Major Additions - Discuss!! A Yahoo Answers Clone

Discuss!!
A Yahoo Answers Clone

by ChrisTERiS

Compatible with 4.2.0
but you must download the file Disucss_1_4_0.zip

1. Why we need a discussion mod

Maybe sounds crazy to have a powerfull forum and to install this AddOn. But this is not true. I do agree that vB has tons of features for any type of discussions. But from the other point Yahoo Answers (and dozens of similars sites) became famous, because they offer a simple way to users to get replies. Short questions, with a couple of replies. Why to go in a complicated system for this? And why to add dozens of extra categories, subcategories etc etc, just for this? This is the reason that you need it.

2.- How it works?

Very simple, so easy to use by novice users too. A member is posting a question in any of your categories (unlimited level are supporting) and then is waiting other members to post a reply. Reads the replies, chooses the best and that's all. There is no need for discussion here.





3.- Installation

1. Download, unzip and upload all files from the "upload" folder where your vb installation is (you can't install in different directory).
2. Goto you admincp and import the product-discuss.xml
3. That's all

4.- Configuration





Configuration is very easy and is like all other addons here. You need to follow the steps below, and soon you'll be ready:

1. First of all goto Usergroup permissions and set what each usergroup can do or not do.
2. Goto Discuss General setting, check the default values and change them if you want
3. PM Templates. I believe that the predefinied text is ok for most of you. But if you want you can change them. Please don't touce the variables (anything inside {}). The available variables are:
   1. {questiontitle} : Title with link
   2. {questiontitle_nolink} : As above but without link
   3. {category} : Category name with link
   4. {category_nolink} : Category without link
   5. {questionowner} : The author's username with link
   6. {questionowner_nolink} : As above, no link
   7. {description} : 200 chars from the question body
   8. {username} : This is the "To:" value. eg Dear {username},
   9. {postdate_short} : Post date in format that you've set as long dates
   10. {postdate_long} : Same as above in long date format
   11. {signature} : Anything that you've set in your settings
4. Last step is to set your categories.

5.- Copyright

In the footer of each page there is a link back to my site vBulletON.com. Even if it easy to remove it, please avoid doing it. Respect if you want to be respected. That's the only that I can say.

6.- PRO version

Currently there is no one. I don't use to build an addon, and then remove 90% of its features to make a free version. No. This is all that I've done. Sure there are dozens of more features that I can add. If I see that this mod becomes popular then I'll add them but as commercial version.

7.- Live Demo

http://www.christeris.com/testvb4/discuss.php

Login:
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3

Enjoy
Chris

[Davidinh]

absolutely, I will … Chris
thanks for your time and again that is a great mod

one more thing should I ask you Chris
it is not compatible with mobile style on vB 4.2.0
the issue is a blank page when I switch from default style to mobile style
do you still have time to play around with it right Chris. :-)

well, I have no luck.... update the new file and re-install the newest version that you just released
no navbar show at all

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Davidinh

absolutely, I will … Chris
thanks for your time and again that is a great mod

one more thing should I ask you Chris
it is not compatible with mobile style on vB 4.2.0
the issue is a blank page when I switch from default style to mobile style
do you still have time to play around with it right Chris. :-)

well, I have no luck.... update the new file and re-install the newest version that you just released
no navbar show at all

Have you deleted your old navigation menu? Even if I used unique names for it, the whole menu is assigned to Discuss product, and I suppose that every product can has only one tab.
You can see it working at: http://www.christeris.net/vb42/discuss.php

Edited: Also clear your browser's cache.


Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Davidinh

it is not compatible with mobile style on vB 4.2.0
the issue is a blank page when I switch from default style to mobile style
do you still have time to play around with it right Chris. :-)

Haven't checked the mobile style. The reason is that I'm coding seperate versions for mobile users, to eliminate the amount of queries. Its not good approach to use the same code for mobile users, as not all features are needing.

Here is an example of my Classifieds mobile version:
http://www.christeris.net/vb4/mobilt...o=main&catid=0

and here from my Gallery Mobile:
http://www.christeris.net/vb4/mobilgalleri.php

as you can see even the menus are different, using buttons and dropdowns.

Chris

[ahobilam]

I am getting database error while trying to import the product through admincp in my 4.2 VB

[Chadi]

Hey, nice mod!

Just installed, but my interface looks far different from yours.

edit: I confirm same issue with default VB skin

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by ahobilam

I am getting database error while trying to import the product through admincp in my 4.2 VB

Please post the database errors, otherwise how I can understand what's going wrong?

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Hello,

A new version for vB4.2.0, with new features is available for download.

1.- Added a tab "Resolved Questions" in homepage
2.- Added a Tab "Questions" in user profile
3.- Added some info in postbit
4.- Fixed some design errors especially in sidebar

Maybe there are other features too, but is almost 2 months that I have added them, and don't remember them.

To upgrade please upload ALL the files, and import product-discuss.xml

Chris

[ahobilam]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Please post the database errors, otherwise how I can understand what's going wrong?

Chris

Here are the error messages:
Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE brahmins_usergroup ADD discuss INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'discuss'
Error Number : 1060
Request Date : Monday, June 4th 2012 @ 06:34:48 AM
Error Date : Monday, June 4th 2012 @ 06:34:48 AM
Script : http://www.brahminsnet.com/forums/ad...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.brahminsnet.com/forums/ad...?do=productadd
IP Address : 122.174.35.137
Username : bmbcAdmin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.58-1ubuntu1

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by ahobilam

Here are the error messages:
Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE brahmins_usergroup ADD discuss INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'discuss'
Error Number : 1060
Request Date : Monday, June 4th 2012 @ 06:34:48 AM
Error Date : Monday, June 4th 2012 @ 06:34:48 AM
Script : http://www.brahminsnet.com/forums/ad...=productimport
Referrer : http://www.brahminsnet.com/forums/ad...?do=productadd
IP Address : 122.174.35.137
Username : bmbcAdmin
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.58-1ubuntu1

This means that you have did an unsucessfull uninstallation before, and the field discuss in usergroup table left behind. My opion is to uninstall the product, and the check if any of the fields below are still there:
Table: usergroup ... field: discuss
Table: user ... fields: discuss_questions, discuss_replies, discuss_winner
If you find any of them, remove it. Then try a new installation.

Chris

[Acido]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Hello,

A new version for vB4.2.0, with new features is available for download.

Hello Chris. New version still works with vb 4.1.12? Or it's for vb 4.2 Only ?

Thank you !