Miscellaneous Hacks - [DBTech] Forum Live Feed & User Wall v1 (vB4) [AJAX]

Forum Live Feed & User Wall lets you see a continuously updated feed of activities on the forum, with a powerful set of customisation options for sources of information.

Uses
If you've wished for a Facebook-like feed for your forum, this mod is for you.

This mod adds 2 distinct features to your site. First a live feed showing actions performed by everyone on the forum, from new threads and posts to things like new avatars or signatures, your members can customise their feed and keep up to date with everything that's going on, right as it happens.
Secondly every user also has their own wall that displays what they have been up to. This lets users see what their friends have been doing and join in!
With advanced privacy configuration options and configurable preview options for each content type, this mod compliments other modifications like InfoPanels and produces a more detailed and verbose feed of the happenings on the forum.


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Complete Feature List

Lite

• Forum Sidebar block type
• Preview in Forum Sidebar
• Ability to turn off IMG tag parsing on both main pages and Sidebar
• Status updates (from Forum Sidebar or the Live Wall page)
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Posts
  • Threads
  • Avatar changes (Only if Avatars are stored in the file system!)
  • Signature picture changes (Only if Signature Pictures are stored in the file system!)
  • Username changes
  • Social Group discussion
  • Social Group discussion replies
  • Status Updates (From this mod)
  • vBLive Status Updates
  • vBArcade Scores
  • [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like: Button clicks for Posts
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only display options for each content type to control who you see feeds from
• Nobody / Registered Users / Contacts Only / Friends Only privacy options for each content type to control who can see your feeds
• Automatically refreshing via AJAX at controllable intervals

Pro

• Recent Entries page with more entries displayed, no auto refresh
• Ability to "favourite" stories and view them from their own page
• Comments system
  • Comment count in the main feed with link to comment thread
  • Ability to post comments in the comment thread
  • AJAX refreshed comment threads
  • Ability to delete your own/others comments with usergroup permissions
• Content types for nearly all forum actions:
  • Blog Posts
  • Blog Comments
  • User Notes
  • Visitor Messages
  • Profile Pictures

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[AURFSCAN]

hiya DBT

any way to disable display settings and privacy settings for members in that the feed will display everthing and they have no choice in what gets displayed

eg.
1. just me
2. everyone
3. your contacts
4. your friends

so in effect disable 1,3, and 4

[grzywa92]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Have you actually added a forum block via the Forum Blocks Manager?


Fillip

yes , sure!

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by AURFSCAN

hiya DBT

any way to disable display settings and privacy settings for members in that the feed will display everthing and they have no choice in what gets displayed

eg.
1. just me
2. everyone
3. your contacts
4. your friends

so in effect disable 1,3, and 4

That's not currently possible, sorry

You can disable the plugins that integrate into the UserCP, but that won't undo any existing customisations.


Fillip

[deverill2010]

DB, can I ask something.

Is this the activity stream and wall in one. I.e they are intergrated, or is it two seperate thing?

I just don't want to have an 'activity stream' and then a 'wall', they should be in one as facebook is. Ifyswim?

[deverill2010]

DB? Will this do what I want or is it two separate pages? I'm referring to the paid version by the way.

[DragonByte Tech]

Yes, it's integrated. User Wall is what happens if you click a username - you get taken to their personalised stream similar to Facebook.

If you are using the Pro version, please post support questions in our Pro support forums


Fillip

[deverill2010]

Regarding compatability with this mod - vBLive Status Updates which one is it exactly? As there are a couple from what I can see.

[deverill2010]

I thought I would test it out and ry to customise it. But..

How do I display the status box on showthread?

I have copied this -

	<vb:if condition="$vboptions['dbtech_livewall_status_maxlength']">
<div class="collapse" style="padding-bottom:10px;">
	<h2 class="blockhead">{vb:rawphrase dbtech_livewall_whats_on_mind} <a class="collapse" id="collapse_dbtech_livewall_status" href="{vb:raw relpath}#top"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse_40b.png" alt="" /></a></h2>
	<div class="blockbody formcontrols settings_form_border" id="dbtech_livewall_status">
		<div class="blockrow">
			<input type="text" class="primary textbox" name="livewall_textfield" data-command="status" style="width:100%" />
			<br />
			<div style="margin-top:6px;"><input type="button" class="button" name="livewall_submit" data-command="status" value="{vb:rawphrase post}" /> <span class="dbtech_livewall_smallfont">[<span name="livewall_remainingchars" data-command="status">{vb:var vboptions.dbtech_livewall_status_maxlength}</span>]</span></div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
	</vb:if>

And put it in SHOWTHREAD where the status box shows correctly, however it doesn't work. I can type in it but it doesn't post the status update.

[Draffi]

I have some questions, too:

Whats happend with:
- Blog integration
- Content (.php) CMS integration
- integration from your other mods (e.g. User Status & Moods, Quiz...)

Can you do this?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Draffi

I have some questions, too:

Whats happend with:
- Blog integration
- Content (.php) CMS integration
- integration from your other mods (e.g. User Status & Moods, Quiz...)

Can you do this?

Nothing's happened with it thus far, we'll take it into consideration for future versions


Fillip