Mini Mods - Cel Question & Answers Forums (QA-Forums)

This Minimod has been requested on vbulletin-germany.com.

What does it do?

This Addon allows you to have Question and Answer Forums. It changes the statistics that are shown in forumbit.
Normally, vBulletin shows the total number of posts in a forum, i.e. evey post in a forum is counted. If you have a question/answers forum, this addon changes the phrase "Posts" to "Replies" and the phrase "Threads" to "Questions". It also subtracts the first posts from the total of posts inside a forum, so the statistics show only replies.

See screenshots:
There are the forumbits of two forums in the screenshots. In the first screenshot, the addon is activated for the upper one, in the second screenshot it is deactivated.


Installation

Install the product file in your Product Manager. Done.


Template edits

If you want to replace the phrases "Threads" and "Posts", you need to do the following template edits (if you're using Andreas' Template Modification System, you can skip this):

In template forumhome_forumbit_level2_post search for

{vb:rawphrase threads}

replace with

<vb:if condition="$forum[cel_replycount]">{vb:rawphrase cel_replycount_replacethreads}<vb:else />{vb:rawphrase threads}</vb:if>

Directly below in the same template, replace

{vb:rawphrase posts}

with

<vb:if condition="$forum[cel_replycount]">{vb:rawphrase cel_replycount_replaceposts}<vb:else />{vb:rawphrase posts}</vb:if>

Configuration

Under AdminCP -> Settings -> Options -> Cel Question & Answer Forums you can

• set the addon to work for all forums, then exclude single forums by forumid
• set the addon to work on single forums only defined by forumid
• set whether you want to replace the phrases "Threads" and "Posts" in the relevant forums

In the Phrase Manager, you can edit the phrases "cel_replycount_replaceposts" and "cel_replycount_replacethreads" to your liking or to translate them.


Version history:
4.1.002: Added functionality to replace phrases
4.1.001: Release

### Don't forget to click install! ###
(No support if you don't)

[Methok]

Brilliant, Thank you!

[Manoel J?nior]

Please images

[cellarius]

What would you expect to see on an image? You see the normal forumbit, just the numbers are different. There's no real visual change involved.

[hayaldunya]

Thanks, but please add screen shot

[cellarius]

Feel free to read the thread you're answering to.

Originally Posted by cellarius

What would you expect to see on an image? You see the normal forumbit, just the numbers are different. There's no real visual change involved.

Just look at your forumbit and imagine a lower number of posts listed.

[cellarius]

OK, for all those with limited imagination, two Screenshots added. Inactive, and active. Not much to be seen, though...

[cellarius]

New version: 4.1.002

• new name: Cel Question and Answers Forums
• added ability to replace phrases "Threads" and "Posts" in forumbit
• fully phrased: The standard replacements "Questions" and "Answers" can easily be changed and translated

[cloferba]

why dont an option to disable those stadistics?

[cellarius]

You can use the condition provided in the template changes to remove the statistics for the forums you have selected completely.