Personal Stickys

Hack name: Personal Stickys
Version: 1.0.3b
Author: Mephisteus (DarkSSJ3)
Special Thanks To: Floris (The images and being a guinea pig)!

Steps:
1 product import
1 file to edit - forumdisplay.php (2 edits)
3 template edits
2 image uploads

Info:
Let members on your forums have their own 'personal' sticky thread. People sticking a thread using this function will have the thread only appear 'stuck' to them (and if its a 'real' sticky thread). See screenshots for the obvious

Tested on:
3.5.0 - OK
3.5.1 - OK
3.5.2 - OK
3.5.3 - OK
3.5.4 - OK

Features
- Neat icons!

MAKE A BACKUP
I will not be held responsible for any damage this hack causes to your forum.
This hack is NOT supported. If you get support, consider yourself lucky.
I reserve the right to REMOVE the hack at any time without prior notice.

Please keep any bug reports in this thread.

History
1.0.3b (to upgrade reimport product xml IMPORTANT)
Bugfix
- Fixed a bug that would give SQL errors if someone didnt have personal stickys.
1.0.3 (to upgrade reimport product xml and apply file edits)
Bugfix
- Fixed "The stickied thread will be stickied to the top of its own page, not the first page per see.". It will now be stickied to the first page (I have NOT tested this on different settings due to lack of time).
1.0.2 (to upgrade reimport product xml)
Feature
- Redirect on stick/unstick selection
1.0.1 (to upgrade reimport product xml)
Bugfix
- Fixed an error that would appear in UserCP and in the subscriptions area if you had subscribed threads.
1.0.0
Initial release

Take me to the 3.7.x version

[john1744]

Absolutely fantastic, my forum userbase is from a Lithium powered forum and this is a feature of Lithium and they greatly miss it. I thank you.

[Mephisteus]

Originally Posted by biggazillakilla

Wow, just installed. That was pretty quick and easy. Great work!

Any way to add something to set it apart from the other threads (other than the stickypin)? For example, with a different background color or a prefix such as:

MySticky: Personal Stickys

(Like the default stickies do.)

Edit: I'm going to call this "starring" in my forum to see how that works.

So, something like this:

Starred: Personal Stickys

Its not with this version and I have no plans to continue development at this time. Its pretty easy to do it yourself though

[JohnBee]

Beautiful! installed... - thanks

[john1744]

Hmm, I stickied a thread last night, and woke up this morning and the thread I had stickied wasn't showing up, but after I searched and found the thread it was saying it was still stuck.

Also I added a small seperator underneath the self-stickied threads and it was working fine last night but now when I woke up I have two seperators from the stickies and normal posts.

[Mephisteus]

Originally Posted by john1744

Hmm, I stickied a thread last night, and woke up this morning and the thread I had stickied wasn't showing up, but after I searched and found the thread it was saying it was still stuck.

Also I added a small seperator underneath the self-stickied threads and it was working fine last night but now when I woke up I have two seperators from the stickies and normal posts.

Sounds like it collides with another hack. Thats about all I can say about it. Havent got a clue as to how to fix that.

[biggazillakilla]

Originally Posted by Mephisteus

Its not with this version and I have no plans to continue development at this time. Its pretty easy to do it yourself though

Yeah, I know it should be easy for some, but for me, it's a challenge. I tried to do it a bit yesterday, but I messed up some stuff.

I'll give it another try, though.

Thanks again for this hack. It's just what I wanted ever since I read Wayne's post about it.

[BrandiDup]

this may be a totally idiotic question, but does this hack increase database queries?

If not, I'm installing immediately. Brilliant Idea!

[ronoxQ]

I can't find the images! Help me...

I uploaded them as-is to my directory, but they don't show up.

Besides that, it works. Thanks a lot.

[biggazillakilla]

Originally Posted by ronoxQ

I can't find the images! Help me...

I uploaded them as-is to my directory, but they don't show up.

Besides that, it works. Thanks a lot.

Which directory did you upload them to?

[biggazillakilla]

Originally Posted by BrandiDup

this may be a totally idiotic question, but does this hack increase database queries?

If not, I'm installing immediately. Brilliant Idea!

I couldn't say for sure, but since the stickies are different from each user, I would imagine that the only way to keep track of that would be to keep the information in the database. And the info page at the beginning indicates db changes, so I'd say it's a sure bet.

But I'm not a coder, so take it for what it's worth.