Allow BB code in sticky thread titles

Sticky threads have a tendency to be overlooked by the users. So I came up with the idea of allowing BB tags and smilies to be used in the sticky thread titles to make them more noticeable. I made this hack for VB2 about a year or 2 ago, but I neglected to publish it. Another reason why this hack is limited to sticky thread titles is because there are less sticky threads in a forum than there are regular threads, and if this were to be expanded to include regular threads it would be nothing but a can of worms. And also due to the fact that it can only be used in sticky threads, it allows only admins and moderators to use this feature.

This hack is such a simple hack that I am actually embarassed to call it a hack since it actually takes 2 lines of code to do it.

The instructions and a screen shot of the hack are attached to this post.

[SnowBot]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ex

A bit of an issue with it on my board unfortunately. Works great for thread titles but the BB code is displayed in both the breadcrumb and thread titles within each post. Attached screen cap....

Yes same here, on my old version i had this fixed but i nolonger have the code.

Can we sort this?

[Zzed]

Originally Posted by Johnny

pretty cool, but is it possible to have BB codes be used other then stickes, but only limited to a certain group can use bb codes in titles.

That would require additional logic to determine whether to call parse_bbcode() or not per usergroup.

Originally Posted by Johnny

thx kall but is their any way to hide the bbcode from being seen in the title since it displays fine in forumdisplay you can see the actuall code in showthread.

second when someone puts a url in the title field it wont go to the actuall thread it will go to that url, just so everyone knows that if your going to use this mod consider who you give access to use this mod as you never know what can happen especially when they have the ability to use almost any of the bbcodes and it will work as regular html.

At the risk of sounding naive, moderators are usually the more responsible group of users on a board. So this shouldn't really be a problem.

Originally Posted by Bryan Ex

A bit of an issue with it on my board unfortunately. Works great for thread titles but the BB code is displayed in both the breadcrumb and thread titles within each post. Attached screen cap....

Originally Posted by SnowBot

Yes same here, on my old version i had this fixed but i nolonger have the code.

Can we sort this?

I can look into trying to fix this. I'll see what I can come up with over the weekend.

[Phalynx]

Thanks for sharing.

[Johnny]

Originally Posted by Zzed

That would require additional logic to determine whether to call parse_bbcode() or not per usergroup.



At the risk of sounding naive, moderators are usually the more responsible group of users on a board. So this shouldn't really be a problem.





I can look into trying to fix this. I'll see what I can come up with over the weekend.

you never know anyone can turn their back on you and try to be funny.

[Zzed]

Originally Posted by Johnny

you never know anyone can turn their back on you and try to be funny.

I've had that happen, but on a different matter. That person was demoted and banned for a month.

[Johnny]

only a month?, they would have to pay me to get unban

[Zzed]

Originally Posted by Johnny

only a month?, they would have to pay me to get unban

Believe me, I wanted this guy gone. But this particular site that I admin for, has 3 other admins and I got outvoted by them.

[maddawg138]

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but find out how to get the forum title in the thread to change?

[Borgs8472]

Thanks loads for this hack!

Is there a simple extra hack to parse the bb code with seach.php when searching for new posts?

Cause people use newposts a lot at my forum. That would be great.

[Borgs8472]

would love these images/smileys/code to display on a search and not just forum view!