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My Forum - Personalised Forum Aggregator This is the first release of this modification, please read the entire description before proceeding to install. Background As a forum administrator the chances are that at some point you have received "feedback" from members that they would prefer a different forum layout. For example, lets say you have the following forum structure:
Some members might prefer:
Most sites have many more than 3 forums so the possible user preferred combinations are impossible to cater for, which means you cannot keep everybody happy, until now! My Forum - What Does it do? This modification uses the existing vBulletin forum subscription system to allow users to aggregate/mashup/join forums into a single "forum" where they can view all threads in the forums they have subscribed to. This gives a personalised "My Forum" which means that you can cater for all of the preferences mentioned above. So taking the first preference example given above UserSmith would subscribe to the seperate Parrots & Eagles forums and then visit "My Forum" where he/she would see all threads in these two forums in a single forum. The following is a brief summary of the key features
Demo You can see a live demo here: http://www.therevcounter.com/myforum.php In this setup My Forum is running in Guest Mode with guest forum subscriptions for "General Mayhem" and "Motorbike Chat". If you want register for an account and play with it in user mode. Installation Installation is fairly simple, follow these steps:
There are also some other optional setup steps you can follow to add My Forum to Forum Jump and the Breadcrumb box, these are details in the first post. Configuration Once installed you can configure this modification via:
The configuration options are fairly self explanatory, so I won't go into details here. However there is a screen shot attached. What it doesn't do right now, but will/might in later releases
I have been running this modification as it is here on my own site for almost 6 months and my members love it and the missing functionality has never been a problem. So there you have it! This is the first release of this modification, before posting here I have obviously put it through its paces, however there is always a possibility of a current unknown bug rearing its ugly head. If this does happen please post the details here and I will endeavour to quickly resolve the problem. It goes without saying that you should try this on your test forums before going live. It is also worth mentioning that you should suggest to your members that they choose "no email notification" forum subscriptions. Support I have marked this mod as unsupported, this is because I cannot guarantee that I will always be around to quickly answer questions. I will pop in from time to time but I would rather not mark it as supported. Version History
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cant you allow members to have options to select wether they want to subscribe a specific thread or forum please
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There is no point in have thread subscriptions as these are already displayed by default on the usercp page |
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users may not have subscribed forums, can I force them to "subscribed" special some forums?
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any plan to VB 3.8 ?
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Not until it goes gold, have you tried it on the BETA release? Does it work? |
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It should. Not much has changed in vb 3.8
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great job!
& I have just tested it on vb3.8 beta1,"my forum" keeps displaying "You do not currently have any forum subscriptions or you do not have access to the forums you are subscribed to.Please visit the main forums to add subscriptions." |
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A couple of question:
Do you have any subscriptions? Have you set any "auto" subscriptions in ACP? Does the viewing user have access to the forums you are expecting to see? As a test would it be possible to do the following:
Once you are done remove the added lines and put the original myforum.php back. You should end up with something that looks like this: Quote:
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I added the code, ,and it displays :
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