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

[thepub]

Hey Cap'n Steve! Thanks for the help with my forum. I am having a few small problems though. The submit quote button is not showing despite me performing the template edits and uploading the image. Also the quotation images are not showing up properly, one is at the top of my forum on the far right of the screen (by the log in and unread posts) and the other one on the left is at the top of the quote on the left side. How can I adjust this? The actual size of my quoter is perfect though. Also, the bb code images are not showing in the quotes (smileys etc...) despite being enabled in the admin cp.

[gpc10347]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Do you mean just the random quote? For that, try this (although it needs to execute after QuoteIt!'s "Initialize Global Options/Permissions" plugin):

PHP Code:

$quoteitoptions['showrandomquote'] = false; 


As always - Thanks for the response!

Welp - it forced me to read a little deeper -
"This may only work with some products which include options to disable/enable them which are not initiated before the style_fetch hook is called. You need to be able to read a products XML file to check for such an option."

I bet there isn't an on/off for the whole plug-in is there?
(I making that assumption as there's no master Enable QuoteIt! that I see in the Admin CP)

No biggie but if you happen to think of anything, I'll take it!

UPDATE: This appears to be doing what I need. It just still appears in the CMPS page which is likely a different issue (I commented out the entirety of quote_randomquote and voila, it works...)

[Cap'n Steve]

thepub - It looks like a search and replace went wrong. In your modification of the postbit template, you've got $stylevar['canaddquotes'], which doesn't exist. It should be $quoteitpermissions['canaddquotes']. I don't see any problems with the quotation mark images, what bowser are you using? If you want to edit their placement, it's controlled by the .openquote and .closequote classes in clientscript/vbulletin_css/quoteit_main.css. As for the smilies, try saving the options again and try editing and saving the quote. The bbcode and smilie parsing has always been a little sketchy, sorry.

gpc10347 - I'm not sure what you mean. Using the code I gave you should disable the vBadvanced module as well, as long as it runs after $quoteitoptions is defined (in the plugin I mentioned), but before the module is loaded. But if you've got it working then don't worry about it, I guess.

[Forgott3n]

Hi we're using vB 3.7.2 and it will not sort the top quotes:

http://www.avrilbandaids.com/forums/...ing&order=desc

What's going on?

[Gio Takahashi]

I can confirm this on 3.7.0, sorting does not seem to work at all.

also, deleting does not work at all, but if I delete it through moderation option, it just puts it in moderation, rather than deleting it.

[Cap'n Steve]

Gio Takahashi - Set "Soft Delete Quotes" to no in the QuoteIt! Options.

I'm not sure how the sorting ended up broken, but try this and see if it helps. In includes/functions_quoteit.php, find this:

					WHERE quotes.quoteid IN (' . $prefetched . ')
			');

and replace it with this:

					WHERE quotes.quoteid IN (' . $prefetched . ')
					ORDER BY ' . $quotedisplay['order']
			);

[Neutral Singh]

Is there anybody who has got this working on 3.7.x? if yes please oblige us by uploading a zipped file with full instructions to install... Cap'n, can't you release a updated version working in 3.7.x.

[Cap'n Steve]

I've been running it on 3.7 for a while now. What problem are you having?

[glowinggal]

Originally Posted by Gio Takahashi

I can confirm this on 3.7.0, sorting does not seem to work at all.

also, deleting does not work at all, but if I delete it through moderation option, it just puts it in moderation, rather than deleting it.

ditto on this - we get people posting "spam" quotes and we can't get them out of there uness i actually do it directly from the database itself via phpmyadmin

[Cap'n Steve]

Do you have "soft delete quotes" on? If so, deleting them sends them back to the moderation queue, where you can delete them permanently.