Show Thread Enhancements - "Find all started threads" in postbit & postbit_legacy dropdown

fourat asked me to update his modification here for vb4. It just adds a new option, Find all started threads, to the little postbit(_legacy) dropdown and now (in version 1.2) throughout the site.

This was just a simple plugin, but it is now a product. It was a bit more involved figuring out the variable names than any simple little plugin should have to be! Or, perhaps I was just having a bad coding day.



Version History:
1.0 2009-12-01: - initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org as a plugin
1.1 2010-01-03: - Had to add a phrase and rewrite the plugin, so it's now a product.
1.2 2011-01-23: - Thanks to Boofo, this now works throughout the site.
1.3 2012-05-12: - Fixed template to use CSS for image. (changed around 4.1.12?)




To install:

1. Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Import product-product-lynne_view_threads.xml

To uninstall:

1. Uninstall "Add View Forum Threads to Postbit Dropdown"

[Boofo]

Lynne,

The icon doesn't line up with the rest of them in 4.0.3. The fix for this is as follows:

if ($show['search']) 
{ 
$template_hook['memberaction_dropdown_items'] .= '<li class="left"> 
    <img src="'.vB_Template_Runtime::fetchStyleVar(imgdir_siteicons).'/forum.png" alt="" /> 
    <a href="search.php?'.$session[sessionurl].'do=finduser&amp;userid='.$post[userid].'&amp;starteronly=1&amp;contenttype=vBForum_Post" rel="nofollow"> 
        '.$vbphrase[view_forum_threads].' 
    </a> 
</li>'; 
}

Also, is there a way to do this globally so that it works in all areas that have the dropdown when you click on the username? (forumdisplay, etc.)

[Lynne]

Thanks Bob.

If you want to have it show up everywhere that this template is used, then you have to write a different plugin for every area it is used in.

[Boofo]

I tried doing that and I couldn't get it to work in any other place.

And, you're very welcome.

[ArchAngelz]

Does installing this mean that the "Add as Contact" (which is located where the View Forum Threads is at now) is replaced by "View Forum Threads"?

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by ArchAngelz

Does installing this mean that the "Add as Contact" (which is located where the View Forum Threads is at now) is replaced by "View Forum Threads"?

No, it doesn't replace it. It would be shown in addition to the other stuff.

[p@ndu]

hi

it is showing in this way cannot we set in a order

[Boofo]

No, there is no way to sort the order.

[ARSamo]

un installed ............ not working on vb 4.0.0

[gezuvor]

Alignment is off on 4.1.11. I ended up hard-coding the mod into memberaction_dropdown.

Thanks for the great idea though!

[Big-Pete]

Can't get this to work in vB4.1.12PL1