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The Ultimate Quote Hack!! · **Released**: 05-21-2002

IF THIS HACK DOESN'T RANDOMIZE WELL FOR YOU, DO THIS:
(by Boofo)
"You need to change the RAND() to RAND(NOW()) to make it more random with the new versions of mySQL since version .54

The NOW will seed it and make it more random that it was before. "

That should fix the problem for a lack of randomized quotes.
ALSO NOTE THIS:
There's a bit of code going around that's 'unofficial' (ie. looks like it's from this hack, but it's adjusted and now flawed), saying "ORDER BY id" in the Query that gets the random quote. This is BAD CODE as it doesn't randomize anything at all. It should say "ORDER BY RAND(NOW())" instead.

</end Hack Issue Fix>

*drumroll*

It's here!

What does this hack do:

* it's an extension (big time!) on the Admin-only controlled hack I released earlier. If you installed that hack already, it should be pretty clear for you which steps you should ignore in the Instructions for this hack. What you Cannot ignore is the step about your Admin Panel, and the lines to add to admin/index.php !

* It lists a random quote either on your Forum Home, or in your Header. Next to that, it adds a Quote List, which is just a massive database of quotes that works just like the Memberlist, but with your quotes. It's searchable, and with the Add-on (see post #2!) users can also add quotes in it (which need moderation, before showing up online).

* Quotes can be added, edited and deleted from your Admin Panel. With the add-on, you can moderate quotes from your AP as well.

* There are no hard-coded colors. All colors are taken from your style, so all pages will appear in concordance of whatever style it is you're using.

Install instructions are in the zipfile: uqh_instructions.txt

For the add-on, see the second post, instructions file: w-add_instructions.txt

Have fun!

KuraFire · #**102** 07-22-2003, 10:23 AM

Should be in this thread somewhere, already mentioned etc...

Gutspiller · #**103** 07-22-2003, 04:23 PM

Seems to be working now. Not as random as I'd like, but it's working. I was looking closer in the code and it said the hack is from Lesane. I... umm... don't know it says that because you used part of a hack he did or if I now somehow have his hack mixed up with yours, but changing the the random code in my index.php fixed the hack... whos ever it was. :surprised:

KuraFire · #**104** 07-22-2003, 07:46 PM

*slaps forehead and rolls eyes*

Lesane's hack is COMPLETELY different and (sorry Lesane) known to be really poorly coded, buggy, etc. etc. and overall just not work.

My hack is completely different from Lesane's, and just so you know: when I recreate my hack for vBulletin 3, there will be an install script that can insert your quotes from Lesane's hack into the new Ultimate Quote Hack (mine) for vB3, if you want.

Gutspiller · #**105** 07-22-2003, 07:57 PM

Well I doubt I will be updating to VB3 since from what I've heard there will be no updating possible from any previous versions of VB. I'm not completely restarting over. Plus my forum prolly already has all the hacks that VB3 does.

Thanks though. It seems to be working now.

However I did have an idea that might get me to switch to your hack. If it would be possible to comment on quotes, that would be cool. I was thinking it would be cool to have who the quote was by hidden to regular members and members had to try and guess where the quote was from. So they could be like movie quotes and it would get some discussion going. The way the hack is going right now, it seems to be working fine, but we don't have many quotes, so as we get more if I notice problems, I may switch over to yours. I think I might have tried yours and had problems with it and my VB version, but I can't remember if it was this hack or another hack.

KuraFire · #**106** 07-22-2003, 08:09 PM

Commenting on quotes will be an admin-settable option for the Ultimate Quote Hack for vB3.

Hiding the Submitted By will be a usergroup setting, so you can say that usergroup X's quotes will always show the member who submitted, but people from usergroup Y who submit a quote will remain 'hidden'.

Gutspiller · #**107** 07-22-2003, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Today at 03:09 PM KuraFire said this in Post #105
Commenting on quotes will be an admin-settable option for the Ultimate Quote Hack for vB3.

Hiding the Submitted By will be a usergroup setting, so you can say that usergroup X's quotes will always show the member who submitted, but people from usergroup Y who submit a quote will remain 'hidden'.

Do you think it will be possible to use it on a 2.x board? or is it completely different code wise?

KuraFire · #**108** 07-23-2003, 06:51 AM

it'll be vBulletin 3 only, as the code will be 100% different.

DB8 MissingLink · #**109** 08-04-2003, 10:23 PM

Forgive me... I'm a bit of a newbie at this. I've got everything installed and it seems to be working but I can't seem to make it randomize. I know this has been addressed above, but I spent hours trying to figure out what the solution was and couldn't figure it out. I really want to make this work!

So could someone please post a walk-through on fixing the randomizer? Ideally, with a querry instead of a hard-coded random number range.

Thank you, and great hack (if I can get it to work!)

jEd
www.net-benefits.net

KuraFire · #**110** 08-05-2003, 08:27 PM

Quote:

03-05-03 at 03:44 PM geniuscrew said this in Post #83
You're not alone -_-

Mine just sits on ID 1 and once in a blue moon changes to ID 2

Edited: Well it changed to all of them after loads of refreshing.

I know this may sound stupid but how do I get it to get a quote in order?

PHP Code:

// random quote hack by KuraFire $quot=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT id,quote,name FROM quotes ORDER BY id"); $thequote = $quot['quote']; $thequoter = $quot['name'];

doesn't work :/

that bit of PHP code is NOT from my hack, entirely. "ORDER BY id" did NOT come from _my_ instructions!

It should be ORDER BY RAND(NOW())

KuraFire · #**111** 08-05-2003, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Today at 01:23 AM DB8 MissingLink said this in Post #108
So could someone please post a walk-through on fixing the randomizer? Ideally, with a querry instead of a hard-coded random number range.

Read the first post, or the post above this one, or Boofo's post a bit earlier in this thread (about 15 posts up). You have to use ORDER BY RAND(NOW()) in the query to make it work better.

Quote:

07-22-03 at 10:57 PM Gutspiller said this in Post #104
Well I doubt I will be updating to VB3 since from what I've heard there will be no updating possible from any previous versions of VB. I'm not completely restarting over. Plus my forum prolly already has all the hacks that VB3 does.

You can update from 2.2.9 or 2.3.0.

I was running older than that myself, but I just took the queries out of the update scripts, ran those manually, and then I upgraded to vB3. Worked like a charm. It's just a few minor database adjustments that need to be made before you upgrade to vB3

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