vbF Journal by vbFreelancers
 

1. MicroHellas, as this module has developed by her.
2. Olympic, for his corrections to secure this module according to vB's standards.

2.- General information

• This module is mainly for use for Article posting with 1 photo. Unlike vbNews and vbArticles which are using 3nd party HTML editor, vbJurnal uses vB's Editor.
• Editors choice Articles
• Breaking Articles
• Important Articles
• RSS per category
• Newest Articles by category
• Most Active Authors (according to the number of post Articles)
• All these blocks can be turn off in case that you don't need them, by setting 0 as the number of appearing articles
• All these blocks are following the active category. eg Breaking news in main page shows articles from all categories. Breaking news while you're in X category shows breaking news from X category only.

3.- Installation

1. Open vbjournal.php file with a text editor like notepad. At line 9 you'll find a variable: $mydateformat = 'm/d/Y'; This is set to default US date format. You can change it according to your country's setting eg. for UK d/m/Y or for other European countries to d.m.Y or d-m-Y. You can also add the time if you want. eg 'd/m/Y H:ia' this will give 20/8/2007 14:15pm. The reason that I didn't used the internal vbdate function is because that some users from Scandinavian countries, Spain and France had problems with vbdate().
2. Upload the contains of /forum directory to the same directory where you've installed vBulletin. Please note that if you've another vbF module already installed, you'll get a message for file "loading.gif" that already exists. Don't worry. You can skip or overwrite it as it's the same image.
3. CMOD following directories to 777
   1. /photos (inside vbjournal directory)
   2. /tmp (inside vbjournal directory)
   3. /thumbs (inside vbjournal/photos directory)
4. For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
5. Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
6. From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbjournal.xml
7. If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:
   1. Search For:
      Code:

      ---

      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

      ---

   2. Add Below:
      Code:

      ---

      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbjournal.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Journal</a></td>

      ---

      ....or use any other word you want.
8. By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbjournal, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
9. In your adminCP, under vbJournal, choose vbJournal options and configure it depending on your needs. If you can't see vbJournal's menu, press F5 to refresh the page, or logout and login again to your admincp.
10. Now, you can access vbJournal at: www.youdomain.com/vb_installation/vbjournal.php

4.- Copyright

The script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this
script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here)without the author's written permission is not allowed, but you can modify it as you want but just for your own use.

In addition to above restrictions you can't develop and share addons for 3nd party scripts (eg for vBadvanced).

Greetings
vBulletin Freelancers

Can members comment on articles?

why all of your mods have identical template structure ?

Not yet. Commenting and Rating will be add in the next version.

Even if the design in not mine, as I wrote this was a ready mod that came back with some addition for those who have installed it, the answer is:
"For the same reason that other coders are using the default forum/thread design in their modules".
Everybody has it's own style, and this is Mary's style.

Marina

Looks cool ... Looks like I have new stuffs for my site ... going to try it out.

Thanks ~

Wow installed in just 2 minutes ... awesome might do some configuring later.

Here's what I've just installed : http://www.evotus.com/vbjournal.php

Thanks again vbFreelancers

Don't forget to give Guest permission to see it;)

Sorry was about to do that ... was in the middle hunting for something else. Well permission has been modified ... guest has permission to view it now.

Thanks ~

This looks excellent, will install later, thanks...

Mike.

Sorry but I just tried adding the pix into the article was always successful ... but whenever I edit the article the picture I uploaded always disappear. I had to re-upload the picture again.

Is that normal ?

Of course it's not normal. I duplicated the bug and tomorrow I'll post an update. Also on Monday, I'll post an upgrade by adding photo gallery in each article.

Marina

Great Job!

You can make a tag for article in the future?
Can make a rewrite or article?

I can't say that I got your meaning, so can you please give me an example of what exactly you want?

Could not download vbfJournal.zip

Invalid Attachment specified.

Martin

Hello,

A new version (1.3.0) of vbJournal is available for download. In this version:

1. A bug which was appearing by removing the article's photo when you're editing the article, has been fixed.
2. Added feature. Now every article can has a photo gallery and not just a photo.
3. Code correction. It appeared in one installation that every photo upload was taking the same filename, so we change the way that the files are naming.

How to upgrade:

1. Upload file: vbjournal.php in your vB installation directory.
2. Import product-vbjournal.xml from your admincp. Don't forget to check "Overwite" option.

