Some ideas you might want to think about adding in:

• Make the entry "public" i.e. everyone can see, but the ability to disable comments on a post by post bases. So like a check-box on the post page that says "Disallow Comments", and when ticked, no one can comment on it.
• Current playing music, just a text box and on the journal entry, it would say something like "Now Playing: whatever the person types in"
• Ability to make it a "friends only" post, where that only people on your buddy list can view the entry. probably better to make it separate from the vBulletin one, as there may be people you want to have on your vBulletin buddy list, but you don't want them viewing your "friends only" journal entires. Maybe by default making the people on your vBulletin buddy list be on your Journal buddy list, but the ability to remove them from your journal one without them being removed from the vBulletin one. Maybe even setting it up so when a person is added to their Journal buddy list they get an email? i.e.
  Quote:

  Hello username, This is a notice to let you know that you have been added to username's journal buddy list. This means you are now allowed to view their "Friends Only" journal entires. You can view username's journal here: http://sgstudents.com/forum/journal....13&action=view Thanks, Forum name team

Anyway, just some ideas :)

just a suggestion, maybe there is a way to add a page where it shows a list of all the members with a journal

or better yet maybe add a column on the member page (members.php) with a link of all the members with a journal

Top hack. Getting hammered by my users.

There doesn't seem to be a word-wrap though. My pages are scrolling badly.

Any hints?

Its OK, got it sorted. In case anyone else is having same grief:

Just remove the 'nowrap' markup from the 'journal_entrybits' template.

All superb additions. Sadly I had to rush my vbJournal to release it as I am going away for training starting next week (and wont get to see a comp for 2 months. :confused: well, maybe not 2 months. but prob wont have the time for it... ah you get what i mean ... i hope.)

I did mention its a lite version so all the points have been taken down when I'm back to add into the full journal. No doubt maybe, there'll be a better Journal released when I'm back. Then no worries. I'll just download the new Hack, and see if i can make other hacks :) If not i'll continue with the journal where i left off.

This may be my last time here for awhile so till we meet again! Great community here. I would have 'dumped' my vb forums a long time ago if it wasnt for this site.

[high]* Ryangel thinks of all the wonderful hacks waiting for me when i get back to vbulletin.org *grins*[/high]

Have fun at Trainiing! Would you mind if we poked around with your code and added mit's to the Journal and if so would you mind anyone posting what they have done here?

hmmhmm sure. Make sure you write up in tthe readme on what you did exactly though. So i can keep up with what you guys have done.

Man, this is AWESOME. Perfect for what i was doing, you've saved me tons of time.

Nice install, everything went well... great job.

Good idea, Ghostsuit. I hope that people will release mods for this hack on this thread so that we can keep updated. :)

Kaelon

Yeah things I would like to see are Mood hack and and Now playing hacks built in might have a look at them both my self but since I've never created a hack it might take me some time ;)

How hard would it be to activate VBCode within the journal system.
Obviously moods and 'now playing' features are nice but having the vbcode basics.. or at least smilies would help brighten up the place :)

Hack installed tho and I must say it's a big hit!

Question: I thought the members would be able to edit any comments made to their own journals, but I received an email from one of my members that cant do this. Was I mistaken?

how do i get it on the online.php to have

"Viewing Journals"

instead of

Unknown Location: /journal.php?

anyone know ?

The easiest way is to install Firefly's Online Location hack - check his profile to find the hack.

The vbcode should work in the Journal. Check here My Journal It has the vb img tag in one post and smilies in others

Has anyone figured a way to break up the journals in multiple pages? My members are really going to town with their journals and they will be ridiculously long soon!

A good suggestion is to allow users only 1 entry per day (make sense, right?). If anyone wants this addon, I can show you how.

I would like to know :)

-Arunan

Please, afterlab :) Any chance that you might be able to tackle the other issues? Thanks!

