Social Group and Album Enhancements - Quote Functionality in Social Discussions

Quote Functionality in Social Discussions v1.0

As the title suggests this modification allows you to add message quote functionality to vBulletins Social Group discussions.

The installation of this product is made up of the following and does not require any file changes:

• One product import.
• One manual template modification.
• One configuration change.

Once installed an additional SQL query is made, however this only occurs when somebody clicks the quote button.

Installation : Product Import

The installation of this modification is fairly simple, for those that do not have experience of doing this here are the full steps:

1. Download the attached zip file and extract to folder on your computer.
2. Goto your Admin CP page (ACP).
3. Open the "Plugins & Products" section.
4. Click "Manage Products".
5. On the page that opens scroll to the bottom and click "Add/Import Product".
6. In the "EITHER upload the XML file from your computer" browse to the product XML file that you extracted in the first step (product-socialgroup_message_quote.xml)
7. Click "Import"
8. Sit back and watch vBulletin do its magic.

Installation : Template Modification

1. Goto your Admin CP page (ACP).
2. Open the "Styles & Templates" section.
3. Click "Style Manager".
4. In the page that opens find the style(s) you want to edit and select "Edit Templates" from the drop down.
5. In the "Social Groups Templates" section find the "socialgroups_message" template and open it.
6. Find the following line in the template:
   
   

   <ul class="list_no_decoration controls">

7. Immediately after this paste the following:
   
   

   <li class="smallfont"><a href="group.php?do=message&amp;discussionid=$message[discussionid]&amp;gmq=$message[gmid]">$vbphrase[quote]</a></li>

8. You should end up with something that looks like this:
   
   

   <ul class="list_no_decoration controls">
   <li class="smallfont"><a href="group.php?do=message&amp;discussionid=$message[discussionid]&amp;gmq=$message[gmid]">$vbphrase[quote]</a></li>
   <if condition="$message['edit']">

9. Save the template changes.

Installation : Configuration Change

This modification has no custom configuration options. However it will only be functional if you have enabled quote bbcode for social groups. To do this follow the steps below:

• Goto your Admin CP page (ACP).
• Open the "vBulletin Options" section.
• Click "vBulletin Options".
• In the page that opens find the "Social Group Options" section and click "Edit Settings".
• Scroll down to the "Allowed BB Code Tags in Social Group Messages" section
• Enable "Allow Quote BB Code" by checking the box
• Scroll to the bottom and click "Save"

If you do not follow these steps when a user attempts to quote a message they will be shown an error stating that quote BBCode is not allowed

Other Information

In this version only simple quoting is supported, therefore it is not currently possible to multiquote.

This is one of the mods in my "Why isn't this stuff in the default social group system" series, for the others see these mods:

• Social Group Statistics in Whats Going On
• Social Group Discussions Like Postbit Legacy

And finally...

You know the deal if you install and use the mod please mark it as installed, if you really like it nominate it for mod of the month.

[drsli]

Many thanks, works like a charm!

[pein87]

works like a charm withou errors so far good job and yes vbulletin devs are slacking and if they got off there high horse and pleased the customers then people wouldnt be leaving fo IP 3. Your a good coder and a smart mod maker.

[KURTZ]

interesting job ... but i saw that there are some uncached templates ... it's possible to fix this trouble?

[Reeve of shinra]

This should be a default feature. Thank you for releasing

[MrEyes]

Originally Posted by KURTZ

interesting job ... but i saw that there are some uncached templates ... it's possible to fix this trouble?

Not in this mod, it doesn't use any templates

[KURTZ]

Originally Posted by MrEyes

Not in this mod, it doesn't use any templates

check the pic ....

[Lynne]

And I explained about the uncached template in your thread about it:

You will get that uncached template if you just use the quote function at all in discussions... or use php or code or html tags. Use any bbcode in there and that template will not be cached. If it bothers you, then cache them.

[KURTZ]

OK Lynne but how i can cache them? so it's a Jelsoft trouble ... correct?

[Lynne]

Yes, it is a Jelsoft issue. You can always cache them using a plugin at the cache_templates hook location:

PHP Code:

if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'whatever') 
{ 
$globaltemplates = array_merge($globaltemplates, array( 
'this_template', 
'that_template')); 
} 


[KURTZ]

it's too advanced for me Lynne anyway thanks for all