/me - irc feature

[/me - irc feature]

Information

• [high]vBulletin Version:[/high] 3.5.x
• [high]Author:[/high] Dean Clatworthy
• [high]Copyright:[/high] You may use this modification at your own risk. I cannot and will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to your forums during installation or thereafter. You may not distribute this modification in whole or parts and anyone found doing so faces risk of prosecution. All my modifications are released at vBulletin.org and anyone found releasing them elsewhere also faces risk of prosecution. You may not translate this modification without my prior permission.
• [high]Donations:[/high] I release my modifications for free. If you wish to donate please contact me and I will give you my details. All donations are graciously appreciated.

What does this modification do?
This modification simply duplicates the /me feature of irc. It will replace "/me does this action" with "* username does this action".

Installation

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Upload the me-hack.xml file via the plugin uploader in the AdminCP

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[Boofo]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

It's no good if you are trying to explain to someone how to use it though

"Just type /me then your message on a new line" becomes "Just type * Chris Mthen your message on a new line" -.-

How does that explain how to use the code, for example?

Satan

Well, they should already know how to use it as much as it has been around, but I do see your point and think it should be the start of the line only. After experimenting with it, it just doesn't look right in the middle of a sentence.

Satan

[Dean C]

Chris is right. It should only work at the start of a new line IMO. That's how I'll develop it when I get some time this week. The main problem is evil nested quotes

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

It is now replacing all instances of "/me text" with "* Chris Mtext" -.-

The other version ignored /me commands that were not at the start of the line

Fix

Satan

Here's what I came up with to work until Dean gets a chance to fix his:

 $mepattern = '#^(([ \t]|\[[a-z]+[^\]]*\])*)/me[ \t](.*)$#Uim';
if(preg_match($mepattern, $this->post['message']))
{
 $this->post['message'] = preg_replace($mepattern, '<b><font color=red>* ' . $this->post['username'] . ' $3</font></b>', $this->post['message']);
}

I'm, sure his fix will be better than this, but this will get you through until then.

Tested and working.

[Boofo]

The only thing I found wrong with it is when you quote a message with it, /me shows up instead of the name of the person who wrote the original post. How do we fix that?

[Chris M]

Works perfectly Bob

Like you say, there is only the quote issue to work around now

Satan

[Chris M]

I believe there may be a way to solve it, but it will require a file edit to class_bbcode.php

PHP Code:

function handle_bbcode_quote($message, $username = '') 


I believe we could use the replacement code here, and set a variable, something like "isquotedme" to true, and then in the plugin check for if "isquotedme" is true...

Might work...

Satan

[Boofo]

The problem almost has to be with this line. The old vb3 version used pagetext.

 $this->post['message'] = preg_replace($mepattern, '<b><font color=red>* ' . $this->post['username'] . ' $3</font></b>', $this->post['message']);

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by Boofo

The problem almost has to be with this line. The old vb3 version used pagetext.

 $this->post['message'] = preg_replace($mepattern, '<b><font color=red>* ' . $this->post['username'] . ' $3</font></b>', $this->post['message']);

[high]$this->post['message'][/high] is a result of this function in class_postbit.php:

PHP Code:

function parse_bbcode()
{
$this->post['message'] = $this->bbcode_parser->parse($this->post['pagetext'], $this->forum['forumid'], $this->post['allowsmilie']);
} 


Satan

[Dean C]

I've got the quote thingy working, just need to play around with when a user has multiple /me's within their quote

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Dean C

I've got the quote thingy working, just need to play around with when a user has multiple /me's within their quote

Can we have what you have so far then?