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]

I'll release a slightly updated version to fix the AJAX problems when 3.7 is finalized.

[Megareus Rex]

EDIT: It works now. Dunno why it didn't at first.

Anyways, some more questions/problems:
1: How can I edit quotes? There's no longer an option under the quotes on the display page, nor one on the admin CP.

2: It won't let me moderate quotes. It keeps saying I don't have the necessary admin permissions, but there's no "quotes admin" option in the admin permission list.

Any help is much appreciated.

[Cap'n Steve]

What happens when you go to quotes.php?do=editquote&quoteid={insert a quote's id here}? It could be a permissions problem, try saving the permissions even if you don't need to change anything.

The moderation permission is called "Can Approve Quotes" and it's in with the regular usergroup permissions.

[Megareus Rex]

Ah, that solves things. Didn't realize that the permissions were in usergroups, lol.

The edit problem was that no edit link appeared, and it still doesn't, although I think that could be because I had my style guy edit the display to be how it used to be (back in 3.5 or whatever version), and he may have edited out the edit link by mistake. I'll post again if there's still a problem.

EDIT: We also have a problem with un-moderated quotes still showing up in the random quote box. Any ideas? It's not that big of a deal, but it kind of defeats the purpose (our use of the quotebox revolves completely around the random display, pretty much).

[Cap'n Steve]

Try setting "Show unapproved quotes to moderators" to no in the QuoteIt! Options. They should just be showing up for you because you're logged in.

[Megareus Rex]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Try setting "Show unapproved quotes to moderators" to no in the QuoteIt! Options. They should just be showing up for you because you're logged in.

I'll try that. And my style guy did indeed edit out the links for editing/deleting/etc, so that should be working soon.

Thanks for the help.

[Megareus Rex]

Ok, more problems (mostly surrounding random quote):

1: The delete shout button's pop-up box has no text, only ok/cancel buttons. Why?

2: The random quote box doesn't recognize line breaks. While on other views, multi-line quotes (such as two people talking) are correctly interpreted (seperate lines), in the random quote they all run together in one big line (only going to the next line when it reaches the end of the box).

Basically, this (in quote views besides the random quotebox):

guy 1: dshbnjhfh

guy 2: adrhethj

becomes this (in the random quotebox):

guy 1: dshbnjhfh guy 2: adrhethj

3: How would I go about putting a border around the quotebox? Specifically I want a way to seperate the quotes on the vieq quotes page, because there's no seperation at all how it is at the moment (one solid color background, no lines that divide the quotes). My coder is looking at it but he can't figure it out because apparently the coding is such a mess (no offense).

[Cap'n Steve]

1. Sounds like a phrase isn't getting output. Look in the source of the page (in your browser) and see what it says on the line containing "quotes_phrase_are_you_sure".

2. It sometimes does that. Try editing and resaving it.

3. Lol. "quoterow" is the class given to each quote. It also uses "alt1" and "alt2" for alternating rows.

[Megareus Rex]

Nope, the problem of quotes in the random box not reading line breaks remains, even after re-saving them. Any other ideas?

[Cap'n Steve]

Nope, right now I'm not sure what's causing it, sorry.