Thread Category / Prefix Hack

Thread Category / Prefix Hack

Version: 1.3.7
vBulletin Version: 3.0.7
Developer: Mystics (www.vbulletin-germany.com)
Hack-Language: English & German & French (thanks to ReadWrite)
Install-difficulty: Medium
File-edits: 19
Template-edits: 16


Brief Description of the Hack

With this hack it is possible to assign a category/prefix to a thread. To do this you are able to select an appropriate category from a list beside the title while posting a new thread - for example 'Help', 'Problem', 'Search' etc.

The categories displayed in this list may be defined by a moderator for each of his moderated forums (Forum Tools -> Manage Categories); of course an administrator is allowed to do this for every forum.


Features

• Moderators are able to create own categories for each of their moderated forums
  (Forum -> Forum Tools -> Manage Categories -> threadcategory.php)
• Display of the categories on forum display, search results, subscribed threads and within the thread itself
• It is possible to change the category with editing the first post of a thread or with the thread tools available for moderators at any time

Settings in the Admin CP

• Maximum categories per forum
• Thread Category required: Users have to select a thread category for their threads
• Default Thread Categories: You may set default categories which will either be shown only in forums without own categories or be shown in addition to existing categories
• Show Thread Categories in extra column or in front of the thread title in the same column
• Alignment of the categories (if 'Show in extra column' is enabled): Align left, align right, center
• Show Category in 'Last Post' column
• Category HTML Markup: Specify an HTML tag with which to display the categories (bold, italic, red etc.)
• Allow Thread Category search: If enabled, the categories of all forums the user has access to will be grouped in a list and displayed in the search engine.
• Per Forum: Allow categories in this forum.

Screenshots

See attachments.


Version-History

1.3.7 (02-22-2005 - 09:00 pm)

• Modified instructions for vBulletin 3.0.7
  (3 more changes within the search_results template)

1.3.6 (01-15-2005 - 06:10 pm)

• Modified instructions for vBulletin 3.0.5
  (only the third modification of the template FORUMDISPLAY has changed)

1.3.5 (11-02-2004 - 11:00 pm)

• Bugfix: File: newthread.php
  Preview error with categories containing "&" fixed

1.3.4 (09-25-2004 - 04:00 pm)

• Update: Template SUBSCRIBE (colspan have to be increased since vB 3.0.2)
• Bugfix: File: includes/functions_forumlist.php
  Include category length in length of the shown last thread title

1.3.3 (04-08-2004 - 08:55 pm)

• Bugfix: File: forumdisplay.php
  Selected category got lost when browsing through forum pages

1.3.2 (03-27-2004 - 05:45 pm)

• Bugfix: File: clientscript/vbulletin_quickreply.js
  Javascript error when using Quick Reply
• New: Added modification for postbit_legacy template (same as postbit modification)
• Modified instructions for vBulletin 3.0.0 'Gold' (only the first modification of postings.php has changed)

1.3.1 (03-06-2004 - 00:20 am)

• Bugfix: Template: threadbit_deleted
  Incorrect display of category column in this template

1.3 (02-23-2004 - 08:40 pm)

• Bugfix: Don't display a category in a thread if categories are not allowed in the forum
• Bugfix: Critical bug in threadcategory.php related to the option 'Update existing threads with changed categories' fixed

Upload the new threadcategory.php as soon as possible!

1.2.1 (02-14-2004 - 02:15 pm)

• Bugfix: Template: forumdisplay_announcement
  Wrong 'colspan' value used, if categories are displayed in an extra
  column and forum contains announements in addition

1.2 (02-11-2004 - 11:30 pm)

• New: Display category in notify mail next to the thread title
• Bugfix: Improved display of the categories in "Who's Online"

1.1 (02-10-2004 - 11:55 pm)

• New: Display of last category in the 'Last Post' column (may be disabled in the admin cp)
• New: Display of hack version in the admin cp at the vBulletin options (for example 'Thread-Category Hack v1.1')
• Bugfix: Show link to 'Manage Categories, if DHTML menus are disabled
• Bugfix: Don't show categories from forums where categories are not (longer) allowed
• Bugfix: Convert HTML code within categories

1.0.1 (02-08-2004 - 11:30 pm)

• Bugfix: Correct display in "Who's Online" while managing categories

1.0.0 (02-08-2004 - 4:49 pm)

• First version

Installation

1. Upload the files categoryinstall.php and categoryinstall_text.php to the admincp directory of your forum
2. Open this file with your browser:
   http://www.yourdomain.de/forum/admin...oryinstall.php
3. Log in and follow the instructions
4. You may delete the two files after the installation of the hack

Time needed for installation: approx. 30-60 min.
Tested for version: 3.0.0 RC 3 (and above).

Note: If you have already used the vBulletin 2 version of this hack (only available in german) and the categories are still stored in the vB3 database, you may convert them for the vB3 version. You will see a note to that in step 2 of the hack installation.


