I've been searching everywhere for mods similar to DP, but have been unsuccessful. Since I heard that the owner of DP loves creating "free software for all to use", is there any chance DP will ever release a tutorial or maybe the actual modifications the DP board uses? It'd be super sweet. The "signature hack" is totally awesome.
I don't see an option for the number of links, but everything else is there. Usergroups/promotions to limit when you can use them the 350 character max is a usergroup option So really, a max number of links limit is just a small addition (and likely easy to duplicate based on the existing max number of images). iTrader is on vBulletin.org, but is no longer supported. And the advanced rep system is also there, though I'm unsure of it's support. Both supposedly work in 3.6.8 without addition modification. The spy feature I have not found though, and that's cool
I'm interested in the signature device as this has been requested at vb.org by several people, but none deliver, even though it is beneficial. I don't want the spy feature, that's lame. I'd also like the special feature that allows users to place a "check mark" before the create a thread to help people post in the correct forum.
I am one of the users on vb.org asking for the sig hack. I'll probably be paying someone to code it for me sooner or later.
I would think a variety of VB hacks can be found on VBulletin forums if you have bought the license. If you have not then realistically I don't think you will get them, but good luck.
I asked Shawn about some the hacks/mods years ago and he had zero interest in releasing them regardless of the money involved. They help make DP unique.
Well, I'm not concerned with making a forum unique per se, I'm more concerned with potential psychological effects that these modifications have on the users thereby increasing the chances that users will never grow "blind" of the Google Adsense ads on our board. Either way, it is not impossible to learn how to code them, so if no luck here in obtaining the ads, then I might as well code them myself.
Here is the link to the spy addon if you want it: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=127013 Here is the link to 'View Map of Users Online': http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/geovisitors/
What sig hack? Just the # of urls? Just hire a php coder, Its really not that hard if you are a true php guy AND when I say good php I mean * approaches the code with ease, thanks to: * UML * design patterns * loose coupling * defensive programming * coding standards * advanced debugging and testing tools * goes through different testing steps, following a plan * generates easy to use documentation * comes with "post development" technical support * provides specific examples Make sure to also ask you php guy is he knows # what is a singleton pattern; # differences between PHP4 and PHP5 on OOP level; # what PEAR or a PHP extension is; # the MySQL EXPLAIN function; # what is a DocBlock Hope that helps