Major Additions - GRPS: Groups Commune 2.0.x

Welcome ladies and gentleman, this is the release thread for GRPS, an interactive groups commune. I hope you enjoy this release and i sincerely hope it provides everything to your community in which you're looking for.

What is it?
It's a groups commune. The original idea is that forums with lots and lots of forums on the front-page suck, as a result i thought most of the conversation was rather obscure in regards to what the forums were trying to achieve, so it'd be nice to have that all going on elsewhere, not detracting away from the content and stopping your front-page from looking like a car crash.

Features?

• Groups Home
  
  • Groups Activity List
    
    • Newest Groups
      
    • Most Popular Groups
      
    • Largest Groups
      
  • Category List
    
  • Group Search by Title
    
  • Group Sort by Alphabetical Title, Categories, Member Count
    
    
  • Users can create groups
    
  • Admin switch to moderate groups or not
    
    • Admin CP access to moderation panel
      
• Groups Page
  
  • Posts since last visit notification
    
  • Group Info
    
    • Group Leader shown with avatar
      
    • Category
      
    • Type
      
      • Groups can be listed as public, private or hidden
        
    • Start Date
      
    • Member count
      
    • Post count
      
  • Group Desciption
    
    • Shows group title
      
    • Shows random image
      
    • Shows group information set by group leader
      
  • Groups Thread List (Forum)
    
    • Status Icon
      
    • Title
      
      • Threads use postbit as per the forums
        
    • Thread Author with avatar and time that the thread was started
      
    • Last reply with avatar, username and time that the last reply was posted
      
    • Post New Thread Button
      
      • Groups Members can create threads
        
  • Newest Members
    
    • Shows five newest members
      
    • Link to view all members
      
      • Shows all members of the group
        
  • Group Options
    
    • Users can join/leave groups
      
      • PM Notification for group leaders upon join requests (when moderation enabled).
        
      • PM Notification for of acceptance or refusal.
        
    • Users can send invites to other users via PM
      
• Groups Thread
  
  • Groups Info Box (see above for more info)
    
  • Group Description box (see above for more info)
    
  • Newest Members List (see above for more info)
    
  • List of groups posts using forums postbit
    
  • Pagination using native vBulletin pagination
    
  • Group Leader/Moderation Options
    
    • Open/Close Thread
      
    • Stick Thread
      
    • Delete Thread
      
  • Users have the ability to report posts
    
  • Moderators have the ability to view IP and host.
    
• Group Leader Options
  
  • Groups Management
    
    • WYSIWYG Editor
      
    • Reason for editing box
      
    • Group Options
      
      • Private Posts
        
      • Only group leader can make threads
        
      • Moderate Members
        
      • Show group text edit details
        
      • Hide group image on group pages
        
      • Hidden Group
        
        • This option is only available to admins
          
  • Group Members Moderation
    
    • Ability to accept or deny new members
      
• Postbit Integration
  
  • View Users Groups
    
• User Control Panel (Integration)
  
  • List of groups appears in usercp in order of the last post
    
• Administrator Options
  
  • vBulletin Options
    
    • Turn groups on or off
      
    • Groups Limit Per User
      
    • Posts Per Page (threads)
      
    • Check Forum Activity Posts
      
    • Check Forum Activity Time
      
    • Number of Random Images
      
    • Turn email notification of new groups on/off
      
  • Usergroup Options
    
    • Can view groups
      
    • Can create groups
      
    • Can join groups
      
    • Can post messages in groups
      
    • Can edit messages in groups
      
    • Can delete messages posted in groups
      
    • Numbers of groups usergroup can join limited
      
    • Can moderate groups
      
      • See above for more info
        
    • Can view IP Addresses
      
  • Category Editor
    
    • Edit
      
      • Edit cat id (please not this can ef up your show)
        
      • Edit cat title
        
      • Edit cat description
        
    • Add
      
      • New Cat Title And Description
        
  • Groups Editor
    
    • Search for group by id
      
      • Edit
        
        • Title
          
        • Desciption
          
        • Categoryid
          
        • Group leader id
          
        • Private Posts
          
        • Moderate Members
          
        • Hidden group
          

Special Thanks to harry1951, without his help testing and his recommendations, this would've never ended up the way it did.

Honestly, i can't think of anything else, if you appreciate the work gone into this mod, please donate (in GBP) (right click open in new window)

Hopefully you all appreciate that i just relaunched my site and rather than soak up the atmosphere there or go out drinking i came to release this tonight.

Screens below, rest to your right

Please note this mod does work with 3.5.x

PLEASE DO NOT JOIN MY SITE IN A BID TO PLAY WITH IT OR HAVE A LOOK AT IT FURTHER, MY SITE IS SOMETHING I VALUE FOR BEING SOMEWHERE I CAN CHILL AT, IT'S NOT A TEST SUITE OR DEMO!

