Major Additions - QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.1

I'm no longer able to put very much time into this mod, so I've set up a Subversion repository at http://www.vbulletinprogramming.com/projects/quoteit/ to allow others to help out. You can use the login "vbuser" with the password "vbulletin" to edit files. If someone would like to completely take over the mod, please contact me.

QuoteIt! allows you to have a database of quotes integrated with your forum. Users submit quotes that can then be voted on by the other users, using your choice of two rating systems. The average installation will show a random quote on the forum home page, but you can include it on any vBulletin page or on your portal home page.

If you'd like to see a demo, go to forums.monkeycrap.com.

Features:

Random Quote
- a random quote can be shown on any vBulletin powered page
- the administrator can set a default rating threshold that quotes must meet before showing up as the random quote
- a new random quote can be chosen at a specific interval of time, to reduce server load

Quote Database
- quotes can be searched, filtered, and sorted by many different criteria
- quotes have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- quotes can be embedded in posts with bbcode
- each post and private message now has a "Submit to Quotes" link that allows users to quote things said on your forum more easily

Quote Ratings System
- quotes can be rated either plus/minus or on a scale from 1 to 5
- quotes below a certain total score or average score can be filtered out

Quote Management
- quotes can either be automatically approved or moderated
- the quote moderation que is like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once
- usergroup permissions are used for adding, editing, deleting, rating and viewing quotes
- most actions use AJAX to avoid page reloads

Don't forget to click install!

Currently known problems are listed here.

The files needed to edit the included images are attached to this post.

This hack is based on QuoteIt! 1.2, originally by magnus. The "submit post" feature was inspired by an addon by CtrlAltDel.

Older versions (no longer in development): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.5.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[Cap'n Steve]

Not at the moment. The problem is that it expects the headinclude template to already be parsed by the time that hook gets executed. I'll have to look around and see if I can find a better hook for it.

[Dr. Bantham]

What are the proper settings for the BB Codes? These appear to be botched in my setup for some reason. I have tried deleting and re-importing, but to no avail. Previously, the fields were empty. Now I have text within brackets appearing. I searched through the posts here and found another user with apparently the same problem, but found no solution. If someone could post the valid content of their BB Code setup for QUOTES and RANDOMQUOTE, I should be able to manually fix this. See attached image for my current settings.

SOLVED
I swear I had tried this before, but upon uploading all files again and importing the bbCodes seem to be working

[Dr. Bantham]

In the course of installing, tweaking and importing quotes, I had somehow managed to create a gap in the quote ID numbers. I tried the maintenance routine and even deleted all quotes a couple of times and re-imported. This only increased the gap. I have 193 quotes, but if you click on the #1 for the first quote in the list, it changes to #534. There are no quotes that exist between 1 and 532. This makes it very confusing to reference a quote with bbCode, among other things. Random quotes seem to be working well.

My question is:
How can I renumber the quotes sequentially from 1? Where can I revert the next quote number to 1 so that I can delete and re-import? Again, I have performed the rebuild routines under ACP-->QuoteIt-->Maintenance several times.

If I have not said it yet, this is a great MOD and one for which I am very grateful for!

[Cap'n Steve]

I'll take a look, but I'm not sure if there's any good way to reset the numbers. You could turn off the "Show continuous quote ids" option and then it will show the real id instead of starting at 1.

[Chadi]

Just curious if you found a trick around the headinclude problem. Thanks.

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

I'll take a look, but I'm not sure if there's any good way to reset the numbers. You could turn off the "Show continuous quote ids" option and then it will show the real id instead of starting at 1.

What if I uninstalled the mod, reinstalled, and then did a mass import of the entire quote collection? As it is not allowing the QUOTES bbCode to work properly and creates confusion, I would like to fix it.

[Cap'n Steve]

chadi - Not yet.

Dr. Bantham - The mod itself has nothing to do with it. If we want to backup the quotes and then reimport them, you'll need to edit the backup and remove all the ids. The way I mentioned in my last post is the easiest.

[Dr. Bantham]

The mod itself has nothing to do with it. If we want to backup the quotes and then reimport them, you'll need to edit the backup and remove all the ids. The way I mentioned in my last post is the easiest.

I was not referring to a backup, but a clean text file which I was using to import all quotations. I did not manually enter these quotations. I was proposing the clean uninstall/reinstall with a fresh import of the text file I created outside of vBulletin. Does this change your response?

[Roxie]

Hi, is there a way to get the QUOTES count in the postbit to link to the quotes.php page?

[Cap'n Steve]

Dr. Bantham - Yes, that would work fine as long as you delete and recreate the quotes database table.

Roxie - Sure, you'll just have to find where you added it in the postbit and postbit_legacy templates and add the link.