'Now Playing' Hack

NOW PLAYING HACK for vBulletin 2.2.8 (UPDATE)

Adds a 'Now Playing' field to your new thread and new reply pages where users can enter whatever they're listening to, and their post will be appended with something akin to: "NP: Some Song by Some Band".

All support questions should be posted in this thread

Remember: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE!! I am not a PHP guru by any stretch of the imagination -- the following code works fine for me, so you should not have any problems.

It's been tested on cB 2.2.8. I will not be held responsible if your forum crashes, or turns into a Britney Spears BB

You can see it in action at my Ultimate Metal forums where I've modified it slightly to have a small CD icon in place of the usual 'NP:'.

This is my first ever hack, so please do let me know any shortcomings or errors!!

I hope you enjoy it as much I plan to

Added to: now includes 'editpost.php' and 'editpost' template changes!

UPDATED for 2.2.8 (very minor fix in newreply.php - if it's working for you, there is NO NEED to upgrade! This will be the last update until vB3 is out

[disillusioned]

Found the issue to be a missing value="$nowplaying" in the INPUT tag!!!
Now I'm having some other weird issue with Quick Replies- some are trying to reply to messages from different forums- especially if you're trying to reply to an admins only forum- we're having some sensitive replies appearing in random other threads outside that forum.... Ideas?
(thanks for all your help!)

[Chris M]

@J-OST - How did you get it to work??

[TGO]

Any chance of an update for 2.2.7? I get a parse error when I follow the instructions..I wish I never updated now, this was my favourite hack

[MarkB]

It should work fine on 2.2.7 - you must have missed a step somewhere. What parse error do you get?

[MarkB]

Oh, and for the record - I've not udpated this since the version it was originally released for, and don't expect to update it until vB3 is out... so if it don't work, just play around with it

[MartynJ]

I'd like to add this, but each time I click on the .txt attachment, it loads into IE all funky. Can't someone attach it in a zip like most hacks are? It's a nightmare trying to decode a scrambled text file.

[Ghostsuit]

Damn fine hack working fine on my boards in 2.2.7 just had to make a few changes to the INSERTS parts of Newreply and Newpost since the mood hack affects those already.

[Mono]

I can't get this hack to show up at all. I modified all the correct templates and php files and still noluck. I've done it twice now with the same effect. Anyone know were the problem could be. I think it's most likely in the sql database I dont think I put that table where it's supposed to go.

[ZiRu$]

Originally posted by MarkB
Oh, and for the record - I've not udpated this since the version it was originally released for, and don't expect to update it until vB3 is out... so if it don't work, just play around with it

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE MARK UPDATE IT FOR 2.2.8

Now Playing is my favorite hack....But A LOT has changed in 2.2.8 and i messed up my forums big time trying to make it work. Can you PLEASSEEEE do 1 more update?

Because I dont ever wanna go to 3.0

[Brad]

Working well on 2.2.8.