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Topic (incl. Blog) of the Week/Fortnight/Month Nomination v1.636
Developer Last Online: Oct 2011
On my board (USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D), we get many comments daily or weekly on many different topics and there are so many topics in the community that to be honest, we had a tough time remembering the topic being reviewed to offer a timely comment or response. Obviously, we needed a weekly/monthly topic nomination system with which we could get our community to commit to one topic as a group and then comment on it during the course of the week/month.
Cruising vB.org at warp speed, I failed to find a nomination system readily available. Hence, I quickly wrote this mod (on my way to the bridge). Acknowledgement: This release would not have been quickly possible without the existence of most hacks released at vB.org, especially the "Thank You" hack by Abe1, which provided this mod basis structure. Our thanks and all the merit goes to Abe1. A nice set of button and awards images have also been kindly provided by PrinceEdward to whom we also extend our thanks. Many constructive feedbacks have been given by those members at the vB.org community who downloaded the first releases of this Mod, the implementation of which has led to an improved version of the Mod. We extend our thanks to those members. What this mod does It adds a "Topic Of The Week/Month" nomination system to your community. What is Topic Of The Week/Month? Topic of the Week/Month is a contest that select posts on which your community can commit to as a group and then comment/discuss on them during the course of the selected week/month. Any listed topic (post, thread) is eligible for the Topic of the Week/Month selection. What determines a Topic Of The Week/Month? Topic Of The Week/Month is based on a simple nomination system. Throughout the selected forums, members with adequate permissions can nominate their favorite topic by clicking on the award nomination button below the post. The five topics with the most votes during the course of the week/month are automatically displayed on a nomination thread including a poll feature. At the end of the week/month, the first three topics with the most votes are the award winners of the contest. Features:
Installation instructions Version 1.63
Enjoy Update in version 1.01 Nominated posts titles hot linked in the poll to actual thread/post of the forum Update in version 1.1
Update in version 1.2
Update in version 1.21
Update in version 1.22
Update in version 1.3
Update in version 1.35
Update 14/07/2008 in cron file I noticed that some code instructions fail to work properly depending on the PhP version been used. If you are running the v 1.35 and TOTW on a weekly basis and if for some reason, your cron file failed to work and create a new nomination thread on Sunday 13, July 2008, please use the attachment "updated-cron-14-07-2008.zip". The instructions are given in there. Update in version 1.40
Update in version 1.50
Update in version 1.51
If you are running v 1.50 with weekly cycle time and noticed that a new nomination thread has been created but the display title is still that of the previous thread (week 30), then this is for you. Do not delete the newly created nomination thread (with title week 30). On Monday 21st July, 2008, after 00:10AM, proceed as follow:
Topic of the Week-Month Nomination v1.51 Updated Prod and Cron
Topic of the Week-Month Nomination v1.51 Updated function
Update in version 1.60
Update in version 1.61
Update in version 1.62
Update in version 1.621
Update in version 1.63
Update in version 1.635
Update in version 1.636
Feedback are welcome and implementation of constructive suggestions will likely be carried out during weekends only, as I am kept busy with other matters during working days. Also, feel free to add improvements in those files and post them. To other coders: feel free to add improvements to the Mod (files) and post them. I will directly use your updated files for the next version of the mod. Supporters / CoAuthors Show Your Support
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#702
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Whenever i enable the "Only allow nomination of posts from the preceeding week" it doesn't work at all .. no posts can be nominated :/
Any one got an idea of why this happens? |
#703
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I don't know if this has already been brought up, but is there a way to make it so it only awards a medal to the #1 top nominated topic? As it stands, it awards the top 3.
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#704
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I'm getting a 404 error when running the cron. It sends the PM's and closes the thread, but the new one will not open. I'm using the updated cron.
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#705
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#706
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We would like to point out this has a serious problem on the profile page. Where you set your hook in the profile page for stats for the profile in member_profileblock_fetch_unwrapped you didnt specify a block id so the query is basically run inside a loop so you get one call of the query per block instead of just calling it once.
We had 16 queries on our profile page from that hook so for now since we were wanting to show the awards stat somewhere else I just adapted the code and moved it to another hook for now instead of setting up an id like should have been done. Basically if you have 16 blocks on your profile page thats 16 queries instead of 1 without the id. Later we will see about posting up some fixed code when we go and add it back into the statistics tab on our site. But this is just a heads up for the developer and any big sites using this modification right now who may want to disable that hook location for the moment if they are having high loads since installing this modification. |
#707
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Has anyone installed and tested this on a larger / high activity forum?
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#708
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Try as I may, I was not able to get this to display the icons to nominate. Uninstalled until this gets addressed.
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#709
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I'm also going to have to disable this until J98680B2423E returns.
I'm getting PM's every night now that I won a nomination and haven't been able to open a new poll. |
#710
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I wish I could help you guys...
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#711
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Is there a way to make it so there isn't the new links added to the username dropdown menu in the postbit?
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