Miscellaneous Hacks - Live Topic

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Live Demo:

Live Topic 1.07b Demo (you must be logged in, and the topic must be "live")

Videos: 1.00b 1.06b

watch the damn videos... ^_^

Description:

This product is different from anything you have seen before, it raises the bar for forums. It will make your forums much more interactive, and also reduce server load.

Technical Details:

If a thread has been posted in X seconds then its now Live, if other users are viewing the Live topic and are on the last page they will experience a clean ajax experience while talking to other members. Once the thread is older than X seconds its no longer Live and it will now act like a normal thread. Also if a user edits one of their posts that's inside of the thread, it will be updated too so there is no longer a reason to ever have to refresh.

There is also logic for the viewer, the viewer of the thread has to be in an active state to see responses. An active user state is determined upon the users actions, if no actions were made in X seconds then the user is marked as inactive.

Also you may wonder why this could save your server bandwidth and CPU. If a user is refreshing to talk to another members the queries on a normal thread load are way more intense than the ajax call that this modification makes. So if you have 5 people talking to each other none of them have to refresh the page, all they are doing is simple page requests and one intense request when there has actual change.

You can test Live Topic with two users, you will see how amaizing this is... And probably spontaneously combust.

Found a bug? Want to request a feature?

Live Topic - Project Manager

Installation:

This is take less than 3 minutes to install, takes longer to notice its amazing feature. (you need multiple people to be active in the same topic)

Upgrade:

[1.01b to 1.XXb] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.02b to 1.03b] Overwrite files, upgrade product (dont install product)

[1.03b to 1.04b] Uninstall the product, then reinstall it. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

[1.04b to 1.05b, 1.05b to 1.06b,1.06b to 1.07b] Upgrade the product. Overwrite all old files with new files and you should be fine.

Works With (FF2, FF3, IE6, IE7, IE8, SF2, SF3, CHROME):

vBulletin [3.8.X]

get the vBulletin [3.7.X] version here

INCOMPATIBLE HACKS:

• USC
• PassiveVid (1.x)
• gXboxLive
• Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week
• Marquee Text

Versions:

1.01b
1.02b

fixes

safari 2 support
safari 3 support
google chrome support
added live topic icon on new posts page
fixed security issue, strongly suggest upgrading!

changes

added live edit (to avoid a performance hit i had to add two rows to two tables in the database)
added external style sheet

1.03b

fixes

fix double post
phrase notification
fixed an edit bug for people with table prefixes

changes

ability to change interval in ACP

1.04b

fixes

javascript error for guests
fixed live topic activation (first poster to raise a dead topic)

changes

auto quick reply focus after post

1.05b

fixes

css flaw
js error for unsupported browsers (random)
fixed chrome issue

changes

edit notification - thanks to nso
rebuilding some of the original logic to hopefully prevent product conflicts

1.06b

fixes

fixed a little javascript issue that had to do with displaying posts
uses GPC cleaner now

changes

limit the number of ajax posts on the live topic (example 40) and fade them away.
changed the way the hooks are used
tightened up everything a bit

1.07b

fixes

fixed a bug where the live topic notification always making an ajax call

changes

support user ignore list
changed the way the javascript logic worked (hopefully there are less compatibly issues) added support for IE6 and IE8

1.10

hmm

{Mark As Installed}

{Don't forget to vote for Modification of the Month}

[Coders Shack]

yes 1.07b is out

[DobieGillis?]

I'm tempted to try Sniper's Mood Manager again. Any reason I shouldn't?

[inciarco]

The Error Bug in Post Hiding is Still There.

Edit: It Hides The First (Only One) Post and then it Stops Hiding Posts and it Stops Displaying the Posts Made by the User on His/Her Page, (but is Posted and Displayed for Others).

(I've set the Hiding Option to 7 Posts Per Page, and it did Hide the First like 2 o 3 Posts and then it Stopped Hiding Posts).

Edit: Something weird also Happened, for the User in the Other Window (Google Chrome), the First Post of the Page was a Post made by the User in FireFox, and I Edited the Message on FireFox so the Edited Message Appeared on Chrome; I Posted 7 Messages and then i noticed that the First Cell on Chrome Shadowed but the "Maximum Amount of Posts Have Been Reached" Message Didn't Appeared, and No Post Were Hidden (on FireFox the First One Got Hidden and No One More but in this Case No Post Got Hidden); could it be because it was a Edited Post with the Live Topic Edited Message in it? (a Conflict Inside the Same Mod, Live Topic Conflicting with Live Topic?)

I Hope You Can Fix This Bugs Coders Shack.

(I don't know if the Other Bugs I Posts are Corrected).

Edit: I've checked the Bug You mentioned as Corrected and the Live Topic New Post on other Page doesn't Appear when the Topic went Dead (After the Time Set for it to be Live), and I didn't detected Connection Requests at the Interval of Time I've Set for Live Topic New Posts Checking, (Only what seems to be the Normal Checkin Requests of the Browsers and of the Computer, I Hope). :up:

My Best Regards.

[Britmovie]

1.07b still didnt work for me.

[inciarco]

Originally Posted by Britmovie

1.07b still didnt work for me.

Check the Conflicting Mods on the First and Second Posts of this Thread, as well as the Solution Proposed for some Conflicting Mods on some of the Posts of this Thread and of the One for vB37x.

My Best Regards.

[Fangs404]

This plugin's been great, but I'm getting a bunch of W3C validation errors. Things like:

vbphrase["livetopic_edit_message"] = "<img alt=\'live topic\' src=\'images/statusicon/thread_livetopic.gif\' title=\'live topic\'/>&nbsp; <span style=\'font-weight: bold;\'>This post has been added by another user.</span> <br /><br />Since this is an active topic, this post has been automatically added to the thread while you were reading it. If you are replying to this thread you might want to read this post before doing so.";

and

vbphrase["livetopic_newresponses"] = "%1 new responses (<a href=\'showthread.php?t=%2&goto=newpost\'>live topic</a>)";

are not W3C-compliant. These are easy things to fix, though - just get rid of the \ and stuff. You can use http://validator.w3.org/ to check the compliancy of your code.

[Coders Shack]

thx, and those are controlled within the phrase management system.

[Ryuk]

Thanks for the update, ^^ great product

[fattony69]

This angers me that I want to use it so badly, but it doesn't work with the leaderboard mod.

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by fattony69

This angers me that I want to use it so badly, but it doesn't work with the leaderboard mod.

nor Snipers Mood Manager.