'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

[MarkB]

Something like that sounds about right - Chen did a hack for me where certain forums have a different first post display - I imagine that this would use something similar...

[KuraFire]

*nods*

I wouldn't know how to do it in PHP or anything, but I'm sure that the only 'scripting' necessary here, is for one single IF statement to check whether this forum is id x (where x is defined in the code by the admin) and IF so, it makes this hack appear, and if NOT, it doesn't...

Maybe we should ask someone with more experience about it..

[ReT]

i cant find this piece of code in 2.2.1

PHP Code:

      $DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET title='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."',pagetext='".addslashes($message)."',allowsmilie='$allowsmilie',showsignature='$signature',iconid='$iconid',attachmentid='$attachmentid' WHERE postid='$postid'"); 


[Lesane]

Originally posted by ReT
i cant find this piece of code in 2.2.1

PHP Code:

      $DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET title='".addslashes(htmlspecialchars($title))."',pagetext='".addslashes($message)."',allowsmilie='$allowsmilie',showsignature='$signature',iconid='$iconid',attachmentid='$attachmentid' WHERE postid='$postid'"); 


The only similiar UPDATE POST code is on line 202 of newthread.php:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET pagetext='".addslashes($message)."',allowsmilie='$allowsmilie',showsignature='$signature',iconid='$iconid',attachmentid='$attachmentid' WHERE postid='$posts[minpost]'"); 


change above code to:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE post SET pagetext='".addslashes($message)."',NP='".addslashes($nowplaying)."',allowsmilie='$allowsmilie',showsignature='$signature',iconid='$iconid',attachmentid='$attachmentid' WHERE postid='$posts[minpost]'"); 


Your welcome Derek

[ReT]

Thanks Maurice

[DelusionalMind]

will be installing this in the morning over at teencribs.com

should be a nice addition over there

[Lionel]

One can also pull out the data and establish a top10 chart...

[Lionel]

I installed this one very easily. I'd like to know: in edit post, the choice that was entered at first is not being redisplayed and have to be re-entered. Is that the way it is supposed to be or did I miss something?

thanks

[fresh_froot]

How about the option to choose from different icons. Maybe a CD or Music note for music, or a PS2 or Xbox or even PC for Videogames.

This could be a popular addition for any gaming sites as well, where people playing on more than one format.

Love the hack! Maybe it'll be come more.

Another thing...the directions for editing newpost are for newreply and vice versa. I don't know if anyone else caught that.

[ytclear]

i installed the hack and i thought everything was working fine, EXCEPT now when people hit post reply on old threads it puts there reply 2nd from last instead of last post.

Weird as ****