Forum Display Enhancements - e-steki Featured threads 1.0.1

What does this do?
This hack lets mods/admins to choose some threads as featured, enter a description (if no description entered the first post will be used) and they will be displayed at forumdisplay, in the position that the admin selected. Refer to the Features section below for more information.

Features

Admin Features

1. Absolutely NO template modifications and you even get to control where the table will be placed in Forumdisplay with a simple setting!
2. Fully phrased.
3. Ability to set a cutoff limit, so that if the featured threads are more than X, the rest will not show.
4. Ability to specify whether the featured threads will be ordered by the date they were featured, their last post date or their creation date.
5. Ability to specify whether html, bbcode, [img] tags or smilies will be shown in the description (or the first post if no description has been entered).
6. When featuring/un-featuring a thread, the action is logged in the moderator log.
7. A nice, usable and extensive manual instead of an ugly readme.txt ;-)

End user / moderator Features

1. Moderators can enter a fully formatted description with bbcodes and everything (if allowed by the admin)
2. The table is collapsible, and if it has nothing to display it doesn't show.
3. Thread elements that are displayed: Thread icon, Title, Link to the thread, creation date and time, number of replies (clickable), thread poster.

Don't forget to Mark as Installed!
Support will be provided only for a few days after each release.
Installation instructions and a FAQ are in the manual.

[Kaleem]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Thanks
How did the installation go?

Smooth Flawless

I checked both with Description and without.

With Description it shows only the description and without description it shows the contents of the thread as a description.

Just featured one thread and working fine

http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/f15/

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by Kalina

Hi Michelle, this seems to be a great plugin but it gave me a database error, I installed it, set the options and when I went to view one of my forums I got a database error. I am running vbulletin 3.6.8.

Here's the error:

Ah damn, if any of my hacks has a bug, there is a 90% chance that it is this exact error
Please provide:
1. A screenshot of your Featured threads settings
2. What the forumid of that forum was
3. Did that forum have any child forums?

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by LightInClouds

Smooth Flawless

I checked both with Description and without.

With Description it shows only the description and without description it shows the contents of the thread as a description.

Just featured one thread and working fine

http://www.friendskorner.com/forum/f15/

I am glad its working fine for you

[Lea Verou]

Btw this hack now works in harmony with v1.1.3 of e-steki User modlog, if you have it installed, it even displays a separate icon in the logs

[Kalina]

Michelle,

I can't recreate is cause it's a live forum but I just did a little test on a test forum, it happens when I disable "Show featured threads from subforums?"

And it happens whether or not a child has subforums.

All settings are left at default except I set "Position of the featured threads table" to "Above threads" and "Show featured threads from subforums?" to "No"

[NFLfbJunkie]

I was getting the statement "If the thread is featured, please add a description below:" flushing all the way to the left and not appearing in one line. I edited the following:

<td valign="top" width="1">

to:

<td valign="top" width="100%">

And the statement appears on one line now.

[Lea Verou]

Kalina, I just realised what the error is, I will fix it shortly.
Junkie, wouldn't that mean that the rules table is too far away from the description? This is why I put the 1 there, but I forgot to test it with browsers other than firefox.

[NFLfbJunkie]

Not sure. I even removed the posting rules code and still had the same problem. But changing the '1' to '100%' fixed it for me. Maybe it is a browser problem.

[Lea Verou]

Version 1.0.1
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-Fixed bug when the setting "Show featured threads from subforums?" was set to No
-Fixed small template bug in Edit thread.

[cynthetiq]

awesome idea for a mod... I'm away for the moment but I must say, you doing these things is a great benefit. thank you again and I'll install tomorrow.