Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts and New Reputation Comments

This modification is no longer available or supported.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system, also, this attaches itself to certain phrases in the "welcome" box and will not work if they are not present (or are modified by other code).

FYI, the Forum Marking Choices are located in vBulletin Options ;
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search). It also displays the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

There is also the option to display the New Reputation Comments counter as a Welcome Box Notification.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

Version 3.7.004 adds the following ;

A forum exclusion list - requested a number of times, an option is provided to exclude forums from the unread count & display.

A time limit on unread posts count - if a member has not visited for more than x days then a simple unread posts link will be displayed, not an actual count, this stops potential large sql queries if you have a busy forum. The option can be disabled.



To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vb 3.7.
v3.7.002 : Added Notification Display Option for Reputation Comments.
v3.7.003 : Internal version, not released.
v3.7.004 : Added time limit and forum exclusion list.
v3.7.005 : Fixed path bug in welcome box notification.
v3.7.006 : Slight change to accomodate customised navbars still using vb 3.6 code.
v3.7.007 : Fix potential database error if lastrepcheck is blank, rare, but it can happen it seems.

[CPOWA]

Excellent mod! Installed.

Thank you, Paul

Nita

[aciurczak]

Originally Posted by mattcaswell

Paul,
I love the mod and use it with my RSS feeds. Is there some code I can change in the NavBar for "New Posts" that will point it to the same seach as the Unread Posts code? I blocked the RSS forums in your mod and it works great.. but when the users click on "new posts" in the navbar, they see all the RSS posts also.

I've searched all over this thread for this answer and if I missed it.. I apologize.

Thanks
matt

You can do this with a 1-line plugin:

add it to the search_getnew_start hook:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->GPC['exclude'] .= ',22'; 


Change the 22 to the ID of whichever forum you want excluded from the new posts search. Add more with commas if you need more than one excluded.

[BamaStangGuy]

I just thought it might be cool to have the unread posts part (or all of it. I just use the Unread Posts) check x seconds for updates to posts. That way you can just leave the page up and people can come back and see they have new posts without reloading the page. Cyb's Forum Stats shows latest posts with ajax and its pretty cool.

As always, you can always make it optional for those that don't want to see the performance impact. Just a thought

[ePrOmD]

Hi Paul

Again thanks for your great work. Sorry to do a bump of a request made some time ago.

But I really think that would be very useful if your hack also alert users when new posts are made in the social groups they belong to, or comments made on their blog.

I ask again apologize for the bump, and thank you very much again for your time!

[Paul M]

Sorry, I dont use social groups or blogs, so there is little chance this will be modified.

[ePrOmD]

Thanks for your answer.
What a pity, it would really be a very useful addition for those who use social groups and blogs.

Anyway thank you and hopefully someday you can include it. Thank you very much for your hard work and time!.

greetings!

[peratik]

Doesn't show new Reputation on navbar only shows new Unread Posts. How can i show new reputation!? please help me

[mariocaz]

Hi Paul,

I want to know how can I delete(clean) all the unread posts of all my users in my forum ??, because I know that almost all my users have a lot of unread posts, so I want to clean that and start from zero today and then every 5 days the unread posts erase it automatically.

Thank you Paul!!

Mario

[Paul M]

You cant do that.

[mariocaz]

So all that unread post are a lot of memory (cache) in the server ???