QuoteIt! 2.0 - Quote Management System

QuoteIt! version 2.0

QuoteIt! allows you to have a database of quotes integrated with your forum. Users submit quotes that can then be voted on by the other users, using your choice of two rating systems. The average installation will show a random quote on the forum home page, but you can include it on any vBulletin page. This was developed on vBulletin 3.0.7, but should work on 3.0.0 and above.

You can see a demo on forums.monkeycrap.com.
Instructions for adding a random quote to vBadvanced and vBindex are in this post.


Features (features new to 2.0 are in yellow)

Random Quote
- a random quote can be shown on any vBulletin powered page
- the administrator can set a default rating threshold that quotes must meet before showing up as the random quote
- the quote shown is much more random than in previous versions

Quote Database
- quotes can only be edited or deleted by an administrator
- quotes can be viewed individually or listed on several pages
- quotes can be sorted by total score, average score, author, submitter, or date added
- quotes now have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- each post and private message now has a "Submit to Quotes" link that allows users to quote things said on your forum more easily

Quote Ratings System
- quotes can be rated either plus/minus or on a scale from 1 to 5
- quotes below a certain total score or average score can be filtered out

Quote Management
- quotes can either be automatically approved or moderated
- the administrator can now edit quotes
- the quote moderation que is now more like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once



Don't forget to click

This hack is based on QuoteIt! 1.2, originally by magnus. The "submit post" feature was inspired by an addon by CtrlAltDel. The location code is based on a post by Acido.

You may release translations of this hack as long as the original credits are included. Otherwise, you not redistribute this hack without permission from me.

[stan111]

i got one question
how do i remove this "submit to quote" because i have a hidden message, and when someone click on that, they will see all the hidden parts. Thanks in adance

[Cap'n Steve]

Just revert your postbit and postbit_legacy templates to the default ones and that link won't show up anymore.

[Warrior]

Nice Hack!

I have a concern though... ever since the installation I have not been able to use the "submit" buttons in the admincp template editors using Firefox. Internet Explorer lost no functioality in this area... so I was able to finish the edits using that.

Why the lost of the submit buttons in the template editor using Firefox?

[Cap'n Steve]

Make sure you didn't include any mistakes in the includes/adminfunctions_template.php modification. Other than that, your problem has nothing to do with the hack. What exactly is wrong? Is the button missing?

[Warrior]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Make sure you didn't include any mistakes in the includes/adminfunctions_template.php modification. Other than that, your problem has nothing to do with the hack. What exactly is wrong? Is the button missing?

When I click to edit a template, the submit button is not responding. The button is not disabled or anything... it just doesn't submit. And the window that shows all the templates in admincp - I can't duble click to expand or open templates there either... this is all post installation of this hack. On a nearly virgin board - only a welcome panel was previously installed.

Have you tested the changes in Firefox? Has anyone else installed it per the directions using Firefox?

I'll triple check the includes/adminfunctions_template.php to see if I missed something there...

BTW - I really needed a hack like this... it's a great idea and I use it for motivational quotes. Just the minor issue now using the admincp in Firefox.

[Cap'n Steve]

Look in the Javascript console (I think it's under the Tools menu) and see if there are any errors. If not, then completely undo the includes/adminfunctions_template.php changes.

[apokphp]

It fried my style (my primary: ODN 2.0). Currently, my site is using a different style (Aria) due to the problem.

My default style (ODN 2.0) at www.onlinedebate.net & http://www.onlinedebate.net/forums/i...p?s=&styleid=8 which has an ID=8; got royally screwed in that everything disappeared except for the "quote" page. That is, the "index.php" defaults to show the quotes. But there is no style/css, no header, no footer, no forums, no main page, nothing...it got removed. This error happened PRIOR to ANY file or template edits btw. That is, this error showed after the install script. Nothing changed after I edited the files/templates.

So I changed styles (Aria, style ID=15) and everything shows, including the quote area (after I edited the templates).

But why does this work for all styles EXCEPT my ODN 2.0 style? I have changed default styles in the AdminCP...everything works fine as long as ODN 2.0, ID=8 is not used. The install script did install the quoteit templates in all my styles. It just doesn't work for my main style.

What gives?

[Warrior]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Look in the Javascript console (I think it's under the Tools menu) and see if there are any errors. If not, then completely undo the includes/adminfunctions_template.php changes.

Yeah... thanks for the follow up, Firefox does some funny things sometimes... it says the following:

Error: tform is not defined
Sourcefile: http://www.domain.com/forums/clientscript/vbulletin_templatemgr.js
Line: 184

And line 184 in vbulletin_templatemgr.js reads:

selitem = eval("document.forms.tform.tl" + styleid);

[Alien]

I still love this, only I'm waiting for the 3.5 version as we've recently upgraded one of our sites to 3.5.

Can't wait to be able to view my 2,000+ quotes again.. Get crackin'!

lol

[Cap'n Steve]

apokphp - I can only see one style on your site, so I'm not sure what's happening. Try deleting all the QuoteIt! templates (the ones beginning with quote_) and rebuilding all your styles.

sengerdw - That's not my Javascript, so I don't know what's wrong. I suggest you go back to the default includes/adminfunctions_template.php and see if that fixes it. Your QuoteIt! templates won't be so nicely organized, but it'll still work.

Alien - I recently became less poor, so hopefully I'll renew my license and get it started this week.