New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB5)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The "@DragonByte Tech;" Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to "tag" the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Translations available @ our website
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays number of Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile statistics for quick overview of a member's total activities.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags

Pro

Hash Tags:

• Site Builder module with Recent and Trending hash tags
• Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
• Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
• Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
• Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score

Emails:

• Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features

General Features:

• Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.

General:

• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features

vB4 / vB5 Differences

Upgradable: Yes


Currently Missing Features

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General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration

Pro

General:

• Hide "@" on mentions

Hash Tags:

• Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
• One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Raakin]

I also get a similar error. How can we resolve it? I am unable to uninstall it or revert the changes. It doesn't show up in the installed products list.

Importing Product, Please Wait...

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Updating Version Number To: 1.0.0

Created Table: dbtech_usertag_mention
Created Table: dbtech_usertag_tag
Altered Table: administrator
Altered Table: user
Altered Table: usergroup
Updating Version Number To: 1.1.0

Altered Table: user
Updating Version Number To: 1.2.3

Altered Table: dbtech_usertag_mention
Updating Version Number To: 1.3.0

Created Table: dbtech_usertag_hash
Created Table: dbtech_usertag_hashsubscription
Created Table: dbtech_usertag_quote
Altered Table: user
Updating Version Number To: 2.1.0

Updating Version Number To: 3.0.6a1

Altered Table: dbtech_usertag_hash
Altered Table: dbtech_usertag_mention
Altered Table: dbtech_usertag_quote
Altered Table: dbtech_usertag_tag
Altered Table: node
Populated Table: bbcode
MySQL server has gone away
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'MySQL server has gone away' in /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/db/query/update.php:120 Stack trace: #0 /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/db/query/update.php(101): vB_dB_Query_Update->doUpdates() #1 /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/db/assertor.php(282): vB_dB_Query_Update->execSQL() #2 /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/db/assertor.php(517): vB_dB_Assertor->assertQuery('session', Array) #3 /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/session.php(444): vB_dB_Assertor->update('session', Array, Array) #4 /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/shutdown.php(84): vB_Session->save() #5 /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/vb.php(454): vB_Shutdown->shutdown() #6 [internal function]: vB::shutdown() #7 {main} thrown in /home3/.../public_html/core/vb/db/query/update.php on line 120

[ARLreborn]

Confirmed as working on vBulletin 5.1 - nice mod DB, thanks

[ARLreborn]

I liked this so much I upgraded to the full edition.

Definitely a good one.

I have a question - where are the messages which are sent out to notify you, stored? The current one is messy. I'd like to customise it to my own message

Also on pro - how can I reduced the user settings titles (found when viewing your profile settings) as they are too long and break the code causing single line entries to appear

[yukirina]

Is it possible to search through hashtags?

[MIWASA]

hey DBTech

is this working on 5.1.0 ? want to install on a fresh 5.1.0 but not without your go ahead of coarse

[Spangle]

Originally Posted by MIWASA

hey DBTech

is this working on 5.1.0 ? want to install on a fresh 5.1.0 but not without your go ahead of coarse

The spec says VB Version 5.0.x so one would assume it doesn't.

Obviously you read this, then chose to ignore it, and ask the question anyway.

You could always install it, see if it works, then let the rest of us know.

You could also try to install VB4 versions of MODS and see if they work, chances are like this one ... they wont.

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by MIWASA

hey DBTech

is this working on 5.1.0 ? want to install on a fresh 5.1.0 but not without your go ahead of coarse

It would be best to ask this question over at the Dragonbyte site. You should receive a faster response to this type of question.

[nogi]

Can confirm that it doesn't work on my install of 5.1.1a9. I get the same error I do with all the DB mods on 5.1.1:

There is a serious error and the page cannot be rendered

Edit:
OK, seems to be something to do with this hook: dbtech_usertag_footer. If I disable that, I can load my site up ok. Tagging seems to work, just not getting any notifications. Probably a config issue on my part.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by yukirina

Is it possible to search through hashtags?

Hash tags are a Pro-only feature

Originally Posted by MIWASA

hey DBTech

is this working on 5.1.0 ? want to install on a fresh 5.1.0 but not without your go ahead of coarse

There have been reports of it working on vB 5.1, I've done basic testing on vB 5.1.0 and only found one minor bug that will be resolved in an update on Monday


Fillip

[yukirina]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Hash tags are a Pro-only feature

There have been reports of it working on vB 5.1, I've done basic testing on vB 5.1.0 and only found one minor bug that will be resolved in an update on Monday


Fillip

No, I don't mean clicking on an existing hashtag to search for posts with that hashtag, I mean searching an hashtag itself without having to click on one. Where is that setting on Pro?