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}

[meeja]

After installing I got the following error.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `post` ADD `lastedit` INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0' AFTER `dateline`;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'lastedit'
Error Number : 1060
Request Date : Wednesday, July 8th 2009 @ 03:22:31 AM
Error Date : Wednesday, July 8th 2009 @ 04:20:31 AM
Script : SITE NAME/admincp/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer : SITE NAME/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address : XX.XXX.XXX.XXX

Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.81-community

Should I be worried?

[Peacelily]

Does this cause cookie problems for anyone else?

[MrRem]

Works fine

[Pirat3]

Does this put heavy load on a big/traffic-heavy site?

[hbalagh1]

Nice, had to disable
USC
PassiveVid (1.x) but i can always replace those with something else :P

[Mahar]

With the option to make posts disappear from the screen after x amount of replies...does this just disappear from their viewing or actually delete them? Also, does the first post stay on the screen so people know what they are talking about?

[ctrlbrk]

I am having problems with this in Google Chrome 3.0.193.1. Works fine on FF and IE and I also believe Chrome 2.

If a page is updated by another user (which triggers the ajax call) while Chrome is on the page, Chrome crashes. The only error I've found is "Aw, Snap!" it doesn't provide details, but I've absolutely narrowed it down to Live Topic and ONLY when the thread is _active_.

I only have the one workstation with Chrome on it to test with, so I am hoping someone else can test with Chrome 3 and see if this can be duplicated so that it can then be fixed.

Mike

[Ted Clore]

Installed and uninstalled for the second time. Just can't get the pages to auto refresh, and have to manually refresh after someone else posts.

Sounds like a wonderful hack for those that it works for though.

I appreciate your effort.

[LCN2007]

Originally Posted by hbalagh1

Nice, had to disable
USC
PassiveVid (1.x) but i can always replace those with something else :P

what is USC?

[LCN2007]

Is there away to display live topic on VBA Recent thread block?

Is there a way to display how many members are viewing a thread?