Miscellaneous Hacks - SocialForums for vB3.8

SocialForums for vBulletin 3.8

Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

This mod will work *ONLY* with vBulletin 3.8 or higher. It will not run on vBulletin 3.7. Please use the version for vBulletin 3.7

Support will be only given for people who clicked Mark as INSTALLED.

Description
Not satisfied with vBulletin social groups messaging function? With SocialForums your social group leaders can create a standard forum for their group.
A group leader can only create a forum if the group has at least 5 members - this can be changed via settings. Optionally the group leader can be a moderator of such a social forum.

What about old discussions?
Via AdminCP, SocialForums, you can transfer all discussions and messages to a new forum. No post would be lost.

Permissions
There are advanced permissions (Forum and Archive). This includes read/write public and private (moderated/invite only) socialforums and creation of forum. As this needs two additional queries on every page you can disable this.

Demo
None, see screenshots

Installation
This product is fully phrased and uses template hooks. No file changes or manual template edits needed.
1. Upload bitfield_socialforums.xml to existing folder /includes/xml/
2. Upload functions_socialforums.php to existing folder /includes/
3. Fresh Installation: Just import the product. Upgrade: Import the product, allow overwrite. No forums get lost!
4. Check settings, especially for parent forum. Don't forget to set permissions via usergroups!

Troubleshooting
Q: I don't see a link to create a forum. Why?
A: Check permissions for the usergroup, espacially if the user is allowed to create forum.
A: Check if the usergroup meet min users requirement, see AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums.

Q: My users see the forums, but they shouldn't!
A: Check permissions for the usergroup, if the users usergroup is set to "can see".
A: Did you disabled the restriction mode? Enable it.

Todo
- By deleting a group the forum should also be deleted/archived. Currently this has to be done manually.

Known Issues
- On big boards with hundreds of social groups this mod can really impact the performance because of the mass of new created forums. If you still want to use this mod use the "Minimum Members" feature with a higher value. Using the permission check there are additional two queries on every page.
- With activated option to add owner as a moderator the transfering leads to removing all moderators of the linked forum

History
2.1.0, 11th August 2009
- Social Groups without a forum are listed in AdminCP and can be automatically converted with few clicks.
- Fixed errors converting bigger discussions
- Minor changes and fixes

2.0.1, 05th March 2009
- Convert ignores now deleted discussions
- Threads on Groups equipped with mark on new

2.0.0
- First official release for vBulletin 3.8
- Possibility to transfer Social Group Discussion into a real Forum
- New layout for threadlisting, similar to a real threadlist in a forum
- Possibility of a notice in Forums associated with a Social Group
- Discussion/Message counter is showing Thread/Reply counts. Phrase "Discussion" and "Message" cannot be changed to "Thread"/"Reply".
- Transfering a Group to another user updates now also the moderator
- Minor changes and fixes

[Saviour]

I just noticed that when this mod copies thread titles to the Social Forums Group...and there's an apostrophe (') in the title of the thread...this mod automatically inserts a backslash (\) in the thread title.

Has this already been discussed here? Is there a fix for it?

I'm running vB 3.8.4 (PL2).

[mikeylikesitz]

any word on this being picked up? Im getting pretty tired of devs disappearing and leaving things to be deserted. Having a stock vbulletin forums seemsto be the only answer

[BRotondi]

I'm very thankful for all, Marius (Phalynx) and all the other coders did here and elsewhere. You cannot take for free and think, people will work and work and work for others. Even if you pay, it's still a part from the life of others...

We all should take care of our lives, our girlfriends, family, ... Spend time where it is o.k. and stop spending time where things change.

If I can use this mod (vB4) and my vB-skill or the help of the community does the rest, I can take care of it for the next time.

Greetings to all
Bruno

[BRotondi]

I'm trying now to migrate this one, Change Threads/Posts Owner/Date for vB3.8 and Change Threads' Prefix Inline to vB4. But... whow ... almost one week over and I only saw, how much still to learn and understand... If someone wants to join me: Thanks!

Problem at the moment is not this code here but "YAHOO Dom", "how to put an addon into an xml" and similar... all the basics after the basics of templates, phrases and plugins. ...

[blue6995]

I am using vB 4.0.3 and have this mod switched off. However, I cannot post in the actual Groups. It has to be done through the sub forum. I have two questions:

Because my forum was infected by a malicious script, none of the files were moved to the new installation directories. Would it be safe for me to try and run the uninstaller or will that crashs the forum?

If I can't use the uninstaller, if I delete the actual Groups, will that delete all the sub forums as well (which I don't want it to)

Thanks

[Kolektor]

dear phalynx, I am a great fan of your mods. I have decided to show groups stats on forumhome using this hack

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=social

I believe the hooks used to extract the figures for "discussion" was changed hence they are not compatible. I wish to check and have a fix on it?

[Phalynx]

Sorry, this modification is no longer developed.

[wmlvb]

Is there any conflicts with this mod and some of the other social group mods out there? Specifiaclly,

Automatic email subscription mod for social groups

Mass PM mod

and others

[Kolektor]

I don't think this have conflicts with other mods. I have been using without any issues.

[Tree Guardian]

I have a strange issue - I have 30+ social groups.
When it came to convert social groups discussions to threads only 7 where displayed.
All those converted were working fine. In groups - discussions and threads were both showing even it was sent to no.
I have tried manually convert with group id but with no luck.
I'm running vbadvanced and vbseo - would that have something to do with being unable to convert other social groups - I'm kind of puzzled.