Social Group and Album Enhancements - Cel User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated)

What does it do?

• Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome).
• If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
• Instead of the statusicons, you can show the group's icon
• If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.

Things to set in AdminCP/Options:

• use template hook to output or - more flexible - make manual template edit
• show member of / subscribed to /nothing
• sort by name or last message date
• limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
• restrict use by usergroup
• show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
• show buttons to open new discussion etc.
• apply custom css to grouptitle
• trim group description to max length or disable
• parse bbcode in group descriptions
• use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
• show groupicon instead of statusicon, and choose whether you want to show original size or resized to standard statusicon size

Looks

• Out of the box: copies the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
• Fully templated.

Install/upgrade

1. Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
2. Import the product file.
3. Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.

Technical stuff

• 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
• 2 plugins
• 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
• a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
• 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.

Limitations

• Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting)
• 3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under a version 3.8.0 or higher

Version history

• 4.0.006: fixed minor display bug when no discussions yet in group and fixed encoding issue reported by Been_Told
• 4.0.005: fixed small PHP 5.3 issue
• 4.0.004: fixed group's icon styling issues (thanks to ZexTasy for some useful hints) and added resize option, implemented suggestions (f.e. using template hook now)
• 4.0.003: Adapted to vB4 beta 3, first public release
• 4.0.001: Ported to vB4 alpha 1
• previous see 3.8 versions here.

The 3.8 version of this mod can be found here.

### Don't forget to click install ###

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by Hasann

Powered by vBulletin Version 4.0.0 PL 1

This error is not caused by my modification. It runs fine under PHP 5.3.0 (tested!) and does not have anywhere near 586 lines. Wherever this error comes from, it is not from my mod (which, on top of that, does not even use the construct faulted in that deprecated message).

[Varsh]

Well I decided to give it a go and it worked without a hitch so it must be what you have installed. Great mod btw.

[CallieJo]

Thanks bunches for sharing. You rock! Have a splendid week*

[Deviant K1]

INSTALLED!

Thanks works great

[fer_75]

Does this mod works with vb 4.0.1 ?

[cellarius]

Havn't tried yet, but I see no cause why it shouldn't. Install it, then you'll see for yourself
(and don't forget to click install here to get further support)

[ShawnV]

Installed, but waiting for update, out of beta.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by ShawnV

Installed, but waiting for update, out of beta.

This mod is not in beta, and no update is planned atm.

[ShawnV]

Originally Posted by cellarius

This mod is not in beta, and no update is planned atm.

Ah you may want to remove your note in the description. ')

Beta!

* Note that this mod is still in beta, as is vB4. I promise no support for this atm.

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by ShawnV

Ah you may want to remove your note in the description. ')

Beta!

* Note that this mod is still in beta, as is vB4. I promise no support for this atm.

Ah, ok, thanks. As vB4, this mod is out of beta - reflected by the non-existing beta-marking in the mod header. I'll remove the deprecated notice.