Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.

Technical Details:

If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.

There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.

Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.

You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

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[KrukaaN]

I cant get it to work I really want this plugin to work on my forums!

I have vBulletin 3.8.1 and when I install it, it updates automaticly in a thread when i write by my self but it wont update when other writes.

I have tested everything! I deactivated all my plugins and it dont work anyway. I have change the style but nothing happend.

Please help me out here.

Best regards
Krukaan

[FFTFTCEd]

Hey guys, I searched this thread but couldn't find any info on this, if I missed it, please send me a link.

How do I change the text color? On my forum the "live topic" text that shows up on the forum view is missed some times, I want to change the color to red and maybe upercase the fonts, can this be done.



I tried searching for the template to edit, but couldn't find the live topic template to edit.

Thanks for your help and a great mod,
Ed

[carubmun]

For the life of me i cant understand whats wrong here.
It was working as advertised, then i decided to upgrade to 1.06... but it stopped working when i did that.
Now ive updated to 1.07b, still nothing.
I never notice live topic "kicking in".

I did recently install the IBProArcade and the Casino.

[MotMann]

It works right now with gXboxLive?

I install it but it's not working

[inciarco]

I've Just Noticed a Bug on Internet Explorer 6:

When on a Page Different than the Last Page, when another User Posts a New Message, the New Message Appears on that Current Page After the Last Post of that Page, instead of the Bottom-Right Message "X Replies to Live Topic" that Appears on FireFox and on Chrome.

My Best Regards Coders Shack.

[furst]

There should be a feature that deals with users who have multiple tabs/windows open with threads in each one. Having each tab do a call could get pretty strenuous on the server.

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by FFTFTCEd

Hey guys, I searched this thread but couldn't find any info on this, if I missed it, please send me a link.

How do I change the text color? On my forum the "live topic" text that shows up on the forum view is missed some times, I want to change the color to red and maybe upercase the fonts, can this be done.



I tried searching for the template to edit, but couldn't find the live topic template to edit.

Thanks for your help and a great mod,
Ed

thats the alt tag on the image, your livetopic image is not the the correct directory.

Originally Posted by MotMann

It works right now with gXboxLive?

I install it but it's not working

you need to follow instructions to get it to work with that mod, i posted them in the first response to this topic.

[FFTFTCEd]

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

thats the alt tag on the image, your livetopic image is not the the correct directory.

Ok......... are you going to let me know which directory to place them in???

In the upload file there was an image folder, in the image folder where two folders, one name misc & one name statusicon

I put the misc image in /forums/images/misc & /forums/blak-ice/misc which is the styles folder.

I put the statusicon folder in /forums/images/misc & /forums/blak-ice/misc, but no change.

I took the images out of the statusicon folder and placed them in all 4 above locations, still no change. Perhaps I missed understood the install process, if you can help me, I would be greatly thankful.


Never mind, I figured it out. Thanks for your help anyway. I had to place the statusicon folder "intact" to the styles misc folder. Only now the text is black, almost same color as the forums, how to I change the color guys, I'm back to square one guys.




Never mind again, I took the image, opened Paint Shop Pro, filled in the black with yellow and all is good now. Thanks anyway for the help.

[furst]

This hack should update Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread at the same intervals as it does the posts. It would give users a better idea of how active a thread is.

[Arcade Fire]

Thanks again!

MotM!!!