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]

The AJAX moderation is a bit buggy but the only way to bypass it is to open the link in a new window or disable Javascript in your browser. The bugs are only display problems though, so you might want to just suffer through it.

I don't know about the quote counts. Are there any messages at all when you try to rebuild them?

[Dr. Bantham]

I have been using this wonderful mod for some time and through various forum upgrades. This morning I upgraded vBadvanced CMPS from 3.0 RC1 to 3.0 RC2 and was surprised when the Random Quotation block from my portal page disappeared. What can I do to get this back? If I delete and reinstall the module, what templates should I copy since I made custom display modifications to the block?

[thepub]

I'm having a bit of a problem, for some reason on my screen the right quotation marks are not showing where they should be (see screen shot) and how do I enable images/emoticons to show in the quoter.

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by Dr. Bantham

I have been using this wonderful mod for some time and through various forum upgrades. This morning I upgraded vBadvanced CMPS from 3.0 RC1 to 3.0 RC2 and was surprised when the Random Quotation block from my portal page disappeared. What can I do to get this back? If I delete and reinstall the module, what templates should I copy since I made custom display modifications to the block?

UPDATE
I tried to revert back to RC2, but appears that you must uninstall vBa CMPS in order to install a prior version. I also removed and reinstalled the random quotation module, but this did not fix things either. The random quote block has disappeared into oblivion, though it is certainly activated via all settings I am aware of (module, page, permissions, etc.)

[powerful_rogue]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

The AJAX moderation is a bit buggy but the only way to bypass it is to open the link in a new window or disable Javascript in your browser. The bugs are only display problems though, so you might want to just suffer through it.

I don't know about the quote counts. Are there any messages at all when you try to rebuild them?

Thanks for your reply

The problem with moderation seems to have sorted itself out somehow!

Regarding post counts - It dosent update itself, however if you rebuild quote counts manually it works. It dosent work however if you delete quotes, it dosent remove them from the post count.

Hope that makes sense!

[Cap'n Steve]

Dr. Bantham - Well, changing the module shouldn't mess up any templates you might have edited. I'm not sure why it disappeared, try resaving some permissions and rebuilding bitfields. If all else fails, reinstall (DO NOT uninstall) QuoteIt! itself and recreate the module.

thepub - That should have been fixed a while ago, make sure you have the latest css files and templates. Sometimes the allow smileys option needs to be saved more than once before it works. Rebuilding bitfields also has helped some people.

powerful_rogue - That's strange, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Dr. Bantham - Well, changing the module shouldn't mess up any templates you might have edited. I'm not sure why it disappeared, try resaving some permissions and rebuilding bitfields. If all else fails, reinstall (DO NOT uninstall) QuoteIt! itself and recreate the module.

Thanks, Steve. I re-saved related permissions everywhere I could find them, rebuilt bitfields, re-installed QuoteIt! and removed and re-installed the module. It is still missing. Everything else seems to be working. I had this module working perfectly for nearly a year, until the moment I upgraded vBadvanced CMPS from 3.0 RC1 to 3.0 RC2. Any other ideas?

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by chadi

This mod has a problem that needs to be fixed, hopefully will be.


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/user/public_html/tags/index.php(194) : eval()'d code on line 1


The kind support team at Zoints who created Zoints Tag module spent countless hours on my site trying to figure out why I kept getting the below errors oddly, on two different modules: Zoints Tags and vBISpy.

Their final find was this:

$headinclude =& $vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'];

That is the line that is causing the problem, it is not the correct method of parsing a template to a variable.



I hope you can correct this. The errors went away after disabling the "parse_templates" in the quoteit plugin.

Does *anyone* please know a fix for this?

[Cap'n Steve]

Dr. Bantham - Boy am I starting to hate vBadvanced. I'm sure it's not their fault, but that mod has caused me a ton of headaches. I'll try their latest version when I get a chance, but it might be a few days. Until then, your guess is as good as mine.

chadi - I wouldn't get your hopes up. That part is kind of a pain to fix, and no one seems to want to take over this mod.

[Dr. Bantham]

Originally Posted by Cap'n Steve

Dr. Bantham - Boy am I starting to hate vBadvanced. I'm sure it's not their fault, but that mod has caused me a ton of headaches. I'll try their latest version when I get a chance, but it might be a few days. Until then, your guess is as good as mine.

To be fair, I cross-posted this problem at vBadvanced, and the developer ended up resolving the issue, which was a case of globalizing QuoteIt! variables.

Originally Posted by Brian

Admin CP => vBa CMPS => Default Settings => Main Options => Portal Output Global Variables
Go there, add 'quoteitoptions' (without the quotes) to that setting, and see if it helps.

Reference:
http://www.vbadvanced.com/forum/showthread.php?p=127538

This restored my Random Quotation module back into glorious rotation. It is certainly a relief to get things back to normal. It is the centerpiece of the portal page, after all!