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Old 08-08-2007, 09:27 PM
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If any of you have used the World of Warcraft forums, you've probably noticed that whenever a WoW staff makes a reply to a thread, a blizz logo icon is placed next to the thread, making it visible to everyone that an official response has been made in that thread.

Why its nice?
For gaming forums in particuler, where you are debating changes, fixes, and upcoming patches, it is very useful and nice to read and find out what the official developers are saying about the game and the user feedback. However it's not very fun reading 20 page threads, only to find out theres not a single official reponse in the thread anywhere...

So I ask... is it possible to make this work for VBulletin?

Easiest would be making it a usergroup option in admin panel, right?
Where you can assign a certain post-icon to certain usergroups, and this icon will be forced to show up on the thread if a member of that usergroup create the thread or replies in a thread.

Possible?

(Example from WoW forums: http://forums.wow-europe.com/board.h...Id=11090&sid=1)

Cheers for reading!

ADD:

VBulletin already use similar code, for example if a thread is popular it changes the statusicon of the thread.

All I want is that it does this if a user from a specified usergroup makes a reply in a thread or starts a thread.
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Old 08-08-2007, 11:49 PM
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Hmm, i like this - i'd be interested in installing this if someone could point out a way to go about it.
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Old 08-09-2007, 12:51 AM
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Hmm, i like this - i'd be interested in installing this if someone could point out a way to go about it.
It's a hugely popular feature on the WoW forums... I was really surpriced to learn it's never been coded for VBulletin.

It's so neat being able to skim a forum and see exactly which threads has actual replies from "officials" or in other words forum admin/staff, like on wow forums.

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Old 08-09-2007, 03:25 AM
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would be a very easy mod, depending on the functionality your looking for. I could code on in 20 mins if your looking for one that doesn't support if the mod/admin is deleted it would delete the status.

Basically its a plugin, and new row in the thread table similar to the sticky one.

I don't the time right now though.
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Old 08-09-2007, 12:09 PM
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"I don't the time right now though." C'mon, you don't have 20 min to spare I just want to tell you 20 min is worth it for an amazing mod which will get lots of installs
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Old 08-09-2007, 03:34 PM
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this sounds like User Ranks .. am I missing something?
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Old 08-09-2007, 04:00 PM
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In forumdisplay beside the thread though^^
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Old 08-09-2007, 07:26 PM
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this sounds like User Ranks .. am I missing something?
check out the link m8, in the original post

This thing is displayed next to the thread, same as a post-icon, making it so everyone can see theres an official reply in that thread.

Rank's don't do that, they just show a specific image inside the actual threads in the postbit area right?
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Old 08-11-2007, 11:50 PM
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Hehe, I assume this is very hard to code...

Ive even offered to pay for it to be done..

2 coders contacted me, both of them vanished when they heard what I wanted :/ same as what is described above.
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Create a new posticon group in the control panel, set all the permissions to "no", (except maybe administrator / supermods)

Add the icon you want to use for official threads, make a note of its id number

Add a plugin for newpost_complete

Code:
if(is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, X))
{
   $vbulletin->db->query("
   UPDATE ". TABLE_PREFIX . "thread
   SET iconid = Y
   WHERE threadid = $threadinfo[threadid]
   ");
}
X is the usergroup you want to trigger this, Y is the iconid for the official icon.

It will override the icon already in use with the official one for the thread when someone from usergroup X makes a post in it.
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