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]

TheBlackPoet - I'm not sure what you mean. Did it show any errors?

Robbed - I don't know of a good way to do that yet, my advice would be just to avoid using [quote] tags for the time being.

[TheBlackPoet]

yeah.. i was getting a fatal error and a white screen....

[Cap'n Steve]

Well if you could remember what it said, or even try to recreate it (if you're feeling brave), that might help.

[netwind]

How to avoid conversion from 8bit endcoding to utf-8 in ajax edit?
I use windows-1251 charset for all data and html.

I just remove onClick handlers from page.

[Cap'n Steve]

I never really considered character set for this hack, are you able to use the standard vBulletin ajax without problems?

[netwind]

We haven't problems with ajax functions in vbulletin core.
Can this caused by htmlspecialchars_uni() than convert 8-bit symbols into html equialent?

You can see on php manual, function htmlspecialchars has special third argument for such national encodings

[pauleine]

I have created a sql file for this with about 1500 quotes if anyone is interested in the file please let me know if i should add here.

[Grunt]

Originally Posted by pauleine

I have created a sql file for this with about 1500 quotes if anyone is interested in the file please let me know if i should add here.

Yes please

[pauleine]

Originally Posted by Grunt

Yes please

Here you go its attached, but bare in mind it has my name in it you should change to your own or some random name...lol

[Grunt]

thanks pauleine