ChocoJournal 2.5b - vBulletin Journals

[Gamingforce]

I've had a custom journal system at my site called ChocoJournal running vBulletin 3. It's proven to be extremely popular on my board and is a work in progress.

Within a one year period, these are some numbers:
Total Entries: 29,559
Total Journal Views: 1,352,226
Total Comments: 101,983

Here are some of the features:
Complete integration with vBulletin 3 (postbits and profiles)
Anyone can start a journal with two clicks.
Simple quick commenting system
Top 10 Journals by Warks function which uses a complex formula to calculate popular journals.
Ability to search Journals entries.
Integration with vBulletin's Buddlist.
Option to create private entries (only buddies can view)
Option to view most recent entries from all buddy journals on one page.
Comment tracker system showing you the latest 50 comments made in journal.
Ability to view last 20 comments made by any user.
Full integration of vBcode / smilie code in comments / entries.
Journal control panel
Journal ban list allows users to ban users/guests from viewing and commenting in your journal.
Journal custom image allows users to upload a custom journal banner that will be displayed at the top of their journal.
Users can put custom static messages in their journal.
Random journal entry on the front of the journal system.

Check it out here:
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php

If enough people are interested, I might package it for release. :)

[TheComputerGuy]

Come now...there is plenty of interest to see this come about :)

[Oblivion Knight]

This would make my YEAR to see this released..
I've been a big fan of your ChocoJournal since it's creation during the vB2 days.

An importer for vBJournal entries would also be nice.! :nervous:

[HellRazor]

Very interested here too...looks great!

[Zachariah]

Get this show on the road

:banana:

^ ... little banana love.

[Cold Steel]

/me is interested.

[Koutaru]

Wow :D You sure got my attention too! Looks real nice! :)

[TheComputerGuy]

It does look nice. It also has all the features we have discussed so that I can see.

[Link14716]

I hope you don't run off again, because I'm sure you'd get a hell of a lot of installs. ;)

It looks great. I know if it was released, I would install it.

[Bush Music]

I hope you don't run off again, because I'm sure you'd get a hell of a lot of installs. ;)

It looks great. I know if it was released, I would install it.
Looks nice...I'm intrested!

[NuclioN]

Looks great! Don't wait. :D

[uae]

Yeah, let's get it on...

[jcr]

Yeah, let's get it on...
OMG! I'm really looking forward to see this in the Relase forum!

[Giveit2u43]

would be a definite install from me.

[mfowler70]

Definately interested

[AN-net]

and i was just getting back to coding :(

[Cold Steel]

The more the merrier.

[Oblivion Knight]

and i was just getting back to coding :(Nothing wrong with a bit of competition.. ;)

[13th_Disciple]

and i was just getting back to coding :(
Never hurts to have more than one way to skin the proverbial cat..

[hpwilhelm]

Would make me really happy if the chokojournal is released!!! Its the best vB-Journal I've seen!!! :D

And AN-net, it would also be nice to have different programs/hacks to choose from. Just be sure to make yours unique in some way... I'm hoping Kurafire will release his also... :)

choices makes quality! :p

[Sypher]

yes! love chocojournal... release would be awesome :)

[YoricksRequiem]

I agree. Release it! ;)

[momzone]

Any update on this?

[kira]

Don't mean to be a downer, because this is an excellent system without a doubt, and I know I (and many others) would love it to be released.

But I seem to remember this same type of post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=36736) two years ago from this very poster: "I've created this kickass journal system, maybe would release it, hmm, would anyone be interested?" Eighteen kabillion pages of enthusiastic "hell yeah!"s and only one or two follow-ups from the originator later, it became apparent that gamingforce was not returning to his thread, which was still going even as late as a year later. Much disappointment ensued.

So please, with sugar on top, don't tease us or toy with our hopes, O gaming force! :D Only show us the yummy candy if you genuinely plan on sharing it with us.

Because it really really looks amazing and I really really want it. :D :D

[Osterling]

Maybe this is just an attempt to advertise his site.. :ermm: and like last time has no real intention in releasing his hack

[Deska]

I need it
I need it
.............. 1000x

[Sypher]

Don't mean to be a downer, because this is an excellent system without a doubt, and I know I (and many others) would love it to be released.

But I seem to remember this same type of post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=36736) two years ago from this very poster: "I've created this kickass journal system, maybe would release it, hmm, would anyone be interested?" Eighteen kabillion pages of enthusiastic "hell yeah!"s and only one or two follow-ups from the originator later, it became apparent that gamingforce was not returning to his thread, which was still going even as late as a year later. Much disappointment ensued.