Update hack

1. Upload the files categoryinstall.php and categoryinstall_text.php to the admincp directory of your forum
2. Open this file with your browser:
   http://www.yourdomain.de/forum/admin...oryinstall.php
3. Log in, select the version you want to update from (at Step 2 -> 'Update Hack') and follow the instructions

Short overview of the needed modifications

1. Files that need to be edited:

• editpost.php
• forumdisplay.php
• moderator.php
• newthread.php
• postings.php
• search.php
• showthread.php
• subscription.php
• admincp/forum.php
• clientscript/vbulletin_global.js
• clientscript/vbulletin_quickreply.js
• clientscript/vbulletin_stdedit.js
• clientscript/vbulletin_wysiwyg.js
• includes/functions.php
• includes/functions_databuild.php
• includes/functions_forumlist.php
• includes/functions_newpost.php
• includes/functions_online.php
• includes/functions_search.php

2. New files:

• threadcategory.php

3. Templates that need to be edited:

• editor_clientscript
• editpost
• FORUMDISPLAY
• forumdisplay_announcement
• forumhome_lastpostby
• newthread
• postbit
• postbit_legacy
• search_forums
• search_results
• search_results_postbit
• SHOWTHREAD
• SUBSCRIBE
• threadadmin_editthread
• threadbit
• threadbit_deleted

4. New templates:

• threadcategory_listbit
• threadcategory_modify

5. New phrases:

• Too many to list them all - they will be created automatically by the install script

Final words

If the hack doesn't work correct after installation, please verify all modifications you have made within the files and the templates. Be sure you have uploaded all edited and new files.

The hack was tested extensive and will function properly if installed correct.

Thanks to ReadWrite for his french translation.

Have fun with the hack.

Please click Install if you have installed it

[Anek]

Thx for the answer.
My doubs about other hack is because some *php and templates are the same.. but I'll try to install

[StefanS]

Hi,

installed as described but if i call threadcategory.php i'm getting errors like:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 92212328 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 35867534 bytes) in /home/httpd/docs/thinkfactory.de/foren/threadcategory.php(129) : eval()'d code on line 61

or

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 74248752 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 17942529 bytes) in /home/httpd/docs/thinkfactory.de/foren/threadcategory.php(129) : eval()'d code on line 82

Could anyone give me a shorthand where to search for fixing it?

Thanks!

[cinq]

Mike, is it possible to take up the suggestion of having 'mini images' as a prefix like what was mentioned in the first few posts of this hack thread ?

Because some of the thread prefixes are really long, and it would throw the layoff out and could be better represented by an icon.
Post icons have totally no functionality, compared to your thread prefixes ( think sorting by prefix, search by prefix etc )

I hope you could consider this request

[Overlord]

I agree, I've installed it and it works fantastic, good job.

Some of my members however have requested I change the prefixes to easy to destinguish icons. Or perhaps both? with a switch on every forum to use text or icons?

[cinq]

Not really a switch, perhaps just allowing the input box to accept the img tags ( either bbcode or html , doesnt matter to me ) and to show it correctly.

I tried but it shows the code instead lol

[Overlord]

Yes, that would probably work better.

Also, someone mentioned you can disable the category column and have the prefix appear before the thread titles? How exactly do you do that?

EDIT: I have recently had complaints that members are mysteriously losing posts, and topics are mysteriously going missing. Since the only major hack I installed over the past few days has been this I was wondering if there's any way that threads could be 'accidentally' hard deleted by this hack?

EDIT2: Nevermind, problem solved., I had a mod who did un-intentionally. :P

[Fibe]

Tried everything but I still see the categories like in the attachment.
Any idea what I could have done wrong?

[Mystics]

Originally Posted by Fibe

Tried everything but I still see the categories like in the attachment.
Any idea what I could have done wrong?

Re-do your changes in the SHOWTHREAD template (First revert to original).

[Fibe]

Ok I just redid all and seems to work just fine now.

thanks !

[Fibe]

Hmm problem seems to have come from the Sticky spacer hack:

By Kingskin @ vbulletin.nl
Feel free to redistribute this/do whatever you like with it, i dont care!

@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~

Go to the FORUMDISPLAY template of the style you wish to modify

Find:

$threadbits_sticky




Below that add:

</table><p>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<if condition="$show['threadicons']">
<td class="thead" colspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<else />
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
</if>
<td class="thead" width="100%">
<if condition="$show['threadratings']"><span style="float:$stylevar[right]"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=voteavg">$v bphrase[rating]</a> $sortarrow[voteavg]</span></if>
<a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=title">$vbph rase[thread]</a> $sortarrow[title] /
<a href="$sorturl&amp;order=asc&amp;sort=postusername ">$vbphrase[thread_starter]</a> $sortarrow[postusername]
</td>
<td class="thead" width="150" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=lastpost">$ vbphrase[last_post]</a> $sortarrow[lastpost]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=replycount" >$vbphrase[replies]</a> $sortarrow[replycount]</td>
<td class="thead" align="center" nowrap="nowrap"><a href="$sorturl&amp;order=desc&amp;sort=views">$vbp hrase[views]</a> $sortarrow[views]</td>
</tr>

Any idea how I can combine the 2? Moment I change these things in the FORUMDISPLAY forum the tables shift and all looks messy.

Thanks