Show Thread Enhancements - Show Full CMS Article in Comments Thread

This is more of an example than a modification. I wrote this quick plugin for someone and thought I would share it. It's something someone can take and build on. All it does is if you look at the CMS Article thread in your CMS Comments forum, the content of the CMS Article is shown under the blurb "You can view the page at.....". This is ONLY for Articles - not Static Pages or PHP Direct Evaluation content types. Someone can build on this and do those if they want. The person I wrote this for had forms in their articles and needed the submit button to be disabled, so this plugin does that also.

Like I said - this is more of an example. I don't plan to do anything more with it and I'm not helping with modifying it for your own use. Use it however you want.

This adds one query to the threads in the CMS Comments forum.

To install....

Create a Plugin
Hook Location - postbit_display_complete
Title - Show Full CMS Article
Plugin PHP Code -

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND $this->thread['forumid'] == $this->registry->options['vbcmsforumid'] AND $this->post['postcount'] == 1) {

$result = $this->registry->db->query_first("
    SELECT cms_article.pagetext, cms_article.threadid, cms_article.htmlstate 
    FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "cms_article AS cms_article 
    INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "cms_node AS cms_node ON (cms_node.contentid = cms_article.contentid) 
    INNER JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "cms_nodeinfo AS cms_nodeinfo ON (cms_nodeinfo.nodeid = cms_node.nodeid) 
    WHERE cms_nodeinfo.associatedthreadid = ". $this->thread['threadid']. "
        ");

$bbcode_parser = new vBCms_BBCode_HTML(vB::$vbulletin,  vBCms_BBCode_HTML::fetchCmsTags());

$pagetext = fetch_censored_text($bbcode_parser->do_parse($result['pagetext'],true,$result['htmlstate']));

$find = 'type="submit"';
$replace = 'type="submit" disabled';
$pagetext = str_replace ($find, $replace, $pagetext);

$result['previewtext'] = $pagetext;
$this->post['message'] .= '<br />*********<br />'. $result['previewtext'];
} 


CMS Page:

CMS Comment Thread:


If you ONLY want to show the full article to users, not guests, then change this condition (thanks to mattysheff):

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND $this->thread['forumid'] ==  $this->registry->options['vbcmsforumid'] AND  $this->post['postcount'] == 1) 


to this:

PHP Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND $show['member'] AND  $this->thread['forumid'] == $this->registry->options['vbcmsforumid'] AND $this->post['postcount'] == 1) 


[GamerPerfection]

Awesome, removing the bit in red works! When I move it to anywhere in the forum it still keeps the content.

And no I don't move them to the same specific area, it can vary.

But thanks for helping me fix it.

[mattysheff]

Thanks for releasing this Lynne, its just what I've been looking for.

One question though, is it possible and if so how would I to it to only get it to show the text to signed in members. I've been trying to figure out how to do it myself but getting nowhere, as while its a user friendly feature, I don't want search engines to be able to see it as I don't want duplicated content listed in the search engines.

[Lynne]

Just add a condition to the plugin to only do it if the user is logged in - you can probably use the $show['member'] variable for that.

[mattysheff]

Thanks that works perfect.

[tokenyank]

This looks like a great mod - however, wouldn't this count against your SEO by having duplicate content?

Tagged for further investigation when it isn't 00:40!

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by tokenyank

This looks like a great mod - however, wouldn't this count against your SEO by having duplicate content?

Tagged for further investigation when it isn't 00:40!

According to mattysheff, yes, which is why he asked the question and I told him to put the condition around it.

[mattysheff]

I've added this to the first bit:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'showthread' AND $show['member'] AND $this->thread['forumid'] == $this->registry->options['vbcmsforumid'] AND $this->post['postcount'] == 1)

It works perfect and only shows the content to members. I'm not currently using it though because I've got comment threads hidden because of the bug in vbulletin where if you future publish a article the comment thread is created immediately.

[deverill2010]

Hi Lynne and thanks for the mod but what exactly do you mean by -

The person I wrote this for had forms in their articles and needed the submit button to be disabled, so this plugin does that also.

The ability to reply is removed??

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by deverill2010

Hi Lynne and thanks for the mod but what exactly do you mean by -

The ability to reply is removed??

No. This mod only effect the post text, nothing else.

[traen]

Installed, works great thank you Lynne! This should be default in vbulletin.