Show Thread Enhancements - Bump or de-bump thread w/ usergroup permissions

DESCRIPTION
This is a slightly modified version of "Bump thread and make thread older" by Kentaurus, and "Bump Threads/Make Threads older" by Andreas, who both provided the basis for this work.
It allows the administrator to set which usergroups can use this feature, and can limit the number of times it can be used on a single thread by anyone using a thread bump limit.

Be kind - it's my first attempt at making one of these, and the documentation for each version of vbulletin is confusing.

OPTIONS INCLUDED:
An option called "Bump thread" allows a user with the correct permissions set to make the last post in a thread equivalen to the current time.

An option called "make thread older" or "debump" allows a user with permissions set to make the last post in a
thread one day older.

Details
1 Product XML (1 Plugin, 12 Phrases (+admin help topics), 1 template re-write if you have Andreas' Template Modification System installed (ignored if not))

Only single Thread bumping/de-bumping is supported.
I do not intend to upgrade this product, but may do if I find the time.

INSTALLATION:
Unzip BumpThreads.zip
1. Upload bitfield_bumpthreads.xml to your ./includes/xml folder
2. Import the product-bumpthreads.xml
3. If you do not have Andreas' Template Modification System installed, you must do template edits by hand. These are found in the templateedits.txt file.
4. Upload bump.gif and debump.gif to your images/buttons folder.
5. Set Usergroup permissions for the product.

UNINSTALLATION:
1. Uninstall the product.

USAGE:
1. Set individual usergroup permissions to turn on the ability to Bump/De-bump a thread for each usergroup (default is no ability to access this function).
2. Limit the number of times a thread can be bumped/de-bumped by each usergroup (in case you want normal users to be able to bump a thread only once, but for moderators it can be many times).

Database alterations carried out:
1. Adds columns 'bump' and 'debump' to your 'thread' table to count the number of times a thread has been bumped.
2. Adds columns 'bumpthreadspermissions' and 'bumpthreadslimit' to the 'usergroup' table to track who has permission to use the feature, and how many times per thread.

Contributors:
Buttons courtesy of the excellent talents of dutchbb.

[mrsbuzzy]

It would be GREAT if this were available for 3.7

[KEKforce]

Just tested it on vb3.7.0. rc4 and works great!

[justchil]

I'm not having any luck with 3.7.0 "gold" or whatever the stable release is called. I tried reinstalling with "allow overwrite" checked. I think this may have something to do with reverting my templates although I did the reinstall AFTER reverting my templates.

[ringleader]

Originally Posted by justchil

I'm not having any luck with 3.7.0 "gold" or whatever the stable release is called. I tried reinstalling with "allow overwrite" checked. I think this may have something to do with reverting my templates although I did the reinstall AFTER reverting my templates.

I haven't a clue about the new 3.7 file structure.

It may be that the fundamental part of the code will not integrate with the new showthread file (especially with all those social networking things going on in vbulletin now).

The bad thing is I may not install 3.7 myself because of the social aspect.
It's not for all sites.

Still, I'll see if I can work out this problem for you on a local install of 3.7 - can't promise when though, I just quit my job this morning and it's more hectic than ever

[justchil]

No rush... I can take a look at it a little closer when I have time. I disabled the social feature... installed it mostly for the new album/gallery/photo deal. I just wanted to try everything as far as an install/reinstall and a quick look over before saying it didn't work

[dutchbb]

Works without a problem on 3.7 gold.

Make sure you revert ALL templates AFTER upgrading to 3.7, then install this hack again with plugin overwrite and template edit. Should work.

[Hornstar]

For limit for bumping and de bumping, if I set it to 0, is that 0 or unlimited?

Also, any chance for an update, so we don't have to do any template edits?

[1quick1]

Installed on VB 3.7.0 and it's working fine. The only issue I've found is it doesn't update the forumhome page when a bump happens. For it to show the correct time/date I have to go into the ACP ---> maintenance --> update counters --> Rebuild Forum information

Does this get done automatically with a cron job or is this something that I will have to manually run everytime I bump some threads?

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

For limit for bumping and de bumping, if I set it to 0, is that 0 or unlimited?

Also, any chance for an update, so we don't have to do any template edits?

I installed this and the 0 setting is actually 0. So you have to go in and actually set a number. Since I wanted mine to be unlimited I just set it to like 150 or something and it works now.

[ringleader]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

For limit for bumping and de bumping, if I set it to 0, is that 0 or unlimited?

Also, any chance for an update, so we don't have to do any template edits?

Yeah, zero essentially deactivates the mod for all users until you activate it for them, unfortunately. I will look at setting this in a vboptions of some sort in future.

[oz_girl]

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