Forum Display Enhancements - Encheferizer

The Encheferizer

Product: Encheferizer 1.05
Author: Hugh Messenger (cheesegrits)
Support: On this thread only
Tested on: vBulletin 3.6.0 through 3.6.4
Average Install Time: 30 seconds

Summary

Do you have some troublesome users you want to punish but don't want to ban them just yet? Or maybe play a practical joke on some of your users? Or just have some good old fashioned Swedish Chef Fun? Then this is the mod for you.

What it Does

Displays all posts from a configurable list of UserID's and / or in ForumID's in "mock swedish". You don't have to have seen the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, but it sure would make a lot more sense if you have, Bork Bork Bork!

Individual encheferized users see their posts as usual:

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Everyone else sees them like this:

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Encheferized forums are "translated" in entirety - posts, titles, descriptions and all. Encheferized posts are NOT altered in the database, they are encheferized on the fly during template evaluation. So when you've had your fun, you just remove ID's from the list and things will go back to normal.

There are some options to control how victims see their own and other victims posts, see the ACP Encheferizer options for details (under the main vBulletin settings list). As of v1.03, the Encheferizer supports bbcode, smilies, IMG's and URL's.

Why?

Good question. Well, apart from just being funny as all get out, I wrote this for a friend who has some very persistant troublemakers on his forum. It turns out that Encheferization is a remarkably good tool for controlling Bad Boyz & Gurlz. It has a way of focusing peer pressure, creates much confusion amongst the Encheferized, and much hilarity for everyone else. Best of all, it renders the Encheferized unable to properly vent their spleen - after all, who can take threats of violence and foul language seriously when it is rendered in mock swedish?

And of course, having an enchererized forum on your board is just good old fashioned family fun!

Installation

1. Copy bb_encheferizer.php to ./includes in your forum root.
2. Import the product XML from your ACP Product Manager.
3. Don't forget to hit the install button on this page. No, I'm not bucking for HOTM, I just want to be able to let you know about any updates!

Configuration

1. Find the Encheferizer under the vBulletin Settings menu in your ACP.
2. Enter a comma separated list of userids and/or forumids you want to encheferize.
3. Light blue touch paper and stand well clear.

Upgrading

1. Copy the new bb_encheferizer.php to your forum ./includes folder. If you are upgrading from 1.02 or earlier delete the old encheferizer.php.
2. Re-import the product XML, remembering to set Overwrite to Yes.

Uninstallation

1. Uninstall the product from the ACP Product Manager.
2. Delete the ./includes/encheferizer.php and/or bb_encheferizer.php file(s).

Change History

• 1.05 Fixed forum description and guest posting bugs.
• 1.04 Fixed post caching bug. Fixed PM title bug (thanks Adrian). Improved bbcode support to prevent "[escaping the chef]".
• 1.03 Added support for bbcode, smilies, IMG's and URL's.
• 1.02 Added forum encheferization and "Victims See As" options.
• 1.01 Changed version and ZIP numbering to match vborg version checking.
• 1.0.1 Added thread and post title encheferizing, input validation on userid list
• 1.0.0 Original release

Thanks

Major props to Erik Bakker for the original encheferizer.php port.

Thanks to SirAdrian for putting up with my dumb questions.

Productizing made easy using the Advanced Product Manager by mtha.


With Apologies To

The Swedish Chef. Bork Bork Bork!


Enjoy!

-- hugh

[Sadie Frost]

OH MY GOD that is fantastic! Awesome!

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by dodgechargerfan

Love it!

It does mess up the smilies though. I can't see a simple way to fix that, though, as smiley replacement text could be anything.

The trade-off is worth it. I put the board owner in as the first "victim." He'll love it once he figures it out.

Hmm, normal smilies should work fine. Are you using My Smilies? I only recently found out about My Smilies, and haven't had a chance to modify the chef to handle custom smilies on a per user basis - although the fix is simple enough, and it should be in the next release.

-- hugh

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by Sadie Frost

OH MY GOD that is fantastic! Awesome!

Well thank you! Comments like that make it worth the effort.

-- hugh

[WATRD]

Fun mod! The only thing that would make it better, would be if you could Encheferize an entire usergroup. That way, you could use it as penalty in conjunction with the Infraction system. Accumulate a certain number of points and join the Encheferizer group for a while

[bluechris]

I had edit abit the bb_encheferizer.php to change the greek words for those who have greek language in their forums.

Great thing m8 we cryed here with some guys that we did it.

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by WATRD

Fun mod! The only thing that would make it better, would be if you could Encheferize an entire usergroup. That way, you could use it as penalty in conjunction with the Infraction system. Accumulate a certain number of points and join the Encheferizer group for a while

Someone else suggested that in a PM last week, and I think it's a great idea. I'm working on adding that feature now, hope to have it ready soon.

Don't know why I didn't think of this myself

Thanks for the feedback.

-- hugh

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by bluechris

I had edit abit the bb_encheferizer.php to change the greek words for those who have greek language in their forums.

Ooooh. I hadn't thought about non-English to Swedish Chef translations. Not a lot I can do about that really, as I'd need to understand a lot more than I do about linguistic phonemes and all that in each target language.

What I might look at doing at some point is making the replacement terms be a lookup array, then provide a hook so you can add / redefine them with a simple plugin.

Worth doing just for very thought of The Swedish Chef speaking in Polish or Greek or Italian or ... LOL!!

Originally Posted by bluechris

Great thing m8 we cryed here with some guys that we did it.

Yup, I've had similar experiences. Literally tears running down my face and sides hurting from laughing so much. Especially when the victims start cussing and threatening ...

Thanks for the feedback, makes the work worthwhile.

-- hugh

[ubblite]

Funny mod, but for me even if you enter which forum ID & user ID in Encheferizer, it still shows up for everyone as Encheferizer. Strange.

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by ubblite

Funny mod, but for me even if you enter which forum ID & user ID in Encheferizer, it still shows up for everyone as Encheferizer. Strange.

Not quite sure what the problem is.

If you specify any forum ID's, then all posts in those forums will appear encheferized to everyone, ragardless of userid.

If you specify User ID's, and don't change the "Victims see as ..." options, then those users posts will appear encheferized to everyone else, but normal to the "victims", in any forums. Unless of course they are posting in a chef'ed forum, in which case the above rule applies.

-- hugh

[ubblite]

You're right cheesegrits - I must have misunderstood the UserCP options. Thanks.