vBDigger

[Eric]

vBdigger is now officially continued as 'vBsociable' :)

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=149449


Hello everyone,

This will be my second 'mod' that I release for vBulletin. I was browsing the request forum and came across this (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=119664) thread, so I thought I'd make it. :)

It's fairly simple right now, if I can find the time.. I may do alot more with it.

Updated to 1.0.1 - See "Upgrading" below

What's it do?
It will add buttons to each post in a thread, allowing the user to submit the topic to digg or del.icio.us. It can be enabled/disabled through the admincp at anytime, along with showing digg or del.icio.us.

For those who may not know what digg or del.icio.us is, you may find out more about them with the following links:
www.digg.com/about
www.del.icio.us/about

Installation

1.) Import product-vbdigger.xml
2.) Upload digg.png & delicious.png to your images/buttons/ directory.
3.) Edit postbit(_legacy)

FIND:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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ADD AFTER:


Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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Upgrading

To 1.0.1:

1.) Re-import product-vbdigger.xml with "Allow Overwrite" set to yes.
(Not actually necc. just updated version number)

2.) Edit postbit(_legacy)

FIND:
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Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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REPLACE WITH:
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Code:
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Code is only visible to licensed users, and only when logged into the forums.
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Changelog
* Removed Icons from showing in pm's


It can be accessed in admincp under:
Vbulletin Options > Thread Display Options (showthread)

And that's it, fairly simple.

Enjoy.

[Zia]

hmm interesting thing..alos gonna to use it...:)

ahm 1st post man.. :p

[Mudvayne]

w00t.. 1st install ;)

[Blaine0002]

great! thanks.

[puertoblack2003]

hello,

i curious can there be a live site that has this to have an idea what it is i'm kinda confused of what vb digger is thanks.

puertoblack2003

[Eric]

hello,

i curious can there be a live site that has this to have an idea what it is i'm kinda confused of what vb digger is thanks.

puertoblack2003
I'll see what I can do ;) If nothing else, I'll get a few more screenshots.

[qxh]

You rule!!!!!

[o0Hubba0o]

I'll see what I can do ;) If nothing else, I'll get a few more screenshots.
Maybe in the "what's it do" paragraph clarify what "digg or del.icio.us." are for those that don't know, might help people understand what this mod is for.

[Eric]

Maybe in the "what's it do" paragraph clarify what "digg or del.icio.us." are for those that don't know, might help people understand what this mod is for.
I've included links to both of their about pages, should give a pretty good idea ;) I've also added another screenshot.

[VBUsers]

will this work for 3.6 beta 3?

[GetGamer.com]

I don't see why you have it digging individual replies. It seems to make much more sense to only digg/bookmark the initial topic.

[ImportPassion]

I don't see why you have it digging individual replies. It seems to make much more sense to only digg/bookmark the initial topic.

i was just about to post the exact same thing. :banana:

[Eric]

I don't see why you have it digging individual replies. It seems to make much more sense to only digg/bookmark the initial topic.
It does only digg/bookmark the initial topic, unless you're talking about it adding the buttons on every post... which, again, I made this based on a request (and they wanted it on every post). When I get the time, I plan on doing more with it ;)

will this work for 3.6 beta 3?
Am not sure, will get back to you when I get the chance to test it...

[Snake]

Awesome! I've been waiting for something like this. Thanks! :D

[Blaine0002]

It does only digg/bookmark the initial topic, unless you're talking about it adding the buttons on every post... which, again, I made this based on a request (and they wanted it on every post). When I get the time, I plan on doing more with it ;)


Am not sure, will get back to you when I get the chance to test it...

yes it works, am running live on gentendo.com

[Eric]

yes it works, am running live on gentendo.com
Oh nice! Thank you :)

[Phrost]

Up and running live on my 'big board' (Bullshido.net).

[Eric]

Up and running live on my 'big board' (Bullshido.net).
Cool :) Nice forum, btw ;)


I hope to have a new version soon, when I get some free time. :D

[guvner]

Working great - thanks for that!

