'Now Playing' Hack

NOW PLAYING HACK for vBulletin 2.2.8 (UPDATE)

Adds a 'Now Playing' field to your new thread and new reply pages where users can enter whatever they're listening to, and their post will be appended with something akin to: "NP: Some Song by Some Band".

All support questions should be posted in this thread

Remember: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE!! I am not a PHP guru by any stretch of the imagination -- the following code works fine for me, so you should not have any problems.

It's been tested on cB 2.2.8. I will not be held responsible if your forum crashes, or turns into a Britney Spears BB

You can see it in action at my Ultimate Metal forums where I've modified it slightly to have a small CD icon in place of the usual 'NP:'.

This is my first ever hack, so please do let me know any shortcomings or errors!!

I hope you enjoy it as much I plan to

Added to: now includes 'editpost.php' and 'editpost' template changes!

UPDATED for 2.2.8 (very minor fix in newreply.php - if it's working for you, there is NO NEED to upgrade! This will be the last update until vB3 is out

[|DarkManX|]

what do you all think of this icon??

[MarkB]

LOL! That icon rocks!

[|DarkManX|]

Originally posted by MarkB
LOL! That icon rocks!

i know, thats what i am using right now!!!

[Nupraptor]

Do you think it would be possible to have something which automatically detects what Winamp is currently playing? I realize that it would probably be rather extensive, but I think it'd also be kind of neat.

[|DarkManX|]

Originally posted by Nupraptor
Do you think it would be possible to have something which automatically detects what Winamp is currently playing? I realize that it would probably be rather extensive, but I think it'd also be kind of neat.

lol, there is a script like that for IRC...........

if it is possible here.......that would be a serious hack....cuz winamp would have to send the song info to the server the vb was on and then the vb would have to take that info and insert it into one of your posts.........

damn...don't be lazy, just type it in man

[MarkB]

I'm using a winamp plugin that copies the band/song to my clipboard - but it's an IRC-related plugin, so mIRC needs to be running all the time

Still, it's nice and easy tho

[Airwaves]

Any chance for a WinXP themed icon to use for this hack?

[KuraFire]

Would it be possible to define this hack so that the "Now Playing: " entry boxes (in new thread / new reply / edit post) only appear in one specific forum?

I have a Music forum on my board, it'd be great to have this hack available only on threads THERE, not elsewhere. If it's not possible or not easily done, I'll just install it and see it appear everywhere - no harm in that, really... But I'd prefer forum-specific...

[MarkB]

I'm sure there would be a way to do this without having an extra template set, but that'd be the easy way for now...

Sorry I can't be of more help

[KuraFire]

I checked your install instructions, and I think it won't be easily done with the way you set it up. For it to be forum specific, it'd have to be coded into the newthread.php and newreply.php (or whatever) files, something like

PHP Code:

if forumid=xx
 display("NP") 


(but then in correct PHP coding and all - I'm still a PHP n00b, lol)

But you added the entry fields and all to the templates, not to the pages. This way, I don't know if such PHP coding would work...

We need FireFly or so in here