Major Additions - QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.1

I'm no longer able to put very much time into this mod, so I've set up a Subversion repository at http://www.vbulletinprogramming.com/projects/quoteit/ to allow others to help out. You can use the login "vbuser" with the password "vbulletin" to edit files. If someone would like to completely take over the mod, please contact me.

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.

Older versions (no longer in development): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.5.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[cmiller1014]

Thanks, bud... but I see no reference to "searchfield" in either quote_listquote or quote_listbit.

I changed the name of the class name of "searchfield" to "quoteitsearchfield" within clientscript/vbulletin_css/quoteit_main.css but it did not fix our problem on the home page.

Thanks again

[cmiller1014]

Opps... I lied. It did fix my problem... but still no ref to that class name in those templates.

Thanks!

[Cap'n Steve]

Sorry, I forgot that was moved to the quote_searchbit template. But if your quotes page looks fine, you don't even really need to change that.

[cmiller1014]

I cannot seem to keep the spammers off of this thing. Guests have NO access to it, set all to NO in usergroup perms but they just keep filling it up. There must be a hole in it: Plus they are putting them live without going through the mod queue!

http://www.distributortalk.com/forum...ew&quoteid=186

[cmiller1014]

I should also note, they cannot be deleted. Attempting to does nothing...

[cmiller1014]

SPam is turning out to be a major issue in this thing.... they are landing in the queue, but appearing anyway. Its making a mess out of the site. Is there a fix or should I just disable it?

Thanks

[Cap'n Steve]

I'm guessing you figured out how to delete them. If you have "soft delete" set to yes, they just go back into the moderation queue and have to be permanently removed from there. It looks like the guest permissions aren't saving properly. Do they show up correctly in your usergroup manager?

[Cooleyvol]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

I'm guessing you figured out how to delete them. If you have "soft delete" set to yes, they just go back into the moderation queue and have to be permanently removed from there. It looks like the guest permissions aren't saving properly. Do they show up correctly in your usergroup manager?

They show up correctly in my usergroup manager, but still they can post. I'm leary to reinstall the mod, b/c I had the quote specially coded into my board and don't want to screw that up by uploading the app again.

Should that change anything in my template setup if I reup the app?

[Cap'n Steve]

I'm still not sure why they're not saving properly, and I'm not sure what you mean about it being specially coded, so here's a quick workaround to prevent guests from adding quotes.

in includes/functions_quoteit.php, find

PHP Code:

$quoteitpermissions = convert_bits_to_array($permissions['quoteitpermissions'], $vbulletin->bf_ugp_quoteitpermissions); 


and below that, add

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid'] == 1) {
    $quoteitpermissions['canaddquotes'] = 0;
} 


[Cooleyvol]

Thanks. I've made that edit and will let you know if it continues to occur.