Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present User Spotlight v1: A mini mod to show a random member on your forumhome page.


Why User Spotlight?

DBTech's User Spotlight mod lets you display a random member on your forum home page as a way to increase member commmunication.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support for this version is handled at the Developers Website.

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Major Features

ForumHome Integration: Members' details will show in the infobar on the forumhome.

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Feature List

• Random user selected every night
• Admin override of selected user
• Admin variables to limit selected users by number of posts, reputation and days active

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of the forum home page which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Sephentos

I do not want to use the addon on wgo (specially on default it is included on template_hook.forumhome_wgo_pos2). There should be a option, where i can define a custom template where to insert something like {vb:raw user_spotlight}.

You surely understand me now.

I understand now. I didn't really design it to work that way and it would be a formatting nightmare to support considering the number of places you could put it and the style changes that would need to be tweaked for different locations.
You could just create your own template hook in your template, replace mine in the file and achieve the same result.

[betts02]

After updating its now showing members who i have not selected to show via admin
Cheers

[Kingdombuilder]

I love the mod... I'm using it in a side block. I would like to change the name of the side block from User Spotlight to my own custom heading. Does anyone know how to change it?

[Mr_Running]

Originally Posted by Kingdombuilder

I love the mod... I'm using it in a side block. I would like to change the name of the side block from User Spotlight to my own custom heading. Does anyone know how to change it?

vB Admin --> Languages & Phrases --> Search in Phrases --> user spotlight -->

dbtech_spotlight

--> Edit --> Translation --> Save

[Kingdombuilder]

After installing this I got this as a fault and now my site is not accessable:

Warning: require_once([path]/dbtech/spotlight/hooks/cache_templates.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1309) : eval()'d code on line 165

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/mobiletr/public_html/forum/dbtech/spotlight/hooks/cache_templates.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mobiletr/public_html/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1309) : eval()'d code on line 165

this fault shows up in my admin panel when i try to go to my products and when the forum is trying to be accessed.

Please help my site is down!!!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Kingdombuilder

After installing this I got this as a fault and now my site is not accessable:

Warning: require_once([path]/dbtech/spotlight/hooks/cache_templates.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1309) : eval()'d code on line 165

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/mobiletr/public_html/forum/dbtech/spotlight/hooks/cache_templates.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mobiletr/public_html/forum/includes/class_bootstrap.php(1309) : eval()'d code on line 165

this fault shows up in my admin panel when i try to go to my products and when the forum is trying to be accessed.

Please help my site is down!!!

It sounds like you didn't upload the files correctly. You should have a file at /public_html/forum/dbtech/spotlight/hooks/cache_templates.php

[Kingdombuilder]

I will redownload and the files and try to upload them again..

[Kingdombuilder]

Ok the problem was I have upgraded my site to VPS account and the shared account was suspended and the files to this mod were on the shared account. You helped me bigtime with that bro thank you. I had installed this mod after the upgrade began and with the dns finally were pointing properly the mods I installed while in transition were carried over. So i went in and installed it again but like i said before the files that were in the upload folder went to the shared account and not the VPS upgraded one.

It was my issue and not yours bro... Thank you for the response because that is what led me to find the problem.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Installed and working ( I think )

4.1.1

Spotlight Member ID & Spotlight Next Cron Run

All seem to equal 1. I tried removing that value, but it seems to return. I'm just hoping it does not automatically keep user ID #1 (which would be me).

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Installed and working ( I think )

4.1.1

Spotlight Member ID & Spotlight Next Cron Run

All seem to equal 1. I tried removing that value, but it seems to return. I'm just hoping it does not automatically keep user ID #1 (which would be me).

You could try to manually run the scheduled task. It's called Dragonbyte-Tech: Spotlight - Pick Random User
It will also create a scheduled task log entry every time it runs with a message of what it did.