XThreads

My Spiel
XThreads is one of my larger plugins which I have been working on for a while.  Originally planned to release it inline with MyBB 1.6, but who knows when that'll be out.  It perhaps doesn't include everything I wanted it to, but does have most of the things (plus I want to move onto other projects).

What does it do?
Take a look at RateU's forum for some nice ideas of what it can do.  I also have some more basic examples here of what can be done with XThreads.  I'm pretty sure there are many other applications of this plugin, but those examples just give you some simple ideas.

The basic idea is giving you the ability to define custom fields for your threads, and providing methods to give you a lot of flexibility with customising forums.

Warning: I'm not going to bother with "beta" labels and so on.  I've done some testing on this myself, but it's by no means extensive.  Use this at your own risk.

Installation Instructions: standard installation procedures apply - you can find them in the announcement here.
You may need to CHMOD the uploads/xthreads_ul/ folder to 0777 after uploading the files (probably won't though).

Upgrade Instructions: unless stated otherwise, the general procedure for upgrades is to simply upload the new files, then visit your AdminCP.  In there, you'll be presented with a notice to run the upgrade - just follow what it says from there on.

Usage Instructions: this is a complex plugin, and unfortunately, you're probably going to have to figure this out yourself, depending on what you want to achieve with this plugin.  HTML and CSS knowledge is strongly recommended; you should also be familiar with MyBB's template system.  Some demonstrations can be found here - hopefully these will give you a good idea of how things work.  I suggest looking at the thread descriptions example, as this is fairly easy to understand (IMO).  If you can understand how everything works, there, perhaps try out the gallery example.

Known conflicting plugins
- MyPlaza Turbo -
If you are using MyPlaza Turbo, note that the author decided to use a particularly odd method to implement certain functionality, practically destroying compatibility with any plugin which hooks into the forum add/edit routines.  I've included a patch to address this issue - you need to replace inc/myplaza/myplaza_admin_plugin.php with the following file (it's unlikely that this will be committed as the author has decided to discontinue development)

  myplaza_admin_plugin.php (Size: 56.27 KB / Downloads: 2417)

- PL9 Forum Icons -
Affects certain functionality.  See here for a solution.

- PHP in Templates, v1.4 or older -
Similar to PL9 Forum Icons - solution is just to update to the latest version.

- MyAdvertisements - (update: older versions only, later versions may not conflict)
Affects some thread functionality, see here for a solution.

- Group Post CSS -
See here http://mybbhacks.zingaburga.com/showthre...http://mybbhacks.zingaburga.com/showthread.php?tid=378&pid=59

All bug reports, suggestions, criticisms are appreciated (though I may not always implement suggestions) so please feel free to post them.
If you find this plugin useful, I would be grateful if you could give some token of appreciation for the work that has gone into this, and perhaps post some example usages you've come up with in the XThreads forum to help others get an idea of what can be achieve with this plugin (and for my own interest's sake ).


Github: https://github.com/zingaburga/XThreads-MyBB-Plugin
Note: do NOT use the Github version, unless you know what you're doing
Changelogs: v1.10, v1.20, v1.21, v1.22, v1.23, v1.24, v1.25, v1.26, v1.27, v1.30, v1.31, v1.32, v1.337, v1.40, v1.41, v1.42, v1.43, v1.44, v1.45, v1.46, v1.47, v1.50, v1.51, v1.52, v1.53, v1.60, v1.61, v1.62, v1.63, v1.64, v1.65, v1.66, v1.67, v1.68

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

(05-12-2011 01:18 PM)leefish Wrote:  Ok, thank you. I will have a go at that, see what I come up with. Will I still be able to use the filters like in the forum display or would that require more files to be included? If so, which ones?

You'd have to manually build the query at this point.  There's no convenient XThreads function to do the job from memory.

Example:

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$query_add = ''; if($mybb->input['filtertf_pfcat']) $query_add .= ' AND tfd.pfcat="'.$db->escape_string($mybb->input['filtertf_pfcat']).'"'; ... // modify the query on portal.php which grabs threads $db->query('SELECT ... '.$query_add);

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[Sky]

I tried to install it on my local server (I'm using xampp)

and when I try to active this plugin it gives me this problem

PHP Code:

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MyBB has experienced an internal SQL error and cannot continue. SQL Error: 1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'TYPE=MyISAM CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci' at line 4 Query: CREATE TABLE mybb_threadfields_data ( tid int(11) unsigned not null , PRIMARY KEY (tid) ) TYPE=MyISAM CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

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Could someone help me?

[RateU]

What is your MySQL version?

[Sky]

(05-13-2011 04:09 AM)RateU Wrote:  What is your MySQL version?

MySQL: 5.5.8

Hope you can help, I want to create a blog

[RateU]

Try to change the TYPE to ENGINE in inc/xthreads/xt_install.php

[jim7777]

hmm can i ask if something like the image will depend on the value of another XThread field?

e.g.
2 images:
Image 0 - (Value must be 0)
Image 1 - (Value must be 1)

Field A has a value of 1
Field B will pull the value of Field A and will result to Image 1

or anything similar to it
is it possible for example, Field B is hidden, then its html form value will be pulled from Field A?

sorry for too many questions xD
if there's a need for php edit, demo please xD

[RateU]

Does the user need to upload the image after she/he set the value of field A?

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

I'm not entirely sure on what you're getting at.  If there's two mutually exclusive images, why not combine them into one?

[jim7777]

no the user don't need to upload it
the image will just come from another XThread field which is an image..

well it is somewhat similar to Related threads but the difference is, the user may specify what specific thread should a thread be mutually related (and where to pull the image) from.

sorry for late reply

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

Oh, you mean pull a field from another thread?
If so, I think you're going to need to modify code - XThreads only pulls fields from the current thread.

Or do you mean you have a bunch of images and you want a field which allows the user to choose one of them?  If that's the case, you may as well get the user to upload the selected image in a specific field instead?