So please, with sugar on top, don't tease us or toy with our hopes, O gaming force! :D Only show us the yummy candy if you genuinely plan on sharing it with us.

Because it really really looks amazing and I really really want it. :D :D
sucks...

[Osterling]

i really feel this is a low way to get people to his forum... if he has done it before, and so many people wanted it but he never released his copy.. and he is just redoin that again with vb3..

it's wrong.. it's that simple

[Oblivion Knight]

What's wrong is people coming here with completely the wrong attitude, demanding that he share his code and accuse him of trying to gain members to his forum..

He has an active and successful site, he doesn't exactly need the extra traffic.

It's things like this that make hack authors leave vb.org and cease sharing their work..

[Reeve of shinra]

This is not about Gaming Force of the chocojournal hack but rather an overall observation of mine in response to Oblivion Knights comment:

I think that goes both ways though cause alot of people say they are going to make this hack or that hack, get everyone hyped up and simply disapear off the planet with never a word more about it, not even to say that they werent working on it anymore. I think when people see a person working on a hack, they then stop trying. I mean look at something like the store, if someone came and said that they have one 90% complete - I am not going to go through all that work and effort just to recreate teh wheel.

[Osterling]

What's wrong is people coming here with completely the wrong attitude, demanding that he share his code and accuse him of trying to gain members to his forum..

He has an active and successful site, he doesn't exactly need the extra traffic.

It's things like this that make hack authors leave vb.org and cease sharing their work..

It's not me demanding, but being teased...

[Sypher]

This is not about Gaming Force of the chocojournal hack but rather an overall observation of mine in response to Oblivion Knights comment:

I think that goes both ways though cause alot of people say they are going to make this hack or that hack, get everyone hyped up and simply disapear off the planet with never a word more about it, not even to say that they werent working on it anymore. I think when people see a person working on a hack, they then stop trying. I mean look at something like the store, if someone came and said that they have one 90% complete - I am not going to go through all that work and effort just to recreate teh wheel.

agree

[Casparian]

I absolutely love your journal system, and really hope you release it!

[grandma2]

lol. Gamingforce, you are one cruel dude dangling that carrot out in front of us like that. hehehehehe.

Seriously, it looks great. I say we nominate it for hack of the month even before it's released.

Grandma

[Osterling]

I don't mean too come off rude, but I looked at the one link that led to his post for vb2, and how many people wanted it... and it was never released, so I highly doubt he will release this one either...

Which upsets me, because why would you do this and not release it? That's just cruel, and it's not like I am demanding him too, I just think it's wrong to tease people over a hack that every knows people want for vb3.

If he made a post for vb2 and never released the hack even though many people wanted it, why would he release his vb3 version?

[kira]

I just want to emphasize that I only brought this up not to accuse gamingforce of self-promotion (I don't believe I did that), but to let people know that this may be the beginning of a loooooong thread that ends up nowhere fast.

I certainly don't demand that he release this hack at all. None of us are owed a freebie, and some hackers want their work to remain specific to their own boards. I can understand that.

However, gamingforce planned to release the hack -- at least, he stated back in 2002 that he'd release his hack if people wanted it. We said we did. Two years later, we still got nuttin' but vaporware. :(

So if you do genuinely plan on releasing it, gamingforce, please do and get ready to be showered with gratitude and acclaim! But if not, please don't be a "hack tease" (hee, did I just coin that?) -- just post your site in the "Forum Commenting" area and let us salivate in helpless jealousy. :D

[Osterling]

kira... i agree, none of us are demanding it, but we are just upset because we are feeling teased, because he did it way back and never released his hack even though alot of people wanted it...

it's okay with me if you don't want to release your hack for free, let alone at all.. but don't sit there and tease us, ya know.

[Gamingforce]

It's rather upsetting to see people accuse me of self promotion. Why would I promote on a community full of vBulletin owners? :p It just doesn't make any sense. After reading parts of this thread, I lost some motivation, but I'm glad to see the amount of interest there is for a release. I coded this journal system a few years ago and was one of my first php projects of all time. I learned a lot by coding this journal system and looking back at some parts of the journal system written a few years ago, it needs to be updated.

