Miscellaneous Hacks - Enhanced Thread Preview

Overview:

In certain areas of vBulletin 4.x, when you hover your mouse over a thread title, you see a tooltip that displays a truncated version of the first post content. This simple product allows you to designate areas in which the tooltip will also contain a truncated version of the last post.



The product settings allow you to enable/disable the product, set how guests are handled, and select the areas in which the product is active. When deciding how to handle guests, you may select for thread previews to be hidden in all areas whether they are selected as active or not, to hide them in the active areas only, to display the default preview or to allow guests to see the enhanced thread preview. I recommend not allowing guests to see the enhanced thread previews to reduce server load, as additional queries are required to get the last post content. Truncation of the last post follows the same setting affecting the default preview.

Updates:

Version 1.1:

• Strip BB Codes from preview content.

Version 1.2:

• Resolved fetch_array issue present for some.
• Phrased the format of the new preview tooltip.

Version 1.2.1:

• Ignore thread redirects.

Compatibility:

Tested and working on VB 4.2.x and may work on all 4.x versions of vBulletin.

Backup/Warning:

This product does not alter your database, however it is always good practice to make regular backups and you should make a backup before installing ANY new mod.

As always, products are USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I will provide support and do my best to help but no absolute guarantee is offered.

To Install:

• Download and extract the attached .zip file.
• Follow AdminCP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product.
• Click on "Choose File" and browse to the product .xml file that was packaged in the .zip file.
• Click "Import."
• You MUST enable the product in the settings before it will function.
• Configure the remaining settings to your liking. Each setting has a detailed explanation of its use.

Support for this product can be found here:

• MHB - Enhanced Thread Preview
• TAZ - Enhanced Thread Preview

[Stratis]

Ok and sorry for fuss, i will use it without checking that field

[MarkFL]

Well, I don't want you to be left out of a feature, it's just that unless I can duplicate the issue I can't do much to fix it.

[babyv0x]

Test with vBulletin 4.2.2 pl4

Forum Display/Subscriptions --> work fine but some threads the last post only ...

Search Results --> I get Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_array() on a non-object in /opt/lampp/htdocs/packages/vbforum/search/result/thread.php(197) : eval()'d code on line 27

Who's Online/Profile (Current Activity) --> Not work

please fix !

[babyv0x]

in tooltip, if you change "lastpost" become "lastpost -----------------------------" i think it look like better.

Thank you & sorry for my bad English

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by babyv0x

Test with vBulletin 4.2.2 pl4

Forum Display/Subscriptions --> work fine but some threads the last post only ...

Search Results --> I get Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_array() on a non-object in /opt/lampp/htdocs/packages/vbforum/search/result/thread.php(197) : eval()'d code on line 27

Who's Online/Profile (Current Activity) --> Not work

please fix !

I just now installed this on a vB 4.2.2 site (which your profle says you are using) and ran the product through all of the areas where thread previews are affected, and everything checked out.

What version of PHP are you running?

In the first line of the product's plugin hooked at "search_results_threadbit" try changing it to:

PHP Code:

global $vbulletin, $vbphrase, $db; 


Does that fix the fatal error?

[babyv0x]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

In the first line of the product's plugin hooked at "search_results_threadbit" try changing it to:

PHP Code:

global $vbulletin, $vbphrase, $db; 


Does that fix the fatal error?

Search Results is OK now :up:

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by babyv0x

Search Results is OK now :up:

Okay, I will include that in the next update. I will also use phrasing for the format of the tooltip so you can make it whatever you want.

Look for this update within 24 hours.

[babyv0x]

New bug ?

When i quote short post , "Last post" in tooltip will show both, i mean i will see quote & last post

ex:
when i quote short post

Last post z
Last post z
Last post z
Last post z"

This is my post my post My post my post My post my post My post my post

----------------------
i will see in tooltip

First post :
....
.....

Last Post:

Last post z
Last post z
Last post z
Last post z

This is my post my post My post my post ...

[babyv0x]

Originally Posted by babyv0x

New bug ?

When i quote short post , "Last post" in tooltip will show both, i mean i will see quote & last post

ex:
when i quote short post


This is my post my post My post my post My post my post My post my post

----------------------
i will see in tooltip

First post :
....
.....

Last Post:

Last post z
Last post z
Last post z
Last post z

This is my post my post My post my post ...

when i quote long post, i still get this error. I think your mod conflict with quote BBCODE

[MarkFL]

Update - Version 1.2:

• Resolved fetch_array issue present for some.
• Phrased the format of the new preview tooltip.