Major Additions - Discuss!! A Yahoo Answers Clone

Discuss!!
A Yahoo Answers Clone

by ChrisTERiS

Compatible with 4.2.0
but you must download the file Disucss_1_4_0.zip

1. Why we need a discussion mod

Maybe sounds crazy to have a powerfull forum and to install this AddOn. But this is not true. I do agree that vB has tons of features for any type of discussions. But from the other point Yahoo Answers (and dozens of similars sites) became famous, because they offer a simple way to users to get replies. Short questions, with a couple of replies. Why to go in a complicated system for this? And why to add dozens of extra categories, subcategories etc etc, just for this? This is the reason that you need it.

2.- How it works?

Very simple, so easy to use by novice users too. A member is posting a question in any of your categories (unlimited level are supporting) and then is waiting other members to post a reply. Reads the replies, chooses the best and that's all. There is no need for discussion here.





3.- Installation

1. Download, unzip and upload all files from the "upload" folder where your vb installation is (you can't install in different directory).
2. Goto you admincp and import the product-discuss.xml
3. That's all

4.- Configuration





Configuration is very easy and is like all other addons here. You need to follow the steps below, and soon you'll be ready:

1. First of all goto Usergroup permissions and set what each usergroup can do or not do.
2. Goto Discuss General setting, check the default values and change them if you want
3. PM Templates. I believe that the predefinied text is ok for most of you. But if you want you can change them. Please don't touce the variables (anything inside {}). The available variables are:
   1. {questiontitle} : Title with link
   2. {questiontitle_nolink} : As above but without link
   3. {category} : Category name with link
   4. {category_nolink} : Category without link
   5. {questionowner} : The author's username with link
   6. {questionowner_nolink} : As above, no link
   7. {description} : 200 chars from the question body
   8. {username} : This is the "To:" value. eg Dear {username},
   9. {postdate_short} : Post date in format that you've set as long dates
   10. {postdate_long} : Same as above in long date format
   11. {signature} : Anything that you've set in your settings
4. Last step is to set your categories.

5.- Copyright

In the footer of each page there is a link back to my site vBulletON.com. Even if it easy to remove it, please avoid doing it. Respect if you want to be respected. That's the only that I can say.

6.- PRO version

Currently there is no one. I don't use to build an addon, and then remove 90% of its features to make a free version. No. This is all that I've done. Sure there are dozens of more features that I can add. If I see that this mod becomes popular then I'll add them but as commercial version.

7.- Live Demo

http://www.christeris.com/testvb4/discuss.php

Login:
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3

Enjoy
Chris

[Ahmet Turan]

Originally Posted by Code Geass

i have proplem in instull

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.0:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE usergroup ADD discuss INT( 10 ) UNSIGNED DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;

MySQL Error   : Duplicate column name 'discuss'
Error Number  : 1060
Request Date  : Friday, June 8th 2012 @ 04:27:30 PM
Error Date    : Friday, June 8th 2012 @ 04:27:30 PM
Script        : http://www.gta-arab.com/gt/***/plugin.php?do=productimport
Referrer      : http://www.gta-arab.com/gt/***/plugin.php?do=productadd
IP Address    : 188.54.0.75
Username      : R9a9~
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.61-community-log

plz help me

Please helppppp

[exxxir]

nice mod but where are edit, remove, approve, unapproved buttons?

:|

[mohammad6006]

how can i move a question to another category?

[brycea]

Is Chris still around. He is not accepting PMs and his website is not working.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by brycea

Is Chris still around. He is not accepting PMs and his website is not working.

I'm not accepting PMs as what I'm founding there are a copy from posts in the forums. As for my site works for my current members/clients. I've turn off new registrations.

Chris

[vb50kgpoo]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

I'm not accepting PMs as what I'm founding there are a copy from posts in the forums. As for my site works for my current members/clients. I've turn off new registrations.

Chris

Eh, no, Chris.
I am a paid up customer (I bought a years service in January 2012). Your sites stopped working for everyone. You never replied to service / help requests. I had to pay someone else to resolve the problems you said you were going to fix but never did.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Antique-Swords

Eh, no, Chris.
I am a paid up customer (I bought a years service in January 2012). Your sites stopped working for everyone. You never replied to service / help requests. I had to pay someone else to resolve the problems you said you were going to fix but never did.

Paid yes but banned for ever due to violation of copyright rules. Also your license has been revoked. That you paid for a license dosen't means that you can do anything you like. The rest you know them, smaty.

Chris

[vb50kgpoo]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Paid yes but banned for ever due to violation of copyright rules. Also your license has been revoked. That you paid for a license dosen't means that you can do anything you like. The rest you know them, smaty.

Chris

I never violated any CopyRight rules. After you deserted your clients and refused to answer emails for over 7 weeks, I had to pay another developer to do the work you had already been paid to do. Finally, once you got back from wherever it was you went or were sent (people only have to look at your posting history on vb.org to see the huge gap where you disapeared), you then bizarly claimed my doing this was a breach of your CopyRight! Yet you did not offer to finish the work (not that I would let you by that stage anyway).

PS I got a generic customer base email from you saying your sites are now working again (after having been down for over 2 months). But they are not. Just look at your vbMates dating site; mind you, you were the only person registered for dating on that site, so no great loss to the www, huh!

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Antique-Swords

I never violated any CopyRight rules. After you deserted your clients and refused to answer emails for over 7 weeks, I had to pay another developer to do the work you had already been paid to do.

Yes you can pay someone to do the EXTRA MODIFICATIONS that you wanted. Because all these 7 weeks that you're saying, and even now, you can't post any bug, but just improvements. But even in case of bugs. There are 2 types of bugs. Security issues which need urgent fix, and misoperation bugs. For these type of bugs, nowhere exists a rule saying eg you need to fix it in a day, or a week or in a month. vB4 has nearly 3 years in market and still has misoperation bugs. When you're buying a script (any type of script) you're buying it "AS IS".
You're copyright violation is that you're SELLING the script and not that you got someone to do the extra modifications.

Originally Posted by Antique-Swords

Finally, once you got back from wherever it was you went or were sent (people only have to look at your posting history on vb.org to see the huge gap where you disapeared),

vb.ord is a place for free mods. I've no obligation to be here, to reply, or anything else.

Originally Posted by Antique-Swords

you then bizarly claimed my doing this was a breach of your CopyRight! Yet you did not offer to finish the work (not that I would let you by that stage anyway).

Pitty for you but I've already release 2 new versions and licensed clients gots their copy. You're not one of them, as you're not a licensed client.

Originally Posted by Antique-Swords

PS I got a generic customer base email from you saying your sites are now working again (after having been down for over 2 months). But they are not. Just look at your vbMates dating site; mind you, you were the only person registered for dating on that site, so no great loss to the www, huh!

vbmates.com is not my site. Once more you're liar. You know my site, you've post a review there. My site is: http://www.teriakis.com. Anybody can goes there and read your review (which I marked as featured to be visible to all), and understand what a rude and liar man you are.

All the best
Chris

[artcrimes]

demo link is dead.