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]

Thanks for solving that for me, I'll have to add that to the instructions.

[imk]

where can i change the size of the system on my forumhome?

[Cap'n Steve]

The quote_randomquote template is what gets displayed.

[Cooleyvol]

Has anyone edited this so it doesnt take up so much height space on the forum? Maybe getting rid of the quotation graphics, etc.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by Cooleyvol

Has anyone edited this so it doesnt take up so much height space on the forum? Maybe getting rid of the quotation graphics, etc.

I have. I made it so it shows strictly only the quote and quote's author (not the author submitted the quote that is).

listbit template

<tr><td class="quoterow {$quoteclass}" align="center" id="quote{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">
<br />
{$quote['quote']}
<br /><br />
<div class="authorcontainer">
    <if condition="!empty($quote['author'])">
        <div class="author" id="author{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">- {$quote['author']}</div>
    </if>
    <if condition="$quoteitoptions['enablecontext'] AND !empty($quote['context'])">
        <span class="context" id="context{$quote['quoteid']}-{$globalcounter}">({$quote['context']})</span>
    </if>
</div>
<br />
</td></tr>

[Neutral Singh]

When i enable random quotes option, the following error shows up:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/******/public_html/includes/vba_cmps_include_top.php(502) : eval()'d code on line 373

What could be reason? Please guide.

[Cap'n Steve]

What have you changed recently? Is it a new version of vBadvanced?

[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.

Ok, calling all coders, geniuses, programmers - anyone that can figure out how to fix this problem. I'll pay $25 via paypal

[zetetic]

I've made a lot of changes lately (including upgrading to php and mysql 5.x) so I'm not sure what might've caused this weirdness, but now when I do a search in the quotes and there are no results, it redirects to my vps WHM page instead of anywhere on the forum. Any ideas?

[Cap'n Steve]

Where is your forum? I have to see this.