Mini Mods - Subscribed Threads in Notifications

As seen on www.pentaxforums.com/forums/ , I'm bringing you a handy mod that adds the number of new subscribed threads to the notifications area, as well as a link to subscription.php. This means that whenever someone replies to one of your subscribed threads, you don't have to check your user cp or your e-mail inbox- just click on the notification! Notifications can also be reset via the User CP (memcached version only*).

This mod is provided free of charge, but I ask that the copyright and contact information be retained within the SOURCE. There are no visible copyrights for this mod. Furthermore, I ask that you do not re-use this code without my permission.

Non-Memcached Version:
Time to install: <1 minute (upload 1 product file)
Current Version: 1.1.0
Queries: 1 per pageload for logged in users
Templates: 0
New Phrases: 1
Compatibility: vB 3.7.x-4.x

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Enjoy and don't forget to mark this as installed if you decide to use it! Limited support will be offered to those who click install.

Note to owners of large forums: I also offer a version of this mod that does not add any global queries and instead utilizes memcached. I can install this premium version on your site for an hourly charge, assuming your server already has memcached installed. Send me a PM for details.

[MoMan]

No, because the last read time is stored in memcache, and updated when you mark forums read

[jscieza]

I do have another question regarding your memcache enabled version. You said:

The memcached-enabled version caches the new thread count for 5 minutes

So do it means that the notifications aren't going to be in "real time" and there could be a delay of 5 minutes?

[MoMan]

Right, it can take up to 5 minutes for a notification to pop up after a reply has been made to a subscribed thread. However, once you open the thread, the notification is cleared immediately.

[jscieza]

There is another annoying bug in the NOMEMCACHED version.

Sometimes the product is adding notifications properly but sometimes when a subscribed thread gets updated (someone replies to it) the product isn't adding notifications. So in other words, sometimes it work and sometimes it doesn't. It appears to be a random behavior.

I don't know if the memcache-enabled version of your product is better or doesn't have this bug and I'd like to use the memcache-enabled one instead of the NOMEMCACHED version but as I already told you I'm running xCache not Memcache so let allow me to insist with this:

Instead of making use of Memcache specific code why don't you simply make use of vBulletin cache, and if your vB uses xCache/Memcache/etc., then the hack will get advantage of this? Also if you go in this way you will not need two versions of your mod anymore as because if your vB doesn't make use of any cache then nothing will be cached.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=25

Is there any documentation on that? I'll gladly tweak the public version of this mod to use the vBulletin interface if such an interface is available.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....2&postcount=26

I was talking about this.

[jscieza]

Just updating the bugs in the NOMEMCACHED version for anyone interested:

Originally Posted by jscieza

Bug #1 - Status: the bug is still present. Note: programmer is unable to reproduce this bug.
There aren't notifications for email based subscriptions. I mean, members only get notifications of threads subscriptions made with the option "without email notification". If someone has a thread subscribed with instant/daily/weekly email notification then they will not receive notifications in the top right corner but email notifications will be dispatched to the member's inbox as usual.

Bug #2 - Status: this has been fixed (check here and here)
After marking all forums read the subscribed threads notification is still present (it's always 1).

Bug #3 - Status: Awaiting reply from the programmer
Sometimes the product is adding notifications properly but sometimes when a subscribed thread gets updated (someone replies to it) the product isn't adding notifications. So in other words, sometimes it work and sometimes it doesn't. It appears to be a random behavior.

[MjrNuT]

I can confirm Bug #2 in the one day of using the Non-memcached version.

I tried the memcached version but do not have a memcacher server available to me.

uninstalled

[jscieza]

Bug #2 has been already fixed by the programmer.

Note that now the notifications will clear when you mark all forums read, but not when you mark an individual forum.

And it's working fine now.

Issue here are bugs #1 and #3.

[MoMan]

I'd like to remind you that the non-memcached version isn't supported, and that I use the memcached version of this on my own site with no problems. If there were bugs, my members would have complained.

Perhaps there's some sort of setting conflict with your particular installations (this goes back to the cookie-based vs database thread marking), I'm not sure.

[MoMan]

I've updated both versions of this mod:

If a soft-deleted thread was still unread, a notification would be shown even though the thread wouldn't be visible to the user. I've now added an AND visible = 1 statement to the query to avoid such conflicts. I recommend you upgrade to 1.0.3 if you're using the non-memcached version of the mod.

[jscieza]

Hi MoMan,

Now all the bugs listed here are resolved.

Thanks for updating your hack

Regards,
Jonathan