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GRPS: Groups Commune 2.0.x
Version: 2.0.13, by sabret00the sabret00the is offline
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Category: Major Additions - Version: 3.6.4 Rating:
Released: 09-22-2006 Last Update: 09-28-2007 Installs: 233
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Welcome ladies and gentleman, this is the release thread for GRPS, an interactive groups commune. I hope you enjoy this release and i sincerely hope it provides everything to your community in which you're looking for.

What is it?
It's a groups commune. The original idea is that forums with lots and lots of forums on the front-page suck, as a result i thought most of the conversation was rather obscure in regards to what the forums were trying to achieve, so it'd be nice to have that all going on elsewhere, not detracting away from the content and stopping your front-page from looking like a car crash.

Features?
  • Groups Home
    • Groups Activity List
      • Newest Groups
      • Most Popular Groups
      • Largest Groups
    • Category List
    • Group Search by Title
    • Group Sort by Alphabetical Title, Categories, Member Count

    • Users can create groups
    • Admin switch to moderate groups or not
      • Admin CP access to moderation panel
  • Groups Page
    • Posts since last visit notification
    • Group Info
      • Group Leader shown with avatar
      • Category
      • Type
        • Groups can be listed as public, private or hidden
      • Start Date
      • Member count
      • Post count
    • Group Desciption
      • Shows group title
      • Shows random image
      • Shows group information set by group leader
    • Groups Thread List (Forum)
      • Status Icon
      • Title
        • Threads use postbit as per the forums
      • Thread Author with avatar and time that the thread was started
      • Last reply with avatar, username and time that the last reply was posted
      • Post New Thread Button
        • Groups Members can create threads
    • Newest Members
      • Shows five newest members
      • Link to view all members
        • Shows all members of the group
    • Group Options
      • Users can join/leave groups
        • PM Notification for group leaders upon join requests (when moderation enabled).
        • PM Notification for of acceptance or refusal.
      • Users can send invites to other users via PM
  • Groups Thread
    • Groups Info Box (see above for more info)
    • Group Description box (see above for more info)
    • Newest Members List (see above for more info)
    • List of groups posts using forums postbit
    • Pagination using native vBulletin pagination
    • Group Leader/Moderation Options
      • Open/Close Thread
      • Stick Thread
      • Delete Thread
    • Users have the ability to report posts
    • Moderators have the ability to view IP and host.
  • Group Leader Options
    • Groups Management
      • WYSIWYG Editor
      • Reason for editing box
      • Group Options
        • Private Posts
        • Only group leader can make threads
        • Moderate Members
        • Show group text edit details
        • Hide group image on group pages
        • Hidden Group
          • This option is only available to admins
    • Group Members Moderation
      • Ability to accept or deny new members
  • Postbit Integration
    • View Users Groups
  • User Control Panel (Integration)
    • List of groups appears in usercp in order of the last post
  • Administrator Options
    • vBulletin Options
      • Turn groups on or off
      • Groups Limit Per User
      • Posts Per Page (threads)
      • Check Forum Activity Posts
      • Check Forum Activity Time
      • Number of Random Images
      • Turn email notification of new groups on/off
    • Usergroup Options
      • Can view groups
      • Can create groups
      • Can join groups
      • Can post messages in groups
      • Can edit messages in groups
      • Can delete messages posted in groups
      • Numbers of groups usergroup can join limited
      • Can moderate groups
        • See above for more info
      • Can view IP Addresses
    • Category Editor
      • Edit
        • Edit cat id (please not this can ef up your show)
        • Edit cat title
        • Edit cat description
      • Add
        • New Cat Title And Description
    • Groups Editor
      • Search for group by id
        • Edit
          • Title
          • Desciption
          • Categoryid
          • Group leader id
          • Private Posts
          • Moderate Members
          • Hidden group

Special Thanks to harry1951, without his help testing and his recommendations, this would've never ended up the way it did.

