Personal Stickys

Hack name: Personal Stickys
Version: 1.0.3b
Author: Mephisteus (DarkSSJ3)
Special Thanks To: Floris (The images and being a guinea pig)!

Steps:
1 product import
1 file to edit - forumdisplay.php (2 edits)
3 template edits
2 image uploads

Info:
Let members on your forums have their own 'personal' sticky thread. People sticking a thread using this function will have the thread only appear 'stuck' to them (and if its a 'real' sticky thread). See screenshots for the obvious

Tested on:
3.5.0 - OK
3.5.1 - OK
3.5.2 - OK
3.5.3 - OK
3.5.4 - OK

Features
- Neat icons!

MAKE A BACKUP
I will not be held responsible for any damage this hack causes to your forum.
This hack is NOT supported. If you get support, consider yourself lucky.
I reserve the right to REMOVE the hack at any time without prior notice.

Please keep any bug reports in this thread.

History
1.0.3b (to upgrade reimport product xml IMPORTANT)
Bugfix
- Fixed a bug that would give SQL errors if someone didnt have personal stickys.
1.0.3 (to upgrade reimport product xml and apply file edits)
Bugfix
- Fixed "The stickied thread will be stickied to the top of its own page, not the first page per see.". It will now be stickied to the first page (I have NOT tested this on different settings due to lack of time).
1.0.2 (to upgrade reimport product xml)
Feature
- Redirect on stick/unstick selection
1.0.1 (to upgrade reimport product xml)
Bugfix
- Fixed an error that would appear in UserCP and in the subscriptions area if you had subscribed threads.
1.0.0
Initial release

Take me to the 3.7.x version

[iRO Wiki]

After fiddling with it, I figured out a way to limit it to X usergroups:

<if condition="is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 2)">

Just keep adding group ID's after the first, seperated by commas, like so:

<if condition="is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 2, 6, 32, 14)">

If you put it around the code for sticking/unsticking a thread, only people in those groups will see that link!

<if condition="is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 2, 6)">
<tr>
		<td class="vbmenu_option"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/mysticky.gif" />
		<if condition="in_array($thread['threadid'], $personalstickys)">
			<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=unpersonalsticky&amp;t=$threadid">$vbphrase[personal_unsticky]</a>
		<else />
			<a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]do=personalsticky&amp;t=$threadid">$vbphrase[personal_sticky]</a>
		</if>
		</td>
	</tr>
	</if>
</if>

Need to add the first if statement then a </if> at the end.

Keep in mind that if a person you allow to have stickies gets removed from the group, they will still see the stickied threads, they just won't be able to unstick them without using the direct link.

Edit: co-admin brought up a good point, can you still stick from the URL if you knew it, the answer was yes, so I went back to fiddling. The URL's look like this:

showthread.php?do=personalsticky&t=1
showthread.php?do=unpersonalsticky&t=1

And can be called even if you hide the link.

Edit the following plugin: Stick/unstick check

Find:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'personalsticky' )

replace with:

if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'personalsticky' AND is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 2))

Making sure to edit your usergroups.

If you aren't in the defined groups, and try to manually stick a thread, it just takes you to the thread and nothing happens. I'd love it to go to an error message but I have no idea how.

[ThE LeAdEr]

Work in 3.7??

[Kaelon]

Originally Posted by ThE LeAdEr

Work in 3.7??

For those interested, with the original author's permission, I released an update to this hack for vBulletin 3.7.x:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=189444