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}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[smnet]

For those using this on your forums..... Please read my posts here and see if you can confirm this behavior - I think if this bug were not present then I would re-install because i love it.

Sadly, with this bug unfixed it's spoilt and not useful for busy boards.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by smnet

For those using this on your forums..... Please read my posts here and see if you can confirm this behavior - I think if this bug were not present then I would re-install because i love it.

Sadly, with this bug unfixed it's spoilt and not useful for busy boards.

The guy responded long ago. Rather than nag, just read the posts!!!

Solution was: Set Maximum Visible Posts to 1000

[Daky]

hm looks like that it doesn't work on Post Reply, only when you're doing Quick Reply ?
Is that supposed to be like that?

[mcavazos]

i really would like to install this plugin to my board, i tryed 2 times installing it and after 5 minutes my server dies, overloaded, i was checking the top statics and seems like mysql reaches 100% cpu and then it dies.

My forum has a big database might be that, any ideas how can i install this pluging?

[DobieGillis?]

when using this Mod, just don't breathe to heavy, it'll break it. Talk about fragile, man.

[amjadz4]

installed!
thanks!

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Lynne

You might want to read the thread. There are some modifications that conflict with this mod.

looks like there is a compatibility issue with vbstatus, but only with IE

[voter]

Coders Shack why you need to invent vbphrase variables in javascript?
Code in your php

			<script type=\"text/javascript\">
				var threadid = $threadinfo[threadid];
				var ajax_last_edit = $threadinfo[lastedit];
				livetopic.old_topic = ' . $vbulletin->options['livetopic_threadtime'] . ';
				livetopic.interval_time = ' . $vbulletin->options['livetopic_requestinterval'] . ';
				livetopic.ajax_max_visibleposts = ' . $vbulletin->options['livetopic_maxvisibleposts'] . ';

				vbphrase[\"livetopic_maxpostnotice\"] = \"' . addslashes($vbphrase['livetopic_maxpostnotice']) . '\";
				vbphrase[\"livetopic_edit_message\"] = \"' . addslashes($vbphrase['livetopic_edit_message']) . '\";
				vbphrase[\"livetopic_newresponses\"] = \"' . addslashes($vbphrase['livetopic_newresponses']) . '\";
			</script>

Generated this in html source

<script type="text/javascript">
var threadid = 12290;
var ajax_last_edit = 1240437167;
livetopic.old_topic = 300;
livetopic.interval_time = 3000;
livetopic.ajax_max_visibleposts = 30;

vbphrase["livetopic_maxpostnotice"] = "The maximum amount of posts on this page can display has been reached. Posts will now start to disappear from oldest to newest.";
vbphrase["livetopic_edit_message"] = "<img alt=\'live topic\' src=\'images/statusicon/thread_livetopic.gif\' title=\'live topic\'/>&nbsp; <span style=\'font-weight: bold;\'>This post has been added by another user.</span> <br /><br />Since this is an active topic, this post has been automatically added to the thread while you were reading it. If you are replying to this thread you might want to read this post before doing so.";
vbphrase["livetopic_newresponses"] = "%1 new responses (<a href=\'showthread.php?t=%2&goto=newpost\'>live topic</a>)";
</script>

It is nonsense and useless to have vbphrase variables definition inside HTML source. These all is classified as HTML error from any HTML checker.

[MotMann]

It's not work in Safari or FireFox

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by MotMann

It's not work in Safari or FireFox

Yes, it does work with those two browsers (those are the two I do my testing on). You may have a modification conflicting with this one.