Honestly, i can't think of anything else, if you appreciate the work gone into this mod, please donate (in GBP) (right click open in new window)

Hopefully you all appreciate that i just relaunched my site and rather than soak up the atmosphere there or go out drinking i came to release this tonight.

Screens below, rest to your right

Please note this mod does work with 3.5.x

PLEASE DO NOT JOIN MY SITE IN A BID TO PLAY WITH IT OR HAVE A LOOK AT IT FURTHER, MY SITE IS SOMETHING I VALUE FOR BEING SOMEWHERE I CAN CHILL AT, IT'S NOT A TEST SUITE OR DEMO!

Bug Fixes
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC1b.zip: fix regarding incorrect table prefixes in index.php and editpost.php
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC2.zip: fix regarding incorrect table prefixes in functions_grps.php and class_grps.php. also fix regarding installation instructions.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC3.zip: fix regarding inability to get to create groups page. updated simplified instructions, sadly still not cool html ones and also added ability to delete groups, delete categories and of course the menu options to get to these.
    • Groups v2.0.0 RC3b.zip: fix regarding joining and leaving group depreciated function error added uninstaller to the zip at http://www.yoursite.com/groups/tools...p?do=uninstall
    • Groups v2.0.0 RC3c.zip: fix regarding edit being stated as 70's on group stages, requires re-installtion of the plugin only.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC4.zip: various bug fixes and new general setting, please reupload all files and then reinstall the product.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC5.zip: bug fixes regarding fixing links to forums being broken and forcing redirects for create group outcomes.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC6.zip: various bug fixes including table prefixes in admincp, invitations system now features in-line erroneous username fall-back and clean up regarding broken images in viewthread.php
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC7.zip: bug fixes including missing phrases and missing 'noavatar.gif for group leader on groups info.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC8.zip: various bug fixes including missing phrases, smilies not working. new function to turn of new group moderation. form now working on print_no_permission page (thanks Adrian) and something else i forgot.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC9.zip: fixes two spelling mistakes, moves viewthread.php string_replacements to admincp and simplifies the installer experience. (yeah i thought there'd be more to it too).
    • Groups v2.0.0 RC9b.zip: re-fixes two spelling mistakes, fixes a viewthread.php string_replacement via the admincp and turns the default random image count down to that of which is provided.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC10.zip: optimises some of the code, cuts down on queries in exchange for additional joins and now forces compatibility in groups/viewthread.php with vBulletin options. also adds new option in admincp in order to make usercp listing work better out of the box.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC11.zip: fixes a problem with avatars not displaying correctly in thread listing and also optimises the code in membership.php
  • Groups v2.0.0.zip: adds and array_merge to the code and smilie popup fixed. now features hooks for plug-in 'easability'. uCS integration moved to external plugin too.
  • Groups v2.0.1.zip: removes one hook, fixes problem with membership.php, fixes problem editgroup.php not remembering options and fixes avatar problem.
  • Groups v2.0.2.zip: various bug fixes (like missing pagenavs, more elegant removal of reputation button and infraction button and php notices), one or two new features (like intuitive page titles) and now fully phrased.
  • Groups v2.0.3.zip: bug fix regarding now being able to select categories. includes a new feature which is basically pagination for the thread listings.
  • Groups v2.0.4.zip: bug fix regarding not being able to moderate group memberships.
  • Groups v2.0.5.zip: bug fix regarding those introduced via 2.0.4, new features such as double post prevention disable, admins can override privacy settings, usergroup permission text more intuitive and end-user usability increased with modification to threadbit on groups.php. group leaders can now kick users from there groups.
  • Groups v2.0.6.zip: bug fix including report, missing edit button and other misc small bugs, new features such as disable hidden groups, allow mods to see private groups, and resign from group handing off to another user.
  • Groups v2.0.7.zip: bug fix including fixing post counts, thread goto's and fatal php errors.
  • Groups v2.0.8.zip: bug fix regarding inability to delete posts, problem with editing posts and other misc errors.
  • Groups v2.0.9.zip: various bug fixes including wywiwyg error, admin cp error and redirect/goto errors.
    • Groups v2.0.9b.zip: fixes problem with upgrade4.php
  • Groups v2.0.10.zip: various bug fixes including acknowledging renamed modcp and admincp dir's also adds option regarding removing of posts at group exit/kick.
  • Groups v2.0.11.zip: various bug fixes including security/privacy fixes.
  • Groups v2.0.12.zip: permission bug fixed.
  • Groups v2.0.13.zip: various bug fixes including ability to ignore members in groups and newreply bug.