The are parts of the journal code that have harded coded material (including HTML and phrases). Also I have not security checked everything in the journal system so I gotta make sure all the holes are fixed before releasing it. If your code is not public, it's a lot more secure than non-public code because the potential holes are not so obvious. This thread was created to re-gauge the amount of interest for such a hack because I do not feel like it's release quality yet. Running a design firm, I'm a strong believer of secure, bug-free code, so I will not release it until I feel it is.

For all of you skeptics out there, please do not judge me as just doing this for my own benefit because there really is no benefit. I do it because I want to help everyone's community expand to new levels and allow a higher amount of interation between your members. It's really upsetting to see certain people arguing over whether I'm going to release it or not because it's taking a long time. If you don't think it's worth waiting, it looks like there are a bunch of other journal systems people are putting together. Even though mine has been in development for two years, it's been battle tested by thousands of users. They give me the feedback necessary to make the system professional grade, so not only my community can benefit but also potentially yours.

Here are the latest changes for Version 2.6

[ New Feature ]
You can now add a custom name for "comments" in your journal entry. This is the word that is displayed next to the number of comments the entry has. The default setting is "comments". You can add anything you want though as long as it contains less than 10 lowercase letters. This can be changed on the Journal Settings page.

[ New Feature ]
Comments can now be edited in journals. Only the original commenter can edit the comment. Journal owners are still able to delete any comments from their own journals.

[ New Feature ]
Page navigation feature for entries has been added. Although you can still view all entries on one page if you wish, the page navigation breaks it down by 10 per page. A future update will allow you to set the number of entries you wish to view per page via the Options panel.

[ Updated Feature ]
The Mood part of the New/Edit Entry pages have been updated with a 10 charcter text box. This replaces the old pulldown menu. You can fill this box with letters or a GFF smiley of your choice.

[ Bug Fix ]
Smilies / VBCode are now displayed properly on the Most Recent Buddy Entries page.

[ Optimization ]
The Most Recent Buddy Entries page has been slightly optimzed for speed.

[ Security ]
Extra data checking / security code added to some journal functions.

[ Visible Fixes ]
The extra linebreak between the navigation bar and main journal content has been removed. Various phrases and other small design aspects have been modified as well.

[ New Feature ]
You can now search in comments. It works similar to the entry search and only the 100 newest comments are displayed. To use it, go to the search section on the main ChocoJournal page and select "comments" from the pulldown menu.

[TheComputerGuy]

this is nice!!! good work gaming force...if you needa beta test I am at your service.

[kira]

It sounds great, as I've mentioned a couple of times. Obviously, as that last thread aptly showed, there is plenty of interest in a feature-rich journal hack.

For the life of me I don't know why you'd be "unmotivated" just because I or anyone else said we were disappointed that you never released the hack last time -- to the contrary, it seems like it'd give you extra impetus to get it in tip-top shape and finish the darn thing for everyone to enjoy! I mean, jeeze, we wouldn't have been disappointed if we hadn't anticipated the release so enthusiastically! That's proof of audience appreciation right there.

So best of luck to you, whatever happens, and keep us updated please!

[Polo]

Good Job gamingforce...

[Koutaru]

^_^ it would definately be great if you released it but at the end, it's your decision and your code. If you decide to, no doubt I'll be happy but I won't hold anything against you if you don't. However, I'm sure it'll benefit everyone :p

[9mmPrincess]

^_^ it would definately be great if you released it but at the end, it's your decision and your code. If you decide to, no doubt I'll be happy but I won't hold anything against you if you don't. However, I'm sure it'll benefit everyone :p
whens it going to be ready? i want a journal for my board really bad :(

[hpwilhelm]

If enough people are interested, I might package it for release. :)

How many is enough? :p

I would say that the interest for a journalsystem is huge!
So release it if you would like to make a lot of people happy! :D

Please contact if you need a non-english beta-tester! :)

[spence2]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, Gamingforce... 'you need us to wax your car? walk your cat? walk your car or wax your cat??...whatever you need to keep coding! We're all here for you.

[Gamingforce]

I have updated the journal system on my end to version 2.65 :). Here's a copy and paste of the changes from my board.

Changes From Version 2.61:

[ Bug Fix ]
Fixed a bug causing negative numbers in public entry counts when you viewed a journal with private entries.

[ Bug Fix ]
Fixed a bug causing journal information to not appear in profiles even when a user has an active journal.

