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: 2307)

- 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

[Pirata Nervo]

What I mean is that what is before Special Forums is not shown. Otherwise I have to create a new category to have one child forum only, because if I hide category B in my example, all child forums will seem like if they were not part of a parent category but in fact I just wanted Forum A to be like that. Get me?

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

I guess that would work too, though I can't see it exactly being "better" than the current scheme.  Your suggestion allows parents to be hidden on within certain child forums, but doesn't allow selective hiding of parents.

Ultimately, it made more sense to me to hide the "current" forum in breadcrumb rather than its parents.
What are you trying to achieve exactly?

[jim7777]

Is it possible to only allow registered / logged in users to view / download XThread files via the settings? if not can you please make it if its ok for you

EDIT:
ok managed to do it with a rewrite of the dl link

[RateU]

Just as additional info:

If we only need to hide the download link, we can use [Viewable by Usergroups] setting.
Can be 'expanded' (I think) if we use conditional in the [Display Format], for example: minimum post to view the download link.
We can use one additional custom thread field for the download setting, so we can set the setting per thread basis.

[Pirata Nervo]

After reading the documentation and after doing some search around this website I can't seem to find an answer for my question.

Is it possible to add a field for searching? What I mean is that if I create a field named tags and people enter some tags in that field, can I set that field to be "searched" via inline searching?

I found the usage of "__search" but doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for.

[RateU]

I think Yumi not applying it (yet):

(12-08-2010 09:00 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  [*]Search thread fields

[Pirata Nervo]

Oh I didn't find that one, thanks RateU!

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

You may be able to filter on thread fields (only exact match filtering though) but it won't integrate with the inline thread search.

[jim7777]

hmm i checked the xthreads_attach.php and the TODO is for user perms.. i really want user perms for downloads
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but i dunno why but when a new thread reply is added, the sort options is being disregarded.. as seen on my forum where 3-08-11 comes first before 3-12-11 then 2-24-11 .. the first date (3-08-11) contains a new reply

it is arrange on how the new replies are posted is that a bug?

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

The protection there is just session checking.  It'll probably never be added though.
Hiding the links should be sufficient as it is unlikely someone can guess the URL of the attachment.  Only registered users will be able to grab the file this way anyway.

The only thing session checking would prevent is a registered user giving out the link to an unregistered user.  Which doesn't mean much, because the registered user could theoretically just upload to somewhere else without any protection.