Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts and New Reputation Comments

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system, also, this attaches itself to certain phrases in the "welcome" box and will not work if they are not present (or are modified by other code).

FYI, the Forum Marking Choices are located in vBulletin Options ;
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

The Read Marking options were removed from vB 3.8.11, it defaults to database marking.


** For vBulletin 3.8.11 you will need to use the Unread-posts-3811.zip **

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search). It also displays the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

There is also the option to display the New Reputation Comments counter as a Welcome Box Notification.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

Version 3.8.001 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Get New/Get Daily Opt Out Modification" installed (by Andreas).
Version 3.8.004 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Selective Forum Filter Modification" installed (by Psionic Vision).

To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : Initial vb 3.8 Release.
v3.8.002 : Fix forum exclusion bugs.
v3.8.003 : Fix spelling and phrase bug.
v3.8.004 : Added support for Psionic Visions Selective Forum Filter.
v3.8.005 : Updated version for vBulletin 3.8.11 (only).

[Paul M]

I just told you how to fix it.

[Sunka]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Set the "Links Prefix Path" .

Originally Posted by EagleNick

This doesn't resolve my issue.

I'm assuming the reason is because the Unread Posts link is coded as <a href="search.php?do=getnew"> rather than <a href="BBURL/search.php?do=getnew">. So I'd like to know how to fix this.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Paul M

I just told you how to fix it.

Paul, it would not kill you to answer just a little more.

EagleNick, if your forum is installed in folder named forum, try to write in field Links Prefix Path: /forum/

[Paul M]

The option description says it all.

Links Prefix Path

The path that will prefix search.php or usercp.php in the links, if you use a CMS then you may need to set this to something like /pathtoforum/ - otherwise just leave this blank.

As far as I can see from the reply he didnt even look or try it.

[Sunka]

Yes, but many people are new to all that stuff, I am too. So, explanation in details stop more posts with same questions. I not meaning anything bad...

[Metal-R-US]

Originally Posted by jgommel

There seems to be some sorta conflict between Photopost vBGallery and this mod. With this mod enabled, my users can no longer use the Prev and Next image button/links within Photopost vBGallery. They keep getting this message, "No Image specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator". I disabled all my hook by placing the following code at the top of the vBulletin config.php file; define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

I confirmed that the issue was with one of my installed mods, so I systematically disabled one mod at a time until I found out that this mod is causing the Prev / Next image links to break.

Any ideas?

Any update on this? I've run into the same issue since upgrading to vB 3.8 and vBG 2.5.

[Paul M]

Nope. As I said before, I dont have or use Photopost, therefore there is nothing I can look at.

[Metal-R-US]

Nevermind, I found a fix at the Photopost forums...

[Paul M]

How about sharing it then ?

[cagbaazee]

Hi Paul , i hv install it . But where shuld i find it - unread post. It was not in index page. can u please guide .. what is wrong with it. Thanks

[Metal-R-US]

Originally Posted by Paul M

How about sharing it then ?

From the Photopost vBGallery site:

Line 137 in showimage.php delete the code in bold

// Previous link, Next link, Filmstrip
if ($goto == 'next' OR $goto == 'previous' OR $ppg_options['gallery_filmstrip'])
{

	if ($userid)
	{
		$wherequery[] = 'userid = ' . $userid;
	}