[ New Feature ]
You can now track which journals you or anyone else comments the most in in a graphical format. To access this feature, go to a user's journal and in the information box towards the top, click the line that says "Cats has made 2101 comments". This feature dynamically builds a 3D pie chart PNG on the fly using some complex functions and the GD library. :)

http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-265-cjpie.gif

[ New Feature ]
You can now view buddy entries since your last GFF visit (since you logged out or were inactive for more than 15 minutes). Go to the View Buddy Journal Entries page as normal and select "My Last Visit..." from the pulldown menu. The menu conveniently shows you how long it's been since your last visit.

http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-265-buddy.gif

[13th_Disciple]

very well done, gf.. looks very nice and seems to be coming along very well..

[Polo]

looking good gamigforce... keep up the good work ;)

[Koutaru]

;) Maybe release a beta sometime soon?

[vau7]

*prejoy*

[9mmPrincess]

*prejoy*
pleeezz hurry up and release it? pretty please?

[Gamingforce]

Updated to Version 2.69

Changes from Version 2.65 (copied and pasted from my community)

[ New Feature ]
ChocoJournal journal pages and buddy entry pages NO LONGER BREAK when one entry is larger than your browser width. Now, only THAT entry will be broken off the screen, not everything. This is a huge update for those of you using large images / large formatting code in your journal. Although it is still not recommended to use huge images in your journal, they will no longer break the rest of the entries! Because this is updated in the Buddy Entries page as well, one buddy will no longer make the rest of your buddy entries fall of the screen.


[ New Feature ]
You can now post new entries anywhere from your browser using one click via ChocoPost! ChocoPost! is an easy way to make a ChocoJournal entry without visiting and loading all the Gamingforce Forums pages. Once you add the ChocoPost! link to your browser's toolbar, creating a new entry will be a click away. Clicking ChocoPost! in your browser links list creates a mini-interface to a new entry page. It's a fast and easy way to post your entry from anywhere, anytime!

To access the instructions for this feature, you can either go to the New Journal Entry page and click the button there, or you can click the following link: http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php?action=chocoposthelp (http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php?action=chocoposthelp)

http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-269-chocopost.gif

[ New Feature ]
The View Latest Buddy Entries feature has been updated to allow you to view more than one entry per buddy. This is useful if you want to check up on your buddy entries and don't want to miss out on some entries. Previously, the page would only select the newest single entry since the time frame selected. Now, it will select up to 10 if the box is checked. If not, it will display only the one newest one just like before.

http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-269-buddyupdate.gif

[ Visible Fix ]
The View Journal (and View All Entries) page has extended journal entry width from 90% of your browser window to 95%. This is to allow more content to be displayed on the screen without scrolling and cause less tables to break with larger images.

[nexialys]

With all these features improvements, will we be surprised to have to pay for this script once its released ?!

i've seen some guys asking for suggestion for some updating process and bring a non-free-anymore script at the end... so i hope this is not... bringing a beta or something that we can test would help to know...

[Gamingforce]

[ New Feature ]
A dynamically generated pie chart is now being served to display who's been commenting in a specific journal. It displays the top 12 commenters, then groups the rest in an "Other Commenters" category.

http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-269-commentpiesample.gif

[Polo]

With all these features improvements, will we be surprised to have to pay for this script once its released ?!

i've seen some guys asking for suggestion for some updating process and bring a non-free-anymore script at the end... so i hope this is not... bringing a beta or something that we can test would help to know...

Yeah, that would totally be a bummer :ermm: but anyways, keep on gamingforce, you are doing a great job... and whatever you end up doing, is up to you.

I'm sure you will choose the best

regards,

[jarekn]

Ok, this is exactly what I am looking for! IT would look great on my site... PLZ release is ASAP... I don't mind Beta...

[Ghostsuit]

Your a damn tease, please release ;)

[Polo]

Your a damn tease, please release ;)

lol :D

[Link14716]

Looking great, Gamingforce. :)

[kira]

I can't wait to see who wins the Journal hack race, LOL. Whoever it is, prepare to be showered with flowers and candy.

[spence2]

Two years...
Total Entries: 30,841
Total Journal Views: 1,392,523
Total Comments: 107,544
Version: 2.69
Total Active Journals: 1617

By most standards, that's quite an extensive beta test.

BTW, for those interested in encouraging a journal hack that seems destined to be released (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63881&page=1&pp=15), I'm sure AN-net would appreciate your feedback.

[13th_Disciple]

BTW, for those interested in encouraging a journal hack that seems destined to be released (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63881&page=1&pp=15), I'm sure AN-net would appreciate your feedback.


