End-User Options - Personal Sticky Threads

What are "Personal Sticky Threads"?

Personal Sticky Threads (aka "Personal Stickies") is an Add-on for vBulletin that will allow your users to sticky threads that only they will see as stickied; these "personal stickies" will appear beneath normal sticky threads. This Hack was originally designed by Mephisteus for vBulletin 3.5, and re-released (with his permission) for vBulletin 3.7.x. This hack requires a couple of File Edits, and should be attempted by those who are comfortable editing vBulletin source files. That said, I have included modified detailed instructions that should make installation straight-forward and easy.

Special thanks are owed to Mephisteus, for allowing an updated re-release for vBulletin 3.7, and to john1744 and zendive for improving upon the query alterations. As I typically disclaim with my other Add-ons, I am generally a neophyte at this sort of stuff and I tend to modify hacks and tinker with pre-existing code to get the results that I want. That said, please use this discussion thread as a community-support and mutual learning opportunity.

Finally, if you like this hack and install it, please:

Mark this Add-on as Installed

Requirements

• vBulletin 3.7.x Series

Installation

Installation is straight-forward. Simply download the attached archive, decompress on your local hard drive, and review the Installation.txt file for the specific steps. There are, broadly, four steps:

1. Import product-personalsticky.xml
2. Upload the two images into their respective folders
3. Perform two file edits to forumdisplay.php
4. Perform four template edits to three templates.

Add-Ons

This modification can be further customized:

• Limit to Specific Usergroups (iRO Wiki, imported from 1.0.3b)

Version History

• 1.0.3c: Updated for vBulletin 3.7.3 (August 28, 2008)

[BigDog56]

Another problem, regestered members do not see the icon image. It works, in 2 places, but the little icon is missing.

EDIT: Once a person posts in the thread they have stuck, then the icon will show up.

[GoTTi]

i would like also to see this mod as a full plugin with no file edits and if possible no template edits. good luck

[Sawa Dee SohL]

Great hack - got a question thought

I have this enabled on my forum - but I want it so only certain members can access this feature (ie depends on what usergroup their in)

How can I make this possible? So that only certain groups can use this?

[Kaelon]

Originally Posted by Sawa Dee SohL

Great hack - got a question thought

I have this enabled on my forum - but I want it so only certain members can access this feature (ie depends on what usergroup their in)

How can I make this possible? So that only certain groups can use this?

Hi there. I'm glad that you like it. Please "Mark as Installed" so that I can keep you informed of any changes and improvements I make.

Re: your question, the first add-on for this patch can limit it by usergroup:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=141

[Sawa Dee SohL]

Beautiful! Thank you for your prompt support!

(i clicked mark and it went back to this page) - so I hope I did it correct

[Kaelon]

Originally Posted by Sawa Dee SohL

Beautiful! Thank you for your prompt support!

(i clicked mark and it went back to this page) - so I hope I did it correct

You are most welcome, and yes, you are all set. Thank you!

The Add-on that I linked you to is the basic principle by which you can limit by usergroup; it just requires some minor tinkering with the plugin and you can get it to be a special benefit; I use it, for example, for my subscribers.

[hoseman666]

I'm pretty much a noob here, was able to get this somewhat functional. The only problem I can see right now is instead of the .gifs showing, instead it says "Personal Sticky Thread" (in thread tools it just says Unstick This Thread; no image).

Any ideas what I need to do to remedy this?

TIA

Hose

*edit* nvm, fixed in myself. Forgot to add the .gifs to the skin directories

[mangus580]

GREAT Mod...

wonder if there is a way to incorporate this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=165550 to work with it??

[rob01]

i try to add it

but i get a databese error
when i add this line

AND threadid NOT IN ($personalstickysq)

from

$getthreadids = $db->query_read_slave("
		SELECT " . iif($sortfield == 'voteavg', $votequery) . " thread.threadid,
			$tachy_columns
			$hook_query_fields
		FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "thread AS thread
		$tachyjoin
		$hook_query_joins
		WHERE forumid = $foruminfo[forumid]
			AND sticky = 0
			AND threadid NOT IN ($personalstickysq)
			$prefix_filter
			$visiblethreads
			$globalignore
			$limitothers
			$datecut
			$hook_query_where

someone knows whats going?


edit: it seems to work even if you dont add the editions in forumdisplay.php, in vb 3.8.0

[Keyser S?ze]

in threadbits template i get this error, i have checked and rechecked it

The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:

The conditional on line 14 appears to be missing its end tag (</if>). The template will not function properly unless this is fixed.

This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish.