Miscellaneous Hacks - SocialForums 1.4

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

[Phalynx]

Originally Posted by Bluefin221

This first one is when you try to accept or deny more members than one to a group, so you have to at this point do them one at a time.

Fatal error: Call to a member function set_existing() on a non-object in /home/main/public_html/forums/group.php on line 3999

This error is *NOT* related to SocialForums. It will be fixed in vBulletin 3.8.2, see here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=27274

Originally Posted by Bluefin221

This second one has only occured since I upgraded social forums.

Fixed in next version (which will be RC)

[GHC Webmaster]

Done a quick test on my test version of vB. Noticed one thing:

Transfering the ownership of a group to another user doesn't change the forum's moderator as well. Which means this has to be changed manually by an admin.

For the rest it looks very good indeed.

[WreckRman2]

Originally Posted by Phalynx

There is a link at the bottom, near "Delete Group" and "Edit Group". It appears only if the group owner has the permission to create a forum and enough members.

I do not have that link at all...

[WreckRman2]

If you visit "/forumdisplay.php?do=markread" it returns an SQL error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:
Invalid SQL:
SELECT
groupid
FROM socialgroup
WHERE forumid=;
MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 4
Error Number : 1064

[Bluefin221]

Thanks for the prompt answers guys.

[Phalynx]

Ok, I got the converter running. In the next release there will be a converter to transfer group discussions and messages into forums.

Originally Posted by GHC Webmaster

Done a quick test on my test version of vB. Noticed one thing:

Transfering the ownership of a group to another user doesn't change the forum's moderator as well. Which means this has to be changed manually by an admin.

For the rest it looks very good indeed.

I will try to implement this for the next version.

Originally Posted by IndyWebDesign

If you visit "/forumdisplay.php?do=markread" it returns an SQL error:

Already fixed in next version:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=711

[WreckRman2]

When will we see the next version with it corrected so I'm not getting errors?

[Phalynx]

Tomorrow morning (European time).

[WreckRman2]

Cool, thanks...

[Phalynx]

SocialForums 2.0 has been released into the vBulletin 3.8 section. Support for 2.0 will be provided only there:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=207315