Miscellaneous Hacks - SocialForums for vB3.8

SocialForums for vBulletin 3.8

Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

This mod will work *ONLY* with vBulletin 3.8 or higher. It will not run on vBulletin 3.7. Please use the version for vBulletin 3.7

Support will be only given for people who clicked Mark as INSTALLED.

Description
Not satisfied with vBulletin social groups messaging function? With SocialForums your social group leaders can create a standard forum for their group.
A group leader can only create a forum if the group has at least 5 members - this can be changed via settings. Optionally the group leader can be a moderator of such a social forum.

What about old discussions?
Via AdminCP, SocialForums, you can transfer all discussions and messages to a new forum. No post would be lost.

Permissions
There are advanced permissions (Forum and Archive). This includes read/write public and private (moderated/invite only) socialforums and creation of forum. As this needs two additional queries on every page you can disable this.

Demo
None, see screenshots

Installation
This product is fully phrased and uses template hooks. No file changes or manual template edits needed.
1. Upload bitfield_socialforums.xml to existing folder /includes/xml/
2. Upload functions_socialforums.php to existing folder /includes/
3. Fresh Installation: Just import the product. Upgrade: Import the product, allow overwrite. No forums get lost!
4. Check settings, especially for parent forum. Don't forget to set permissions via usergroups!

Troubleshooting
Q: I don't see a link to create a forum. Why?
A: Check permissions for the usergroup, espacially if the user is allowed to create forum.
A: Check if the usergroup meet min users requirement, see AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums.

Q: My users see the forums, but they shouldn't!
A: Check permissions for the usergroup, if the users usergroup is set to "can see".
A: Did you disabled the restriction mode? Enable it.

Todo
- By deleting a group the forum should also be deleted/archived. Currently this has to be done manually.

Known Issues
- On big boards with hundreds of social groups this mod can really impact the performance because of the mass of new created forums. If you still want to use this mod use the "Minimum Members" feature with a higher value. Using the permission check there are additional two queries on every page.
- With activated option to add owner as a moderator the transfering leads to removing all moderators of the linked forum

History
2.1.0, 11th August 2009
- Social Groups without a forum are listed in AdminCP and can be automatically converted with few clicks.
- Fixed errors converting bigger discussions
- Minor changes and fixes

2.0.1, 05th March 2009
- Convert ignores now deleted discussions
- Threads on Groups equipped with mark on new

2.0.0
- First official release for vBulletin 3.8
- Possibility to transfer Social Group Discussion into a real Forum
- New layout for threadlisting, similar to a real threadlist in a forum
- Possibility of a notice in Forums associated with a Social Group
- Discussion/Message counter is showing Thread/Reply counts. Phrase "Discussion" and "Message" cannot be changed to "Thread"/"Reply".
- Transfering a Group to another user updates now also the moderator
- Minor changes and fixes

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by abdelghani68

Thanks, I have upgrade but there is a new problem

Sorry for this. It was the same error, other location.
Reported here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....51&postcount=7

ZIP fixed...

[micza]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

Thanks for pointing me to this.

We have to say "Thank you!" for this great work.

[buro9]

Donation sent... that "Support developer" link should really be on your profile page.

Anyhow... thanks again.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by buro9

What's the upgrade process from running 1.4 on vb3.7 to 2.0 on vb3.8?

I've upgraded vbulletin itself from 3.7 to 3.8 and 1.4 remains installed, so how do I get from 1.4 to 2.0? I don't want to lose the socialforums I already have.

PS, a donation is winging it's way to you.

Just install 2.0 over the old one, no linked forum get's lost. Don't forget to upload the php files from the ZIP.

As for the donation: Thanks in advance.

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by buro9

Actually, no donation... you haven't published a paypal address anywhere. Do so and you'll have some money

That is not really true. You can use the button from above to send me money. Also, in AdminCP there is a "Info"-Link with a PayPal Button.

If you want to use the eMail directly: contact@marius.de

Thanks

[abdelghani68]

it works now. thanks !

[Kaelon]

Question. You said:

On big boards with hundreds of social groups this mod can really impact the performance because of the mass of new created forums. If you still want to use this mod use the "Minimum Members" feature with a higher value. Using the permission check there are additional two queries on every page.

But this performance impact would only be when the board is being created, right? What is the actual impact on a "Big Board" on a regular basis? If it's just a one-time impact (the creation of the boards), then that's fine. If it's an ongoing impact (added queries), we need to know that separately. Thank you.

[buro9]

admin_socialforums.php?do=doconvert

This doesn't honour table prefixes

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by buro9

admin_socialforums.php?do=doconvert

This doesn't honour table prefixes

Now it does. Please download ZIP and replace admin_socialforums.php

[buro9]

Originally Posted by buro9

admin_socialforums.php?do=doconvert

This doesn't honour table prefixes

In just one place... where the groupmessage table is in the JOIN.