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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Please remember to click the, button to the right if you installed the mod ---->

What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!
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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com

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Translations available @ our forum
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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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

[RoC wonko]

Hi have installed this mod but get a white blank page where the wall should be any ideas what needs to be done.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by chaz7979

I understand that it is highly variable but, do you have any idea what kind of additional resources are needed for say 100 users using the feature?

If you had 100 users logged into the site and they were all using the feature would it create double the typle load? triple?

That depends on the specs of your server, how many people are doing other activities on the forums, [...]

I really can't tell you any estimations, it would be 100% random and guesswork only with absolutely no basis in fact.

Originally Posted by chaz7979

Where on www.dbtech.co can I see this plugin in action?

www.dbtech.co/livewall.php

Originally Posted by RoC wonko

Hi have installed this mod but get a white blank page where the wall should be any ideas what needs to be done.

Try putting

PHP Code:

ini_set('display_errors', true); 


directly beneath

PHP Code:

<?php

in your config.php file


Fillip

[chaz7979]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

That depends on the specs of your server, how many people are doing other activities on the forums, [...]

I really can't tell you any estimations, it would be 100% random and guesswork only with absolutely no basis in fact.

Lets assume there are 100 users and the are only using livewall, nothing else at all. Compare the load of 100 normal vb users (no wall) vs 100 users using only the wall.

Forget about 100... how about this very simple question. Will one user using livewall require more resources than one user simply browsing the website? The obvious answer is yes so, the question is, how much more resources? 1.5x a normal user? 2x a normal user?

If both of those questions still do not work... what can you tell me?

[chaz7979]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

www.dbtech.co/livewall.php

I cant test because I can't signup. Your keycaptcha is broken http://www.dbtech.co/register.php?do=addmember

[DragonByte Tech]

Try registering via www.dragonbyte-tech.com instead


Fillip

[chaz7979]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Try registering via www.dragonbyte-tech.com instead


Fillip

I did but, livewall is not enabled on that website.

[DragonByte Tech]

They're both the same website, just the domain selectively disables each mod


Fillip

[Honourable]

Hi,

I have got a problem as the live feed doesnt really display the avatar changes??

I have changed the avatar many times but it doesnt display the news

I was planning to purchase the Pro as I thought that the lite havent got this feature yet I just found it included in the Lite

I'm wondering what it may has caused this issue

using VB 4.1.12

Looking forward to your reply

Many thanks in advance

[DragonByte Tech]

It could be a conflict with another mod, can you try disabling all other modifications and see if that works


Fillip

[Honourable]

Hi, Is not I have disabled all modificatio even though in your demo at your majesty website it doesnt display recent avatar changes

I would really like to purchase the pro as long as you assure it does work

Many thanks in advance