Miscellaneous Hacks - Display Unread Posts and New Reputation Comments

As of 24 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

Note: The unread posts portion of this hack only works if you use the database thread marking system, also, this attaches itself to certain phrases in the "welcome" box and will not work if they are not present (or are modified by other code).

FYI, the Forum Marking Choices are located in vBulletin Options ;
vBulletin Options > General Settings > Thread/Forum Read Marking Type

The Read Marking options were removed from vB 3.8.11, it defaults to database marking.


** For vBulletin 3.8.11 you will need to use the Unread-posts-3811.zip **

This displays the actual number of posts that are still considered unread by you (and will show up in a 'getnew' search). It also displays the number of new reputation comments since you last checked your usercp.

There is the option to count the unread posts since your last visit, or all posts considered unread. This setting reflects the divider in the 'getnew' search display. There is also the option to disable the unread posts display or the new reputation comments display.

There is also the option to display the New Reputation Comments counter as a Welcome Box Notification.

All settings are located in vBulletin Options > Display Unread Posts and Reputation.

Version 3.8.001 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Get New/Get Daily Opt Out Modification" installed (by Andreas).
Version 3.8.004 adds support for forums excluded if you have the "Selective Forum Filter Modification" installed (by Psionic Vision).

To install this hack unzip the xml file and import it using the ACP Product Manager.


History:

v3.8.001 : Initial vb 3.8 Release.
v3.8.002 : Fix forum exclusion bugs.
v3.8.003 : Fix spelling and phrase bug.
v3.8.004 : Added support for Psionic Visions Selective Forum Filter.
v3.8.005 : Updated version for vBulletin 3.8.11 (only).

[mikey1991]

Hi Paul, just to ask, how would I make it so that from my vBAdvanced portal wouldn't result in a 404 when the 'new posts' is clicked?

IE:

The forum is at mysite.com/forum and the vBAdvanced is at mysite.com and when someone clicks the 'new posts' button from the portal, it's looking for mysite.com/search.php when the correct path would be mysite.com/forum/search.php

So, What template\phrase do I need to edit for this to change to go to the correct place?

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TalkVirginia

I had your 3.7 version of this mod installed and it was doing the same thing so I just upgraded to the 3.8 version; however, still no luck.

Any thoughts?

No idea tbh, would need admin accss to see what was happening.

Originally Posted by mikey1991

Hi Paul, just to ask, how would I make it so that from my vBAdvanced portal wouldn't result in a 404 when the 'new posts' is clicked?

IE:

The forum is at mysite.com/forum and the vBAdvanced is at mysite.com and when someone clicks the 'new posts' button from the portal, it's looking for mysite.com/search.php when the correct path would be mysite.com/forum/search.php

So, What template\phrase do I need to edit for this to change to go to the correct place?

Edit the Links Path setting in the options.

[TalkVirginia]

No idea tbh, would need admin accss to see what was happening.

No worries. It wasn't your addon that caused the issue. My bad..

[Stormraven]

Thankyou paul, everything seems to be working fine now

[greenspan]

I installed this module. Thanks.

[mikey1991]

Thanks Paul, Helped alot.. wasn't too sure what to do with that feature.

[lowey]

Is there a way to disable the automatic insertion of the unread-messages-link into the welcomebox?

I want to place it somehwere else and I tried placing $unread in combination with the Disable Unread Posts Display-setting. But this also renders the variable useless. Any clues?

Thanks!

Edit: OK, found it in the Unread Posts and Reputation (2)-plugin. Thanks anyway!

[arena]

Unread post not working help me please? New Reputation working

[Paul M]

Help you how ?

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

I have the options set to "Count All Posts Marked as Unread"
I have the issue with the link taking me to this: mysite.com/forums/search.php?do=getnew[ARG:2%20UNDEFINED].

I read about something with the dup_posts phrase, but I don't see anything wrong with it... this is what it is:

You Have <strong>{1} <a href="{3}search.php?do=getnew">Unread {2}</a></strong>

What else could be the problem?

Originally Posted by Paul M

Argument 2 of that phrase is another phrase that is part of this product - the only possible way you could get it is if vbulletin didnt import the phrases properly, or you have somehow deleted the phrase - uninstalling and re-installing might fix that, otherwise, still no idea.

Okay, uninstalling and re-installing got rid of this ARG UNDEFINED issue...

But now I have a new problem: Rather than the welcome box saying how many unread posts I have, it says "Display Unread Posts" where the Unread Posts part is the link to the getnew page.

All of the phrases are un-modified. Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks. I love this mod and hope to get it working properly