vBdiary & vBblog - Convert a forum into a diary or weblog (blog) forum.
 

Notice: This mod is no longer being developed by the original author. As of today (1-1-2008) it will be continued by Laura!

This mod will enable you to convert a forum into a diary of weblog (blog) forum. A diary or blog can be started by any user who has permissions to post in the forum and only the author of the diary is able to post entries.

The autor of the diary is able to protect the diary with a password so that only users (also guests) who know the password are able to view the diary or blog.

This mod may contain some bugs as I did not yet test it extensively. Please let me know if you find any bugs and I will work on it. Feature requests are also verry welcome!

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Updates:

• v1.1
  • Diary Forum Display
  • Diary Thumbnails (professional, using the vBulletin Avatar thumbnail management system)
  v1.2
  • vBBlog extension
  • Comments page (comments per diary/blog entry)
  • Customized Diary/Blog template wich shows the post date for diaries and entry title for blogs in a <h2> tag.

This mod makes use of the original vBulletin systems so it will perform on a big high traffic forum. Aprox. 30 hours have been invested in this mod so far. Ofcourse also a lot of study work to get to know the vBulletin systems like Postbit factory and datamanager.

No template edits are needed, all is managed via the plugin system, a onetime install and further configuration from the original vBulletin forum adminpanel.

Screenshots:

Forum Configuration Options
http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/diary-admin.jpg

New Diary & Edit Diary Password Option
http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/diary-password.jpg

Password Screen if protected by a password, admins do not need to enter a password.
http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/diary-...d-required.jpg

Diary Forum Display
http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/diary-forumdisplay.jpg

First to click *install.

Will try it now :)

Is there a demo site with possible access to the diary?

<a href="http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/papegaaien-dagboeken/" target="_blank">http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/papegaaien-dagboeken/</a>

Install click*

I Will try it :)

thanks

Sounds interesting... I think I might check this out. Thanks!

Nice Mod

Is there a way of removing the Reply button when people are reviewing that diary, instead of giving the button then an insufficient permissions message when they submit?

Thanks

Hi, I Appreciate Your Idea, Just Installed it on vb 3.6 Test Forum :)

but at this stage the diary forum is not seems as a diary, its need more work to become a great diary Add-on.

Some Suggestions for your future updates:

1. Diary Author can allow some registered users to read & comment on their diary.
2. Thumbnail of Diary Thread (on forumdisplay) and/or..
3. Avatar of The Diary Author As a Thubmnail of Diary (on formdisplay)
4. Description of Diary Thread (on forumdisplay)
5. Transform Forum Into Diary Just Like GARS
6. Display Latest Entry's on Right or Left side of the Forumdisplay

Warm regards :up:

I second these... :D

Hi!

Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding your suggestions:

1. Diary Author can allow some registered users to read & comment on their diary.
   • The author is able to specifiy a password and then provide it to whoever he/she likes. The user doesn't even have to be registered on the forum to view the password protected diary.
2. Thumbnail of Diary Thread (on forumdisplay) and/or..
   • You mean a direct link to post a diary in a diary subforum? Or could you otherwise please be more exact?
3. Avatar of The Diary Author As a Thubmnail of Diary (on formdisplay)
   • Maybe it would be better to be able to specify a thumbnail per diary? As 1 user can have multiple diaries about specific subjects like pets etc.
4. Description of Diary Thread (on forumdisplay)
   • I don't understand what you mean by this. And I would like to keep it "manual template modification" free. It might be possible to change the existing template data via a plugin but I am not sure if this will work or if it would be needed. Isn't just the title like "Diary of user xxx" enaufh?
5. Transform Forum Into Diary Just Like GARS
   • What exactly is GARS? Could you please provide a link to an example GARS diary and their main site?
6. Display Latest Entry's on Right or Left side of the Forumdisplay
   • I will add this.

Wondeful I have been waiting for something like this for ages.

