Social Group and Album Enhancements - View all your social group messages

A page to display all the messages in all the groups a user has joined.

I have found on my forums, that it is hard to keep up with new messages in your social groups. You have to go to each individual group and see if there is anything new. So, I created this page to list all the messages in your social groups in date descending order.

[s]You will need to create two new templates and upload one file.[/s] edit: The two templates and the phrases for this modification are now included in a product.

The users may either view All My Groups and see the messages from all their groups in the list, or they may select one of the groups they belong to and see just the messages in that group. I used the option vboptions > Message Searching Options > Maximum Search Results to Return to set maximum results shown.

Version History:
1.0 2009-02-12:
- initial release by Lynne at vbulletin.org

1.2 2009-03-12:
- fully phrased, templates now in product to import.
- added option to view only messages from single group
- used vboptions > Message Searching Options > Maximum Search Results to Return to set maximum results shown
- cached all bbcode templates
- AFTER INSTALL OF PRODUCT, YOU WILL HAVE TO REVERT THE TWO TEMPLATES (socialgroups_messagelist and socialgroups_messagelistbits) IF YOU HAD INSTALLED THIS PREVIOUSLY (or else you will still be using the original templates)


Please mark INSTALL if you find this useful.

[Lynne]

It's a new page you will use. You would go to www.yoursite.com/messagelist.php to see the list. If you are wondering where to put a link to it, you can put it anywhere you want. I edited my navbar and put it under the Community Links dropdown.

[TheLastSuperman]

omdl... I cannot believe I never thought to click your profile Lynne as I saw the "Moderator" title and no Coder/Designer so DUUUUHHHHH on my part and nice mod... will be checking out this week along w/ some of your others... now lol.

S-MAN

[Charles_1]

This mod is really useful, thanks Lynne.

Just one notice - "Message List" is not phrased, it is hardcoded in messagelist.php

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Charles_1

This mod is really useful, thanks Lynne.

Just one notice - "Message List" is not phrased, it is hardcoded in messagelist.php

Whoops! If I do another release on this, I'll be sure to fix that.

[bjhuang]

works fine. but the sql queries have to be improved. it makes a query each time when a message do not have a title.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by bjhuang

works fine. but the sql queries have to be improved. it makes a query each time when a message do not have a title.

Yes, I know. I addressed that in this post - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....65&postcount=3 I am more than open to a suggestion on how to change it.

[Xencored]

Omg cant belive i missed this mod!!
Installed!

Originally Posted by Lynne

I added the link under the Community Links dropdown. This is what I have in place of just the Social Groups link in that dropdown:

        <if condition="$show['quick_links_groups']">
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[social_groups]</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php?$session[sessionurl]do=grouplist">- View All Groups</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/messagelist.php?$session[sessionurl]do=list">- Your Group Messages</a></td></tr>
        </if>

The "Your Group Messages" is the link for this page.

Hey when i add this to my navbar it sends it crazy and there is no drop down box like you have Lynne

It didnt add it auto for me
Thanks

[Lynne]

That is from the actually dropdown part, not from the actual navbar. In the navbar is the Community Link, and then there are items under that dropdown and those are the lines I added under that dropdown.

[Xencored]

Originally Posted by Lynne

That is from the actually dropdown part, not from the actual navbar. In the navbar is the Community Link, and then there are items under that dropdown and those are the lines I added under that dropdown.

Ahh right sorry
Ive added the Code and its still not showing

        <if condition="$show['communitylink'] AND $show['popups']">
        <td class="vbmenu_control"><a id="community" href="$show[nojs_link]#community" rel="nofollow" accesskey="6">$vbphrase[community]</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("community"); </script></td>
        <else />
           <if condition="$show['memberslist']">
 	                <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="memberlist.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[members_list]</a></td>
            </if>
    <if condition="$show['quick_links_groups']">
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[social_groups]</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php?$session[sessionurl]do=grouplist">- View All Groups</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/messagelist.php?$session[sessionurl]do=list">- Your Group Messages</a></td></tr>
        </if>
        </if>

did i add it in the wrong place?
Thanks

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Animemike

did i add it in the wrong place?
Thanks

Yeah, that is the wrong place. That isn't where the dropdown items are defined.

Find this:

    <if condition="$show['communitylink']">
    <!-- community link menu -->

And you should see a div and then a table right there and that is where you would add it.

This is from mine... your's may be different cuz I don't remember if I changed classes or spacing or anything:

    <div class="vbmenu_popup" id="community_menu" style="display:none;margin-top:3px" align="$stylevar[left]">
        <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0">
        <tr><td class="thead">$vbphrase[community_links]</td></tr>
        <if condition="$show['quick_links_groups']">
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[social_groups]</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/group.php?$session[sessionurl]do=grouplist">- View All Groups</a></td></tr>
                    <tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/messagelist.php?$session[sessionurl]do=list">- Your Group Messages</a></td></tr>
        </if>
more rows...
        </table>
    </div>