"/me action" port for vB3.5.x

Update v1.20
"/me does whatever...." now gets propperly parsed to "* Username does whatever...." as well in the Archive and subscription notification e-mails!

Update v1.10
Quick-Reply didn't work, the raw "/me" was quoted.
Now works fine as well when quoting in Quick-Reply

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To update simply uninstall the older product and re-import the updated product XML.

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Hi everyone!

Here I present you my vBulletin 3.5.x port of the famous "/me" action :up:

This plugin is based on the original /me action done back in vB2 times
The code is mainly based on the contens of this thread:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=59698
so at least 50% percent of the credits have to go there.

However I've completely rewritten it to fit into vB3.5.x's plugin system and the hooks.


Features of this plugin:

• Adds the ability to use the "/me" action in posts and PMs.
  Just type "/me waves" to get something like "[high]* Hellcat waves[/high]"
• The formatting of the /me text can easiely be customized by editing the BB tag it uses for formatting purpose
• The color of the /me text can be customized seperately for every style you have installed, so you always have a color fitting into the currently used style!
• This version is actually QUOTE SAFE!
  If you quote someone who used the /me you get "* User waves" instead of the raw "/me waves" in your quoted text!
  So there will be no messing up when quoting /me's
  
  While editing posts however, you still have the original entered "/me" (except for PMs)

Installation

Painless and easy, no files need to be edited, no files need to be uploaded!

1)
Simply download the product XML from this post, go to your AdminCP -> Product Manager -> Upload/Import Product -> Point it to the XML and hit "GO"

2)
Add the following BB tag via the BB-Code-Manager:

BB tag name:

me

BB tag replacement:

<div style="color: {mecolor};"><strong><em>{param}</em></strong></div>

This BB tag is actually used for the /me output, so edit the replacement of this tag to fit your need of the formatting of the /me text.

3)
Optional:
For every style you have installed go to Style Manager -> Add Replacement Variable

Variable name:

mecolor

Variable value: enter any HTML color you like and that fits to the color theme of the style, "#AA0000" for example for a med red.

Using this you can set a different color for the /me for every style.


If you don't want or need to do step 3 you might also want to remove the DIV tag from the HTML makeup (if you don't you have an unparsed {mecolor} in there).


What else?
1) Click "INSTALL" if you use it
2) This can easiely be edited/copied to implement even more actions
3) Post comments and problems here and we try to solve them
4) This has been develloped and tested on vBulletin 3.5.2 but should work under 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 as well.

Have fun!

[tehQspm]

works fine on 3.7.0 Beta 4. Would be cool to get it to parse for Visitor/Picture comments though.

[Boofo]

That would be easy to do.

[tehQspm]

can you help point me in the right direction? I think I can get the right hook it's just knowing which variables to use and how. That's the problem.

[Boofo]

I haven't looked at it yet. I will get on it in the AM and see what I can do for you.

[Boofo]

Ok. I have updated this for the 3.7.0 Vistor Messages/Previews. I will do the picture comments now.

EDIT: I have been told I'm not allowed to release an update to this as it is a copyright violation. Sorry.

[xxshatteredsoul]

Originally Posted by DaveAK

Got it working for 3.6.x Had to change the PHP code for the QUOTE and Quick_Reply instances to the following :

PHP Code:

if (isset($originalposter))
{
  $pagetext = preg_replace('#^(([ \t]|\[[a-z]+[^\]]*\])*)/me[ \t](.*)$#Uim', '$1* ' . rtrim(rtrim($originalposter,"0..9"),";") . ' $3', $pagetext);
} 


The nested rtrim first removes the post ID, then the semi-colon, so that it will work with usernames that end in numbers. No file edits are needed as in my previous attempt posted above.

Can someone add this hack to the 3.6 mods. This is the only change above that needs to get added to work on 3.6.8. Thank you.

[GoTTi]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Ok. I have updated this for the 3.7.0 Vistor Messages/Previews. I will do the picture comments now.

EDIT: I have been told I'm not allowed to release an update to this as it is a copyright violation. Sorry.

what do you mean its a COPYRIGHT violation??? whats the violation? what is it you have you want to release? you can release fixes on here. there is no copyright....i dont understand.

[PoetJA-1975]

LOL - Temperamental Coders perhaps aka BS
[high]* PoetJA-1975 has installed on 3.7.2 and seems to work just fine actually - as is...
[/high]

Jacquii.

[PGAmerica]

I have not tried this yet. Can this be modified to allow for a /you command as well.

eg. /you would be replaced by the name of the user that is being replied too.

[PGAmerica]

Originally Posted by brvheart

[me]*username bla bla bla [/ me] - got this part worked out, but can not get the replacement variable to work...

How did you get past this? I installed this according to the instructions and when I use it, I get the following:

[me]* PGAmerica Hello to you[/me]

What's with that? I typed /me and it shows the [me] and [/me] text and then replace the /me with my username. How do I get rid of the [me] and [/me]? I have the "mecolor" variable in place, so it is not that.

ideas?