Thread Torrent

Description

After discussion with the Serence development team and several members of this community including cloudrunner would wrote KlipFolio Integration, I have decided to release Thread Torrent for Serence KlipFolio and vBulletin, moreover This hack was essentially requested by Koutaru here to provide a way to display newest threads. KlipFolio is a desktop application that allows you to easily view and manage live, automated and customizable channels to unique information sources called Klips. A Klip is a live, automated and customizable channel to a unique information source that runs in KlipFolio. For more information you can reference the KlipScript Guide for documentation (Also see Klip Tags). The basics are essentially self explanatory; let me know if you have any more questions concerning this topic.



Installation Information

Files to edit: (2) vbTT.php, vbTT.klip
Files to upload: (2) vbTT.php, vbTT.klip
Queries to Run: (0) nada
Templates to edit: (1) nada
Templates to add: (0) nada
Time to install: approx 3 minutes

[Velocd]

Well the 10 people (thus far) who have downloaded this must understand what it is, but I guess I'm a little slow today.

How does this differ from the recent hack by cloudrunner?

[Koutaru]

Cloudrunners is new posts in a specific form (specifically for your news or announcements forum) whereas this hack is for new threads in general (am i right?)

[high]* Koutaru clicks install[/high]

[Cloudrunner]

That about sums it up. His takes your most recent threads from the entire forum and feeds it to your klipfarm. It includes thread starter username, how many replies, and when the last reply was (from a quick glance look see at the code, I didn't delve too deep.).

I'm assuming that since the output is in RDF format, one could easily integrate this as a backend syndication system as well, but that's all for another day

[Kriek]

Affirmative. Every forum, every thread.

Even private forums if you are logged in with proper permissions

[Reverend]

A couple of things to bare in mind when using any kind of forum backend feeds including this one.

You'll need to add a custom description to the online.php if you want to avoid getting an "unknown Location" when someone clicks a thread link via the klip.
And also,if a member stays logged into the forums,i.e their session hasn't expired,and then clicks a link via the klip,they will appear twice on the WOL,(as their username,and further down the list as a guest).You can check this by logging into your forums,and then open klipfolio and click one of the thread links.Look at the IP's column and you'll be listed with the same IP as "username" and "guest".Which means your forums currently active users count will be wrong.

Just thought i'd make users aware of that.

[Kriek]

I'm afraid I have yet to personally experience the first problem you mentioned, nor have any of my members or clients in over a one year time span, so I'm afraid I'll have to take your word for it. I've been working closely with the Serence development team so I'll mention it to them in the coming weeks. The second problem or nuisance rather you spoke of is actually quite simple to exclude from Who's Online which typically displays as: Guest Unknown Location: /vbTT.php -- so a simple comparison operator will do

Method no.1

Open online.php and find

PHP Code:

". iif(!$WOLguests, " AND session.userid = user.userid", "") ."
ORDER BY user.username"); 


Then replace with the following

PHP Code:

". iif(!$WOLguests, " AND session.userid = user.userid", "") ."
AND session.location NOT LIKE '%/vbTT.php%' ORDER BY user.username"); 


[Reverend]

Hey i didn't say it was a problem,i was merely pointing out some of my observations when using forum klips in the past and thought i'd make other members aware of them.

It's a nice hack Kriek,let us know how you get on with your further discussions with the Serence Devs.

[Kriek]

Reverend, Sure thing, but most of the development is obviously surrounding Klipfolio itself and its features concerning Klips, but I have to admit that with each modification there seems to be another open window available for vBulletin as well as other software.

[Mutt]

thanks, it's very cool. My members will love it. I'm racking my brain tring to think about how else I can use this. Only thing I've come up with would be pms and then setting klip to alert when ever there a new item.