Social Group and Album Enhancements - Cel User's Social Groups on Forum Home (like forumlist, fully templated)

What does it do?

• Shows all social groups the actual user is a member of or is subscribed to, just below the forumlist (or anywhere else on forumhome).
• If there are new messages, the corresponding forum statusicon is highlighted - just like in forumlist.
• Instead of the statusicons, you can show the group's icon
• If there are no groups to show, you can choose to show a teaser message.

Things to set in AdminCP/Options:

• use template hook to output or - more flexible - make manual template edit
• show member of / subscribed to /nothing
• sort by name or last message date
• limit max number of groups shown, then link to appropriate page (grouplist for members, usercp for subscribers)
• restrict use by usergroup
• show a teaser message if there are no groups to show
• show buttons to open new discussion etc.
• apply custom css to grouptitle
• trim group description to max length or disable
• parse bbcode in group descriptions
• use a different set of statusicons for groups than for forums
• show groupicon instead of statusicon, and choose whether you want to show original size or resized to standard statusicon size

Looks

• Out of the box: copies the standard look of the forumlist on forumhome.
• Fully templated.

Install/upgrade

1. Upload folder "images" to your forum root (can be omitted if you do not want to use the buttons).
2. Import the product file.
3. Check settings in AdminCP->Options->Social Groups on Forumhome.

Technical stuff

• 3 templates (following the forumbit-scheme)
• 2 plugins
• 2 queries to forumhome (only if groups are shown, of course).
• a bunch of phrases (prefix: cel_sgfh_).
• 4 png-buttons, taken from the silk icon set.

Limitations

• Marking of new messages only works with database, not with cookie based marking of read threads (-> AdminCP setting)
• 3.7 Discussion groups will show up as "no messages yet" as long as there was no message written under a version 3.8.0 or higher

Version history

• 4.0.006: fixed minor display bug when no discussions yet in group and fixed encoding issue reported by Been_Told
• 4.0.005: fixed small PHP 5.3 issue
• 4.0.004: fixed group's icon styling issues (thanks to ZexTasy for some useful hints) and added resize option, implemented suggestions (f.e. using template hook now)
• 4.0.003: Adapted to vB4 beta 3, first public release
• 4.0.001: Ported to vB4 alpha 1
• previous see 3.8 versions here.

The 3.8 version of this mod can be found here.

### Don't forget to click install ###

[ThorstenA]

Suggestion. Change cache_templates plugin to

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index' and $show[member])
{
$cache = array_merge((array)$cache, array('forumhome_cel_social_groups','forumhome_cel_social_groups_groupsbit','forumhome_cel_social_groups_lastmsgby'));
}

[Boofo]

In 4.0.3 you can now use the forumhome_below_forums hook for the template edit.

[cellarius]

Thanks for your suggestions - duly noted for future use

[cellarius]

NEW in 4.0.004

• fixed group's icons issues and added option to use original size or resize to statusicon size
• now using template hook (includes option to use manual template edit)

[cellarius]

NEW in 4.0.005

• fixed minor PHP 5.3-related issue.

[rsuplido]

Is there a way to fix the wrapping to not wrap when the sidebar is on?:


Thanks.

[Xencored]

cellarius did i ever tell you that i love you

dam only just found this thanks alot mate :up::up:

[Seer]

Is there anyway to move the groups forum from the bottom of the main forum..i would like to place mine more in the middle of the other forums??

Thanks great mod though

[cellarius]

There is an option in AdminCP to not use the template hook but to make a manual template edit, that allows you to move it on forumhome. You wont be able to put it in between forums, though.

[cassis2k]

Good work, thank