I am sure every hack author or those looking for feedback appreciate encouragement.. So saying something like that in someone elses thread who is working on a hack that is very similar to the one you want everyone to encourage is somewhat rude.. Try and encourage everyone who is doing a hack.. and keep posts/comments like those above to yourself or in a pm.. That only discourages hack authors..

People have a mind of their own.. Allow them to decide which hack they would rather have or encourage..

[spence2]

You will find that I have encouraged this hacker and hack in a previous post, and of course will continue to do so.

If you refer to the original post by Gamingforce, you will see that he wrote that he "might" release this hack. Clearly, that is his decision. I admire his desire for perfection and for excellence.

If you find my post "rude"...so be it. However, since I do not view multiple hacks as competing but rather as co-existent efforts, my intention was to further the support of each in their endeavors.

[TRStealth]

Well, last I spoke to this guy he told me that he will most likely keep it as a GFF (Gamingforce Forums) exlusive, so I wouldn't get my hopes up about this.

[AN-net]

i am glad to see support for my version of this add on but i feel only for the best quality of these hacks to be done is to be patient and not discourage either of us. I also will say this is not a race for anything, i will work on this hack till i find it suitable to my standards and the features in it are is what is needed/wanted. I do hope that gaming force also sees it this way as well. Pleade be patient, as your patience will bring you the best of our works. When both are released there will be a tough decision and you the people will have to choose and i hope you each will choose which ever journal more suitablly(sp?) fits your site and your forums.

Thank you again for your encouragement and please dont make this into a race/battle.

[vau7]

Thumbs up for these wise words.
Don't let it go like the vbPets/ Petzvb.

[jamesk]

I'm really looking forward to seeing this happen. It seems very feature rich. WHoever gets it done first. kudos.

It did seem that I saw a more basic journal for vb3 already released. Can somebody link that here as well. Having difficulties finding it now.

[13th_Disciple]

i think the journal you are refering to is over at http://www.everythingvb.com

[Gamingforce]

Changes From Version 2.69 -> 2.70

(Copied and pasted from my board)

[ New Feature ]
Previously, when you wanted to link someone to a specific entry, you had a link that loaded EVERY entry in your journal causing some long load times for larger journals. Now, the links to individual entries load SINGLE entries! Old links will still work, but all new direct links to entries will now point to this new single entry display.

How do you easily copy the URL to an entry? Check this image below:
http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-270-journalquicklink.gif

Note that if you link people to a private entry, only your buddies will be able to load it.

[ New Feature ]
The feature that took me many hours tonight to put together is the new Calendar system for journal entries! The Entries Calendar is an easy way to look at entries over months from a calendar perspective and easily bring up entries from a specific date only! It's very cool and required A LOT of clever coding! You can easily jump from month to month using the month selector at the bottom of the calendar. Check out the screenshot for more details.

To access a calendar for any journal, load a journal page and in the top information box, click the link (next to entries) that says "[view entry calendar]".

http://www.gamingforce.com/chocobo/cjdev/cj-270-entrycalendardemo.gif

[Oblivion Knight]

That calendar feature is very impressive, great work.

[TheComputerGuy]

I agree! Very impressive to say the least!

[Ghostsuit]

Very impressive but since you posted saying your not intending to release it (Pretty sure you deleted the post ;)) I hate the fact you keep teasing us. Still good PR for getting people to join the site to see it :p

Now I'm off to start thinking about how to improve the Journal system thats was at vbEverything.

[The Coldwood]

Looks awesome, you have done a great job!

[Gamingforce]

Oh, I never said I wasn't going to release it. It's still up in the air!

At the very least, I hope my work inspires other people to get new ideas for their journal systems and speed up development.

[Ghostsuit]

Well it's working your inspiring me to expand a little on what I've got currently :)

[Gamingforce]

This is a direct paste from my board:

Closely following the tracks of the ChocoJournal 2.70 released a couple of days ago, ChocoJournal's been updated to version 2.75 with a major feature update! I've realized that other than the 10 Latest Entries listing on the main page, it's hard for less known members to get journal recognition. I was browsing through old entries and noticed that there are a lot of great journals that get little traffic. So I thought, what can I do to allow people to discover new journals? I came up with a bunch of ideas and put it under a new feature called ChocoJournal Discovery!

