Miscellaneous Hacks - CES Lv vB Event Forums Addon - Query Blaster

CES Lv vB Event Forums - Query Blaster
Version: 1.1.3

Requires:

• CES Pre-Process Hooks 1.2.0+ (needs showthread_preprocess and forumdisplay_preprocess)
• Lv vB Event Forums 3.3.1+
• Farcaster's Event Attendance & vb Event Forums Integration 1.1.0+

*** NEWS ***
7/28/2007 - v1.1.3 released
7/27/2007 - v1.1.2 released
7/24/2007 - v1.1.0, v1.1.1 released
4/2/2007 - v1.0.0 released

Known Issues:
- none

What It Does:
This modifies the Lv vB Event Forums addon by replacing a number of plugins and effectively removing LOTS of extra queries (you probably noticed). Also adds the ability to add attachments to events.

Products to Install: 1
Plugins Included: 20
Files to Upload: 0
Files to Edit: 1
New Templates: 5
Template Edits: 0

Mod Features:
- adds an option to the Forum Manager
- event attachments
- much fewer queries in forumdisplay and especially showthread

You will need to edit all your Event Forums in the Forum Manager and set "Is this an event forum?" to yes. This just makes some of the plugin code simpler and I think removed 1 query elsewhere. You still need to specify forum-calendar relationships in settings.

*** Changelog ***
As of Version 1.1.3

• fixed upcoming events on forumdisplay
• fixed edit options for first post
• fixed thread titles in forumdisplay
• fixed thread not created on event creation
• removed unused templates

As of Version 1.1.2

• fixed empty first post (event details)

As of Version 1.1.1

• fixed missing plugin since 1.0.0 that fetches event info

As of Version 1.1.0

• event forums use own showthread template
• separate postbit for event details
• map forums to calendars in the forum manager
• fixed redirect bug on attachment edit
• fixed bug where comments bar was disconnected

[Quantnet]

Been waiting.
Screenshot ?

[Lionel]

Yeah. I am curious to see the approach taken to handle the attachments. Sounds like it could be very useful.

[thincom2000]

It's nothing too crazy and not really worthy of a screenshot in my opinion. To handle the attachments:

"Edit Attachments" is added to the Edit Event dropdown. You still cannot add attachments when you first post the event, because it has to use the event editor.

The Edit Attachments option opens the post editor instead of the event editor, but with only the Manage Attachments area.

[BadgerDog]

If I don't want to use Farcaster's mod, but I do run the other two, can I still use your mod and get the performance advantage?

Requires:
CES Pre-Process Hooks 1.2.0+
Lv vB Event Forums 3.3.1+
Farcaster's Event Attendance & vb Event Forums Integration 1.1.0+

Thanks

Regards,
Badger

[thincom2000]

Last time I checked, the product wouldn't installed unless you had all those products. It may work without the integration but I'm not sure.

Also, it's been a while since I updated this mod so I'm not sure if everything posted here works as it should. I am having no problems on my site, so if you encounter anything, let me know and I'll be glad to help figure it out.

[BadgerDog]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

Last time I checked, the product wouldn't installed unless you had all those products. It may work without the integration but I'm not sure.

Also, it's been a while since I updated this mod so I'm not sure if everything posted here works as it should. I am having no problems on my site, so if you encounter anything, let me know and I'll be glad to help figure it out.

Thank you Sir.... :up:

Regards,
Badger

[TheMilkCarton]

This ruined my install of vB Event Forums + Event Attendance w/ integration. And of course, Uninstalling this product didn't fix it back to normal.

All comments on an Event do not appear on SHOWTHREAD, although they are still there. And as with all your mods I've used (CES Site News), You still aren't getting the $spacer_open and $spacer_close right (and I'm even on a completely different style this time!). The area where the comments should be becomes entirely broken and none of the tables line up correctly. Not that it matters, because the comments aren't showing.

At least it did what it said. It reduced the queries all right, except for the fact that it rendered my Event Forums completely useless.

I now have to spend a few hours picking up the pieces.

If I sound angry, it's because I am. I took all the time making the laborious file edits for CES Preprocess Hooks, and while I was at it tried a few of your other "Query Blasters" (which none of them helped)

So since I can't figure out why comments aren't showing even after I uninstalled, I guess I'll have to start everything over from scratch, including the dozens of phrase and template edits I did to make vB Event Forums + Event Attendance actually USABLE, since they are both disgustingly messy hacks.

[TheMilkCarton]

Edit: I forgot to mention installing this makes the body of the event info disappear entirely as well.

[thincom2000]

Hm... don't understand what's up with $spacer_open and $spacer_close. Maybe the style I use just uses it incorrectly everywhere... Anyway, sorry you had such a horrible experience with this addon. It is possible that you may have made a bad file edit in the process of doing all the Pre-Process Hooks (of which you only needed forumdisplay_preprocess and showthread_preprocess). Or you may have updated either Event Forums or Farcaster's Integration since applying my patch.

However I do remember that I experienced a similar conflict when I upgraded my vBulletin to 3.6.7-PL1. At that time I was unsure what the cause of the conflict actually was and thought it was an isolated case since I have so many mods running for showthread... I will look into this and post an updated version now that I know it was NOT an isolated case.