New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Muniesa]

Anyone has a security problem with this plugin? My site got flagged as "hacked" in google and when I removed the plugin it was fine.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Muniesa

Anyone has a security problem with this plugin? My site got flagged as "hacked" in google and when I removed the plugin it was fine.

There are no known security vulnerabilities in this plugin

If you have any actual evidence to back up your claim, please feel free to provide it.


Fillip

[Teejay24]

Curious i just downloaded the plugin and i managed to install it correctly.

I can @Username no problem, and all of the requirements to tag etc work fine.

Only thing i cant do is get a notification from the top of the forum. I goto my profile and i can see all the mentions there but i have to ACTUALLY know that i have been tagged to actually go there.

So a little notification stating i have been tagged in a post is not working?

Can someone clarify ?

Thanks

EDIT:

NEVERMIND

I was trying to mention myself testing it - it dosnt work - so i made a demouser and mentioned my main username and it worked ;D

[mc0676]

After install on 4.2.4 and php 5.6 i received this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '*' in /web/htdocs/www.vwgolfcommunity.com/home/vbulletin/dbtech/usertag/hooks/showthread_complete.php on line 28

What it could be ?

Thank u for help.

[jnmann]

Is it possible to 'turn off' selected members so they don't get the email telling them they were mentioned/tagged?

[Cable_Player]

Hi, I have this mod installed on 4.2.5 and it's working great, thanks!
I also have MarkFL: Welcome Threads installed which creates a welcome thread automatically when someone registers. I've edited the template and it successfully @ tags the member, but a notification isn't displayed for them. How would I get the notification to display please?
Thanks

[MarkFL]

Originally Posted by Cable_Player

Hi, I have this mod installed on 4.2.5 and it's working great, thanks!
I also have MarkFL: Welcome Threads installed which creates a welcome thread automatically when someone registers. I've edited the template and it successfully @ tags the member, but a notification isn't displayed for them. How would I get the notification to display please?
Thanks

When you say you edited the template, what exactly did you do? Are you talking about the setting in my product, specifically "New User Post Format?"

I suspect the tagging notification is hooked at a standard vB post creation location. Now, this may or may not work...I haven't tested it, but try adding this to my plugin that creates the thread, at the very beginning:

PHP Code:

require(DIR . '/dbtech/usertag/hooks/postdata_presave.php'); 


[Cable_Player]

Hi Mark, yes it's the "New User Post Format", I've set it to:

Hello, and welcome to {site}, @{username};!

How exactly would I add that to the plugin? Sorry I'm still new to vBulletin!

Thanks

[MarkFL]

In the "Plugin Manager" locate the plugin titled "Post Welcoming Thread To Newly Registered User" and click edit.

Add that line to the very top of the plugin and click save. Then see if it works.

[Cable_Player]

Thanks, I've done that and when hitting Submit on registration:

Using $this when not in object context on line 4 in /{ROOT}/dbtech/usertag/hooks/postdata_presave.php
#0 /{ROOT}/register.php(492) : eval()'d code(14): require()
#1 /{ROOT}/register.php(492): eval()
#2 {main}


Fatal User Error: Using $this when not in object context on line 4 in ..../dbtech/usertag/hooks/postdata_presave.php in ..../vb/vb.php on line 286

Edit:
A little more information:
The registration is successful (you can verify via e-mail and login) but no welcome thread is created.