Show Thread Enhancements - User Collapsable Postbit Info

This hack was originally released by Steve St.Lauren for vb3.0.x in this thread -


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=68043

This is a port of that hack and ALL credit goes to Steve for this modification.

Basically, what this hack does is it takes all the extra user info like join date, location, age, posts etc and slaps them into a table that can be collapsed or expanded. If you collapse it, it'll store that setting in your cookies and all user infos will be collapsed fro then on til you expand it again

Your selection WILL carry over to private messages as well

Please click da instally thinga magigy

O and you won't have to clear any cookies for this to work, or for it to remember your settings.

For the vbulletin 3.5 version of this mod Click here!

Things To Do:
1. Edit /clientscript/vbulletin_global.js (1 modification)
2. Import new product xml
3. Edit postbit_legacy template
4. Edit postbit template


Updates:

• Version 1.1.0
  • Fixed code to enable collapse in private messages
  • added functionality to be able to apply modification to both postbit and postbit_legacy templates
• Version 1.0.0
  • Initial release

[Cyricx]

I'm uncertain if that can be done Dai-kun.

I suspect that since they are all tied to the same cookie, that it would have to track them all individually, which would make for a significant amount of cookie info. But then I could be completely wrong.

I'm rather ignorant when it comes to how info is saved in the cookies still. That's next on my learning curve.

Personally though, I can't see a reason why I would want to code this to open each individually.

The purpose of the hack is to divide your user's into those that want to see all the extra info, and those that do not. While at the same time making it convienant for them to switch back and forth

I guess it could be written to always be closed regardless, and not save to your cookies. And that user's have to open it to view the info. But I think you would end up irratating the user's that want to see that info all the time.

I'll likely take a look at this down the line and see if there is a way to do that if there is enough interest in that modification, but right now, I won't give an eta on that due to it's priority on my current to-do list

[tekguru]

Chris is this compatable with 3.6.7PL1?

[Cyricx]

I actually haven't tested it heh

The site I currently manage, I haven't added it too yet as the email integration stuff is a priority. It's on my todo list.

If you'd like to test it out, rock on

If not, when my list finally works down enough I can take a peek at it, then I will

As long as /clientscript/vbulletin_global.js hasn't had a serious rewrite, there is no reason why this shouldn't be able to work just fine in the newest version

[pisliq]

very thanks

[lostgirl815]

I would love to use this hack to hide a bunch of stuff on the right side of my postbits, but it's not the same stuff that's in the hack, since I've shifted everything around and added the yet-another-award-system on that side. Is there any chance I can still use this to collapse it all if I shove everything in between these codes?

(Normally I'd just try it out, but this involves database changes, and I don't want to do that unless I have to, since it scares the crap out of me.)

<!-- ##### START MOD - Collapsable Postbit ##### -->
<table class="tborder" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%">
<tbody>
<tr>
		<td class="thead" nowrap="nowrap">
			<a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapseuserinfo('postbit_legacy_userinfo<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='showthread' OR THIS_SCRIPT=='showpost'">$post[postcount]<else />99</if>')"><img id="collapseimg_postbit_legacy_userinfo<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='showthread' OR THIS_SCRIPT=='showpost'">$post[postcount]<else />99</if>"src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_postbit_legacy_userinfo].gif" alt="" border="0"/></a>$vbphrase[collapse_postbit]
		</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_postbit_legacy_userinfo<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='showthread' OR THIS_SCRIPT=='showpost'">$post[postcount]<else />99</if>" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_postbit_legacy_userinfo]"><tr><td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">
<!-- ##### END MOD - Collapsable Postbit ##### -->

(All the stuff I want collapsed...)

<!-- ##### START MOD - Collapsable Postbit ##### -->
</td></tr></tbody></table>
<!-- ##### END MOD - Collapsable Postbit ##### -->

[Cyricx]

That should absolutely work!

The only thing it could potentially do bad to your site is that it would mess up the tables and make the page look all screwy if you put it in the wrong spots

It would not stop any queries or code from running.

Make a backup of your postbit file. Like cut it all and paste it to notepad and save it.

Then mess around.

As long as you make a backup, you can't really go wrong in fiddling around with the postbit templates.

[lostgirl815]

Thanks so much for the help, Cyricx! I really appreciate it!

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The boxes worked out beautifully. The collapse part went haywire. Nothing would uncollapse.

I put the original glabal_js back, but it just now occurred to me - could that be because I edited the phrase down to "Info" instead of the original "Additional info"? (Is that a really stupid question? Probably. I can't actually see why that would matter, but what do I know.)

[Cyricx]

It depends, did you edit the phrase in the phrase manager?

Or did you change the html code? If you changed too much in the code it could totally have that effect if you deleted an extra < or >

[Karri]

any chance this can be updated to work with 3.7?

[lostgirl815]

Yes, I'd like to give this another shot with 3.7 as well. I see they've got it working on the Fuse, so it must be possible, but when I tried to download it I got a 'version not compatible' message.