Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present User Spotlight v1: A mini mod to show a random member on your forumhome page.


Why User Spotlight?

DBTech's User Spotlight mod lets you display a random member on your forum home page as a way to increase member commmunication.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support for this version is handled at the Developers Website.

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Major Features

ForumHome Integration: Members' details will show in the infobar on the forumhome.

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Feature List

• Random user selected every night
• Admin override of selected user
• Admin variables to limit selected users by number of posts, reputation and days active

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of the forum home page which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by robbiefritz

May want to correct the heading shown below, both say the same thing 'Height"

Avatar Maximum Height
The maximum height of the displayed avatar.

Avatar Maximum Height
The maximum width of the displayed avatar.

Thanks for that

I just posted a new release, fixed the text before I posted it heh.

I also added the ability to specify if it refreshes the user hourly, daily or weekly. Fixed a problem with the scheduled task when run on vB3 and added the option to put it in the sidebar.

It's my first addition of a sidebar so please test it out before you put it on a production system. It worked fine on the 2 dev systems I tried it on but you never know

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

How can I get this mod to display where the X is in the attached screenshot?

[Gemma]

Thanks for the update.

Only thing I noticed is that the template 'dbtech_spotlight_userinfo_sideblock' is uncached but fixed that myself.

Nice work

[Merjawy]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I fixed this on the version I just released.

Can you check the forum permissions on this one as well? I tested it and it works fine on my dev board. I created a user and new group, set the group to not be able to see my spotlight users main forum and it didn't show it in the section. Not sure why it wouldn't do it for you.

Working great now.. Even as side block.. Thanks
Love the group permission too


Thanks again

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by InTeNsE-HuMoR

How can I get this mod to display where the X is in the attached screenshot?

I'll look and see if I can find a hook in there to attach to.

Originally Posted by Gemma

Thanks for the update.

Only thing I noticed is that the template 'dbtech_spotlight_userinfo_sideblock' is uncached but fixed that myself.

Nice work

Thanks Gemma, forgot about adding that to the cache I uploaded 1.3.1 with that fix for those that don't know how to do it.

Originally Posted by Merjawy

Working great now.. Even as side block.. Thanks
Love the group permission too

Thanks again

Glad to hear it's fixed for you now

[customcolor]

works great!!!

i learned to follow the directions in order!!

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I'll look and see if I can find a hook in there to attach to.

Any luck with that?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by InTeNsE-HuMoR

Any luck with that?

Yes and no. There is a template hook down there but any data you attach to that hook will just show below on the left side. I don't think I could find a way to display it on the right side without messing around with the FORUMHOME template.

[cdoyle]

Are there any plans to modify this to work with VBadvanced?

[ProFifaLeagues]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Thanks for that

I just posted a new release, fixed the text before I posted it heh.

I also added the ability to specify if it refreshes the user hourly, daily or weekly. Fixed a problem with the scheduled task when run on vB3 and added the option to put it in the sidebar.

It's my first addition of a sidebar so please test it out before you put it on a production system. It worked fine on the 2 dev systems I tried it on but you never know

Thanks for the update DragonByte
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