Something else also just occurred to me -- is there a way to create a listing of all journals? Maybe a link that refers to a separate template to list all users with active journals?

Kaelon

Sweet!
Great job, I've installed it today and everything is working smooth :) I think many users at my forum will love this feature.
Thanks!

Before I install this I have afew questions (and please forgive me if they were asked before, it's early and I'm incoherant) - can Admins limit the amount of entries a person can have at any one time, and can admins/mods edit/delete the entries?

No way to limit the amount of entries but I'm sure it could be hacked to set that. And yes admin's can edit/delete. I'd guess Mods can too but I've not checked.

I had the same questions. Anyone know what changes I would need to make to be able to limit the journal entries? I don't want for their entries to stay there forever and eat up all my space :-p Thanks to whomever can help :)

Anyone ever figure out how to split the journals up into pages? Say 25 entries per page, etc?

and also anyone could give a code on how to show journal link on User profiles if a user have a journal?

Ok I installed it and ran it and when I go to get journal I get the error page, but it created the journal if I refreshed the page it came up,
What do i do to solve this?

and also I created a test acct and made a journal for the test acct, how to I get rid of it.
I see no edit or remove commands for a admin to remove journals or even a user can't delete their own posts to a journal.
I'm going to try to remove the test acct to see if it removes the test acct journal. while I'm waiting for a answer to my ??s
Thanks
Willard
www.reecefamilies.com

Also
Who wants a journal where the admin of a site can read your private thoughts.
gota be a way to make the private----- private!!!!

erm....IE cannot post....???

i tried using Opera browser and it requires me to "repost" the data...however, by using IE to post, it cannot be posted.

it always goes back to the main journal page without the entry being added...how do i solve this ?

does this work with 2.2.8?

Also, how does this affect disk space? I have a lot of members (9000+), and while I don't expect everyone to use the journal, I wouldn't be surprised if a couple thousand did...

Any thoughts?

what's ur server's specs ?

How do you suggest making it private? You can't, the same as anyone who has access to your DB can see everything, passwords, email addresses etc. The only way to make it private is to cut everyones access to the webserver.

I seriously need help....i just downloaded the file...and i installed it.

However, everytime i post a reply...it just redirects me back to the main journal page. its empty.

however, i can add using the Opera Browser, by reposting. Otherwise, i cannot add at all...it doesn't repost...and instead of

http://www.mysite.com/journal.php

i get this instead:

http://www.mysite.com/journal.php?jo...ction=addentry

You can't see the passwords ,, but yes you can see the email addresses and if someone wants to keep it like a dairy them an admin could read it and post your thoughts all over h!! and back.
Thats what I am saying.

But basicly my only prob with it is I wish a admin could delete post made in any journal or what ever.
I didn't see that as a option. and also the error page.

can someone help me ?

Have you done the function edit that it says to do.
I see that by your url that you have removed it so I can't see it.
but you need to follow the install to the end.

yes, in admin/functions.php i added:

// vBJournal Hack by Ryangel
if($post[journal]==1){
$journal = '<a href="journal.php?s=&journalid='.$post[userid].'&action=view"><img src="{imagesfolder}/journal.gif" alt="View '.$post[username].'\'s Journal" border="0"/></a>';
}
else {
$journal = '';
}

$datecut = time() - $cookietimeout;

if ($counter%2==0) {
$post[backcolor]="{firstaltcolor}";
$post[bgclass] = "alt1";
} else {
$post[backcolor]="{secondaltcolor}";
$post[bgclass] = "alt2";
}

is that right ?

Yes you can, they just happen to be an MD5 hash unless you have hacked it out of vB.

Not having installed this hack I don't know how the DB is set out but you just need to run a simple query along the lines of the following:

[sql]DELETE FROM journal WHERE journalid=X ANDuserid=X[/sql]

can u help me with my problem ?

ohgenki

looks like you put it in the right spot.

yeah i did...but no idea why it just doesn't display new entries...