QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.0

QuoteIt! allows you to have a database of quotes integrated with your forum. Users submit quotes that can then be voted on by the other users, using your choice of two rating systems. The average installation will show a random quote on the forum home page, but you can include it on any vBulletin page or on your portal home page.

If you'd like to see a demo, go to forums.monkeycrap.com.

Features:

Random Quote
- a random quote can be shown on any vBulletin powered page
- the administrator can set a default rating threshold that quotes must meet before showing up as the random quote
- a new random quote can be chosen at a specific interval of time, to reduce server load

Quote Database
- quotes can be searched, filtered, and sorted by many different criteria
- quotes have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- quotes can be embedded in posts with bbcode
- each post and private message now has a "Submit to Quotes" link that allows users to quote things said on your forum more easily

Quote Ratings System
- quotes can be rated either plus/minus or on a scale from 1 to 5
- quotes below a certain total score or average score can be filtered out

Quote Management
- quotes can either be automatically approved or moderated
- the quote moderation que is like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once
- usergroup permissions are used for adding, editing, deleting, rating and viewing quotes
- most actions use AJAX to avoid page reloads

Don't forget to click install!

Currently known problems are listed here.

The files needed to edit the included images are attached to this post.

This hack is based on QuoteIt! 1.2, originally by magnus. The "submit post" feature was inspired by an addon by CtrlAltDel.

Other versions (development will continue for the 3.6 version only): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.6.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[Cap'n Steve]

See this post for instructions on adding it to other templates.

[Conspiracy]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

See this post for instructions on adding it to other templates.

Thanks alot, got it working now !

[username12]

The quote part of it works. It's getting it to show up that's causing me problems. My settings don't seem to be saving. Don't know whether that's as desired or if it's the problem.

[Cap'n Steve]

You mean the random quote isn't showing up? Try enabling it through vBulletin Options->Forum Home Page Options.

[username12]

Don't have an option there. Perhaps I missed something?

[Cap'n Steve]

Try reinstalling. It sounds like the settings never got created somehow.

[username12]

No luck. The settings to me just don't seem to be saving (when I go to the page again, they're back to the way they were at first). How would I go about manually editing the settings?

[Cap'n Steve]

Run these queries to enable it manually, replace the $TP with your table prefix:

[sql]UPDATE $TPsetting SET value = 1 WHERE varname = "showquote"[/sql]

[sql]UPDATE $TPdatastore SET data = "" WHERE title = "options"[/sql]

[nitro]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Attached are instructions for adding a random quote block to vBadvanced CMPS. vBportal seems to have become a commercial product, if anyone knows how to create addons for that, please let me know.

UPDATE: Added instructions for adding quotes to the quick moderation block.

Should be fairly simple to make the vba portal module work in vbPortal:

Not tested, Do try this @ Home first
You can never have enough db backups
Dont blame me if you havent followed the above

Code box used for vb licenced users veiwing only.

Copy the content of this vbA modules php (quote.php) code to your fav text editor dropping the <?php and the ?> (first and last line).

Add this global line probably before any other.

global $vbpoptions, $vbplingual, $vboptions, $vbphrase, $db;

Find:
eval('$home[$mods[\'modid\']][\'content\'] .= "' . fetch_template('quote_randomquote') . '";');

and change to:
eval('$showrandquote = "' . fetch_template('quote_randomquote') . '";');

and add below it:
return $showrandquote;


Now hop into your vbPortal CP and add a new block

Type: php
Title: Random quote
Weight: any number above 0
Link: (optional add link to the quote page if you want)
Uses templates: No (*for now)

save and then add your new php code to the text area and save again.

Preview block in the vbPortal CP

All good go toggle it on where you like in your module manager.

*Dont like the display ( portal block output )?

Copy the quote_randomquote template to P_quote_randomquote

Edit your block and change this line from:
eval('$showrandquote = "' . fetch_template('quote_randomquote') . '";');

to:
eval('$showrandquote = "' . fetch_template('P_quote_randomquote') . '";');

Now you can edit the portal output without affecting the forum home output. You may wish to try setting the block to use templates now. :)

Note this is not tested and is only show random quote with rating, but I think I may know someone who wants to try it out.

Final note: ensure your quoteit threshold setting is such that you will get a random quote or you might not get displayed what was expected.

Thanks to Sandman53 for being the guineapig.

[sandman53]

I can confirm that nitro's solution for vbportal works perfectly.