Bug Fixes

• Groups v2.0.0 RC1b.zip: fix regarding incorrect table prefixes in index.php and editpost.php
• Groups v2.0.0 RC2.zip: fix regarding incorrect table prefixes in functions_grps.php and class_grps.php. also fix regarding installation instructions.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC3.zip: fix regarding inability to get to create groups page. updated simplified instructions, sadly still not cool html ones and also added ability to delete groups, delete categories and of course the menu options to get to these.
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC3b.zip: fix regarding joining and leaving group depreciated function error added uninstaller to the zip at http://www.yoursite.com/groups/tools...p?do=uninstall
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC3c.zip: fix regarding edit being stated as 70's on group stages, requires re-installtion of the plugin only.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC4.zip: various bug fixes and new general setting, please reupload all files and then reinstall the product.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC5.zip: bug fixes regarding fixing links to forums being broken and forcing redirects for create group outcomes.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC6.zip: various bug fixes including table prefixes in admincp, invitations system now features in-line erroneous username fall-back and clean up regarding broken images in viewthread.php
• Groups v2.0.0 RC7.zip: bug fixes including missing phrases and missing 'noavatar.gif for group leader on groups info.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC8.zip: various bug fixes including missing phrases, smilies not working. new function to turn of new group moderation. form now working on print_no_permission page (thanks Adrian) and something else i forgot.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC9.zip: fixes two spelling mistakes, moves viewthread.php string_replacements to admincp and simplifies the installer experience. (yeah i thought there'd be more to it too).
  • Groups v2.0.0 RC9b.zip: re-fixes two spelling mistakes, fixes a viewthread.php string_replacement via the admincp and turns the default random image count down to that of which is provided.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC10.zip: optimises some of the code, cuts down on queries in exchange for additional joins and now forces compatibility in groups/viewthread.php with vBulletin options. also adds new option in admincp in order to make usercp listing work better out of the box.
• Groups v2.0.0 RC11.zip: fixes a problem with avatars not displaying correctly in thread listing and also optimises the code in membership.php
• Groups v2.0.0.zip: adds and array_merge to the code and smilie popup fixed. now features hooks for plug-in 'easability'. uCS integration moved to external plugin too.
• Groups v2.0.1.zip: removes one hook, fixes problem with membership.php, fixes problem editgroup.php not remembering options and fixes avatar problem.
• Groups v2.0.2.zip: various bug fixes (like missing pagenavs, more elegant removal of reputation button and infraction button and php notices), one or two new features (like intuitive page titles) and now fully phrased.
• Groups v2.0.3.zip: bug fix regarding now being able to select categories. includes a new feature which is basically pagination for the thread listings.
• Groups v2.0.4.zip: bug fix regarding not being able to moderate group memberships.
• Groups v2.0.5.zip: bug fix regarding those introduced via 2.0.4, new features such as double post prevention disable, admins can override privacy settings, usergroup permission text more intuitive and end-user usability increased with modification to threadbit on groups.php. group leaders can now kick users from there groups.
• Groups v2.0.6.zip: bug fix including report, missing edit button and other misc small bugs, new features such as disable hidden groups, allow mods to see private groups, and resign from group handing off to another user.
• Groups v2.0.7.zip: bug fix including fixing post counts, thread goto's and fatal php errors.
• Groups v2.0.8.zip: bug fix regarding inability to delete posts, problem with editing posts and other misc errors.
• Groups v2.0.9.zip: various bug fixes including wywiwyg error, admin cp error and redirect/goto errors.
  • Groups v2.0.9b.zip: fixes problem with upgrade4.php
• Groups v2.0.10.zip: various bug fixes including acknowledging renamed modcp and admincp dir's also adds option regarding removing of posts at group exit/kick.
• Groups v2.0.11.zip: various bug fixes including security/privacy fixes.
• Groups v2.0.12.zip: permission bug fixed.
• Groups v2.0.13.zip: various bug fixes including ability to ignore members in groups and newreply bug.

[Factory Ten]

Originally Posted by Exitilus

The only thing I can think of is you have some sort of Plugin causing the problem. Obviously I'm not the Dev here just figured I'd answer if I had any idea of what is going on (So hopefully i'm not stepping on his toes).

Well this was the first plugin I tried to install. I think I'm going to reinstall one more time and see what happens.

[Factory Ten]

Ok. I reinstalled it again and now stuff is appearing in the Usergroups options. Perhaps before I'd missed a file or something but it seems to be working now. Thanks.

Edit: Some of the images aren't showing up, though. The groups-related images do, but the ones from vBulletin (like my logo and whatnot) aren't.

Edit edit: I'm getting an error message when I go into the Usergroup Manager:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.2:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Users Awaiting Email Confirmation',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = '',
`opentag` = '',
`closetag` = '',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`forumpermissions` = '655371',
`genericpermissions` = '67',
`attachlimit` = '0',
`pmquota` = '50',
`pmpermissions` = '0',
`pmsendmax` = '0',
`calendarpermissions` = '1',
`wolpermissions` = '0',
`adminpermissions` = '0',
`genericoptions` = '56',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '100',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '100',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '80',
`avatarmaxheight` = '80',
`avatarmaxsize` = '20000',
`signaturepermissions` = '0',
`sigpicmaxwidth` = '500',
`sigpicmaxheight` = '100',
`sigpicmaxsize` = '2000',
`sigmaxrawchars` = '1000',
`sigmaxchars` = '500',
`sigmaxlines` = '0',
`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
`sigmaximages` = '4',
`vbimghost` = '0',
`vbimghost_upslots` = '3',
`vbimghost_files` = '50',
`grpspermissions` = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=3;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'grpspermissions' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Sunday, November 5th 2006 @ 01:44:08 PM
Classname : vb_database

Editting again: I just reran the installer script and it recreated the tables. Odd.

