Add-On Releases - Feature Threads

Feature Threads
By Adrian at Dreamit.co.uk
Tested on 3.6.1.

Note: This modification is v0.10, It seems to be working fine.
To see why it's not V1, scroll down to the Q&A.

About:
Feature Threads allows you to "Feature a thread", and that thread will then appear on the forumhome.

It's a very useful mod' to get those important, special threads noticed.

Installation:

Download Feature_threads.zip.

• Upload feature.php and unfeature.php to your forums root folder.
• Import product_feature.xml.

Template Edits:
Open Forumhome Templates > FORUMHOME
Find:

<!-- main -->

Add after:

$feature_threads

Save.

Open Showthread Templates > SHOWTHREAD
Find:

	<tr>
		<td class="thead">$vbphrase[thread_tools]<a name="goto_threadtools"></a></td>
	</tr>

Add after:

<tr>
		<td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/subscribe.gif" 

alt="Feature Thread" /> $feature_status
<input type="hidden" value="$threadinfo[threadid]" name="tid"></td>
	</tr>

Save.

Done.

Easy to install.

Q&A
1. Why is it V0.10?
Well, when i started this mod', i had some good ideas with it, and i started to loose intrest after a while.

I got the "base" made, so i thought, "why not release it?"
So, i have. If i get enough installs, or a positive response to the mod', i will glady spend more time, adding the features i wanted.

2. Oooh...What new features?
Not too many features...things such as...

Featured Thread ordering

• Order by thread date
• Order by by date featured
• Order by amount of replies
• Custom ordering

The ability to show the featured threads on the forumhome, or on everypage.

Ability to show what information is displayed in the features thread box.

Yeh, these are pritty easy to do, i just don't have the dedication i need to make them, like i said, if i get a good response, expect to see them soon.

3. How many usergroups...?
The option, that allows you to choose certain usergroups to access this mod', is limited to 12 different usergroups.

Not because i'm being mean, i just did the usergroup permission, in my code useing explode and arrays.

Don't ask why, i just did. : /
That will be improved when/if V1 is released.

Changelog
0.10 - Release.

0.11 - Set default value on "Show x" option to 4, to stop confusion with mysql_errors

0.12 - Edited Enable/Disable option from Radio buttons, to a simple Yes / No boolean to avoid errors.

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If you installed this modification, please click install.

Thanks.

Adrian

[leo1977]

Great modification. Thanks

[category]

quesiton: what template i can make the border edits ?

[SaN-DeeP]

Feature Request: How about giving featured threads its own new page ?
Some functionality which shall auto-pull highest rated, replied, viewed threads from last week, month, 3 months, year, till day etc. ?

[criscokid]

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

Some functionality which shall auto-pull highest rated, replied, viewed threads from last week, month, 3 months, year, till day etc. ?

A great idea!

[heynurse]

First of all, to the author great hack!

Originally Posted by SaN-DeeP

Feature Request: How about giving featured threads its own new page ?
Some functionality which shall auto-pull highest rated, replied, viewed threads from last week, month, 3 months, year, till day etc. ?

Yes, I agree, great idea, I'd love to see something like this done. It would give a great indication as to what topics are truly "hot" at a quick glance, not just the threads that certain people want to feature. But I suppose this could be a totally separate hack

[ccmoon]

Great! installed.

[nathanrich]

I'm liking this mod. Only problem is it shows featured threads even if a user doesn't have permission to view the thread. Here's the query that selects the featured threads:

PHP Code:

$query="select * from " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread WHERE `featured` = 'featured' limit $rows "; 


What would we need to change here to make it so it only selects threads the user has permission to view?

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

didn't find it in thread, but I'd love to see a vbadvanced featured thread module for this!!

any hopes on that?

[dprundle]

thx m8, will definately click install on this one.

[Hornstar]

I have a big request, that I really hope you may mind doing.

I would like to display the featured threads on a non vb page, but the non vb page is my homepage which has globals and all the rest on it so it is integrated with vbulletin a bit.

Basically im trying to make the homepage look more active, and this would be perfect.

Thanks.