'Now Playing' Hack

NOW PLAYING HACK for vBulletin 2.2.8 (UPDATE)

Adds a 'Now Playing' field to your new thread and new reply pages where users can enter whatever they're listening to, and their post will be appended with something akin to: "NP: Some Song by Some Band".

All support questions should be posted in this thread

Remember: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE!! I am not a PHP guru by any stretch of the imagination -- the following code works fine for me, so you should not have any problems.

It's been tested on cB 2.2.8. I will not be held responsible if your forum crashes, or turns into a Britney Spears BB

You can see it in action at my Ultimate Metal forums where I've modified it slightly to have a small CD icon in place of the usual 'NP:'.

This is my first ever hack, so please do let me know any shortcomings or errors!!

I hope you enjoy it as much I plan to

Added to: now includes 'editpost.php' and 'editpost' template changes!

UPDATED for 2.2.8 (very minor fix in newreply.php - if it's working for you, there is NO NEED to upgrade! This will be the last update until vB3 is out

[squawell]

this hack sounds good~~

thankz MarkB!!

[Lesane]

Sounds Great, i gonna try it on my 2.0.3 version

[Lesane]

It works great, i had 2 change some codes but finally it works fine on vb 2.0.3

Also where it says:

PHP Code:

Add 

$postbit[nowplaying] 

where you want the NP information to appear. 


That didnt worked, i changed it to $post[nowplaying] and it works perfect now.

Thanks for the great hack.

[MarkB]

Originally posted by Lesane
Also where it says:

PHP Code:

Add 

$postbit[nowplaying] 

where you want the NP information to appear. 


That didnt worked, i changed it to $post[nowplaying] and it works perfect now.

Thanks for the great hack.

Oops, sorry, that was indeed an error. I've updated the attachment Thanks for pointing it out!

[TheComputerGuy]

Purty Work, consider it installed

[|DarkManX|]

great hack....

was wondering how i would alter the nowplaying template to have a image instead of saying NP:

thanks for this

[|DarkManX|]

coooool, i figured out how to add the image on my own....thanks again!!

[Lesane]

Mark, i also edited the editpost.php & editpost template so that if someone edit his post then he can add the np too.

*hint*

[|DarkManX|]

Originally posted by Lesane
Mark, i also edited the editpost.php & editpost template so that if someone edit his post then he can add the np too.

*hint*

good idea