New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB3)

Advanced @User Tagging Mod: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.
This version introduces several major new features that users have requested, and some others we were unable to fit in v1.0.

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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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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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
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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

[joluis]

Can you (at least) tell us a solution now for the code of Render?. I only need a solution for this line:

$text = $this->parse_bbcode(preg_replace('/\[\/?mention=?\]/i', '', preg_replace('/\[mention=(\d+)\](.*)\[\/mention\]/iU', $mention, $text)), $do_smilies, $do_imgcode, $do_html);]]

If you had solve this, is enough for me until next release.

[DragonByte Tech]

It's not a quick fix so I can't just give a solution I'm afraid.

Fillip

[SuperJoker]

Very nice.

Nominated!

Edit: Looks like I spoke to soon...

Originally Posted by Taurus1

Checking the logs now. Will get back on that.

Yes the [MENTION] BBCode is there.

EDIT: OK, I managed to fix the Internal Server Error, it seems to have been a permissions issue in my FTP.

So now I do get this error in some threads again:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method vB_Template::fetch_template_raw() in /home/thebull/public_html/forums/vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo_hook.php on line 25

And the BBCode is still not showing.Thanks!

I'm having this same vbseo error. Did you get this fixed?

[ShawneyJ]

i have had to disable the mod, since today for some reason it was causing the hole right side of members profiles to disappear, eg: Mini Statistics, Friends, Recent Visitors etc. the right side of some members profiles became blank using FF and IE. i dont know why this mod would suddenly cause this as i have been using it for a while now, i havent added any thing new to clash wit it, but it had to be disabled for now if ever an update comes out i'll try again.

[joluis]

Is still under development?

[DragonByte Tech]

It is, and we'll be releasing a bugfix version update tonight, which will fix the MENTION BBCode problems and hopefully end all conflicts with existing mods


Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

v1.2.2 has been released, which should fix the various compatibility issues that were introduced by the change to the ; delimiter in Mentions.

Fillip

[y2krazy]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

If the username is wrapped in tags like so:
[MENTION]Username[/MENTION]

Then it may be a mod conflict. Are you running AME? If so, please try disabling profile linking in AME. This is something the author told me to tell people who had this problem.


Fillip

I am having this exact issue, but cannot find anything in the AME options for profile linking. Did the author provide an exact setting to toggle off?

Thanks in advance!

[DragonByte Tech]

No, sorry, that's all I got told


Fillip

[johnban]

Hi,

I install it, but in our forum my username has the trademark (™) at the end.. When I am tagging my username nothing happens...

Could you fix that??

Thanks,
John B.