Thanks :) *Clicks Install*

It's a great hack, although I think I am going to use it for private threads rather than a diary. Great work Adult SEO - your vBulletin hacks are the best!

My Pleasure sir :)
Please take a look at the following attachment:
Attachment 57942

Visit GARS by The vBGeek : http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=41

Thanks :)

Hi!

Thanks for the screenshot! I will add this! I've already extended the mod not to show the reply links etc. to visitors and only the edit and replylink for authors.

I will try to have it completed by tonight!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

It will be ready tomorow, I've spend some hours untill now but it's not yet ready.

Nice hack. I 'll try it on my local server tonight.

All The Best :)

Hi!

I've updated the mod. I've spend almost 5 hours on setting up a diary thumbnail manager based on the original vBulletin Avatar manager wich will cache the avatars for example and store them in the database or on your server based on your vBulletin settings.

I've tested with the default vBulletin Database Avatar storage setting and not yet the filestorage option aldough I did add support for it.

If you want to use the vBulletin Filestorage option you will need to create a directory named diarythumbs in your forum root and chmod it 775.

The Diary now also has a custom forum view as requested by Pehchaan.

I will also add comment support but do not yet know how to do it. If you have any suggestions let me know!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Thanks for the update :)

old version was un-installed.
But when i imported the new product, got database error:

I am just trying to update over 1.0 & getting this error...

I am getting the same error

same issue here /w version 1.1 from fresh install (first time, never tried before)

Hi!

I've fixed the install code, it should work now!

Note: the code contains some unfinisched work on the showpost script wich will hold the commenting system!

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

p.s. this mod can also be used as vBBlog ;)

Just asking, archive in this thread didn't change..

What do you mean?

look at mysql error above.

i'd like to download the fixed install code
as u typed in your latest post.

but there is no new version of vbdiary out.

Edit: now it is. Trying. Thx!

Hi!

Just 10 seconds ago I uploaded a new version again wich now has support for "Blog" or "Diary" (both work the same but use difrent of the same templates and difrent phrases).

So you are now able to use this script to offer weblogs aswell!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Im still getting the same error :S

<a href="http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/papegaaien-dagboeken/" target="_blank">http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/papegaaien-dagboeken/</a> the many beautiful shadings on the titles them as thanks are made

Hi!

That shouldn't be possible as the errors are supressed so that the instalation will always complete.

Could you please post an explicit error message?

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Hi!

I am not sure what you mean.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

Hello, im getting the same error, as i posted it here https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=20

Thanks Jan, Now its looking fine :)

Please note, i think something is still missing..

1- On add/edit Forum (in admincp) Forum types not showing Diary or Blog text, look at this screen shot:
Attachment 57977

2- On ForumDisplay page The AJAX feature is creating problem, when you double click to edit thread title, its working wrong.. look at this screen shot:
Attachment 57979
aftar
Attachment 57978

Hi!

Will be fixed, some phrases are missing: is_diary_option and is_blog_option.

The AJAX title editing will be fixed also.

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

I get this when I try to add .xml

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.4:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE `forum` ADD `is_diary` INT( 5 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0';;

MySQL Error : Duplicate column name 'is_diary'
Error Number : 1060

a small issue, but not nice to view.

after editing phrases for german and english language
the colon " : " went to the next line (see attachment).

this issue appears only when creating a blog and not
when creating a diary thread.

didn't find a fix right now.

Error in the ACP. No announcement. see screenshout

Try to make a thread / diary sticky and have a look how
thrad listings looks like.. ;)

Well done! :)

It would be very good if you keep the first post updated with a list of the things you already worked on and with a list of things that might not work at the moment. :)
From what I've read you spent some time fixing some bugs but others still exist or did you already fix them? :confused:

What do you mean by 'unfinished work on the showpost system'?

<a href="http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/9762-post1.html" target="_blank">http://www.papegaaienforum.nl/9762-post1.html</a>

The default showpost.php display will hold the commenting system.