Major Additions - QuoteIt! - Quote Database

QuoteIt! version 3.1

I'm no longer able to put very much time into this mod, so I've set up a Subversion repository at http://www.vbulletinprogramming.com/projects/quoteit/ to allow others to help out. You can use the login "vbuser" with the password "vbulletin" to edit files. If someone would like to completely take over the mod, please contact me.

QuoteIt! allows you to have a database of quotes integrated with your forum. Users submit quotes that can then be voted on by the other users, using your choice of two rating systems. The average installation will show a random quote on the forum home page, but you can include it on any vBulletin page or on your portal home page.

If you'd like to see a demo, go to forums.monkeycrap.com.

Features:

Random Quote
- a random quote can be shown on any vBulletin powered page
- the administrator can set a default rating threshold that quotes must meet before showing up as the random quote
- a new random quote can be chosen at a specific interval of time, to reduce server load

Quote Database
- quotes can be searched, filtered, and sorted by many different criteria
- quotes have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- quotes can be embedded in posts with bbcode
- each post and private message now has a "Submit to Quotes" link that allows users to quote things said on your forum more easily

Quote Ratings System
- quotes can be rated either plus/minus or on a scale from 1 to 5
- quotes below a certain total score or average score can be filtered out

Quote Management
- quotes can either be automatically approved or moderated
- the quote moderation que is like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once
- usergroup permissions are used for adding, editing, deleting, rating and viewing quotes
- most actions use AJAX to avoid page reloads

Don't forget to click install!

Currently known problems are listed here.

The files needed to edit the included images are attached to this post.

This hack is based on QuoteIt! 1.2, originally by magnus. The "submit post" feature was inspired by an addon by CtrlAltDel.

Older versions (no longer in development): QuoteIt! 3 for vBulletin 3.5.x | QuoteIt! 2.03 for vBulletin 3.0.x

[Cap'n Steve]

Any errors? If you're talking about the site in your signature, it's not currently installed.

[karlm]

A new error for you to look at, cap'n Steve.

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /my/path/to/forum/htdocs/forum/includes/adminfunctions.php:3319) in /includes/functions.php on l

I noticed my 'submit' button & post counts (in postbit) were suddenly missing for no apparent reason. I uninstalled quoteit (v3.16) and then reinstalled.
As it the plugin was uploaded, it gave the above error.

I'm at a complete loss as to what it even means LoL

[Cap'n Steve]

Could you tell me what's on line 3319 in includes/adminfunctions.php? It looks like there was an error installing.

[karlm]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Could you tell me what's on line 3319 in includes/adminfunctions.php? It looks like there was an error installing.

$output_handler = @ini_get('output_handler');

The surrounding code:-

// ############################## Start vbflush ####################################
/**
* Force the output buffers to the browser
*/
function vbflush()
{
    static $output_handler = null;
    if ($output_handler === null)
    {
        $output_handler = @ini_get('output_handler');
    }

    if ($output_handler == 'ob_gzhandler')
    {
        // forcing a flush with this is very bad
        return;
    }

[Cap'n Steve]

Hmm. I'm really not sure what's causing the output. Try installing it again, and make sure you get the whole error message. It looks like the previous one was referencing something in includes/functions.php.

[karlm]

Right this moment, i'm in the process of swapping hosts - but, when installing, the error messages & vanishes so quickly - i had to do it gawd knows how many times just to get that much copied LoL.
as soon as all is done here with the swapping hosts, i'll get onto checking the re-installation.

[Cap'n Steve]

You could try just taking a screenshot.

[iBaker]

Thanks Cap for a great mod.

I have installed it and made a few changes to the display which I hope is ok but I am not a coder as such but the attached screen shot is what I was trying to achieve and it works in both IE and Firefox.

The Quote_ListBit has been changed to:

 
<tr><td class="quoterow {$quoteclass}" align="left" id="quote{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">
<table>
<tr>
<td width="15%" align="Top">
 <if condition="$_REQUEST['do'] != 'preview' AND !$sidebar">
  Quote #:<a href="quotes.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}do=view&amp;quoteid={$quote['quoteid']}">{$quotedisplayid}</a><br>
  {$vbphrase['added_by']}: <a href="member.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}userid={$quote['userid']}">{$quote['username']}</a><div class="date">{$quote['date']}</div>
  <if condition="$quoteitoptions['reportquotes'] AND $quoteitpermissions['canreportquotes']">
   <a id="report{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}" rel="nofollow" href="quotes.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}{$quotedisplay['querystring']}{$quotedisplay['orderstring']}&amp;page={$quotedisplay['page']}&amp;do=report&amp;quoteid={$quote['quoteid']}" onclick="reportQuote(event, {$quote['quoteid']});return false;"><img class="inlineimg" src="{$stylevar['imgdir_button']}/report.gif" alt="{$vbphrase['report_this_quote']}" /></a>
  <br>
  </if>
  </div>
 <else />
  <if condition="$sidebar">
   Quote #:<a href="quotes.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}do=view&amp;quoteid={$quote['quoteid']}">#{$quotedisplayid}</a>
  </if>
 </if>
</td>
<td>
<img src="{$stylevar['imgdir_misc']}/quotation-open.png" alt="“" width="60px" height="51px">&nbsp;
</td>
<td width="60%" align="center">
<span class="smallfont" id="quotetext{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">{$quote['quote']}
<div>
 <b><if condition="!empty($quote['author'])">
  <div class="author" id="author{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">- {$quote['author']}</div>
 </if>
 <if condition="$quoteitoptions['enablecontext'] AND !empty($quote['context'])">
  <span class="context" id="context{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">({$quote['context']})</span>
 </if></b>
</div></span>
</td>
<td>
<img src="{$stylevar['imgdir_misc']}/quotation-close.png" alt="“" width="60px" height="51px">&nbsp;
</td>
<td width="15%" align="right" valign="top">
  <if condition="($quote['userid'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $quoteitpermissions['caneditownquotes']) OR ($quote['userid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $quoteitpermissions['caneditotherquotes'])">
   <a rel="nofollow" href="quotes.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}{$quotedisplay['querystring']}{$quotedisplay['orderstring']}&amp;page={$quotedisplay['page']}&amp;do=editquote&amp;quoteid={$quote['quoteid']}" onclick="editQuote(event, {$quote['quoteid']}, {$globalcounter});return false;"><img class="inlineimg" src="{$stylevar['imgdir_button']}/edit.gif" alt="{$vbphrase['edit_this_quote']}" /></a>
  <br>
  </if>
  <if condition="($quote['userid'] == $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $quoteitpermissions['candeleteownquotes']) OR ($quote['userid'] != $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] AND $quoteitpermissions['candeleteotherquotes'])">
   <a rel="nofollow" href="quotes.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}{$quotedisplay['querystring']}{$quotedisplay['orderstring']}&amp;page={$quotedisplay['page']}&amp;do=delquote&amp;quoteid={$quote['quoteid']}" onclick="deleteQuote(event, {$quote['quoteid']});return false;">{$vbphrase['delete_this_quote']}</a> 
  <br>
  </if>
  <if condition="$quoteitpermissions['canmoderatequotes'] AND THIS_SCRIPT == 'quotes'">
   <input class="inlineimg" type="checkbox" name="modquotes[{$quote['quoteid']}]" id="modquotes{$quote['quoteid']}" value="y" onclick="selectQuote({$quote['quoteid']});"{$checked[$quote['quoteid']]} />
  </if>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="5" align="center">
<if condition="$_REQUEST['do'] != 'preview' AND !$sidebar">
 <if condition="$quoteitoptions['ratings']">
  <span id="rating{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">{$ratethis}</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
  <span id="stats{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">{$vbphrase['total_rating']}: {$quote['rating']} - {$vbphrase['votes']}: {$quote['votes']} - {$vbphrase['average']}: {$quote['average']}</span>
 </if>
 <span class="inlineimg unapproved" id="unapproved{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">
 <img src="{$stylevar['imgdir_misc']}/moderated.gif" alt="{$vbphrase['unapproved_quote']}" <if condition="$quote['approved']">class="approved" </if>/>
 </span>
</div>
</if>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>

The quote_randomquote has been changed to:

 
<if condition="!defined('QUOTE_FORM_ADDED') AND ($quoteitpermissions['caneditownquotes'] OR $quoteitpermissions['caneditotherquotes'] OR $quoteitpermissions['candeleteotherquotes'] OR $quoteitpermissions['candeleteownquotes'])">
<form action="quotes.php" method="post" id="sneakyform">
 <input type="hidden" name="s" value="{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionhash']}" />
 <input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" />
 <input type="hidden" name="quoteid" id="hiddenquoteid" />
 <input type="hidden" name="quote" id="hiddenquote" />
 <input type="hidden" name="author" id="hiddenauthor" />
 <input type="hidden" name="context" id="hiddencontext" />
 <input type="hidden" name="category[]" id="hiddencategory" />
 <input type="hidden" name="all" id="hiddenall" value="{$sneaky['all']}" />
 <input type="hidden" name="searchtext" id="hiddensearchtext" value="{$sneaky['searchtext']}" />
 <input type="hidden" name="searchauthor" id="hiddensearchauthor" value="{$sneaky['searchauthor']}" />
 <input type="hidden" name="searchcontext" id="hiddensearchcontext" value="{$sneaky['searchcontext']}" />
 <input type="hidden" name="sortby" id="hiddensortby" value="{$sneaky['sortby']}" />
 <input type="hidden" name="order" id="hiddenorder" value="{$sneaky['order']}" />
</form>
</if>
<table id="forumhome_randomquote{$quotecount}" class="randomtable tborder" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="{$stylevar['tablewidth']}" align="center">
<thead>
 <tr><td class="tcat">
  <div class="quoteheading">
   <if condition="$sidebar">{$vbphrase['quote']}
   <else />
   <a href="quotes.php?{$vbulletin->session->vars['sessionurl']}do=list"><if condition="$sidebar">{$vbphrase['all']}<else />{$vbphrase['random_quote']}</if></a>
   </if>
  </div>
  <div class="collapsebutton">
   <a href="#top" onclick="return toggleMultiCollapse('forumhome_randomquote');"><img id="collapseimg_forumhome_randomquote{$quotecount}" src="{$stylevar['imgdir_button']}/collapse_tcat{$vbcollapse['collapseimg_forumhome_randomquote']}.gif" alt="{$vbphrase['collapse_this']}" class="inlineimg" /></a>
  </div>
 </td></tr>
 
 <tr><td class="thead">
  Random Quote
 </td></tr>
 
</thead>
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumhome_randomquote{$quotecount}" style="{$vbcollapse['collapseobj_forumhome_randomquote']}">
{$quotelistbit}
</tbody>
</table>
<!--
Powered by QuoteIt! {$quoteitoptions['version']} 
{$quoteitdebug}
-->

The only thing now is how to hide the Moderation drop down box to show only for moderators - any suggestions?

[Chadi]

Just like the last time I upgraded your mod, the mod no longer shows quotes and the 3 quoteit sheduled tasks became disabled. I re-enabled those 3, ran them and still does not show up. Any reason?

[Cap'n Steve]

Try saving the QuoteIt! Options and a set of Usergroup Permissions. Like I said, you don't need to worry about the scheduled tasks.