"Who Posted" Enhancement: View All Posts By User In This Thread

Hi all,

Don't know if there will be much interest here, but my users asked for this so I wrote a hack.

What is it?

When you click on the total replies in vBulletin, you can see a list of all posters who participated in the thread, and how many posts each had in that thread.

The hack adds a link to this pop-up window -- allowing you to view all posts by User X in that thread.

Where can I see a Demo?

I'm probably explaining it badly, so here's a demonstration:

Go to my bulletin board, at http://www.atlasf1.com/bb/index.php

Visit any one of the forums and click on the # of replies for any one of the threads (select one with lots of posts for better demonstration).

Click on the # of posts next to a username in the "Who Posted"
pop-up window

The result: you will get a page looking and behaving exactly like showthread for that thread, however it will include ONLY posts by that specific poster.

You can reply to the thread, quote a post, everything as if you were in the full thread.

You can also jump directly to the location of a specific post, by clicking on the post count to the right side of the post (you need to have Post Count hack installed for this).


How do I install it?

With almost no work at all.

Download the attachment - showposts.txt - and rename it to showposts.php. Upload it to your forums' main directory.

Edit template whopostedbit and replace

$post[posts]

with

<a href="showposts.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&postuserid=$post[userid]" target="_blank">$post[posts]</a>

That's it

Cheers,

Bira

[Hooper]

I can see Chen's point of view, but I agree with above. I really like the idea of having the code in one file. It was easy to install and in the event of chasing down a "bug". (not that Bira would ever post code with a bug ), It is much easier to chase down. I'll stick with the original scheme.


Again Thank you Bira. Viewing all posts by one person is really nice.

[bira]

I must admit that personally I'd prefer a separate file whenever possible, if only because I don't need to rehack my scripts every time we upgrade.

like vblinks - I've had that hack for almost a year now, and not once did I have to worry about it when I upgraded - it has entirely different files.

So when appropriate or possible, I'd always prefer a separate file to hacking original code.

[Hooper]

Yuppers. I have enough hacking going on!

[Lionel]

I have the same problem with Lesane's hack top thread starter... if the user who started is not registered, all non guests will increment to show all as the first non guest. :stupid:

[bira]

Hi Lionel,

Wish I could help you but I never had guests posting on my BB, so I don't know at all how the BB behaves with guests posting :/

Sorry. Hope someone else will know better than me

Bira

[Lionel]

I posted in vb.com I think it is from them....

[Lionel]

I was told that vbulletin gives all guests the same user id -0

[eva2000]

i added this awesome hack

would it be possible to add an extra mod/admin option on the showpost.php page to allow mods/admin to mass move/split those listed posts by a particular member to another destination forum ???

[eva2000]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bira
I must admit that personally I'd prefer a separate file whenever possible, if only because I don't need to rehack my scripts every time we upgrade.

like vblinks - I've had that hack for almost a year now, and not once did I have to worry about it when I upgraded - it has entirely different files.

So when appropriate or possible, I'd always prefer a separate file to hacking original code.

[kidney]

I get an error.

Parse error: parse error in /Library/WebServer/Documents/dishwacker/forum/whothreads.php(23) : eval()'d code on line 27

This only happens on the forums home page