QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.0

QuoteIt! allows you to have a database of quotes integrated with your forum. Users submit quotes that can then be voted on by the other users, using your choice of two rating systems. The average installation will show a random quote on the forum home page, but you can include it on any vBulletin page or on your portal home page.

If you'd like to see a demo, go to forums.monkeycrap.com.

Features:

Random Quote
- a random quote can be shown on any vBulletin powered page
- the administrator can set a default rating threshold that quotes must meet before showing up as the random quote
- a new random quote can be chosen at a specific interval of time, to reduce server load

Quote Database
- quotes can be searched, filtered, and sorted by many different criteria
- quotes have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- quotes can be embedded in posts with bbcode
- each post and private message now has a "Submit to Quotes" link that allows users to quote things said on your forum more easily

Quote Ratings System
- quotes can be rated either plus/minus or on a scale from 1 to 5
- quotes below a certain total score or average score can be filtered out

Quote Management
- quotes can either be automatically approved or moderated
- the quote moderation que is like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once
- usergroup permissions are used for adding, editing, deleting, rating and viewing quotes
- most actions use AJAX to avoid page reloads

Don't forget to click install!

Currently known problems are listed here.

The files needed to edit the included images are attached to this post.

This hack is based on QuoteIt! 1.2, originally by magnus. The "submit post" feature was inspired by an addon by CtrlAltDel.

Other versions (development will continue for the 3.6 version only): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.6.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[Cyricx]

Originally Posted by Rabbitoh Warren

Anyone know how to stop the link to "Submit to Quotes" from appearing when a user is viewing their private messages?

In your postbit or postbit_legacy template find:

<!-- BEGIN QuoteIt! -->
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/quotes.php?$session[sessionurl]do=submitpost&amp;postid=$post[postid]">$vbphrase[submit_to_quotes]</a> 
<!-- END QuoteIt! -->

And REPLACE IT with:

<!-- BEGIN QuoteIt! -->
<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='showthread' OR THIS_SCRIPT=='showpost'">
<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/quotes.php?$session[sessionurl]do=submitpost&amp;postid=$post[postid]">$vbphrase[submit_to_quotes]</a> </if>

<!-- END QuoteIt! -->

[Rabbitoh Warren]

Thanks Cyricx, that did the trick. :up:

[Cap'n Steve]

Originally Posted by Loukrhtia

I took today a good look at the templates quote_listquote and quote_listbit cause I wanted to change them to fit the look of my forum better...
The problem with the looks ot this -otherwise excellent- mod is that it uses it's own CSS classes!!!! Why do so and not use vbulletin's classes? It would fit much more if it was done this way and it would also save you the time to make your own CSS classes from vbulletin variables...

edit: Also, by the way, how can I set the default sorting method to show new additions at the top?

I could have used more default classes, but I like my pretty buttons. Like I said, it was a nightmare trying to get certain things to look good in every browser and hopefully I'll have time to redesign it soon.

There's no way to sort quotes by date yet. Unfortunately I didn't think of that until after I released version 2.

[TwinsForMe]

On the older version, I had edited FORUMDISPLAY, SHOWTHREAD, and search_results, so the quotes would show up in each forum, when viewing a thread, and after hitting "New Posts". How can I do the same with this version?

[Cap'n Steve]

Just edit the Random Quote plugin so it uses the global_start hook and add this code at the end:

PHP Code:

$threshold = ''; 


Then add the $showrandomquote to whatever templates you want to.

[TwinsForMe]

Thanks.

[Holidazed]

I added the latest quote version and the install went smooth. However, after I add my first quote, it does not display on the forumhome page. I just see

""

When I attempt to edit it, the form is empty as if I never made a quote at all. If when editing, I add text in the fields and press the submit button, I get the same message as Neutral Singh (show below)

Originally Posted by Neutral Singh

Please complete all the fields. Press the back button, correct the problem then try again.

In addition, I have the same problem as Don Corleone (shown below)

Originally Posted by Don Corleone

I installed this mod, but there is something wrong with the template, take a look:



see this empty space?
how do I remove it?

Help!!

[Cap'n Steve]

To fix the spacing, see this post.

For the other problem, do you have quote moderation turned on? You might have to approve the quote. If not, you should redownload and reimport the hack (be sure to allow overwrite and revert your QuoteIt! templates).

[Holidazed]

Thank you. The problem is in my big fat fingers. I had it misconfigured. I also fixed the spacing issue due to y our help.

Thank you

[Snort_2005]

Attempted to install the mod after I had it on vB 3.0.7

Database error in vBulletin 3.5.0:
 
Invalid SQL:
 
  INSERT INTO vb3_datastore
   (title, data) VALUES
   ("quote_settings", "1:0::1:5:0:::");
 
MySQL Error  : Duplicate entry 'quote_settings' for key 1
Error Number : 1062
Date         : Friday, October 28th 2005 @ 01:05:52 AM
Script       : http://www.zcworld.net/forums/admincp/plugin.php
Referrer     : http://www.zcworld.net/forums/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address   : 216.76.169.190
Username     : Sephiroth
Classname    : vb_database