'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

[Crazy Pete]

I installed this hack, but I can't get it to show up in the postbit anywhere. Also, by default the text field for Now Playing? has "Array" in it, that doesn't seem right to me. What's going on?

[Oblivion Knight]

Nice one Mark.
Working with no problems on 2.2.9 whatsoever

[high]* Oblivion Knight clicks install.[/high]

[Harken]

how do i edit it to show a little cd instead of NP

[Harken]

nm im a dumbass

[L-Mane]

I cannot find

$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO post (postid,threadid,title,username,userid,dateline,at tachmentid,pagetext,allowsmili e,showsignature,ipaddress,iconid,visible) VALUES (NULL,'$threadid','".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($ title))."','".addslashes($post username)."','$bbuserinfo[userid]','".time()."','$attachmentid','".addslashes($mess age)."','$allowsmilie','$signa ture','$ipaddress','$iconid','$visible')");

Anywhere in edit post

[Austin Dea]

For you guys who couldn't get it to display, I did by doing this.

Chang:

if ($post[NP]!="") {
eval("\$post[nowplaying] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_nowplaying")."\";");
		
	} else {
		$post[NP]="";
	}

to:

	if ($post[NP]!="") {
		eval("\$post[nowplaying] = \"".gettemplate("postbit_nowplaying")."\";");
	} else {
		$post[NP]="";
	}

I have no idea why that fixes it, but it did for me =P.

[reismarktq2]

Never mind... fixed it myself.

/me clicks install

[Xelation]

Is it possible for someone to make an addon for the getinfo page? with the last 5 songs played?

[MarkB]

I've managed to hack this for vB3 now, so once that is released as Gold, and vB.org is accepting vB3 hacks, I'll release it

[midnightz]

Hi - Great hack

Is it possible to have it show in thier profile as well

Thanks,

midz