Show Thread Enhancements - Highlight Threadstarter (in his Posts/Replies)

vB 3.6 | vB 3.7 | vB 3.8

A big update of the old version for vB 3.6: Mark Threadauthor (in his other posts)

Description:
With this modification the starter of a thread will be highlighted in his posts/replies by a small text or/and a graphic. This has the for example the advantage that you also know on page 2,3,4,5,... who has started the thread.
Secondary this mod still has many other options, so that you should be able to customize this mod like you wish.

Settings

• De-/Acitvate
• Text Display
• Display Location
• Show Graphic
• Graphic Path
• Excluded Forums
• Excluded Usergroups

Display Locations:
~> Highlight your Threadstarter under the usertitle
~> Highlight your Threadstarter under the Post Counter in the Userinfo
~> Highlight your Threadstarter at the place you wish (by a template edit)

Installation
Only import the product in your AdminCP.


German Version (vBulletin-Germany.org)

[entertain]

Originally Posted by yamahapaul

I've just noticed that this has been updated, whats new with it? mines working ok but should I update??

Yes, I would recommend it.

[vithorius]

Great Hack! :up: :up: :up:


What does the usergroup definition does to this hack?

a) Does it prevents to show the "Thread starter" information to some usergroups, or...

b) Shows only who started the thread if the user is in the 'X' usergroup?



Thank you! :up:

[entertain]

b) Shows only who started the thread if the user is in the 'X' usergroup?

That it is. Would you like method a) as a new function?

[David Gillaspey]

Installed (on a vBulletin 3.8 forum) and appears to work fine.

Thanks for making this mod available.

I flag posts by the thread starter with text (rather than any graphic) that looks like this:

*** Thread author ***

For my purposes, that looked best.

[princeedward]

nice one...thanks...how about adding it inline of post buttons...at the left side...i mean like what we or vb.org had here as the developer button...but we need exactly the same button....i guess it may look better...



best regards

:up:

[Sworm]

Originally Posted by entertain

Release History:

v2.0.0: 1st release of v2
v2.0.1: Modification sometimes didn't work - Fixed
v2.0.2: Modification sometimes didn't work - Fixed
v2.0.3: Modification sometimes didn't work - Fixed (hopefully the last fix), Code Optimization
v2.1: Multilingual support (only available in German - not released on vb.org)
v2.1.1: code optimizations: only 2 plug-ins needed now (before: 4)

Hi entertain, this mod work with .ico extension files?

Thanks

[Sworm]

Don't showed in 3.81 pl1?

[Teknologist]

This is not showing up. I choose not to use the graphic. Only text.

Using postbit_legacy.

vBulletin® Version 3.7.2

[nso]

There seems to be a bug in one of the plugins.

Plugin:
2. Add class to postbit postbit_display_start

The start of the plugin should read something like this to have the correct behaviour:

PHP Code:

if ($this->registry->options['ophilite_enabled'])
{
  $GLOBALS['threadstarteruserid'] = $thread['postuserid'];    

  if ($GLOBALS['threadstarteruserid'] == $post['userid'])
  
  (etc...) 


The approach you took made posts highlight not when they belonged to the thread starter, but when they belonged to the first poster on that page (a thread may, as you know, have many pages).

[yamahapaul]

Originally Posted by David Gillaspey

Installed (on a vBulletin 3.8 forum) and appears to work fine.

Thanks for making this mod available.

I flag posts by the thread starter with text (rather than any graphic) that looks like this:

*** Thread author ***

For my purposes, that looked best.

Works fine on my 3.8.2-

http://www.midlandsheritage.co.uk/showthread.php?t=649

:up: