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Week / Month Topic Nominations

Acknowledgments:
This release would not have been possible without the existence of the former ?Topic Nominations? by J98680B2423E (Data) and "Post Thank You" by Abe1, which provided the mod?s core structure. A nice set of button and awards images have also been provided by princeedward. You can view screenshots at the original mod's thread: VB 3.7 Topic Nominations

What is Topic Of The Week/Fortnight/Month?
It adds a "Topic Of The Week/Month" nomination system for your community.
Topic of the Week/Month is a contest that select posts on which your community can nominate as the best and then discuss them during the course of the selected week/fortnight /month. Any listed topic (post, thread) is eligible for the Topic of the Week/Fortnight /Month selection. This mod should also work in VB 3.7.x, but it has only been tested in VB 3.8.

Features of New 2.0 Version:

• 50+ bugs fixed & 30+ phrases changed for clarification.
• Fixed ajax functionality for adding & removing nominations.
• 16 settings to determine which users can nominate and which posts can be nominated.
• Documented this mod?s limitations & changelog in the 2nd post.
• Fixed Hall of Fame to to correctly display most awarded members and topic winners from the past 3 contests (3 awards per contest).
• Added new setting, max # of nominations user can receive, to prevent a poll being dominated by a single user.
• Added new function to recount # of current nominations received and past awards.
• Added new function to manually finalize the current contest, close the old poll thread, and create a new poll thread.
• An option to enable blog nominations is available and should work (coded by Data), but is not supported (I do not have VB Blog).
• You must have 3 VB default hooks in the postbit template: see troubleshooting below for details. If you ask for help with a problem, you must state in your post if you have reverted ALL nomination templates and read the troubleshooting tips in the 2nd post. If you haven?t, do so otherwise you will be ignored & can debug it yourself.

Installation instructions:

1. Upload the content of the "upload" folder into your forum root directory
2. Import the "product_nominate_topic.xml" product via your ACP:
   ACP -> Plugins & Products -> Manage Product -> Add/Import Product (Allow overwrite for updating)
3. For upgrades only, REVERT ALL nominate_topic templates in ACP -> ?Find Updated Templates? or top FYI section of Control Panel. This mod will work only if ALL templates are reverted since major changes were done to them. Reapply custom phrasing to changed phrases as needed.
4. Adjust & save the mod settings to your preference in ACP -> VB Options. It is strongly recommended that you use the default, preset options.
   Specify the Forum ID that will receive nomination threads and the Forum ID's for which posts can be nominated. Also specify the User ID of the nomination thread owner.
5. For new installs only, start a new nomination poll at:
   ACP side menu -> Nominate Topic -> Special Actions -> Create New Poll Thread
6. Read the 2nd post for Troubleshooting Tips & Mod Limitations and the 3rd post for specific features of this mod.

Version History:
2.0.0: Initial Release.
2.0.2: Fixed table column bug.

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Thanks to everyone who nominated this mod for October, 2009 You can vote for this mod at: this thread.

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by GSeybold

Thank you for putting your hardwork and time into this. Great mod!

Glad you found it useful

[matthewhotdude]

It is a great Mod!

shall look forward to seeing if it works as it should after midnight tonight

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

It is a great Mod!

shall look forward to seeing if it works as it should after midnight tonight

Thanks Matthew. I think a lot of people are waiting to see if the automatic cron will work without any probs..... I don't anticipate any since the manual nomination poll creation and finalization works fine (tested it fine and so far no reported issues) and the automatic cron job uses the same code as that special action. The cron job is scheduled to happen 12:15 am server time; VB cron tasks depend on page requests, so make sure you visit your site (several times in case you have back-logged tasks).

[matthewhotdude]

Just wondering, where does the winners award appear in the postbit, as am concerned it will mess with my style like the nomination did

[vbboarder]

Originally Posted by matthewhotdude

Just wondering, where does the winners award appear in the postbit, as am concerned it will mess with my style like the nomination did

The winner award stamps should appear in the same exact location in postbit as the nomination stamps.

[matthewhotdude]

Worked like a charm, But need some new awards_ribbon.gif images, as they are awful on dark backgrounds, also a feature request, for a automatic thread to be created to announce the winners??? if possible?

[barbados]

Very nice work !!

I have a problem : The requested URL /forums/admincp/cronadmin.php was not found on this server.

I have change the name of admincp folder to adma so i upload in that folder the : cronadmin.php.

What is wrong ?

[matthewhotdude]

Can't you just create a folder called "admincp" and stick the file in there? as it's still looking for the folder "admincp"

Or I am guessing, in nominate_topic_admin.php you could change

define('CP_REDIRECT', $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . "/admincp/cronadmin.php?$session[sessionurl]do=runcron&cronid=" . $crondata['cronid']);

to

define('CP_REDIRECT', $vbulletin->options['bburl'] . "/adma/cronadmin.php?$session[sessionurl]do=runcron&cronid=" . $crondata['cronid']);

[GeorgiaOutdoors]

Great mod, Thanks!!!

[barbados]

Thank you matthewhotdude !!!!