Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.

Technical Details:

If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.

There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.

Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.

You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[Lynne]

If you look at the install code, you'll see both the post and thread tables get altered. This can take time, as has been mentioned before.

[dutchbb]

Second time it was fast. Bad connection I guess.

I'm now looking at a live topic, but do not see posts get added, F5 does show new posts. So it's not working for me (3.8.2 & Chrome or Safari).

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by dutchbb

Second time it was fast. Bad connection I guess.

I'm now looking at a live topic, but do not see posts get added, F5 does show new posts. So it's not working for me (3.8.2 & Chrome or Safari).

please list the plugins you have... this works out of the box with 3.8.x cross browser. The conflicts are with the other plugins you may have.

[Coders Shack]

Originally Posted by Daky

still not showing,... same as for first problem i have

1. script looks to be working, only thing is that i dont get any notification for new post , i only get new post itself,....

is there any spot that i have to enable notifications

2. i dont even have notification when somebody edit their previous post

oh hmm interesting, what other products are you using?

[isatice]

uninstalled , maybe has conflict with VBstatus

[Daky]

Originally Posted by Coders Shack

oh hmm interesting, what other products are you using?

Yet Another Mass Private Message System
Who Has Read a Thread.
Video-Directory
Blog
vbseo
v3 Arcade
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads
Prevent DoublePosts
Plus mood
NoSpam!
New Post Alert In Showthread
Mobile Device Detection
Miserable Users
Image Resizer
Icons for UserCP
Hook Forum SiteMap
GTSmiliebox - Move Smilies Below Editor
GTPrivate Messages Enhanced Listing
Google Adsense Postbit Integration
Goldbrick
DownloadsII Create Thread
DownloadsII
Display Unread Posts and Reputation Comments
Cyb - Thread Listing Make-Up
Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager
Cyb - PayPal Donate
Cyb - Change vBForms Defaults
Cyb - Advanced Forum Statistics
BB Code Manager
Automatic Welcome PM
Automatic Thread Tagger
Archive Adsense
All Albums

[Daky]

Update:
We even disabled all of the above plugins, Only left was Live Topic and still nothing!!!!
We also tried switching to default VB style, same thing.

Any ideas? Suggestions maybe?

[Lynne]

I don't know that this will help, but I had some problems with this mod and our server mod_security. After looking at the logs, I had someone help me make some changes and now it works just fine. Chasing down a server configuration problem though isn't necessarily easy.

[Daky]

Hi,

mod_security is not enabled\installed on our server at this moment.

Thanks

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Daky

Hi,

mod_security is not enabled\installed on our server at this moment.

Thanks

The point I was trying to make is that sometimes it doesn't work because of a server configuration and so you need to look through all your various server logs sometimes to figure out what the problem may be. (If that is what the problem is. It could be a modification - several have been mentioned in this thread to cause conflicts.)