Forum Home Enhancements - User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated)

Available for vB4:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=221581

What does it do?

• Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome). If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
• If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.

Things to set in AdminCP/Options:

• show member of / subscribed to /nothing
• sort by name or last message date
• limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
• restrict use by usergroup
• show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
• show buttons to open new discussion etc.
• apply custom css to grouptitle
• trim group description to max length or disable
• parse bbcode in group descriptions
• use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
• use .png for statusicons instead of .gif (global in AdminCP, per style in groupsbit template)
• show groupicon instead of statusicon

Looks

• Out of the box: I tried to copy the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
• As requested, it is now fully templated (following the forumbit-scheme) for easy adjustment to custom styles.
  See the screenshot of a modified example in this post.

Install/upgrade

1. Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
2. Import the product file.
3. Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.

Template edit
Will be automatically inserted below your forums list if you are using TMS, which I highly recommend to do. If not:

Find:

<!-- /main -->

Above add:

$cel_social_groups

If you don't like it there, you can insert $cel_social_groups anywhere you like on forumhome.


Technical stuff
1 product file that adds
+ 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
+ 3 plugins
+ adds 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
+ a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
+ 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.


Limitations

• Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting)
  Explanation: This mod relys on the information in the database when a discussion was last read by the actual user. If you rely on cookies for this, you can use this mod anyway, but there will be no marking if there are unread messages by changed statusicons.
• 3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under 3.8
  Explanation: When converting the old 3.7 message board into a discussion, Jelsoft was a little bit slack. While normally all the information about the last updated discussion is stored in the socialgroups table, this information is not entered for the auto-created discussion. For example: The discussion ID for the last updated discussion simply is 0 instead of the actual id of the auto created discussion. Therefore, this mod can not retrieve the information it needs since the discussion is not linked to the social group. This only changes when the first message under 3.8 is written.
• Not a bug note: In vB 3.8 there was an issue where the last discussion title was not correctly updated by vB in the socialgroup table. This would lead this mod to show a wrong last discussion title under some circumstances. This was resolved in 3.8.1.
  See Bugtracker: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=27176

Version history

v 1.4
+ some bugfixes
+ option to turn teaser message off
+ option to show several buttons: to start a new discussion - see the group's members list - see the group' photos (only shown if there are any attached pictures) - unsubscribe (only if subscribed groups are shown) (Thanks to glorify)
1.4.1: Template/Style error in Google Chrome fixed

v 1.3
+ now fully templated. New templates: forumhome_cel_social_groups_groupsbit and forumhome_cel_social_groups_lastmsgby.
1.3.1: Link to user profile error fixed

v 1.2
+ added option to sort groups by date of last message
+ added missing phrase

v 1.1
+ improved database query
+ limitations somewhat lessened
+ added settings page to AdminCP
+ choose whether to show groups the user is a member of or subscribed to
+ limit number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page
+ restrict use by usergroup
+ some minor bugfixes


Planned features (no promises made!)

none atm

[s]option to use a set of different statusicons for the groups [/s]
[s]option to use the social group's icon instead of the statusicon[/s]
[s]and to go with that, for additional/substitunional unread marking, possibility to add css markup to the social group's title[/s]


Translations

• Polish (thanks to RadioErewan)
• German (thanks to redlabour)

Screenshots:

• AdminCP
• Forumhome (with groupicon and css formatted groupname, bbcode in description parsed)
• Forumhome (with forum statusicons and trimmed description -> bbcode not parsed)

### Don't forget to click install! ###
(No support if you don't)

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Revan

I believe these changes, especially if added as options, will be beneficial for those like me, who prefer to have the Social Groups list exactly the same way as any other forum category

As you can see, some of them made it into the new release, some did not. The decision to put the groups into an extra block was made to have some distinction - they are not the same as any other forum, after all. Who wishs to treat them like you do can follow your example - that's what templates are for

[Revan]

Well I'm most pleased that the .png change made it into the mod - template edits, I can deal with, but remembering code changes would be a hassle
Nice going on the read marking change =D

Updating now


EDIT: Nevermind, the .png setting is global when it should be per-skin, like I put in my templates. I still need to edit the code to produce the wanted effect
Best way to do this would be to define the result of the AdminCP option in the template, rather than the code, so that a forum could set their default (if the majority of skins uses gifs, they use gif extension in the option, and vice versa), but still allow us to customise the extension per-skin.
Hopefully that made sense XD

[cellarius]

Hi, try this one.
I started to change this right after your first edit, but I guess I just had the same idea I hope this will work for you.

I updated the product .zip accordingly.

[blackenizer]

When I click on the option

groups user is a member of
The forum page does not come up.

but it works if I select
groups user is subscribed to

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by blackenizer

When I click on the option

groups user is a member of
The forum page does not come up.

but it works if I select
groups user is subscribed to

I cannot reproduce this - I myself use it with the "member of"-option only, without problems both on my test and my life-board.

[Revan]

Working like a charm now, thanks mate

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Revan

Working like a charm now, thanks mate

Good to hear :up:

[redlabour]

Please use the Update-Mail Function. You have 120 Installs but only a few Downloads every Update.

[redlabour]

BUG after Updating shown at Top of Forumhome/Header:

Warnung: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/index.php(67) : eval()'d code (Zeile 458)

[cellarius]

Uh - I don't get that error... on neither of my boards. Since there's no line 458 in the plugin, I do not know exactly which of the two foreach statements in the plugin might be responsible. Since this only happens after upgrade, probably the newly added Can't see what might be causing it at the moment.

Please try the following: in the plugin add

$array_discussionread = array();

before

while ($array = $db->fetch_array($result_discussionread))

Are you using PHP 4 or PHP 5?

If the above does not fix it, please try to replace

foreach ($array_discussionread[$cel_groups['groupid']] as $discussions)

with

foreach ((array) $array_discussionread[$cel_groups['groupid']] as $discussions)