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)

[cad2go]

Originally Posted by cellarius

Photopost? This mod has nothing to do with Photopost - are you sure you don't mix this up with my other mod?

Yes.

I'm talking about the timing of it stopping working and even when it did work fully it still showed the big group icons not the 80x80 ones.

[Oblivion Knight]

I also had the problem with group thumbnails showing fullsize, so I decided to use custom statusicons per groupid with this little edit of your forumhome_start plugin:

if ($vbulletin->options['cel_sgfh_iconfile'])
{
	$oldicon = "group" . $cel_groups[groupid] . "_old";
	$newicon = "group" . $cel_groups[groupid] . "_new";
}

Then for each group, you need to upload groupX_old.gif and groupX_new.gif to images/statusicon, replacing X with the groupid.

Of course, this is only particularly useful if only admins can create social groups. It's not much good if you allow members to create their own, and/or if you have LOADS of them.

[cellarius]

I repeat, now the third time: As long as nobody at least wants to give me the img source url to one of the group icons, there's really nothing I can do, since it works fine for me.

The code in the plugin calls for the groupthumb, and this code has not changed for a long time now:

$statusimg = "image.php?groupid= " . $cel_groups[groupid] . "&dateline=" . $cel_groups[dateline] . "&type=groupthumb";

Is this type-parameter in the URL that calls the group icon on your forumhome?

[cad2go]

you've got a space after 'image.php?groupid'?

image.php?groupid=%204&dateline=1246647737&type=groupthumb.gif

http://www.rletc.com/forum/image.php...groupthumb.gif is nothing anyway.

[cellarius]

Somehow the code got corrupted during copy&paste. Inserted the (now hopefully) correct code from line 324 of the plugin in my previous post.

//Oh, indeed there is a space too much. Fixing this however does not solve the problem. Can someone confirm who has this problems that your groups icons are stored in the filesystem, not the database?

[cad2go]

mine are filespace - I can re-admin you over on the site if you like

Also was going to manually edit the teaser with some of the group icons - might be a thought for a later version to mimic the new groups bit in groups.php - I'll probably put them in a row. Just a thought.

[cellarius]

OK, please try the attached plugin. I added a check whether the icons are stored in the database or in the file system and act accordingly. Import the attached product file to test.

Mind you: I was able to see that there were no icons displayed at all if the icons were stored in the filesystem; this has now been fixed.

I still can't reproduce the issue where not thumbs, but the original sizend groups icons are shown. If pulled from the file system this should be impossible: the icons are taken directly from the respective "thumbs" folder in your filesystem. So if the images are too big, they're safed like that in there and there's probably nothing I can do. If this happens with images in the database: if there is the "type=groupthumbs"-parameter present, that should trigger image.php to show the thumb sized icons. This follows exactly the call from the groups.php.

[cad2go]

lol

That didn't go well. I've had to uninstall the product. Let me just reinstall the original.

[cellarius]

What happened?

[cad2go]

I got that content encoding message that I got before.

?><? What's this at the start of the plugin php? It's not in your new version?