Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts and New Reputation Comments

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system, also, this attaches itself to certain phrases in the "welcome" box and will not work if they are not present (or are modified by other code).

FYI, the Forum Marking Choices are located in vBulletin Options ;
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search). It also displays the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

There is also the option to display the New Reputation Comments counter as a Welcome Box Notification.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

Version 3.7.004 adds the following ;

A forum exclusion list - requested a number of times, an option is provided to exclude forums from the unread count & display.

A time limit on unread posts count - if a member has not visited for more than x days then a simple unread posts link will be displayed, not an actual count, this stops potential large sql queries if you have a busy forum. The option can be disabled.



To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vb 3.7.
v3.7.002 : Added Notification Display Option for Reputation Comments.
v3.7.003 : Internal version, not released.
v3.7.004 : Added time limit and forum exclusion list.
v3.7.005 : Fixed path bug in welcome box notification.
v3.7.006 : Slight change to accomodate customised navbars still using vb 3.6 code.
v3.7.007 : Fix potential database error if lastrepcheck is blank, rare, but it can happen it seems.

[Piccante]

I'm having an issue that the new rep notification is not showing on my admin account on my board. Unread posts is working though, and for my registered members it is all working.

Any idea?

[liwo]

I have done a small patch to get this mod work together with Opt-Out Forums from Get New/Get Daily.

I post it here, it might be usefull for some people (or you might even include it in the hack)...

--- Unread-posts.xml    (Revision 10)
+++ Unread-posts.xml    (Arbeitskopie)
@@ -174,7 +174,23 @@
                        }
                        unset($fids[$eforum]);
                }
+
+               // Modification by liwo
+               // Exclude forums selected in addon optoutgnp (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=91025)
+               if ($vbulletin->products['optoutgnp'])
+               {
+                       if ($vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp'])
+                       {
+                               $optout_forums = explode(',', $vbulletin->userinfo['excludeforumsgnp']);
+                               foreach($optout_forums AS $id)
+                               {
+                                       unset($fids[$id]);
+                               }
+                       }
+               }
+               // End modfication by liwo

+
                $flist = implode(',', $fids);
                $elist = implode(',', $elista);

[Paul M]

Thank you.

I'll take a closer look at this when I next update the mod.

[Piccante]

Originally Posted by Piccante

I'm having an issue that the new rep notification is not showing on my admin account on my board. Unread posts is working though, and for my registered members it is all working.

Any idea?

PS I've upgraded to lastest release and didn't make any difference.
And I realised I hadn't marked as installed - which I've rectified

[Paul M]

Are you sure your admin account is set to display reputation (its a user option).

[Piccante]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Are you sure your admin account is set to display reputation (its a user option).

It was set to "no", but I hadn't realised as I could still always see my reputation on my posts

I've managed to change it now... after the trauma of finding I was an unalterable user.

Will see if it's sorted now. Thank you Paul.

[lazytown]

Great mod.. I am having a couple members say that for ex it shows "5 new posts since your last visit" and when they click the link it doesn't show any or shows 1 or 2. I figured it might be due to the mod section posts? However if I exclude them, then it will affect the count the mods see. If it's not due to the mod sections, can someone point me as to what the cause might be?

Thanks
-vissa

[Paul M]

Could be moderated threads perhaps ?

How many do you see when they tell you this.

[lazytown]

Ah, perhaps it is moderated threads (spambot). I wasn't online when they quoted the number, though I can try it through a test account.

-vissa

[ePrOmD]

Hi Paul
it is possible that through this hack can also see where there are post in social groups to which the user belongs? as well too, if someone responds to a blog ?

thank you very much again for your work
regards from argentina