Social Group and Album Enhancements - Cel User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated)

What does it do?

• Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome).
• If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
• Instead of the statusicons, you can show the group's icon
• If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.

Things to set in AdminCP/Options:

• use template hook to output or - more flexible - make manual template edit
• show member of / subscribed to /nothing
• sort by name or last message date
• limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
• restrict use by usergroup
• show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
• show buttons to open new discussion etc.
• apply custom css to grouptitle
• trim group description to max length or disable
• parse bbcode in group descriptions
• use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
• show groupicon instead of statusicon, and choose whether you want to show original size or resized to standard statusicon size

Looks

• Out of the box: copies the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
• Fully templated.

Install/upgrade

1. Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
2. Import the product file.
3. Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.

Technical stuff

• 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
• 2 plugins
• 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
• a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
• 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.

Limitations

• Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting)
• 3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under a version 3.8.0 or higher

Version history

• 4.0.006: fixed minor display bug when no discussions yet in group and fixed encoding issue reported by Been_Told
• 4.0.005: fixed small PHP 5.3 issue
• 4.0.004: fixed group's icon styling issues (thanks to ZexTasy for some useful hints) and added resize option, implemented suggestions (f.e. using template hook now)
• 4.0.003: Adapted to vB4 beta 3, first public release
• 4.0.001: Ported to vB4 alpha 1
• previous see 3.8 versions here.

The 3.8 version of this mod can be found here.

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[BlackThorn]

installed, thanks.

[GreigM]

Only problem I have found is the last post title not parsing quotes correctly as seen in image, any easy fix?

[ex0thermic]

Originally Posted by cellarius

I wrote .png, and that's what I meant. vB4 uses .png througout, but the extension could be changed in the templates if you wanted to use .gif. But .png it is by default.

This is why I asked...

[Miras]

hi

i'm using bf easy pages and want to insert this social groups list on an easy page instead of the forumhome
what code do i have do insert in this easy page

{vb:raw cel_sgfh}

alone is not working

thx,
miras

[cellarius]

I have no idea, since I do not use this mod. You probably would be better of asking in their thread.

[duditas]

vBulletin? Version 4.0.2

It doesn't work for me

Thanks anyway

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by duditas

vBulletin? Version 4.0.2

It doesn't work for me

This mod works on 4.0.2 - if it doesn't, the reason is not the version of vB4 you use.

[Breakpoint]

The trim field doesn't appear to limit the number of characters in a group description no matter the number you add. I had 10 and 25, it still showed over 500 characters.

[Hummie]

I keep getting this message at the top of my forum repeated over and over:

Warning: fetch_template() calls should be replaced by the vB_Template class. Template name: forumhome_cel_social_groups_lastmsgby in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3957

[cellarius]

There is no fetch_template() call in this mod. You're either trying to install the 3.8 version on 4.0, or the error originates from another mod. Uninstalling the 3.8 version properly if you updated from 3.8. may also help.