'Now Playing' Hack

NOW PLAYING HACK for vBulletin 2.2.8 (UPDATE)

Adds a 'Now Playing' field to your new thread and new reply pages where users can enter whatever they're listening to, and their post will be appended with something akin to: "NP: Some Song by Some Band".

All support questions should be posted in this thread

Remember: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE!! I am not a PHP guru by any stretch of the imagination -- the following code works fine for me, so you should not have any problems.

It's been tested on cB 2.2.8. I will not be held responsible if your forum crashes, or turns into a Britney Spears BB

You can see it in action at my Ultimate Metal forums where I've modified it slightly to have a small CD icon in place of the usual 'NP:'.

This is my first ever hack, so please do let me know any shortcomings or errors!!

I hope you enjoy it as much I plan to

Added to: now includes 'editpost.php' and 'editpost' template changes!

UPDATED for 2.2.8 (very minor fix in newreply.php - if it's working for you, there is NO NEED to upgrade! This will be the last update until vB3 is out

[Serge]

First think I would like to say is your hack is awesome I absoultly love it. But as I was installing it I found that many people and me could not find the lines your were referring to in the install file but as I got to look I think the things might be switched around so the stuff you said needed to go into the Newthread.php should go into newreply.php and visa versa. If I'm wrong please let me know but I will try it that way and see if it works and let everyone know.

[MarkB]

I think they may have changed the code between versions... but it seems people are working it out ok

[X-Fan]

I used the hack to upgrade from v2.2.2 to v2.2.4 and now this hack has stopped working altogether!

Has anyone got any ideas about re-enabling this hack under v2.2.4?

[ZiRu$]

when i put in the NP info it dosent show up I think its a problem with where it is in my postbit

i put it here:

PHP Code:

<tr> 
<td width="85%"> 
<smallfont>$post[icon] <b>$post[title] </b></smallfont>
</td> 
<td width="15%" align="right"> 
<smallfont> 
(<a href="showthread.php?postid=$post[postid]#post$post[postid]">Post #$countposts</a>)</smallfont></td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
$post[nowplaying] 
                <smallfont><a href="showthread.php?threadid=$post[threadid]#post$post[postid]"></a></smallfont>
    <p><normalfont>$post[message] </normalfont></p>
    $post[attachment]
                $post[nowplaying]
    <p>$post[signature]</p>
    <p>$post[editedby]<br>$post[editedreason]</p>
    <p align="right"><smallfont><a href="report.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&postid=$post[postid]">Report this post to a moderator</a> | $post[iplogged]</smallfont></p>
    </td>
</tr> 


if you notice i have it put down twice that's letting you know I tried it in both those places

[ZiRu$]

^

[Serge]

well first off I would like to know why you have the varable listed twice on your postbit and I also would like to know what verison of vB you are using since people are having problems it seems cause I found some thing to be backwards.

[ZiRu$]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Serge
well first off I would like to know why you have the varable listed twice on your postbit and I also would like to know what verison of vB you are using since people are having problems it seems cause I found some thing to be backwards.

[ZiRu$]

Nevermind man i got it working perfectlly!

Great Hack!

[TGO]

I can't get this to work on 2.2.5..the file changes I'm supposed to make, the "to be replaced" lines are different..and when I try to just add in the NP part I get MySQL errors when trying to post..

Can anyone update the instructions for 2.2.5?

[Serge]

Ok I have found this out. When adding the stuff in try adding the stuff needed in newreply in newthread and newthread in newreply. I looked it over and saw that they were switch and when I installed it that way it worked.