Changes From Version 2.70 (2.70 -> 2.75)

[ New Feature ]
ChocoJournal Discovery is a collection of (currently) 3 tools that allow you to discover new journals. It can be accessed by the graphic on the main Journal page.

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/images/jd-keyword.gif

Discover By Keywords is a natural language search engine that searches through tens of thousands of journal entries and then ranks the results in real time by relevancy scores. Because it is natural language and not exact phrase matching, you can type stuff like "I love going to to the beach in the summer." and it will bring journals that most match that sentence. Explaining how it works exactly is pretty complex, but the algorithm that matches your query works pretty well. How do I know? I did a search for "masturbate" and Jessykin's journal appears as the first result with her relevancy score of 32(much higher than second place which has 6) . Use this to find new journals by typing in stuff of similar interest. Maybe you'll find a few new journals and make a few new buddies!

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/images/jd-music.gif

The similar music interests feature is much simpler in that it looks only in the stuff entered into the "Now Playing" section to find people who like the bands / type of music you do. It's not going to solve world peace, but having one thing in common is better than having nothing in common. The search engine automatically strips out "the" out of any band name and does exact phrase partial matching. Type use into the engine will match stuff like Muse and Fuse. Journals that have the highest number of entries that match your query will be listed on top.

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/images/jd-active.gif

The Active Journals feature lists the 20 most active journals. Active being, the amount of comments a journal has received in the past 24 hours. It's amazing from a technical look because it gets the entire list with just one query to the database server. If you know any SQL, here's the query that I'm using to get this information:

SELECT journal.userid,user.username,COUNT(journaldiscussi on.commentid) AS count FROM journal LEFT JOIN journaldiscussion USING (entryid) LEFT JOIN user ON (journal.userid=user.userid) WHERE journaldiscussion.dateline > (UNIX_TIMESTAMP() - (86400 * $dayrange)) GROUP BY journal.userid ORDER BY count DESC LIMIT 20

It's amazing how flexible database servers are, but most of you are probably falling asleep by all this technical garbage. The entire goal of this new feature is to help people find new journals and ultimately, new buddies. I think the keyword feature is more real than something like Match.com because it looks through content that you've written about yourself, not some static profile that you decide to come up with on any given day. Let me know if there are any other discovery methods I can add to the discover page or if there is any way I can optimise these results.

[ Feature Update ]
The comment and entry search engines now link directly to single posts rather than the entire page.

[ Bug Fix ]
Fixed a bug in the comment search engine that resulted in occasional duplicate search results.

[AN-net]

not to be a party crasher:( but isnt natural language matching only available in certain versions of mysql, i think its 4.1.1 and up maybe>_> i just wanted to bring this up incase others may not have mysql at that version but i really love the idea of using the match function;)

[cbase]

Let me know if there are any other discovery methods I can add to the discover page or if there is any way I can optimise these results.

How about allowing the journal owner to select a category for his/her entry? The categories would be different for every site, but would correspond to the major topics found in the boards. For example, in my health community the categories would include specific diseases.

This would allow a function to be built to browse journal entries by category.

[dethfire]

how about releasing the dang thing instead of teasing us :nervous:

[Polo]

how about releasing the dang thing instead of teasing us :nervous:

lol :p

[influence]

I dont think he will be releasing it. He have been teasing people with it since 2002 or so. He always talks about it but never release it. showing off if you ask me

but that is a great journal system though too bad this guy will keep doing this and probably never release it

[dethfire]

I dont think he will be releasing it. He have been teasing people with it since 2002 or so. He always talks about it but never release it. showing off if you ask me

but that is a great journal system though too bad this guy will keep doing this and probably never release it

agreed, poor self esteem, I bet hes not even developing it, can't make an install file

[Osterling]

this has already been discusssed about him just teasing here.. he denies it but last time proves it.. he said if enough peopple want it he will release it, well last time alot of people wanted it and did he release it...

sorry bud but if you didn't release your version for vb2 with how many people wanted it you shouldn't have posted it this time too...

[Osterling]

And one more thing...

I am not demanding a release, and I understand all hacks are free so we should be grateful for what we do get but to be teased is wrong and this member has already proven he is a tease with vb2 version.

[Polo]

this has already been discusssed about him just teasing here.. he denies it but last time proves it.. he said if enough peopple want it he will release it, well last time alot of people wanted it and did he release it...

sorry bud but if you didn't release your version for vb2 with how many people wanted it you shouldn't have posted it this time too...

