[RELEASE vB2.0] quick 'who posted'

This is a fairly simple hack, but my users wanted it, so here it is.



What it does is to add a link to the number of replies for a thread, which allows users to quickly see who has posted in a thread without opening the showthread.php page. The results are shown in a small popup window.

Any suggestions or comments are welcome.

[edit: this hack is now included in vBulletin 2.0.3 and above]

man you're just one awsome hacking machine. You just keep on coming and coming and each time they get better and better.

heh. Nice hack.. might have to install once our site is ready to move to vb 2.0 beta 2. *cough* Rat *cough* Well... there are other reasons for our delay, but.... it's cool.

Excellent hack.

Keep up the good work.

brilliant. Just installed it and it works perfectly. 5 Stars!

Cool! Many thanks for that - my users will appreciate it

http://www.jeuxwebmasters.com/forums...?s=&forumid=19

Nice

one thing i was wondering, when you move a thread you get the "-" as the number of replies. With this hack it is no underlined because it still works but looks a little silly. Is there any way to not have this when the thread is moved. I would imagine not because you can't do and if elseif routine in the templates but just thought i would ask.

It would be fairly easy to implement that, but as you pointed out, it would require a little condition to be placed in the php code, rather than a simple template change.

If you really want it, this is the code to modify:

Find in forumdisplay.php:

    } else {
      if ($foruminfo[allowratings]) {

replace with

    } else {
      $thread[replycount] = "<a href=\"javascript:who($thread[threadid])\">$thread[replycount]</a>";
      if ($foruminfo[allowratings]) {

This code should be around line 390... but I can't give you an exact line number, as my forumdisplay.php doesn't really look much like the original

You will also need to remove the hyperlink from the forumdisplaybit template.

any way to modify something like this to show who subscribed or selected email notify on a thread ?

Yep, open whoposted.php and select the whole SQL query, and replace it with this:

$posts = $DB_site->query("SELECT
COUNT(postid) AS posts, post.userid, user.username, subscribethread.userid AS subuserid
FROM post LEFT JOIN user USING (userid)
LEFT JOIN subscribethread ON
  (subscribethread.threadid=post.threadid AND subscribethread.userid=user.userid)
WHERE post.threadid=\"$threadid\"
GROUP BY post.userid ORDER BY posts DESC");

then further down the code, find this:

eval("\$posters .= \"".gettemplate("whopostedbit")."\";");

and immediately above it, add this:

	if ($post[userid]==$post[subuserid]) $subscribed = " <smallfont>[subscribed]</smallfont>";
	else $subscribed = "";

then open your whopostedbit template and just after the closing </a> of the profile link, add $subscribed.

That oughta do it