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

[MaestroX]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

MaestroX - Is this page on the Internet, a link would be helpful. You can also try reuploading all the files and reinstalling the product.

Yeah, my test forum are http://area51.music-web.org/forum/index.php. I'll also try reuploading all the files and reinstalling the product

Edit: All problems seem to be fixed, thanks for the great support

p.s. Also I'm waiting for the random quote by category and this mod will be perfect!

[thepub]

double post.

[thepub]

ok, I went through and out everything in again and paid close attention to where what was going and figured out a couple of my mistakes along the way. I now have the quoter on my forum index, but there is nothing in it. When I submit a test quote it doesn't show up, all there are is some ""'s

It looks nothing like the one you posted on your demo site.

[dcsbclan]

First off great mod Steve! Clicked installed and nominated.

The public part i all working fine, but setting options in the admin panel isnt working. For example when i go to the parsing option I set all to yes then hit save, and the page reloads with all no and it doesnt save the settings. Have tried it in both IE7 and Opera to check it wasnt opera's cookies settings showing it wrong or something and it happens on both. I went through trying to chmod some of the files to 777 instead of 644 just to test, and when i change quoteadmin.php to anything other than 644 I get an error in teh admin cp.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Im running vb3.6.4

[BaconDelight]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

BBcode in the random quote should be fixed now, also.

Nope, same issue. BBcode works if a user does not have edit/delete permission. And it works on the show all quotes list, even with edit/delete permission. But in the random quote display, if a user has edit/delete permission, BBCode is not parsed.

I completely uninstalled 3.01 and installed 3.02. All templates are unedited.


EDITED TO ADD: I stand corrected. Now, with 3.02, BBCode doesn't work at all in the random quote display, whether the user has editing permission or not.

[BaconDelight]

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but I compared the resulting html source code for the random quote display (where BBCode fails) to the same for the full quote list (where BBCode works)

I noticed this difference. In the random display, you see this right before the text of the quote:

<span class="quotetext" id="quotetext1-">

Whereas in the full quote list, it's:

<span class="quotetext" id="quotetext1-0">

Again, I have no idea if that's relevant, but perhaps it points to where the BBCode parsing is breaking down.

Cap'n, if you'd like to look at my installation, PM me and I'll point you to it.

[thepub]

Originally Posted by BaconDelight

Cap'n, if you'd like to look at my installation, PM me and I'll point you to it.

mine too! mine too! *jumping up and down* My members are snippy about the quoter not working lol!

[Amiga Harrison]

I've taken a look at the templates and sorted out the text field sizes so that's sorted.

I still have the layout issues in IE, and have now tested it using both IE6 and 7 and get the same results. I've PM'd you the details to look at my site.

[zetetic]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

zetetic - When you say you dumped them to a flat file, do you mean through phpMyAdmin? The quote importing just takes a text file with each field separated by whatever character you specify. If you could post the options you filled in at the quote importing screen and at least the first line of the file, that might help.

Yes, dumping from phpmyadmin. I still have a copy of my old db running on my test server, so I can export another copy of the quotes table as necessary. I tried numerous combinations of export format, separator and field order but can't seem to get anything to import.

[Cap'n Steve]

thepub - Did you approve the quote? Does it show up when you go to the main quotes.php page? Have you changed either the total threshold or average threshold?

dcsbclan - Try reuploading all the files and reimporting the product.

Amiga Harrison - It's definitely caused by using the [quote] bbcode in a quote. I'm probably just going to end up disabling that bbcode, since I'm not sure how useful that is within a quote anyway.

zetetic - If the backup was created with phpMyAdmin, you should use phpMyAdmin to restore it. You could also run the queries through your admincp, but using phpMyAdmin would be the easiest option.

Still working on the bbcode in the random quote...