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SocialForums 1.4 · **Released**: 04-01-2008

SocialForums for vBulletin 3.7
Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

This mod will work *ONLY* with vBulletin 3.7 or higher. It will not run on vBulletin 3.6.x due to non existent feature of "social groups".

Support will be only given for people who clicked Mark as INSTALLED.

Description
Not satisfied with vBulletin social groups messaging function? With SocialForums your social group leaders can create a standard forum for their group.
A group leader can only create a forum if the group has at least 5 members - this can be changed via settings. Optionally the group leader can be a moderator of such a social forum.

Permissions
Since 1.3 there are advanced permissions active (Forum and Archive). This includes read/write public and private (moderated/invite only) socialforums and creation of forum. As this needs two additional queries on every page you can disable this.

Demo
None, see screenshots

Installation
This product is fully phrased and uses template hooks. No file changes or manual template edits needed.
1. Upload bitfield_socialforums.xml to existing folder /includes/xml/
2. Upload functions_socialforums.php to existing folder /includes/
3. Fresh Installation: Just import the product. Upgrade: Import the product, allow overwrite. No forums get lost!
4. Check settings, especially for parent forum. Don't forget to set permissions via usergroups!

Troubleshooting
Q: I don't see a link to create a forum. Why?
A: Check permissions for the usergroup, espacially if the user is allowed to create forum.
A: Check if the usergroup meet min users requirement, see AdminCP/Settings/SocialForums.

Q: My users see the forums, but they shouldn't!
A: Check permissions for the usergroup, if the users usergroup is set to "can see".
A: Did you disabled the restriction mode? Enable it.

Todo
- By deleting a group the forum should also be deleted/archived. Currently this has to be done manually.

Known Issues
- On big boards with hundreds of social groups this mod can really impact the performance because of the mass of new created forums. If you still want to use this mod use the "Minimum Members" feature with a higher value. Using the permission check there are additional two queries on every page.

History
1.4.6, 6th October 2008
- Permissions are now also active in Archive

1.4.2, 27th May 2008
- Added: If a group has a linked forum the grouplisting has the last post date and count of postings (with permission check).
- Added: Recent threads in linked forum on group home
- Added: Private groups: Link to forum only shown to members of group
- Changed: Enabled permissions for unregistered usergroup. Unregistered Users are not more explicit denied without a check of it's usergroup

1.3.1, 23th May 2008
- Fixed: Not existing array

1.3.0, 23th May 2008
- Added: Permissions are now active. This includes read/write public and private (moderated/invite only) socialforums and creation of forum. Please check permissions for every usergroup! As this needs two additional queries on every page you can disable this.
- Added: Checks for permission before the creation link will be displayed
- Changed: Default View Age set to "Show all Threads"

1.2.1 8th April 2008:
- Added: Group messaging can be disabled via options (previously: always disabled)

1.2.0 4th April 2008:
- Added: Groupleader can now be moderator of group forum
- Added: Minimum Members that are required for own forum
- Added: Group messaging will be automatically hide for group that has own forum
- Added: Forums are created with more allowances
- Added: By deleting a forum the linked socialgroup get's updated
- Added: Forum's description contains link back to social group
- Added: By changing group's name it synchronize it with the forum's name

1.0/1.1 1st April 2008:
- Initial releases

ripperr · #**632** 11-24-2008, 07:14 PM

Thank ya for this addon all worked fine.
edit: ive solved my problem, so just thank you, its a great addon

ReCom · #**633** 11-24-2008, 10:15 PM

Also, the mod seems to mess with the message count and last activity timestamp on social groups listing when both social group messages and social forum are available. Since you give an option to either turn off the group messages or leave them on, you should at least take in consideration cases when a social group has both group messages and forum posts. Message count should be sum of messages and posts and last activity timestamp should take the last message or the last post.

SocialForum 1.4.6
vBulletin 3.7.4 PL1
PHP 5.2.6
MySQL 5.0.51a-community

flOid · #**634** 11-27-2008, 09:03 AM

As promised, I'm now publishing a tool to convert the social forums of this mod to the new social group discussions feature in vB 3.8.