Just a small problem I need to solve which is really a template issue - a few of my members are concerned that their PM reply page seems to be picking up the code from the postbit_legacy template and adding a diggit option next to the "forward" and "reply" buttons. Now I know that it won't "digg" the PM and I have told them that - but they are worried about it :tired:

I had a look at at the pm_viewpm template and couldn't figure out how it was being picked up (I'm not a coder )- any ideas how to remove it from the PM reply area completely or does only affect my templates?

Thanks,
Mike :)

[Eric]

Working great - thanks for that!

Just a small problem I need to solve which is really a template issue - a few of my members are concerned that their PM reply page seems to be picking up the code from the postbit_legacy template and adding a diggit option next to the "forward" and "reply" buttons. Now I know that it won't "digg" the PM and I have told them that - but they are worried about it :tired:

I had a look at at the pm_viewpm template and couldn't figure out how it was being picked up (I'm not a coder )- any ideas how to remove it from the PM reply area completely or does only affect my templates?

Thanks,
Mike :)
Ahh, completely forgot PM's, well - simple really :) I'll have a new version out shortly.

[guvner]

Excellent - the update fixed it - working like a charm!

Thank you :)

[Eric]

Excellent - the update fixed it - working like a charm!

Thank you :)
No problem :)

[arob42]

How exactly does this work? For example, with digg, will the first person to click digg cause the thread link to be submitted to www.digg.com and then subsequent clicks on digg cause the digg count to increase? Doesn't the first person need a login account with digg before the link is submitted? Also, won't the initial person need to provide a summary of the topic? Does the first click on digg cause a digg login page to appear where the user can register/login and provide all this information?

[michaelsilvia]

How exactly does this work? For example, with digg, will the first person to click digg cause the thread link to be submitted to www.digg.com and then subsequent clicks on digg cause the digg count to increase? Doesn't the first person need a login account with digg before the link is submitted? Also, won't the initial person need to provide a summary of the topic? Does the first click on digg cause a digg login page to appear where the user can register/login and provide all this information?

I had the same questions!

What exactly happens when someone clicks on the dig button? Is the article linked back to the owner's forum?

[michaelsilvia]

I installed it and tested it out on digg.com. It is very cool and works great.

When submitting an article you will have to have a membership at digg.com and have to type up a short description. When your article is submitted it links right back to your forum. If you have some good content I recommend using this as it can only help your traffic.

Thanks for the great hack! I will try the del.icio.us. part next.

[teknoledge]

I know this will sound funny after everyone installed this, but it doesnt work for me LOL. I did everything as said in instructions but the icons just doesnt show up.

www.smartphonestalk.com

[Torque]

I installed it and tested it out on digg.com. It is very cool and works great.

When submitting an article you will have to have a membership at digg.com and have to type up a short description. When your article is submitted it links right back to your forum. If you have some good content I recommend using this as it can only help your traffic.

Thanks for the great hack! I will try the del.icio.us. part next.

What happens with the second click? I'm guessing login then it casts a vote?

[yessir]

3.6 compatible? TIA.

[Eric]

I know this will sound funny after everyone installed this, but it doesnt work for me LOL. I did everything as said in instructions but the icons just doesnt show up.

www.smartphonestalk.com
hmm.. all I can tell you is to go over everything again to be sure you didn't skip anything.

3.6 compatible? TIA.
Yes.

[coconutx]

Hey i have vb seo 3.0.0 rc3 installed. Im using vb 3.6.0.

Its all working fine but when i click on the del.icio.us link the url it gives in the header is a

showthread.php?id= one when ive got vb seo set so that they are all html files like thread-title.html.

Anyway i can make it go to the html one instead ?

[Eric]

Hey i have vb seo 3.0.0 rc3 installed. Im using vb 3.6.0.