Really? well since i'm kinda new here I didnt know that, but well doing that is just...mmm... not right :ermm:

Showing people a mod and its development, I believe is alright, but teasing people about releasing it and not doing so just doenst seem right...

[Osterling]

Go to the second page (i think) your see what I am talking about

[Polo]

Don't mean to be a downer, because this is an excellent system without a doubt, and I know I (and many others) would love it to be released.

But I seem to remember this same type of post (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=36736) two years ago from this very poster: "I've created this kickass journal system, maybe would release it, hmm, would anyone be interested?" Eighteen kabillion pages of enthusiastic "hell yeah!"s and only one or two follow-ups from the originator later, it became apparent that gamingforce was not returning to his thread, which was still going even as late as a year later. Much disappointment ensued.

So please, with sugar on top, don't tease us or toy with our hopes, O gaming force! :D Only show us the yummy candy if you genuinely plan on sharing it with us.

Because it really really looks amazing and I really really want it. :D :D

I see what you are saying exasko ... ouch :ermm: ...... as I said, is cool if he wants to share the development of the hack and all, but teasing people about releasing it and not doing so is a big no no,

and that is just my opinion

[KuraFire]

I see what you are saying exasko ... ouch :ermm: ...... as I said, is cool if he wants to share the development of the hack and all, but teasing people about releasing it and not doing so is a big no no,

and that is just my opinion
Look on the bright side. If he doesn't ever release it, but continues to show it off and talk about all these cool new features, then y'know what happens?

He'll have come up with even more ideas that I can add in my vBulletin Journal system, which I will release (no doubt about that).

This is a win-win situation for everyone who likes the features they see here. :)

*disappears again* (shhh :p)

[Polo]

Yeah, i agree with you, we can also see all this with a positive attitude :)

[Floris]

Look on the bright side. If he doesn't ever release it, but continues to show it off and talk about all these cool new features, then y'know what happens?

He'll have come up with even more ideas that I can add in my vBulletin Journal system, which I will release (no doubt about that).

This is a win-win situation for everyone who likes the features they see here. :)

*disappears again* (shhh :p)
I don't think people should discuss their development / projects prior to release. It does no good and it only brings in a hype (which I see as indirect spam-2-build-name). When it is out of alpha status and ready for public beta testing, make a beta release. When it is stable and can be released as full release, do that.

Everybody can make a journal.php - just copy showthread.php to journal.php and change the PHP if conditional for THIS SCRIPT so it only evals for certain forum, then make a child style and modify the proper templates and control them with a conditional to display the journals as you want. And then set to override the forum with that style. Takes 1 hour work tops, and you have a journal powered by vBulletin.

[spence2]

Everybody can make a journal.php - just copy showthread.php to journal.php and change the PHP if conditional for THIS SCRIPT so it only evals for certain forum, then make a child style and modify the proper templates and control them with a conditional to display the journals as you want. And then set to override the forum with that style. Takes 1 hour work tops, and you have a journal powered by vBulletin.

A tutorial, please, Floris?

[Floris]

A tutorial, please, Floris?
No sorry.

[spence2]

I didn't think so.

[nexialys]

this project is a flop again, or you plan to release it in the next decade ?!

[LizerisCHN]

Actually, the project is quite good, I congratulate Gamingforce's Admin on good coding.

If you don't like the fact that he hasn't released this stuff, please, feel free to learn how to code competently yourself.

It feels more rewarding to create a script than just take someone else's.

Gamingforce. r u azn?

[nexialys]

@LizerisCHN ... did you look at my title... "Coder" .... it means i release some hacks here... so sometimes i answer clients needs... (i released 5 hacks here, but more than 200 for commercial clients already)...

also, i was asking because the thread was not updated for 20 days, so in 20 days, maybe GF was doing some...

stupid comments like yours are useless... please refrein yourself in...

[Justin2K]

LOL

whatever, the guy isnt going to release it and he never was. He just likes teasing you all with it. Its kinda pathetic everyones all begging him and stuff. really all i can say is release it or shut up.

[spence2]

Two years...
Total Entries: 30,841
Total Journal Views: 1,392,523
Total Comments: 107,544
Version: 2.69
Total Active Journals: 1617

By most standards, that's quite an extensive beta test.

BTW, for those interested in encouraging a journal hack that seems destined to be released (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=63881&page=1&pp=15), I'm sure AN-net would appreciate your feedback.

AN-net just released his journal hack (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=69538)! Yippee!