MOD Name: Topic Description
Author: Swizec
MOD Description: Gives you the ability to post descriptions of your topics that are then shown under the topic title. The description also
shows in the search results and under the topic title in the topic itself.
-advanced permissioning
You can allow only moderators to add descriptions or you can prevent specific groups or users from using them, users
who are prevented from making the decsriptions can also be prevented form seeing them. Specific descriptions can be made
so that only moderators see them (the user giving the description can set this). On top of that you can deny guests from
using this feature. The topic tooltips have the same permission setting.
-tooltips
As mentioned, there are many permission settings here, on top of that in the ACP you can set for the displayed posts to be
fully parsed or not, which can also be set for specific users by the users themselves or by the admin. Each user can turn off
the tooltips if they don't want to be bothered by them.
Through a simple configuration file tooltips are completely configurable from v1.14.0.
-special
Descriptions can have a limited display length meaning they get cropped to the correct length. You can also set it so that
the descriptions are changed into a link to the topic starter's profile or you can set for that to happen just for empty descriptions.
-parsing
As of version 1.12.0 descriptions can have parsed BBCode, HTML and smileys according to ACP settings.
Versions above 1.13.0 allow you to disable certain BBCodes so they are not displayed at all or just have the tags show. Also post
previews in tooltips can be limited to a certain length.
NEW in v1.15.0 is description postparsing, which can greatly lighten the load on your server and improve the user experience a lot
-candy
v1.13.0 introduced the "You have xx characters left" JS counter that is displayed under the description box as soon as you start typing.
v1.14.0 introduced configurable tooltips, meaning you can have different looking tooltips for every template you are running
v1.15.0 introduced description postparsing, which enables users to view the descriptions in full, without lenght and bbcode restrictions (ajaxed)
v1.15.1 introduces the same for tooltips
-compliancy
Fixes for compliancy with the split topics and the log actions MOD are included in the contrib folder
-updates
v1.2.7 - this version is still in the package for those wanting simplicity
v1.13.1 - a semi working update script from v1.2.7 to v1.13.1 is available within the package
v1.14.x - an update script is available for v1.13.1 -> v1.14.x
v1.15.x - an update script is available for 1.14.9 -> 1.15.x
Using EM to install this MOD is strongly suggested.
MOD Version: 1.15.2 (
Updated 05/24/06)
Download File:
topic_desc_1.15.2b.zip
mods overview page: View
File Size: 57446 Bytes
Support for this MOD needs to be asked within this topic. The phpBB Teams are not responsible or required to give anyone support for this MOD. By installing this MOD, the phpBB Support Team or phpBB MODifications Team may not be able to provide support.
This MOD has only been tested by the phpBB MOD Team with the phpBB version in the topic title. It may not work in any other versions of phpBB.