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

[majjed2008]

@ last i delete it from all my DB and now it is work fine , thank you very much for the good products and for your support .

Thank you again
Regards

[ywwz]

Problem when translate to other language. Mess code showed up.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by ywwz

Problem when translate to other language. Mess code showed up.

Your post is very general. Which phrase you tried to translate, and what did you enter there? Currently is tranlated in languages with special characters and works fine (German, Norwegian, Greek).

[ywwz]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Your post is very general. Which phrase you tried to translate, and what did you enter there? Currently is tranlated in languages with special characters and works fine (German, Norwegian, Greek).

Thanks Chris, here I give more detail:

I tried to translate your product to Chinese.

This is what I did: I went into phrase manager, Phrase Type: discuss, then I got a list of phrases. I started to translate from the first phrase, after about 10 phrased were translated, I checked the work by refreshing my discuss page, and I saw the mess code (like this:!^$#%$@^%&@$%@#%!)

This happens to some other products as well. Any chance for you to look into this problem and get it solved?

Thanks Chris for your brilliant work.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by ywwz

This happens to some other products as well. Any chance for you to look into this problem and get it solved?

Thanks Chris for your brilliant work.

If it happen to other products too, then something is wrong with your language settings. The only that I can think right now is to try to edit some phrase directly to product-discuss.xml and then import this file (don't forget to check overwrite). Then check again the page.

Chris

[ywwz]

Very good idea and thank you very much Chris. Good man.
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I tried to use word pad to edit and re imported this file, another style of mess code showed up. I am still very thankful for your help.

[majjed2008]

Hello

I just fined some thing wrong in my Discuss plugin today .
in internet explorer it work fine but in firefox it is big coz it start after global banner how i can fix that please .

[lazytown]

As another member suggested, it would be very useful if questions and answers could show up in what's new.

[rafiul]

Thanks for the mod. Nominated!
Delete option for admin will be handy and usefull.
And also need a sender id . Like Discuss as sender.

[rafiul]

is has issue with Latest 30 pms on acp.
its showing erorr on admincp/index.php line 948, which is

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('admin_index_main1')) ? eval($hook) : false;

And latest 30 pm code is-

<title>Latest 30 PM Admin Index</title>
			<hookname>admin_index_main1</hookname>
			<phpcode><![CDATA[print_table_start();
 print_table_header("Latest 50 PM",3);

echo "<tr valign=\"top\"><td class=\"tcat\">From -> To</td><td class=\"tcat\" >Title</td></tr>";

    $resultpm = $db->query_read("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "pmtext ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 0, 50");

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');
    $bbcode_parser =& new vB_BbCodeParser($vbulletin, fetch_tag_list());

$vb4 = 1;
while ($pmxread = $db->fetch_array($resultpm))
{

$mesaj = $bbcode_parser->parse($pmxread['message'], 0, 0,1);

// 	a:1:{s:2:"cc";a:1:{i:12503;s:10:"contrast61";}}

$users = unserialize($pmxread['touserarray']);
// $kim = $pmxread['touserarray'];

    foreach($users AS $key => $item)
    {
        if (is_array($item))
        {
            foreach($item AS $subkey => $subitem)
            {
                $username = $subitem;
                $userid = $subkey;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            $username = $item;
            $userid = $key;
        }
    }
echo "<tr><td class=\"alt$vb4\" nowrap=\"nowrap\" width=\"150\">".$pmxread['fromusername']." ---> ".$username."</td><td class=\"alt$vb4\"><b>".$pmxread['title']."</b><br />$mesaj</td></tr>";
$vb4++;

I am giving this because i like both mods. And want to use both of them. I think there is a bug with your pm system or something else. Because when someone approve best answer, the expert has a pm. And dont know why when one other member register on forum he too get the same pm. I mean winning pm.

How to solve this?