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: 2309)

- 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

[Shade]

Hi Zinga Burqa,
I'm building up a download system thanks to XThreads awesomeness. I really like the URL fetching system you've implemented, but I'd suggest you to provide a fallback for bigger files which fail being uploaded.

For example: I want to insert a download link to a iOS firmware which is about 700MB. cURL can't handle such big files, so it ends up with a "timed out" error. It would be extremely nice if you would stop fetching the file and provide the plain link instead when the file is bigger than a certain value. I thought about firstly fetch the file size and compare it with a cache-defined variable: if bigger than X MB, then just insert it into the database as-is and display it as normal.

Thank you!

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

(07-27-2013 04:10 AM)Shade Wrote:  For example: I want to insert a download link to a iOS firmware which is about 700MB. cURL can't handle such big files, so it ends up with a "timed out" error. It would be extremely nice if you would stop fetching the file and provide the plain link instead when the file is bigger than a certain value. I thought about firstly fetch the file size and compare it with a cache-defined variable: if bigger than X MB, then just insert it into the database as-is and display it as normal.

The File field type does actually require a file on the local disk to work.
I suggest one of two options:
- either fetch the file using some other means (eg wget) and use the admindrop feature (obviously only admins can do this)
- use text field instead instead of a file field; if necessary, you could potentially use both

[Shade]

Thank you for your kind and fast response: I didn't think about adding a plain textarea, I will add it!

[Destro]

Hi,

I don't know can XThread did this or not. I have a file (name example.php). I don't know if possible to use custom thread field in the template of that file. Which hook I need call to use it ? (The custom thread fields defined in a forum with fid is 1)

[WINBOY]

attachment is not uploaded through remote upload.
Error attaching file for "Thread Image"; The file upload failed. Please choose a valid file and try again. Error details: PHP returned: Failed to write the file to disk. Please contact your forum administrator with this error.

this error for thread image, screenshot and url uploads.

[Destro]

Found a bug when save / update / delete with File type (with the thumbnail generator).

PHP Warning: Invalid agrument supplied for foreach() with PHP 5.3.27

Solution: Find /inc/xthreads/xt_admin. Go to the line 641th

Replace:

PHP Code:

if(issets($tf['fileimgthumbs'])) {

---

with:

PHP Code:

if(is_array($tf['fileimgthumbs'])) {

---

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

^ Are you using an older version of XThreads?
I recall that being fixed...

[leonidas]

hi! just installed this plugin coz of the sticky first post... problem is on the 2nd & succeeding pages, all posts are numbered 2-19 like the first page... how do you fix this? thanks in advance!

using ver 1.63 btw...

[ZiNgA BuRgA]

Install XThreads on a clean board and see if you can replicate the issue.

[letsforum]

It is an awesome tool but is it safe to use? Can hackers use it to hack mybb forum?
Thanks