reverted to default templates when browsing the homepage). If version 2.1 works on the homepage but without AJAX, I'd settle for that, but I can't find where to download that version.

[MoMan]

I've added

$vbulletin->templatecache['header'] = str_replace('$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td>', $vbulletin->templatecache['cyb_advancednewposts'],$vbulletin->templatecache['header']);

to my installation in order to incorporate the links into those styles which display the new posts link in the header template, and not the navbar. While it's working for me in 2.2 (save the homepage), 2.1 seems to introduce an extra <tr> tag which messes everything up. Guess I'll just wait for the AJAX homepage fix.

[rbecking]

2.4 works fine for me in the forum and on vba homepage

[Blue91]

Originally Posted by rbecking

2.4 works fine for me in the forum and on vba homepage

Did you do new install? Upgrade from previous version? Did you make ANY changes to the cyb_advancednewposts template? Did you change any other templates? Can you post the code to the various templates used in this mod for comparison to ours?

[Mythor]

I installed 2.4 onto vb 3.8.0 and it won't work on my vbadvanced page (even with editing the template manually) nor does it count the new posts inside the forums correctly.
Will give it another chance if/when it's updated.

[Dax IX]

Did you add the template variables to your vBA options?

cybanp_ssmforums
cybanp_posts
cybanp_threads

[Blue91]

Originally Posted by Chani

Did you add the template variables to your vBA options?

cybanp_ssmforums
cybanp_posts
cybanp_threads

I, for one, have done that already. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[Mythor]

Yes, I too tried adding the variables. And every other fix available in this thread plus a few I came up with myself. Nothing seemed to make any improvement.
Hopefully Cybernetec will know what's gone wrong and 2.5 will get the job done.

[aproape]

Greetings everyone,

We installed v2.4 over v2.1. Didn't work at first on our customized template - the links went away from the navbar.

The default template, however, worked on the forum homepage without any issues.

We've read all the posts in here and checked the cyb_advancednewposts template. It was modified since the last version and the new upgrade didn't modify it [of course].

We reverted the cyb_advancednewposts so that we have the new version and.. Voila! The mod works on the forum homepage.

VBA pages, however - still don't work. We're looking into making that work as well. Stay tuned..

Cheers,
aproape

[Blue91]

I think I'm going to uninstall this until someone posts up that they've got a way to get it working on both the forums navbar and on the navbar on the vbadvanced home page. My users keep PMing me letting me know it works on forums, but constantly says "checking" on home page.

Will keep an eye on this to see if it's ever resolved. :-(