Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] vBNominate v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

vBNominate is an advanced nomination system. Several different types of nominations are available and it is fully automated to keep your users engaged and interested in your communities activity while keeping maintenance down.

Uses
As admin you will be able to create several different types of nominations. The nominations can either end with the top nominated items winning or a separate poll will automatically be created with the top items.

Once the poll is completed the nomination is updated automatically with the results. No manual intervention is needed on your part! You can specify the type of nomination to be run or you can let it run on several different types of items like threads, polls, blogs, etc.

The nominations system will make it easy for users to have competitions for the best post, thread and more while browsing the forum. No need to go to a special page to vote, all voting can be done for any post from any thread via AJAX.

Instructions
Here are some basics on how to get the nominations started.
1) Make sure you modify the usergroups that will be allowed to nominate.
ACP->Usergroups->UserGroup Manager
2) Create a rotating nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Create Rotating
An example, if you want a weekly Thread nomination, set Type to Thread, Cycle to Weekly, End Date way far in the future, like Dec 31 2058. After you submit new Nomination go to step 3.
3) Edit new Inactive Nomination
ACP->DBTech - vBNominate-> Current Nominations
You should now have an inactive nomination. Edit it if you need to make any changes then set it to active.

You should now have a Nomination link in your postbit. At the end of the week it will automatically end and start a new one on the day you specified.

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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forumhome block to display latest completed nominations and current running nominations
• Ajax Nominations for seamless use
• Nomination Types
  • Thread
  • Post
  • Signature
  • Blog
  • Blog Comment
  • Avatar
  • All Previous
• Delete individual Nomination votes
• View/Edit/Delete Nominations
• Nomination Administration
  • Create Rotating Nominations (Automatically created on schedule)
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
    • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Number of Finalists
    • Number of Winners
    • Winning postbit image
    • Nomination Type
• Per Usergroup
  • Can Nominate

Pro

• CMS Widget scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Forum sidebar block scrolls display of latest completed nominations
• Ability to display winner postbit images
• Create One Time Nomination
  • Auto Score - Most nominated will win
  • Poll Results - Most nominated will be added to a timed poll
  • Start Date
  • End Date
  • Number of Finalists
  • Number of Winners
  • Winning postbit image
  • Nomination Type

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[jagtpf]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That would appear to be the case, from looking at the code.


Fillip

Indeed.

[jagtpf]

ye ken - I've given up on dbtech's products - not one response to any of the tickets on the dragonbyte website through my account. I know I've only used 'free' products, but even so it so it doesn't bode well.

[Scalemotorcars]

I use a custom postbit and tried added this shortcode {vb:raw vbnominate.thread} to the location I want it. But nothing happens. I tried adding to at many locations on the custom postbit and nothing.

Will it only work on postbit and postbit legacy. Is there a place to add my custom postbit template name so its shows up there?

Thanks.

[Scalemotorcars]

Figured it out. I had to add the template hook to the custom postbit.

[grey_goose]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Could you please post the error messages?

Here you go...

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:

    	SELECT 
		nomnom_id, 
		poll_entries
    	FROM dbtech_vbnomnom_nominate
	WHERE
		poll_entries IS NOT NULL;

MySQL Error   : Table 'nwod.org.dbtech_vbnomnom_nominate' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Saturday, April 9th 2016 @ 12:30:28 PM
Error Date    : Saturday, April 9th 2016 @ 12:30:29 PM
Script        : http://nwod.org/forum/admincp/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer      : http://nwod.org/forum/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.41-community

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by grey_goose

Here you go...

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.5:

Invalid SQL:

    	SELECT 
		nomnom_id, 
		poll_entries
    	FROM dbtech_vbnomnom_nominate
	WHERE
		poll_entries IS NOT NULL;

MySQL Error   : Table 'nwod.org.dbtech_vbnomnom_nominate' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Saturday, April 9th 2016 @ 12:30:28 PM
Error Date    : Saturday, April 9th 2016 @ 12:30:29 PM
Script        : http://nwod.org/forum/admincp/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer      : http://nwod.org/forum/admincp/plugin.php?do=productadd
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.41-community

Can you make sure all vBNominate tables are deleted from the database and make sure it doesn't show as installed in the plugin manager, then try again?


Fillip

[grey_goose]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

[...]and make sure it doesn't show as installed in the plugin manager, then try again?


Fillip

That was the problem.

I had a borked install i thought i could just overwrite. It was a remnant from a prior version where I'd tried out the CMS and the uninstall would die because of the packages/vbcms directory.

Sorted it out, uninstalled properly, reinstalled.

Thanks so much!

[grey_goose]

Everything's working but getting an error when I go into my BBCode manager in admincp...

Fatal error: Registry object is not an object in [path]\dbtech\vbnominate\includes\class_core.php on line 82

Really odd, since that's the only place it shows up?

[DragonByte Tech]

Where exactly on that page do you see the error? Inside one of the custom BBCodes?

Fillip

[grey_goose]

No, it's as soon as I open the BBCode Manager. Almost as if one of my custom BBCodes is trying to call vbnominate. If I disable vbnom, everything goes back to being normal.