Major Additions - QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.1

I'm no longer able to put very much time into this mod, so I've set up a Subversion repository at http://www.vbulletinprogramming.com/projects/quoteit/ to allow others to help out. You can use the login "vbuser" with the password "vbulletin" to edit files. If someone would like to completely take over the mod, please contact me.

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.

Older versions (no longer in development): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.5.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[yonglvnv]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Still looking at the language chooser and vBadvanced bugs.

yonglvnv - It's not reading the permissions for some reason. Did you still have includes/xml/bitfield_quoteit.xml on the server?

Just checked, yes it was. Will delete and reinstall again. Thanks!

UPDATE: Quote IT 3.08 still doesn't show on my vba module, but it shows again when I downgrade to 3.07. Some parts of formatting is still off as I posted before, otherwise, I'm happy with 3.07. Could you help?

[Firen]

I've reinstalled the latest version, but I still can't seem to get the edit button to work.

[yonglvnv]

Cap'n Steve, played around with it a bit with 3.07, I finally got the formatting thing kind of figured out and everything looks like where they are supposed to be. Anyway to get rid of blank lines over and below the quotes and make the actual quotes a bit wider to take up less lines? Basically want to compact the height as much as possible.

[Cap'n Steve]

The new version is up. vBadvanced problems should be fixed, although it's still ugly in some styles, so I recommend you use quotesideblock.php as the module even if it's going to be used in the center block. Quick Language Chooser should also be fixed, but you must save your QuoteIt! Options first.

Firen - Did you redo that edit to clientscript/quoteit_moderation.js that I posted a while ago? Does it say anything?

yonglvnv - The margins are set in clientscript/vbulletin_css/quoteit_main.css, look for the .quote and .quotetext lines. If you're using Internet Explorer, the spacing is one of the things I couldn't quite get right, that's set in the other css files.

[soulface]

YES! Quick Language Chooser bug is fixed! also the CMPS module. working fine...

one question, i want to use tahoma as the font of Quotes, Auther name & context text. how do i do that ?

[thepub]

I mean the size of the quoter is very large on my board in comparison to the demo you posted.

www.theneighborhoodpub.com take a look for yourself. I cannot get tit to show on the main page so you will have to click on forums to view it.

[Firen]

Firen - Did you redo that edit to clientscript/quoteit_moderation.js that I posted a while ago? Does it say anything?

Nope. It doesn't do anything. Not even an error message. Very weird.

[thepub]

edit button is working and quoter is working except it still is not showing up on the main page of my forum and I set it up to do so according to the module and instructions. I'm getting there lol!

[Cap'n Steve]

Firen - Could you give registered users permission to edit their own quotes for a minute on your site? I'll take a look at it.

thepub - It looks normal to me. It should be using the width used by the style. You are missing the images though, you might want to upload those to whatever images directory the style uses. To get it working in vBadvanced, there's one extra instruction in the latest version. You should also make sure the random quote is enabled. If it still won't work, you can post a screenshot of the module settings and your QuoteIt! options.

soulface - In quoteit_main.css, find these three lines:

.quotetext {

.author {

.context {

below each one, add this:

	font-family: Tahoma;

[Firen]

Firen - Could you give registered users permission to edit their own quotes for a minute on your site? I'll take a look at it.

All set up. Thank you for checking it out for me.