Moderators Functions - Advance Sticky Options

What this Hack Does
This hack will allow you to set a Display Order for Sticky Posts (ignore any sortorder) and set an Expiry Date to unstick your posts.

Hack Info
Templates to Edit: 1 (manual)
Files to Upload: 1 (auto)
DB Changes: 1 (auto)
Plugins Added: 7 (auto)
Cron Scripts Added: 1 (auto)

Instructions
1) Download the attached file.
2) Upload the file in the "upload" folder.
3) Import the plugin.
4) Find and Replace in template threadadmin_editthread

		$posticons

With:

		<fieldset class="fieldset">
			<legend>$vbphrase[sticky_options]</legend>
			<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
				<div>
					$vbphrase[sticky_order]<br />
					<input type="text" class="bginput" name="sticky_order" value="$threadinfo[sticky_order]" size="5" maxlength="3" />
					$vbphrase[sticky_order_desc]
				</div>
				<div>
					$vbphrase[sticky_expiry]<br />
					<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
					  <tr>
						<td>
							<span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[month]<br />
							<select name="sticky_expiry[month]" tabindex="1">
								<option value="-1" $monthselected[default]></option>
								<option value="1" $monthselected[1]>$vbphrase[january]</option>
								<option value="2" $monthselected[2]>$vbphrase[february]</option>
								<option value="3" $monthselected[3]>$vbphrase[march]</option>
								<option value="4" $monthselected[4]>$vbphrase[april]</option>
								<option value="5" $monthselected[5]>$vbphrase[may]</option>
								<option value="6" $monthselected[6]>$vbphrase[june]</option>
								<option value="7" $monthselected[7]>$vbphrase[july]</option>
								<option value="8" $monthselected[8]>$vbphrase[august]</option>
								<option value="9" $monthselected[9]>$vbphrase[september]</option>
								<option value="10" $monthselected[10]>$vbphrase[october]</option>
								<option value="11" $monthselected[11]>$vbphrase[november]</option>
								<option value="12" $monthselected[12]>$vbphrase[december]</option>
							</select>
							</span>
						</td>
						<td>
							<span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[day]<br />
							<input type="text" tabindex="1" class="bginput" name="sticky_expiry[day]" value="$sticky_expiry[day]" size="4" maxlength="2" />
							</span>
							</td>
						<td>
							<span class="smallfont">$vbphrase[year]<br />
							<input type="text" tabindex="1" class="bginput" name="sticky_expiry[year]" value="$sticky_expiry[year]" size="4" maxlength="4" />
							</span>
						</td>
					  </tr>
					</table>
				</div>

			</div>
		</fieldset>
		
		$posticons

Change Log
Version 1.5
- Updated to vBulletin 3.6
- Moved a hook location.
- Changed install code.

Version 1.0.3
- Fixed some broken uninstall code.

Version 1.0.2
- Changed the default value of sticky order from 0 to 5. This was done so you may have stickies like ?Sig Testing? that are always below new stickies.

Version 1.0.1
- Fixed Select Field size.
- Removed '' from numeric values to lessen load and speed up the script.
- Removed excess spacing just to clean up the code.
- Changed != to <> in the MySQL Query to prevent problems.

3.7.x and 3.8.x Support
Currently this is verified working up to vB version 3.8.1

[BeoRski]

Any chance this gets to vb4?

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by NTMID8

It seems the developer has not been onlne since March. Any other coders out there who can adapt this to 4.1.5?

or 4.2

[BeoRski]

Still wishing someone could port this over to 4.x... ^_^

[Jamey]

Working fine on 3.8.4. Thanks.

[Dr.Adrian]

No news on 4.x for this mod?

[ia7]

After reading this thread and seeing what kh99 said I had a go at trying to make it work, and I succeeded in getting the display order working but the expiry time eludes me, though I only wanted the ordering functionality anyway.

It works on 4.2.0 PL4 so not sure how or even if it will work on your version but you can give it a try if you want.

After Importing the Product copy the below into threadadmin_editthread and paste it before the div containing $posticons.

Paste this:

		<!-- Advanced Sticky Options Begin -->
		<h3 class="blocksubhead">{vb:rawphrase sticky_options}</h3>
		<div class="section">
		    <div class="blockrow">

					<label for="displayorder">{vb:rawphrase sticky_order}</label>
					<input type="text" class="primary textbox" name="sticky_order" value="{vb:raw threadinfo.sticky_order}" size="5" maxlength="3" />
					<span class="stickyorderdesc">{vb:rawphrase sticky_order_desc}</span>
					<p class="description"></p>

		    </div><!--/.blockrow-->
		</div><!--/.section-->
		<!-- Advanced Sticky Options End -->

before this:

		<div class="section">
			{vb:raw posticons}
		</div>

Worth disabling the Sticky Expiry Scheduled task too seeing as that doesn't function.