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Old 03-23-2007, 02:50 PM
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Point taken. I'll be upgrading to php5 in a few hours, hope it goes well!
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Point taken. I'll be upgrading to php5 in a few hours, hope it goes well!
good luck.
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I've upgraded to php5 and nothing seems to have magicinally fixed itself, unfortunately. Issues I still have:

(1) When Group leader has no avatar, users within the group who DO have avatars do not show said avatars.

(2) View new posts (etc) links taking you to a blank page with no posts (such as Page 4 of 3) when the thread gets past 2-3 pages.

(3) If you have a post with a quote and regular text, when you preview, it only shows the quote and loses the regular text.

(4) If you have a post with a quote and hit preview, it inherits a title of some random thread from the forums.

(5) Post icons still do not work correctly. A post icon selected for the first post of a thread will show on the Group home page but when you read the thread, the post icon is the default. All subsequent posts do not show selected icons. If I go back to edit a post, it doesn't have an icon selected so I think it's not being saved to the DB correctly.

(6) A post with no title inherits the title of the group when you go to edit it.

That's all so far.....
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I did find one issue was resolved, and that was the weird issue of getting a random forum's description at the top of the post report page when reporting.

The "View New Posts" etc is really starting to PO my users pretty bad so if/when you have a chance, can you look at it again? The issue is that after the thread gets a little past 2 pages (though sometimes it even happens on the first page) those links take you one page too far and so you see nothing at all, just the group description.

Also, I wondered how many threads show on the group home page? All of them? I have groups with tons of threads, and they've yet to get a page 2 or anything so I wondered when/if that happens.
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Is it also possible to allow members to be kicked or to leave groups without deleting all of their posts? It leaves big, weird holes in conversations and I'd love to have it optional...
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Is it also possible to allow members to be kicked or to leave groups without deleting all of their posts? It leaves big, weird holes in conversations and I'd love to have it optional...
an option for who? group leaders or admins in the admincp?
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About the ability to have multiple group leaders. whoever starts the group will be able to appoint his fellow group leaders and then they'll basically have the same amount of power as the group starter. i.e. the ability to edit members, kick members, delete messages and so on and so fourth, etc. they won't be able to kick other group leaders however. the reason i'm mentioning this is because i'm about to start coding this feature and unless theirs resounding opposition to this i'll write the feature like this.
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What i said in the email:
Hey folks, some of you may have noticed i've been a little quiet in the thread in the past week or two. this is due to work on GRPS 3.0 taking precedence. with GRPS 2.0 their were a flurry of late feature inclusions and bug fixes which convoluted code and have made it harder to support. I'm hoping not to repeat the same mistakes in 3.0 and thus I'm requesting that all feature requests are submitted/resubmitted ASAP. Please refrain from asking about the ETA of 3.0.x it will be ready when it's ready and as we get closer to release i'll post screen shots and feature lists etc. However at present the onus is on making sure that the core of the project is written as well as possible to hopefully prevent another 1500 post support thread. So please get your feature requests in ASAP so i can see what to include and what not to. Thank you very much.
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Feature request for 3.0
  • Compatible with 3.5.x
  • Maintain VB's postbit & postbit settings
  • VBPORTAL modules like newest group, hottest group, etc.
  • Allow group catagory images via admincp
  • Easier way to pick random group images in admincp
  • Add the Group Tools in the usersCP if they have access to Groups
  • Allow member group images when creating new group on/off via the admincp

Will think of more and post
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One question How can I add the groups that the members are subscribed to in there memberinfo page so that it displays the same as it currently does in usercp?
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