Of course is always wise to backup the table XXXX_vbjournal_articles before upgrade.

Regards
Marina

Hello Martin,

I just tried and download worked fine.
You can also try with right click and choosing "Save target as..."

Marina

Hi Marina,

I just re-install everything as the bug for remove article is fix but now I face this problem.
the photo I uploaded everything works fine but in the "photo article" column is showing the same size photo as the breaking article or did i mislook somewhere or I installed incorrectly.
Now the column is not proportional anymore.

http://www.evotus.com/vbjournal.php

I found the bug:D As I copied the code for image manipulation from another mod, in 3 instances I forgot to rename vbjengine to vbjournal, so the mod was trying to find settings from vbFEngine:eek:. I apologize for my novice mistake. Please upload the attach file.

Wow you are the Greatest ! Thanks for sharing the mods really loves it ... you did a very good job. Working prefectly now it's a great beauty.

Thanks Once Again ~

Thank you so much for this, It looks like it will perfect with an idea I had for my board. Installed!

Just a couple of quick questions. This mod looks like something that I have been looking for however, can the headings, (Editors choice Articles, Breaking Articles, Important Articles, RSS per category Newest Articles) be changed to your own headings?

Also, is there a setting in the admincp to allow the admin to add articles but not allow users to add articles?

Thanks.

vbFJournal is a 100% vB product, so all phrases are easily translating or changing to anything else.

Yes, you can do it by assigning only to administrator's usergroup permissions to add articles. But articles can be only add, at site's frontend and not at admincp.

Marina

Thank you very much for your very quick response. I will download now but I will install a bit later when my site is fully set up. I will clcik installed at that time.

Thanks again.

Hi,

I am trying to install vBFjournal but I have run into a couple of problems. Obviously something that I have not done correctly.

I uploaded the files and CHMOD the directories as needed, although my server requires folders at 775 rather than 777.

I turned off the board.

I imported the product.

I set the permissions in the Usergroup.

Then I configured the vbjournal options and then turned the board back on.

When I opened my browser and typed in "http:www.nextel-nascar.com/vbjournal/vbjournal.php I get the following errors.

Warning: require_once(./global.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/vbjournal/vbjournal.php on line 99

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/mysite/vbjournal/vbjournal.php on line 99

I checked my server and the file vbjournal.php is there in the folder vbjournal.

Also, I would like to have it set up so that when a user goes to my site, the vbjournal is the home page. How would I do that?

Thank you very much.

That's the problem. vbjournal.php must be OUT of vbjournal directory. In the same level as is your vB's index.php
And if your server needs CMOD 775 do it this way and not 777

thanks friend

Thank you very much. It works now.
Is there a way to set it up so that when a user comes to the site, vbjournal is the home page rather than having to put a link on the menu to get to it?

Thanks again.

I think I have figured out how to make vbjournal the home page but the problem I have now is that when I click on "Add an Article" I get a "Page Not Found" error.

Sorry,... I have it working now.

It is not the best remedy in the world but it seems to work.

To make it the home page, I changed the name of vbjournal.php to index.php.
This caused the "Page Not Found" error because it was looking for vbjournal.php.
So, I just uploaded another copy of vbjournal.php.

Now I get the editor instead of the "Page Not Found" error. As I said, it may not be the most elegant fix but it seems to work.

Thanks and sorry for all the posts.

OK,... everything seems to be working fine but I do have one question.
So far I have set up 3 categories and they are listed under the Categories block when I go to the main page. If I go into one of the categories to read an article, the Categories block does not list any of the Categories any more. If I want to go to another category after I have read the article, I have to use the breadcrumb to back up to the main page so that I can select a different category. Is this normal?

You can see what I mean if you go to http://www.nextel-nascar.com and select Race Schedule.

Thanks

I want to change the RSS feeds for the Journal. Is there a way to do this? I have looked everywhere.

Thank you for this, very appreciative. However, I can't figure out how to change the category titles. This is probably something simple, but when I search for the phrase (or word) in this case, I get no results.

Ok, I feel stupid, didn't see it in the options to left. Thanks again. :D

Nice mod but I have 1 issue. See the attachement.

How do you allow for the full article box to display.

Any support for this one or is it abandoned?