[sabret00the]

I understand that some users are feeling very neglected and i apologise for that, rest assured that with the moments that present themselves the opportunities i am indeed working hard on GRPS. sadly what i've been doing since the last update will go unnoticed by most as it was a matter of cleaning PHP errors caused by the product. this is in preparation of taking the product forward as much as possible, not that there are any firm plans. At the moment however i'm busy fully phrasing the thing, i am hoping to have it fully phrased and released by tomorrow afternoon. Again i apologise due to the fact that as a cause of all this i haven't been very active in this thread or able to provide support. Please note that if i had the time, i would be here so Private Messaging me or Instant Messaging me in the absence of a donation is a little much, while i'm good natured and will help if i can, i really hope etiquette will suppress the requests of private assistance in lieu of no financial incentive. Of course, i will read through this thread before release and curb all the issues possible making sure to fold all fixes into the next release, that goes without question.

[The Chief]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

I understand that some users are feeling very neglected and i apologise for that, rest assured that with the moments that present themselves the opportunities i am indeed working hard on GRPS. sadly what i've been doing since the last update will go unnoticed by most as it was a matter of cleaning PHP errors caused by the product. this is in preparation of taking the product forward as much as possible, not that there are any firm plans. At the moment however i'm busy fully phrasing the thing, i am hoping to have it fully phrased and released by tomorrow afternoon. Again i apologise due to the fact that as a cause of all this i haven't been very active in this thread or able to provide support. Please note that if i had the time, i would be here so Private Messaging me or Instant Messaging me in the absence of a donation is a little much, while i'm good natured and will help if i can, i really hope etiquette will suppress the requests of private assistance in lieu of no financial incentive. Of course, i will read through this thread before release and curb all the issues possible making sure to fold all fixes into the next release, that goes without question.

Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate your assistance and good luck on that.

I'm intending on making your product a public release on myetalk.com very soon

(once you answer this question )

Originally Posted by The Chief

This doesn't help me at all, it still doesn't work...

http://forums.myetalk.com/groups/groups.php?g=1

Any suggestions?

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by The Chief

Thank you very much for your help, I appreciate your assistance and good luck on that.

I'm intending on making your product a public release on myetalk.com very soon

(once you answer this question )

funnily enough, that post stood out to me and i was intending to answer it before i buried myself back in the wonderful world of phrasing, however...

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[UncoderMom]

When I try to edit a group I add the group name in ACP and get redirected to a blank blue page?

Any ideas?

[bo0oost]

Originally Posted by UncoderMom

When I try to edit a group I add the group name in ACP and get redirected to a blank blue page?

Any ideas?

You need to enter the group ID, not name.

[bo0oost]

Originally Posted by sabret00the

I understand that some users are feeling very neglected and i apologise for that, rest assured that with the moments that present themselves the opportunities i am indeed working hard on GRPS. sadly what i've been doing since the last update will go unnoticed by most as it was a matter of cleaning PHP errors caused by the product. this is in preparation of taking the product forward as much as possible, not that there are any firm plans. At the moment however i'm busy fully phrasing the thing, i am hoping to have it fully phrased and released by tomorrow afternoon. Again i apologise due to the fact that as a cause of all this i haven't been very active in this thread or able to provide support. Please note that if i had the time, i would be here so Private Messaging me or Instant Messaging me in the absence of a donation is a little much, while i'm good natured and will help if i can, i really hope etiquette will suppress the requests of private assistance in lieu of no financial incentive. Of course, i will read through this thread before release and curb all the issues possible making sure to fold all fixes into the next release, that goes without question.

Eagerly awaiting the update

[UncoderMom]

Originally Posted by bo0oost

You need to enter the group ID, not name.

Dont I feel smart! lol


Is there anyway you can have it redirect back to the edit groups (after a group edit) instead of redirecting back to edit category? same as delete group, it redirects back to delete category instead of delete group....

Also, are admins not supposed to see what the groups are posting/or post without asking to be a member??

[evenmonkeys]

I'm having quite a few problems with getting this to work. The first problem I'm having it that none of the images are showing up that require css. Instead of showing as http://website.com/images/whatever.gif it's showing as http://website Groups.com/images/whatever.gif. I can't find where it's replacing that at. >_< The other problem is that my navbar is showing no images whatsoever. I'm assuming that's because of the css... but yeah. Oh yeah. The groups that are in the three columns won't center align either. AHHH!

Help me. I'm going to cry soon.