QuoteIt! 2.0 - Quote Management System

QuoteIt! version 2.0

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. This was developed on vBulletin 3.0.7, but should work on 3.0.0 and above.

You can see a demo on forums.monkeycrap.com.
Instructions for adding a random quote to vBadvanced and vBindex are in this post.


Features (features new to 2.0 are in yellow)

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
- the quote shown is much more random than in previous versions

Quote Database
- quotes can only be edited or deleted by an administrator
- quotes can be viewed individually or listed on several pages
- quotes can be sorted by total score, average score, author, submitter, or date added
- quotes now have a "context" field that can be turned on or off to include more information about the quote
- 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 administrator can now edit quotes
- the quote moderation que is now more like the que for posts, enabling the moderation of several quotes at once



Don't forget to click

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

You may release translations of this hack as long as the original credits are included. Otherwise, you not redistribute this hack without permission from me.

[TheComputerGuy]

<a href="http://www.runaked.com/forums/quotes.php?do=list" target="_blank">http://www.runaked.com/forums/quotes.php?do=list</a>

When you check out that page...its like weird. Sorry I should have been more descriptive.

[Cap'n Steve]

Ah, I see. I guess it only shows up in Internet Explorer. In that style, you have a 1 pixel white border defined for alt1 and alt2 class table cells. In the quote_listquote template, add this to the first table tag:

style="border-top:0;border-left:0;"

That should fix it.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

You already ran the second step then. Go to your admincp phrase manager and search for a phrase named quoteit. If that exists, your installation is complete, if not, skip to the third step of the installer.

Ok I have the quoteit phrase but the edit quote is still timing out...

[Cap'n Steve]

Have you tried adding and deleting quotes? There's really nothing special about editing a quote that should cause an error.

[ehjay]

EDIT: I just noticed rating your random quote doesn't work either. It might have something to do the javascript, although the rating does actually get recorded, for some reason it's not redirecting you back to the forum home page. The only thing I can think of is that there's something wrong with your $vboptions['forumhome'] variable, because that's what it redirects to.

I don't know.. I am running two custom variations on the standard templates, but the errors are still present when both are reset to their defaults.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Have you tried adding and deleting quotes? There's really nothing special about editing a quote that should cause an error.

I can add and delete quotes and use the submit to quotes link with no issue but it is choking (timing out on the edit). I created a test/test login if you want to check it out. http://www.yourlincolnpark.com/LPSForum/lpsforum.php

This is the url in the address bar when I receive the timeout: http://www.yourlincolnpark.com/LPSFo...ote&quoteid=21

The rate this quote + and - appears to work on the random quote on the forum page but the rate this quote + / - doesn't work when you are in the view all quotes screen......when I view all quotes there is a VOTE button at the bottom of the quotes.....I click it but don't know what it does.

The editing is an issue for me more than the rating system.

Any ideas on this?

[Cap'n Steve]

ehjay - The problem is with the form you have set up. On the randomquote, you don't have vote defined, on the list of quotes you have it set to either + or -. It should be "vote=plus" or "vote=minus".

YLP1 - The ratings on the list of quotes work like this: you select your rating for the quotes, then click the vote button to send your votes. As for the edit thing, can you use the "Submit to quotes" feature for posts? The only thing different about the editing is that it uses the html_entity_decode() and str_replace() functions, other than that it's almost identical to the add quote code. You might have to ask your host for help.

[YLP1]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

ehjay - The problem is with the form you have set up. On the randomquote, you don't have vote defined, on the list of quotes you have it set to either + or -. It should be "vote=plus" or "vote=minus".

YLP1 - The ratings on the list of quotes work like this: you select your rating for the quotes, then click the vote button to send your votes. As for the edit thing, can you use the "Submit to quotes" feature for posts? The only thing different about the editing is that it uses the html_entity_decode() and str_replace() functions, other than that it's almost identical to the add quote code. You might have to ask your host for help.

Yes I can use the submit to quotes feature ...the only real issue is the timeout on the edit.

I spoke with my ISP mySQL/PHP manager and of course they are saying it's the script because no other timeouts are occurring.

Is there a way to go back to the previous version without me messing everything up?

[Cap'n Steve]

Yes, you can probably just replace the php files with the old versions, but I can't help you much with that if anything goes wrong. If the editing is the only problem, I'm not sure why you'd want to do that anyway, since 1.2 doesn't have editing at all. All I can suggest is to look at the error log and have your host try and see what's running for so long when you try and edit the quote. The database query is about as simple as it can get, and there's very little code being run, so there's no reason it should be taking a long time.

[j_86]

I like the hack, but the table arrangement is very very messy when not used in 100% width forums on a 1024x760 screen.

Not too pleasing to the eye.