Show Thread Enhancements - [DBTech] AJAX Threads v1 (vB4)

AJAX Threads: What is it?
AJAX Threads brings your threads alive, making them automatically refresh without needing to reload the page.

Uses

AJAX Threads is the ideal product for forums with busy threads or which deal with any sort of "event" be that TV shows, sports or game releases!
AJAX Threads allows you to make topics "auto update" without the user having to refresh. This can give performance benefits when applied to threads which receive a lot of refresh requests, and can increase user participation.
Topics can be turned live by admins individually, or you can set whole forums to have their threads be live automatically. You can even allow only VIP usergroups to have threads refresh automatically to increase subscription numbers.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features:

Automatically Refresh Threads: Users will now see new posts in "real time" without having to refresh the page

Performance Benefits: If your forum receives lots of refresh requests on threads being posted in often this can put a lot of strain on your server - AJAX Threads will greatly reduce server resources used in those situations by refreshing only the minimum information required.

Total Control: You can set threads individually or per forum. You can set particular usergroups to receive the benefit, and you can even have it apply automatically to popular threads!

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Complete Feature List (Lite)
* vBOption: Enable Automatic Updates
* vBOption: Refresh Interval
* vBOption: Idle Timeout
* vBOption: Automatic Un-Idle
* vBOption: Enable Information Bar (Tells users how often the thread refreshes, whether they're idle, and how to un-idle, etc)
* vBOption: Maximum Shown Posts
* Ability for users to manually refresh threads if Automatic Updates are disabled (cannot refresh more often than Refresh Interval regardless)
* Ability for users to manually un-idle themselves if automatic updates are enabled and the Idle Timeout is reached
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-usergroup setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-category setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* "Live" image on forumdisplay for threads that have automatic or manual updates enabled
* Posts fetched by AJAX Threads are marked as read
* Per-usergroup "duration" before a thread goes "idle".


Complete Feature List (Pro)
* vBOption: Minimum Replies
* Per-forum setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-forum setting to determine if manual updates are enabled
* Per-thread setting to determine if automatic updates are enabled
* Per-thread ability for administrators with the "Manager" permission to override forum / usergroup settings and either enable or disable automatic updates

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[KaayVan]

Yes I installed vBNotifications and it's working without any problem. And I receive that error whenever I install Threads.

[DragonByte Tech]

Can you please provide more information as to when exactly during installation you receive it? Can you post a screenshot?

Fillip

[Bubble #5]

It says "1 Link to Hivelocity Hosting (removable via a vBulletin Option)"

What do they mean by that? What vB option?

[ozzy47]

ACP / DragonByte Tech: AJAX Threads - General Settings / (Lite) Disable "Runs best on HiVelocity Hosting" Link, set that setting to No.

[My Hattiesburg]

I found an oddity with this mod last night.

We had a Q&A session with a local political candidate, so we created a forum where all the new posts were moderated. We made the candidate a moderator so he could see all the questions that were asked of him and he could choose which ones he wanted to reply to. As he replied to a question, we would then approve his reply since it was moderated, too, and then we would approve the original question. The candidate did not reply to the questions in the order that they posted.

That's when things got weird. After he replied to a couple of posts, some of the posts that were made before that one just disappeared. I had to finally turn off the automatic refresh to keep that from happening, but even using the manual refresh caused it to happen. I finally had to fall back to just using the browser refresh button to see which posts needed to be moderated and to see any new posts being added to the thread.

[DragonByte Tech]

That is intended functionality. This mod has a "Maximum Post Count" that compliments vBulletin's "Posts per Page" setting to control how many posts show up per page.

Fillip

[hugh_]

I'm seeing the following error with vbulletin 4.2.2:

Warning: Non-static method AJAXTHREADS_CACHE::init() should not be called statically in ..../dbtech/ajaxthreads/hooks/global_start.php on line 19

[DragonByte Tech]

We are currently experiencing a high volume of support tickets due to a number of issues arising from the vBulletin 4.2.2 update.

Until we announce official support for vBulletin 4.2.2, please remain on 4.2.1 or lower.

Thank you for your patience, and we apologise for the inconvenience.

Fillip

[DragonByte Tech]

Update

Hotfix: PHP 5.4 Compatibility fixes


This does not guarantee the mod is error free on PHP 5.4, but it will take care of the reported errors. Thank you all for your reports



Fillip

[hugh_]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Update

Hotfix: PHP 5.4 Compatibility fixes


This does not guarantee the mod is error free on PHP 5.4, but it will take care of the reported errors. Thank you all for your reports



Fillip

Thanks for this update, is there a new archive link for it? Also in my testing there are compatibility issues with vbulletin 4.2.2 which are unrelated to php 5.4. Are these fixed also?