Mini Mods - [DBTech] User Spotlight v1 (vB4)

DragonByte Technologies are proud to present User Spotlight v1: A mini mod to show a random member on your forumhome page.


Why User Spotlight?

DBTech's User Spotlight mod lets you display a random member on your forum home page as a way to increase member commmunication.

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What does 'Marking As Installed' do ?

* It helps you to stay on top of updates - members who have installed modifications will be notified by us whenever new updates are available.

* For security issues - vbulletin.org will contact all members who have installed a modification whenever a security issue is brought to their attention.

* Marking a modification as installed also helps us know how many people are using our work, giving us extra incentive to provide more features and new modifications.

We appreciate the support!

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Priority support for this version is handled at the Developers Website.

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Major Features

ForumHome Integration: Members' details will show in the infobar on the forumhome.

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Feature List

• Random user selected every night
• Admin override of selected user
• Admin variables to limit selected users by number of posts, reputation and days active

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of the forum home page which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Taurus1]

It looks really good in the sideblock. Thank you.

Just one small thing. If you look at the screenshot I attach, there is a double point I circled. How can I get rid of that please?

Attachment 125083

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Taurus1

It looks really good in the sideblock. Thank you.

Just one small thing. If you look at the screenshot I attach, there is a double point I circled. How can I get rid of that please?

Attachment 125083

I just fixed it, the script was thinking there were custom fields set when there weren't.
You will most likely have to refresh the sideblock after the code change since it's cached.
ACP->Forums & Moderators->Forum Blocks Manager
Click Edit next to Spotlight User and then click Save
That should fix it.

[Taurus1]

Thank you! That did it.

[Blackhat]

I get the wrong URL to the avatars, probably because my forum is in a folder called forums. So the path to the avatars gets "forums/" twice

Where can I fix this ?

[tattooz]

Thanks for the update, just what I was looking for.

I get this error:
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/dbtech/spotlight/core/class_fetchuser.php on line 57

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

I get the wrong URL to the avatars, probably because my forum is in a folder called forums. So the path to the avatars gets "forums/" twice

Where can I fix this ?

What do you have set for your forum url and url to avatars?

It builds the path off those two, you might have a situation with those that maybe I didn't account for.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by tattooz

Thanks for the update, just what I was looking for.

I get this error:
Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in [path]/dbtech/spotlight/core/class_fetchuser.php on line 57

What do you have set for your Alternate Additions in the ACP? I can't seem to replicate that error on my system. Line 57 is dealing with that field.

[kesandal]

Hi,
I'm getting the same error

I've nothing selected under "alternate additions".

VB-Version: 4.1.0 PL2

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by kesandal

Hi,
I'm getting the same error

I've nothing selected under "alternate additions".

VB-Version: 4.1.0 PL2

Try the 1.5.2 I just uploaded. I couldn't replicate the error but I switched the function around so it shouldn't give the error if you don't have anything selected.

[Blackhat]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

What do you have set for your forum url and url to avatars?

It builds the path off those two, you might have a situation with those that maybe I didn't account for.

avatars: /hsphere/local/home/username/mysite.com/forums/customavatars
forum url : http://www.mysite.com/forums