Major Additions - Discuss!! A Yahoo Answers Clone

Discuss!!
A Yahoo Answers Clone

by ChrisTERiS

Compatible with 4.2.0
but you must download the file Disucss_1_4_0.zip

1. Why we need a discussion mod

Maybe sounds crazy to have a powerfull forum and to install this AddOn. But this is not true. I do agree that vB has tons of features for any type of discussions. But from the other point Yahoo Answers (and dozens of similars sites) became famous, because they offer a simple way to users to get replies. Short questions, with a couple of replies. Why to go in a complicated system for this? And why to add dozens of extra categories, subcategories etc etc, just for this? This is the reason that you need it.

2.- How it works?

Very simple, so easy to use by novice users too. A member is posting a question in any of your categories (unlimited level are supporting) and then is waiting other members to post a reply. Reads the replies, chooses the best and that's all. There is no need for discussion here.





3.- Installation

1. Download, unzip and upload all files from the "upload" folder where your vb installation is (you can't install in different directory).
2. Goto you admincp and import the product-discuss.xml
3. That's all

4.- Configuration





Configuration is very easy and is like all other addons here. You need to follow the steps below, and soon you'll be ready:

1. First of all goto Usergroup permissions and set what each usergroup can do or not do.
2. Goto Discuss General setting, check the default values and change them if you want
3. PM Templates. I believe that the predefinied text is ok for most of you. But if you want you can change them. Please don't touce the variables (anything inside {}). The available variables are:
   1. {questiontitle} : Title with link
   2. {questiontitle_nolink} : As above but without link
   3. {category} : Category name with link
   4. {category_nolink} : Category without link
   5. {questionowner} : The author's username with link
   6. {questionowner_nolink} : As above, no link
   7. {description} : 200 chars from the question body
   8. {username} : This is the "To:" value. eg Dear {username},
   9. {postdate_short} : Post date in format that you've set as long dates
   10. {postdate_long} : Same as above in long date format
   11. {signature} : Anything that you've set in your settings
4. Last step is to set your categories.

5.- Copyright

In the footer of each page there is a link back to my site vBulletON.com. Even if it easy to remove it, please avoid doing it. Respect if you want to be respected. That's the only that I can say.

6.- PRO version

Currently there is no one. I don't use to build an addon, and then remove 90% of its features to make a free version. No. This is all that I've done. Sure there are dozens of more features that I can add. If I see that this mod becomes popular then I'll add them but as commercial version.

7.- Live Demo

http://www.christeris.com/testvb4/discuss.php

Login:
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3

Enjoy
Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by axix20xx

Thanks ...

Where can I change this one : Place your rules here.......................
and how can i delete others questions

We ask some test Questions and know Must be Delete them

thank again

1.- You must edit the file terms.php at disucss/includes/
2.- Turn on "Approve questions" and the edit them to place it in moderation. Then you can delete (reject) the question. In an upcoming release I'll add a delete button for admins at fronend.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by victorvu

Chris:

It is a great mod; however, I could not create sub-categories for the main ones. Every time I do that, it just deletes it. Wondering what I did wrong!

Victor :up:

No, the bug is not there. You can create subcategories, but the link toi those subcategories in frontend is wrong. I'll fix it.

Chris

[majjed2008]

Thank you for your replay , I tray to uninstall the products and reinstall it before i read your replay .

now when i tray to import it I also get db error :
MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'discuss'
Error Number : 1060

[majjed2008]

also now without the products i tray to edit usergroup and i get db error it dont give this error before .

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'akvbghsfs_akismet_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

realy sorry for all that and thank you very much for your help

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by majjed2008

also now without the products i tray to edit usergroup and i get db error it dont give this error before .

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'akvbghsfs_akismet_permissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054

realy sorry for all that and thank you very much for your help

This error is not coming from my product, but from something similar to Akismet antispam protection.

Chris

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

You know that I'm not using forum engine in my mods

Chris

Maybe as an addon to DigitalPoints Sphinx?

This mod is great, but my users ignore anything thats not in the whats new feed.

[majjed2008]

Thank you for all your help .
please kindly I uninstall the products and i want to reinstall it .
when i tray to reinstall it I get db error : Duplicate column name 'discuss'

please how i can fix this to reinstall the products ?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by majjed2008

Thank you for all your help .
please kindly I uninstall the products and i want to reinstall it .
when i tray to reinstall it I get db error : Duplicate column name 'discuss'

please how i can fix this to reinstall the products ?

For some reason your previous uninstallation failed and left behind a filed in the usergroup table. My advice is to remove this field manually with phpMyAdmin. Must be the last field on table usergroup. Its name is: "discuss". After removing it, you can process to a new installation.

Chris

[majjed2008]

Thank you a lot , can you help me please how to do that ?

[majjed2008]

I delete it and now i have this error :
Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE user ADD discuss_questions INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'discuss_questions'
Error Number : 1060

and i dont fiend it in phpmyadmin to delete it