See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=197898

ReCom · #**635** 11-27-2008, 09:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flOid

As promised, I'm now publishing a tool to convert the social forums of this mod to the new social group discussions feature in vB 3.8.

Hey thanks! I was worrying about upgrading to 3.8.x because of SocialForum. Now I can be relieved to plan the upgrade when 3.8 gold is out.

p/s: maybe you could put the tool up as a mod on its own? there's a setting in vb.org mod thread where you can relate your tool back with SocialForum.

flOid · #**636** 11-27-2008, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReCom

Hey thanks! I was worrying about upgrading to 3.8.x because of SocialForum. Now I can be relieved to plan the upgrade when 3.8 gold is out.

p/s: maybe you could put the tool up as a mod on its own? there's a setting in vb.org mod thread where you can relate your tool back with SocialForum.

I was considering this, but since this is not really a vB mod, but just a converter script working completely independently from vB, I wasn't sure if it would be appropriate to publish it as a mod of it's own...

I guess i should contact a moderator to clarify this.

ReCom · #**637** 11-27-2008, 12:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReCom

Also, the mod seems to mess with the message count and last activity timestamp on social groups listing when both social group messages and social forum are available. Since you give an option to either turn off the group messages or leave them on, you should at least take in consideration cases when a social group has both group messages and forum posts. Message count should be sum of messages and posts and last activity timestamp should take the last message or the last post.

SocialForum 1.4.6
vBulletin 3.7.4 PL1
PHP 5.2.6
MySQL 5.0.51a-community

In reference of my bug report above, I'm tired of waiting so I've fixed it myself. For those forum admins who have both social group messages and social forums (i.e those who didn't disable group messages when installing socialforums), and are bothered with this mod messing the post counts and last post timestamps, here is how to fix it:

Open plugin SocialForums (group_prepareinfo).

Find the following codes:

PHP Code:


			
            $group['lastpostdate'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $getlastpostinfo['lastpost'], true);

            $group['lastposttime'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $getlastpostinfo['lastpost']);



             $group['lastposterid'] = "";

             $group['lastposter'] = "";

Wrap it in an IF block, resulting in:

PHP Code:


			
        if ($getlastpostinfo['lastpost'] > $group['lastpost'])

        {

            $group['lastpostdate'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $getlastpostinfo['lastpost'], true);

            $group['lastposttime'] = vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $getlastpostinfo['lastpost']);



             $group['lastposterid'] = "";

             $group['lastposter'] = "";

        }

Next find

PHP Code:


			
            $group['visible'] = $getlastpostinfo['threads'] + $getlastpostinfo['replies'];

Change it to

PHP Code:


			
            $group['visible'] += $getlastpostinfo['threads'] + $getlastpostinfo['replies'];

I sincerely hope for this mod creator to include this fix in the next version.

btw, these two lines in the plugin irritate me:

PHP Code:


			
         $group['lastposterid'] = "";

             $group['lastposter'] = "";

Is it too hard to find out the username of the last poster? My next post in this thread will be a fix for the two lines, if the next version doesn't fix it or it's taking too much time.

powerful_rogue · #**638** 11-28-2008, 01:25 PM

Hi,

Before I look at upgrading to 3.8, does 3.8 have the feature of allowing members to create a forum for their group like this mod allows?

killa seven · #**639** 11-29-2008, 11:33 AM

I've uploaded all of the files to there right spot, but when i go to upload the product...it says intall includes/socialforumfunctions.php first, can someone help me?

flOid · #**640** 12-03-2008, 01:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReCom

p/s: maybe you could put the tool up as a mod on its own? there's a setting in vb.org mod thread where you can relate your tool back with SocialForum.

Done now. See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=197898

Would be nice if thise who already used this script would mark this mod as installed now.

powerful_rogue · #**641** 12-03-2008, 06:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

Hi,

Before I look at upgrading to 3.8, does 3.8 have the feature of allowing members to create a forum for their group like this mod allows?

bump

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