Admin-controlled (only) random quote hack for header/homepage

What does this hack do?
It adds a quote and the quoter to your board, either in your header/footer (hack global.php) or on your forumhome page (hack root/index.php).

What's the additional server load of this hack?
It adds 1 query to each page you have a quote show up on. If you add it to global.php it'll add 1 query to ALL pages, if you add it to root/index.php it'll only add 1 query to your forumhome, but you won't be able to show the quotes anywhere else.

Why should we use your hack and not one of the two other quote hacks?
Mine is extremely easy (_I_ made it, and I'm a n00b!) but, more importantly, it doesn't allow your users to enter quotes nor does it put it on two silly lines (no offense Lesane, but that aspect, I found absolutely horrid). This is useful if you have a lot of users and don't feel like spending 4 hours a day moderating all new quote-submissions your members made. Or, if you just want full control.

Instructions:
Step 1: run this query on your vBulletin database (I suggest in phpMyAdmin):

PHP Code:

CREATE TABLE quotes (
  quote text NOT NULL,
  name text,
  letter tinytext,
  id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
  PRIMARY KEY (id)
) 


Step 2 a: if you want it to appear in your header/footer on ALL pages, open global.php and find this line:

PHP Code:

// ###################### Start templates ####################### 


Add ABOVE that, this code:

PHP Code:

// quotes hack by KuraFire
 $quot=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT quote,name FROM quotes ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 1");
 $thequote = $quot['quote'];
 $thequoter = $quot['name']; 


Step 3 a: save global.php and edit your header/footer template. Put in $thequote for the quote, and $thequoter for the quote's quoter, ie. the person who said the quote.


Step 2 b: if you want this to appear only on your forumhome, open root/index.php and find this line:

PHP Code:

// get total posts 


Add ABOVE that, the following:

PHP Code:

// quotes hack by KuraFire
 $quot=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT quote,name FROM quotes ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 1");
 $thequote = $quot['quote'];
 $thequoter = $quot['name']; 


Step 3 b: save your root/index.php and edit your forumhome template (won't work on forumhome_whatever or so, only on your main forumhome template). Add $thequote for the quote, and $thequoter for the quote's quoter, ie. person who said the quote.

That's it. I left it up to you entirely where and how you add the quote and quoter, seeing as how people will place it in different places entirely.

Attached is a small selection of my own quotes database. Not all of it, for a: it'd be quite a lot, and b: it took me a lot of work to get those quotes together and into a database, neatly, and I'm not done processing my entire collection yet so I'm not making my entire quotes database publicly available.
To add these 100 quotes to your database, run the contents of 100quotes.sql as a query in phpMyAdmin on your database.

In the second post, I will add a screenshot.

This hack is really basic, Kura, I'm sure you can do more with this! What's your plan, my man?
Self-imployed vote of confidence, woohoo!
*cough* anyway, yeah this is actually just the first part of a rather big hack I have in mind, though not yet in true development. What I'm Planning to create, is a quote index very similar to the memberlist, but then about quotes. You'll have noticed that the structure of the `quotes` table that this hack adds, includes a "letter" column. This is solely for the purpose of making the quotes table searchable by letter, later on. Like, when you click on members, you'll have the option to select all members by a single letter. Same with the quotes list I am working on (in my mind mostly, thus far).

(edit: this quotes listing is now done. Contact me if you want an early release)

UPDATE IN POST #20: Admin Panel Addition for easy Quotes adding!


[high]* KuraFire awaits response again...
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Edit: credit goes out to Lesane for being the first one to have made a quote hack, of course, but this one is different, and I think it's good for people to be able to have a choice.

[KuraFire]

A screenshot of how it looks on my own (new, not publicly available) board.

Note that I can't include the entire header, since I'm keeping that a secret until all is done. This screenie is just how it looks if you add it between the header and content-table, using the global.php edition of the hack.


Oh and if you find the ID's on the 100quotes attachment rather odd: that's due to the auto_increment, and the fact that I didn't want to give you guys 100 Letter A quotes.

[dimitr|]

Shouldn't the $quote and $quoter that you put into the template be $thequote and $thequoter ?

[TECK]

i'm not sure, but this was done also by lesane.

[KuraFire]

dimitr| ~ sheize, you're right, my mistake!

*edits the first post*

nakkid, like my first post says, yes Lesane made a random quote hack too, but I don't like it. It splits quotes into two short lines, it doesn't give out the Quoter information, rather it tells who submitted the quote, and as is clear from the last sentence, it lets members submit quotes, which this hack doesn't. This is useful for big boards where you don't want to sift through 500 submitted quotes a day.

[Lesane]

I think that every member from a board likes to contribute on his favorite board by adding quotes. My members loved it to contribute to the forum by adding quotes. Adding quotes of their favorite artist/actor or their own quotes. Why would u take this ability away from them?

In my eyes it's like making a new store hack but then let only admins buy things

[KuraFire]

Like I said, there's the obvious reason if you run a very big board - who wants to moderate hundreds of quotes all the time? You can bet your ass on it that users will be submitting quotes that already exist in your database. I don't have the time to even moderate my board if I'd let my users submit quotes, and I have about 50 really active people and 150 ones that drop by every so often.

Second of all, your hack lists quotes in two small lines. I totally don't like that, looked ugly as hell, so that was one more reason for me to make my own hack.

Thirdly, this hack will, one day, incorporate a Quotes listing similar to memberlist.php and will be searchable and orderable by letter. Is your quotes table structured for that? (just wondering )

Lastly, your hack (last I checked) didn't display the Quoter, only the member who submitted a quote. That's just taking credit away from ALL those people who made the quotes!

[KuraFire]

besides, Lesane, why not let your users contribute by donating to The Cause (tm) of your board, eh?

[Floris]

Originally posted by nakkid
i'm not sure, but this was done also by lesane.

Do you ever read the content of a thread, or just reply to the title of a thread? Geez. Kura already mentioned this.

Besides that, this one differs too much from the one lesane made. As the thread title implies, admin only .. One person invented the wheel, the rest uses it and sometimes even improves it, if we didn't. Your bmw would be running with rocks instead of rubber.

[John]

Very basic hack, but it's brilliant - gives us n00bs a chance to figure out how this stuff works