Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB3)

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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Translations available @ [url="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forums/91-Translations[/URL]
Support for translations handled by the translator in its respective threads only.

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Major Features

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

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To Install:

1. Upload all files in the "upload" folder to your forum.
2. Import the product file via the product manager in your AdminCP.
3. Done!

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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

[Warlord]

Well I feel rather foolish. You were right about the template not being reverted. I had assumed that by removing the hack entirely I had also removed the old template. Silly me.

Okay, so avatars seem to be working now.

Custom Username CSS and Custom Profile Fields don't seem to be working still (yes, I made sure the member in the spotlight had filled out the Custom Profile Field).

The only other issue I'm having now is that when the signature block is checked my forum layout goes bonkers. It's really not a big deal for me because I'm not going to include signatures in my spotlight but I just thought I'd point it out.

I get this error at the very top of my screen:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/functions.php(1455) : eval()'d code on line 5

My page layout looks like the attached image. The text in his signature appears to be a BBcode link to his blog. (We don't allow HTML in signatures).

I should also note that I have Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager installed. Perhaps the two hacks just conflict for some reason. (CSS issues?)

I also noticed in the template there seems to be an if statement to span 3 columns, but I don't see the option in the admin cp anywhere. Am I just missing it?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Warlord

Well I feel rather foolish. You were right about the template not being reverted. I had assumed that by removing the hack entirely I had also removed the old template. Silly me.

Okay, so avatars seem to be working now.

Custom Username CSS and Custom Profile Fields don't seem to be working still (yes, I made sure the member in the spotlight had filled out the Custom Profile Field).

The only other issue I'm having now is that when the signature block is checked my forum layout goes bonkers. It's really not a big deal for me because I'm not going to include signatures in my spotlight but I just thought I'd point it out.

I get this error at the very top of my screen:



My page layout looks like the attached image. The text in his signature appears to be a BBcode link to his blog. (We don't allow HTML in signatures).

I should also note that I have Cyb - Sub-Forum Manager installed. Perhaps the two hacks just conflict for some reason. (CSS issues?)

I also noticed in the template there seems to be an if statement to span 3 columns, but I don't see the option in the admin cp anywhere. Am I just missing it?

I doubt it's conflicting with the sub forum manager. Most likely the error is screwing up code that's getting outputted and that is messing up the layout.
I'm not sure what's causing it. I have the same thing in my sig on my dev site.

The 3 column span is for the users that have it set to show below the navbar. I needed to have some additional formatting for it to look right.

What are you putting in the custom field setting? Are you putting the number or the whole thing? Like field5 or just 5?

[Warlord]

The Custom Profile Fields seem to be working now. I guess it just needed some time to reset itself?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Warlord

The Custom Profile Fields seem to be working now. I guess it just needed some time to reset itself?

Hmm, it doesn't store any data so not sure why it started working. Not going to complain though

[DragonByte Tech]

Few small changes with 1.6.0
Added last post date to the selection criteria and fixed problem with avatar url

[Geek Specialtie]

I just updated to 1.6.1 and the profile image and avatars are not showing.

The image path is not generated correctly.

I have my forum installed in a subdirectory, /forum, the img src for both do not include the subdirectory in the path.

it generates
domain.com/customavatars/avatar1_5.gif
when it should be
domain.com/forum/customavatars/avatar1_5.gif

[DragonByte Tech]

I made an update with 1.6.2
Hopefully fixed the avatar issues with the different installation layouts, pretty much replicated the way vB sets the path to the avatar/profile pic
Fixed bbcode not parsing on custom fields
Switched code to use existing data so was able to eliminate all but 2 custom db queries, should be better on performance now.

[Geek Specialtie]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I made an update with 1.6.2
Hopefully fixed the avatar issues with the different installation layouts, pretty much replicated the way vB sets the path to the avatar/profile pic
Fixed bbcode not parsing on custom fields
Switched code to use existing data so was able to eliminate all but 2 custom db queries, should be better on performance now.

My profile images and avatar images are working again. Thanks for the update.

[EnigmaVariation]

I upgraded to the latest version 1.6.2 (uploaded new files and installed new xml) but now it won't randomly select anyone in the scheduled tasks. Anyone else having this issue? Should I completely uninstall, delete all of the files off my server and reupload/reinstall?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by EnigmaVariation

I upgraded to the latest version 1.6.2 (uploaded new files and installed new xml) but now it won't randomly select anyone in the scheduled tasks. Anyone else having this issue? Should I completely uninstall, delete all of the files off my server and reupload/reinstall?

What do you have for the settings?
Maybe something in there is not letting it select a new user