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.

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[fer_75]

Hm, I have installed on 4.0.1 and I do not see it appear on forum home: I have added {vb:raw cel_sgfh} on forum home template but nothing shows. Some idea?

[murekhalir]

Will this create a forum for EVERY social group? Or that only the member has joined?

[cellarius]

Originally Posted by murekhalir

Will this create a forum for EVERY social group? Or that only the member has joined?

This will not create any forums at all.

[venom2124]

Okay how do I get rid of the hyperlink writing and get the nice icons that the screen shot show. this is what mine looks like right now.



Any help would be great.

[venom2124]

Disregard previous post forgot to upload the button images to the server. Thanks great product.

[GreigM]

Thanks nice mod, works fine on 4.0.1

[ex0thermic]

I'm having a small issue with this:

When I have "use custom statusicon" set to "no" and "show group's icon" set to "Yes", the group icon displays just fine. However, if I reverse the two above options and upload the "groups_new.gif" and "groups_old.gif" to the correct directory, no icon at all shows up on the forumhome next to the group name.

[cellarius]

The image title needs to follow the nomenclatura of the fourm_new/old icons. So the images need to be named group_new-48.png and group_old-48.png.

[ex0thermic]

do you mean .gif or .png?

If you meant .gif, is there a way to change it to .png?

[cellarius]

I wrote .png, and that's what I meant. vB4 uses .png througout, but the extension could be changed in the templates if you wanted to use .gif. But .png it is by default.