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Quote Functionality in Social Discussions · **Released**: 02-02-2009

Quote Functionality in Social Discussions v1.0

As the title suggests this modification allows you to add message quote functionality to vBulletins Social Group discussions.

The installation of this product is made up of the following and does not require any file changes:

One product import.
One manual template modification.
One configuration change.

Once installed an additional SQL query is made, however this only occurs when somebody clicks the quote button.

Installation : Product Import

The installation of this modification is fairly simple, for those that do not have experience of doing this here are the full steps:

Download the attached zip file and extract to folder on your computer.
Goto your Admin CP page (ACP).
Open the "Plugins & Products" section.
Click "Manage Products".
On the page that opens scroll to the bottom and click "Add/Import Product".
In the "EITHER upload the XML file from your computer" browse to the product XML file that you extracted in the first step (product-socialgroup_message_quote.xml)
Click "Import"
Sit back and watch vBulletin do its magic.

Installation : Template Modification

Goto your Admin CP page (ACP).
Open the "Styles & Templates" section.
Click "Style Manager".
In the page that opens find the style(s) you want to edit and select "Edit Templates" from the drop down.
In the "Social Groups Templates" section find the "socialgroups_message" template and open it.
Find the following line in the template:
Code:
```
<ul class="list_no_decoration controls">
```

Immediately after this paste the following:

Code:

<li class="smallfont"><a href="group.php?do=message&amp;discussionid=$message[discussionid]&amp;gmq=$message[gmid]">$vbphrase[quote]</a></li>

You should end up with something that looks like this:

Code:

<ul class="list_no_decoration controls">
<li class="smallfont"><a href="group.php?do=message&amp;discussionid=$message[discussionid]&amp;gmq=$message[gmid]">$vbphrase[quote]</a></li>
<if condition="$message['edit']">

Save the template changes.

Installation : Configuration Change

This modification has no custom configuration options. However it will only be functional if you have enabled quote bbcode for social groups. To do this follow the steps below:

Goto your Admin CP page (ACP).
Open the "vBulletin Options" section.
Click "vBulletin Options".
In the page that opens find the "Social Group Options" section and click "Edit Settings".
Scroll down to the "Allowed BB Code Tags in Social Group Messages" section
Enable "Allow Quote BB Code" by checking the box
Scroll to the bottom and click "Save"

If you do not follow these steps when a user attempts to quote a message they will be shown an error stating that quote BBCode is not allowed

Other Information

In this version only simple quoting is supported, therefore it is not currently possible to multiquote.

This is one of the mods in my "Why isn't this stuff in the default social group system" series, for the others see these mods:

And finally...

You know the deal if you install and use the mod please mark it as installed, if you really like it nominate it for mod of the month.

Lynne · #22 03-11-2009, 02:55 PM

No it isn't!!!! Seriously, you can do it, I know you can! You know the uncached template names, right? And, you know the name of the page (whatever.php) that they aren't cached on. So, look at the top of the whatever.php page and find out what THIS_SCRIPT is and put that in where it says 'whatever'. Then add the template names in where it says 'this_template' and 'that_template'.

KURTZ · #23 03-11-2009, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynne

No it isn't!!!! Seriously, you can do it, I know you can! You know the uncached template names, right? And, you know the name of the page (whatever.php) that they aren't cached on. So, look at the top of the whatever.php page and find out what THIS_SCRIPT is and put that in where it says 'whatever'. Then add the template names in where it says 'this_template' and 'that_template'.

OK!!!!!

but i don't understand 2 things ...

1) how i can find out what this_script is ...
2) what plugin i must use?

this is the page:
http://www.fniv.it/board/groups/test...e-firefox.html

Lynne · #24 03-11-2009, 03:04 PM

1. THIS_SCRIPT is defined at the top of the php page. Look for a line like this (this is from a page I am working on, not the page you need to look at):

PHP Code:


			
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'messagelist');

2. There is a location called "cache_templates" that you would use.

KURTZ · #25 03-12-2009, 10:07 AM

1) OK, but i don't know what page i'm working on ...
2) i've tried to find out this location in the 'plug-in manager' ... correct?

edit: i've tried to put this code into the cache_templates plug-in (mass pm users for social groups, where there are many uncached templates)

PHP Code:


			
if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'mass_pm_social_group_members') 
{ 
$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array( 
'editor_clientscript', 
'editor_css', 'editor_jsoptions_font', 'editor_jsoptions_size', 'editor_toolbar_on', 'socialgroups_masspm')); 
}

and the top and at the end of the plug-in but nothing changes ...

ps this is the hook (cache_templates) at 'mass pm plug-in' ...

PHP Code:


			
if ($vbulletin->options['mass_pm_social_group_members'])
{
    $globaltemplates[] = 'socialgroups_group';
}

Lynne · #26 03-12-2009, 02:15 PM

1) The page you are 'working on' is the one in the browser url. For this modification and the uncached template "bbcode_quote" which shows up when viewing the Discussion, the url is www.yoursite.com/group.php?etc.... So, I look at the top of group.php and see this line:

PHP Code:


			
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'group');

So, if I were to write a plugin to cache the "bbcode_quote" template on the group.php page, I would write:

PHP Code:


			
if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'group') 
{ 
$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array( 
'bbcode_quote')); 
}

KURTZ · #27 03-13-2009, 10:42 AM

OK, last question Lynne, i've SEO installed so i don't know what page i'm browsering ... any tip to recognize the page?

thx

Lynne · #28 03-13-2009, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KURTZ

OK, last question Lynne, i've SEO installed so i don't know what page i'm browsering ... any tip to recognize the page?

thx

Ummmmmm, I don't really know. If you know the main template (if you have template names turned on, it should be at the top of the page in the page souce), then you can probably guess the name. There are only so many pages in vB. I guess you could take a guess at the page and enter THIS_SCRIPT from your guess and see if it works.

wtb · #29 03-15-2009, 10:08 PM

Installed! If also using "Social Group Discussions Like Postbit" I notice that the code you reference above for pasting doesn't exist. Is it still going to work before we activate it.

MrEyes · #30 03-15-2009, 11:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wtb

Installed! If also using "Social Group Discussions Like Postbit" I notice that the code you reference above for pasting doesn't exist. Is it still going to work before we activate it.

If you have a look at the postbit template page:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=204056

There is a bit in there about what you need to edit if you use this mod as well.

wtb · #31 03-16-2009, 12:13 AM

Yes, I did that change. I just wanted to make sure that I didn't also have to do the one listed above. Kind of a "what comes first" kind of thing. Thank you!

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