Major Additions - QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.1

I'm no longer able to put very much time into this mod, so I've set up a Subversion repository at http://www.vbulletinprogramming.com/projects/quoteit/ to allow others to help out. You can use the login "vbuser" with the password "vbulletin" to edit files. If someone would like to completely take over the mod, please contact me.

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 or on your portal home page.

If you'd like to see a demo, go to forums.monkeycrap.com.

Features:

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
- a new random quote can be chosen at a specific interval of time, to reduce server load

Quote Database
- quotes can be searched, filtered, and sorted by many different criteria
- quotes have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- quotes can be embedded in posts with bbcode
- 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 quote moderation que is like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once
- usergroup permissions are used for adding, editing, deleting, rating and viewing quotes
- most actions use AJAX to avoid page reloads

Don't forget to click install!

Currently known problems are listed here.

The files needed to edit the included images are attached to this post.

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

Older versions (no longer in development): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.5.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[rburns]

Steve,

All installed great, I'm modifying it slightly as I wasnt it to quote random rugby laws, don't ask.

Anyway, the problem I am having is that when I view the quote list, all the quote displays fine, I am using BBcode to bold up certain parts.

When I enable the random quote on the forum home, the BBcode is shown as code, and is not doing what it's supposed to do.

See screenshots for what I mean.

I do have Enable quote BB Codes set to yes.

[Cap'n Steve]

Stop - You should rebuild the quote counts. It's under "Quote Maintenance".

rburns - Are you sure you have all the latest files?

[rburns]

I beleive so, I'll reupload just in case but I only installed it yesterday.

[rburns]

re-uploaded all the files, still does the same thing, just ignores the line breaks and bb code. I don't particularly want to enable HTML to do it.

Also, is there a way to remove the 'added by' and the time when added?

Thanks for the help Steve.

[BaconDelight]

rburns - try going into the admincp and saving the parse options again, even without changing anything. In the past, just re-saving the options is enough to get BBCode to be parsed correctly.

[Cap'n Steve]

Yeah, try that while I take a look at it. Apparently I also broke the version number at some point . The user and date are in the quote_listbit template.

[digital3]

ummm when i try to access quotes.php it offers only to download the quotes.php file... I have no issue with any other files so what's up with this?

[digital3]

something is wrong. My URLs for the board are all set correctly yet this hack thinks my quotes.php is located in the site root directory and not in /forums...

When I go into the php files and replace some of the file paths with URL's the issue with it trying to download the php file stopped but now I am just getting a blank page.

[Cap'n Steve]

Link?

[rburns]

Originally Posted by BaconDelight

rburns - try going into the admincp and saving the parse options again, even without changing anything. In the past, just re-saving the options is enough to get BBCode to be parsed correctly.

That did the trick.

Thanks a lot for your prompt help on this BaconDelight & Cap'n Steve.

great Mod, Voted MotM!