Forum Display Enhancements - Encheferizer

The Encheferizer

Product: Encheferizer 1.05
Author: Hugh Messenger (cheesegrits)
Support: On this thread only
Tested on: vBulletin 3.6.0 through 3.6.4
Average Install Time: 30 seconds

Summary

Do you have some troublesome users you want to punish but don't want to ban them just yet? Or maybe play a practical joke on some of your users? Or just have some good old fashioned Swedish Chef Fun? Then this is the mod for you.

What it Does

Displays all posts from a configurable list of UserID's and / or in ForumID's in "mock swedish". You don't have to have seen the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, but it sure would make a lot more sense if you have, Bork Bork Bork!

Individual encheferized users see their posts as usual:

Attachment 57831

Everyone else sees them like this:

Attachment 57830

Encheferized forums are "translated" in entirety - posts, titles, descriptions and all. Encheferized posts are NOT altered in the database, they are encheferized on the fly during template evaluation. So when you've had your fun, you just remove ID's from the list and things will go back to normal.

There are some options to control how victims see their own and other victims posts, see the ACP Encheferizer options for details (under the main vBulletin settings list). As of v1.03, the Encheferizer supports bbcode, smilies, IMG's and URL's.

Why?

Good question. Well, apart from just being funny as all get out, I wrote this for a friend who has some very persistant troublemakers on his forum. It turns out that Encheferization is a remarkably good tool for controlling Bad Boyz & Gurlz. It has a way of focusing peer pressure, creates much confusion amongst the Encheferized, and much hilarity for everyone else. Best of all, it renders the Encheferized unable to properly vent their spleen - after all, who can take threats of violence and foul language seriously when it is rendered in mock swedish?

And of course, having an enchererized forum on your board is just good old fashioned family fun!

Installation

1. Copy bb_encheferizer.php to ./includes in your forum root.
2. Import the product XML from your ACP Product Manager.
3. Don't forget to hit the install button on this page. No, I'm not bucking for HOTM, I just want to be able to let you know about any updates!

Configuration

1. Find the Encheferizer under the vBulletin Settings menu in your ACP.
2. Enter a comma separated list of userids and/or forumids you want to encheferize.
3. Light blue touch paper and stand well clear.

Upgrading

1. Copy the new bb_encheferizer.php to your forum ./includes folder. If you are upgrading from 1.02 or earlier delete the old encheferizer.php.
2. Re-import the product XML, remembering to set Overwrite to Yes.

Uninstallation

1. Uninstall the product from the ACP Product Manager.
2. Delete the ./includes/encheferizer.php and/or bb_encheferizer.php file(s).

Change History

• 1.05 Fixed forum description and guest posting bugs.
• 1.04 Fixed post caching bug. Fixed PM title bug (thanks Adrian). Improved bbcode support to prevent "[escaping the chef]".
• 1.03 Added support for bbcode, smilies, IMG's and URL's.
• 1.02 Added forum encheferization and "Victims See As" options.
• 1.01 Changed version and ZIP numbering to match vborg version checking.
• 1.0.1 Added thread and post title encheferizing, input validation on userid list
• 1.0.0 Original release

Thanks

Major props to Erik Bakker for the original encheferizer.php port.

Thanks to SirAdrian for putting up with my dumb questions.

Productizing made easy using the Advanced Product Manager by mtha.


With Apologies To

The Swedish Chef. Bork Bork Bork!


Enjoy!

-- hugh

[masterme]

Also installed this, very funny!
How do I get it to work on the index page? Since that has no id?

[Jaxel]

I found a bug... if someone uses the [IMG] tag... the image gets broken because it enchenferizes the link to the image as well.

[Sadie Frost]

Love it love it love it

A nice thing for the future (for April Fools jokes lol) would be the option to automatically make all forums encheferized, so you don't need to enter all your forum ids

Thanks for making this - I laughed so hard today!

[Soliloquy]

I had the same experience as Jaxel today; it broke all the posted images and the smileys too.

On the upside, I was able to display random avatars of the Chef with a little help from the vBulletin.org forum. I've attached a zip file of the six Swedish Chef avatars I used; they're all a bit on the large size (most are 100 pixels high) so you may want to resize them. Create a subdirectory named SwedishChef in the images/misc directory and upload them there. Then go to Plugins and Products: Plugin Manager, find the Encheferizer section, and click on Edit for the postbit_display_start hook. Add:

$newavatar = mt_rand(1, 6);

(Change the 6 to the number of Chef avatars you have.)

Next, edit your postbit template. Find:

<if condition="$show['avatar']"><td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="$post[avatarurl]" $post[avwidth] $post[avheight] alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[xs_avatar]</phrase>" border="0" /></a></td></if>

and comment it out. Below it add:

<td class="alt2"><a href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]"><img src="http://www.yourforum.com/images/misc/SwedishChef/swedish_chef$newavatar.jpg" border="0" /></a></td>

[IamRob]

Hugh, what's the deal?

Are you ever going to release the next update?

[WhiteOx2]

It's a pity any quoted text shows up as normal, otherwise this would be great.

[Soonerdude]

Someone needs to make a pig-latin version of this mod.

[cheesegrits]

Originally Posted by WhiteOx2

It's a pity any quoted text shows up as normal, otherwise this would be great.

Sorry about the massive time lag on my response, I had some family issues which prevented me spending much time on vborg, only just been able to start finding the time again.

I'm working on making this an option.

-- hugh

[TheJordan]

Here's come code I wrote fro dealing with smilies and html entities that get broken in Chef-speak. My only problem is when I put this into the for loop (~ line 106), the smilies and entities are moved to the front of the Encheferized text. I've only had a couple of minutes to mess with this, so I'm sure someone with more of an idea of what this loop is doing (cheesegrits?) will know how to fix this

PHP Code:

            if($char == '&')
            {
                // check if this is an html entity
                $goto = null;
                $entity = $char;
                for($j=$i+1;$j<$maxLen;$j++)
                {
                    $entity .= $string[$j];
                    if($string[$j]==';')
                    {
                        $goto = $j+1;
                        $j = $maxLen + 100;
                        continue;
                    }
                }

                // if we're actually dealing with an entity
                if($goto != null)
                {
                    $i = $goto;
                    $newString .= $entity;
                    continue;
                }
            }

            if($char == ':')
            {
                // check if this is a smiley
                $goto = null;
                $smiley = $char;
                for($j=$i+1;$j<$maxLen;$j++)
                {
                    $smiley .= $string[$j];
                    if($string[$j]==' ')
                    {
                        $j = $maxLen + 100;
                        unset($smiley);
                        continue;
                    }
                    elseif($string[$j]==':')
                    {
                        $goto = $j+1;
                        $j = $maxLen + 100;
                    }
                }

                // if we're actually dealing with a smiley
                if($goto != null)
                {
                    $i = $goto;
                    $newString .= $smiley;
                    continue;
                }
            } 


BTW, been laughing my ass off all day. Best April Fools, ever. Thanks.

[Phaedrus]

I can't stop laughing...