Its all working fine but when i click on the del.icio.us link the url it gives in the header is a

showthread.php?id= one when ive got vb seo set so that they are all html files like thread-title.html.

Anyway i can make it go to the html one instead ?
I do not have, or have ever used vBseo.. so do not know what to tell you.

[criscokid]

Maybe in the "what's it do" paragraph clarify what "digg or del.icio.us." are for those that don't know, might help people understand what this mod is for.
What about some information for end users of the forums that this mod gets applied to? At the moment it appears that the mod writer and forum owners who install this assume that everyone knows what digg and del.icio.us are.

I've seen a vB site that uses a similar mod but they have a Furl and Technoratibutton as well.

[99SIVTEC]

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1069705#post1069705

Above I added an option for owners of automotive web sites to submit threads to AutomotiveArena.com (similar to digg for car related content)

[Eric]

What about some information for end users of the forums that this mod gets applied to? At the moment it appears that the mod writer and forum owners who install this assume that everyone knows what digg and del.icio.us are.

I've seen a vB site that uses a similar mod but they have a Furl and Technoratibutton as well.
I'll work on that.

[criscokid]

I'll work on that.
Hi SecondV,

Any idea when you'll have a version of this mod that includes Technorati and Furl? Another new social bookmarking site is Ma.gnolia (http://ma.gnolia.com/)

[criscokid]

To help move things along here's some more social bookmarking sites along with the relevant URLs to use:

Spurl
http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=URLgoeshere

Blink
http://www.blinklist.com/index.php?Action=Blink/addblink.phpurl=URLgoeshere

Furl
http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=URLgoeshere

Simpy
http://simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=URLgoeshere

Yahoo! MyWeb
http://myweb.yahoo.com/myresults/join?.done=http%3A%2F%2Fmyweb.yahoo.com%2Fmyresults%2Fbookmarklet%3Fu%3Dhttp%253 A%252F%252URLgoeshere

Google
http://www.google.com/ig/add?feedurl=URLgoeshere

[ijob]

I would like to add technorati and furl, plaese help.

[Eric]

My time has been limited for a while now. I can not give a specific date, but there will be a new version. I'm working on it in my spare time.

[alyster4k]

I've seen a vB forum somewhere that someone already added furl and technorati. I'll have to mess with that myself because I want to add these too when I add this mod.

[Blindchild02]

is there a way to make this forum specific? I only want it in my news forum.

[Axiom]

Modified in order to post on technorati, furl, blinklist and reddit.

Cheers,
Luca

[Eric]

Look for a new (completely re-written) version to come soon. ;)

[Fireproof]

Look for a new (completely re-written) version to come soon. ;)

Any update here? I was just about to give it a try, but if you are going to release new functionality in next day or so, I will wait.

[Fredatitulip]

Maybe I'm doing something stupid.

I followed the instructions to a T.

1.) Import product-vbdigger.xml
Check
2.) Upload digg.png & delicious.png to your images/buttons/ directory.
Check
3.) Edit postbit(_legacy)
Check

Checked vB Options (Thread Display Options) to confirm that it's turned on.

But the digg, reddit, etc., buttons don't show up in the posts. Hmmmm. What am I doing wrong?

Any ideas appreciated.

Ed.

[Eric]

I'm working on a new version of this at the moment. I should have it released later today, however, it will be under a different name - and in a new thread ;)

I'll post here when it's released.

Maybe I'm doing something stupid.

I followed the instructions to a T.

1.) Import product-vbdigger.xml
Check
2.) Upload digg.png & delicious.png to your images/buttons/ directory.
Check
3.) Edit postbit(_legacy)
Check

Checked vB Options (Thread Display Options) to confirm that it's turned on.

But the digg, reddit, etc., buttons don't show up in the posts. Hmmmm. What am I doing wrong?

Any ideas appreciated.

Ed.
all I can tell you is to go over it again.

[Eric]

vBdigger is now officially continued as 'vBsociable' :)

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=149449