vBstory - an Interactive Story for vB (0.94 RC4)
 

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This sounds like an excellent hack. However I don't want to install it until I see a screen shot. This may be something I have been looking for.

I can vouch for the fact that it works :banana:

how about haveing it so each user can add there own story and only they are able to add more to it and edit it (and if they want they can pick for everyone to be able to add more), and on the main page to the hack it gives you a list of all the storys on the board and who they are by and how many views they have had and also a rateing of the story and feedback from users about the story?

I know it be alot of work but it be one how of a hack

this is an interesting idea, but not one that I'm going to do. the reason i'm not going to do it is because I don't think anyone is going to want to have to populate all of the diffrent chapters that are available. e.g.:

there is 1 chapter 1,
2 chapter 2's,
4 chapter 3's,
8 chapter 4's,
16 chapter 5's,
32 chapter 6's,
etc...

at the end of each chapter the story splits, and while I can see this being popular for a range of diffrent users working togther, I really can't see only one user wanting to do it all himself :)

although saying that, the current verson could be changed to support this feature, all you would need to do is change to where <id> is the id of the user you want to have access to it.

Hmm... i guess it can be useful to some boards :)

(this is just me, but) I personally think that if I was going to write a story it would want to keep it all in one thread, rather that having it split off all the time :)

the idea of this hack is to get your users more involved in using the forum, and expressing themselves :)

anyway, i'm just working on beta3 at the moment, this is going to support multipul stories split into multipul genres :D

Daniel, I for one am very impressed. I have about 20 hacks installed on my board. The #1 hack is Lesane's Store hack (a lot of hackers would also attest to that)...and your hack will be IMO ranked right up there with the best IMO. While still in its beginning stages...the ideas you have in store for it will put at the top of the available hacks here.

I'm always looking for ways for my community to be interactive, and we've done this very thing (a while back) w/i a thread....but this feature, esp w/ your new ideas will blow those linear threads away.

It's nice to see a hack that works, easy to install...but most importantly is creative and unique.

/hats off

Looking forward to your new changes! :)

Thank you for your kind words, it's nice to see that people like the idea. This is a project that I've been trying to get off the ground for ages, i've got an (almost) fully working verson of this script on my localhost, but it's not vB'd, so it's just a case of taking my old code, making it work with vB, and then making it look nice :)

poll: should the chapters have vbcode enabled? yes or no? and why?

the reason I ask is *gulp* because I don't know how to use the vbcode thing, but second, this is a story, the last thing we want is URL's, pics, and other noncence in it??

what do you think?

What is the word limit on chapters? I made a semi-lengthy one, and got sql error. (see the pm I gave you).

I made a VERY short one, like your Jack and Jill story, and it worked just fine.

Your probably right not to add vbcode. But also, as admin, how do you remove the story (start over), or edit it in case someone gets vulgar or obscene? Have to go through phpmyadmin?

hmmmm interesting hack, nice work

Apok2002 - I sent you a PM back, can you let me know if it fixes the problem? if it does, fantastic, i'll update the file.

ULTIMATESSJ - thanx :D

How do I restart the story once it's already posted? :)

Also, that "fix" didn't do anything. I deleted the test "short" chapter that worked, and replaced it with the original chapter that I posted. The sql error came back.

Could it be that there is a character limit?

It worked. :)

this is a great hack. I just installed on 2.21 no problems.

Can it be added that the owner of a chapter, and admin can edit?

editing stories is a bit iffy, the problem is that someone can write a chapter, someone else come along and carry on the story, then the first person edit his part so it's totally diffrent, making the second users chapter not making any sence.

editing options is a possability, i'll keep it in mind.

the more I am exploring it, the more I see it nicer and nicer.

About path? Is there a way to add one more path? I'd like to use it as a game, like some sort of Fictitious Republic, with the government, the opposition and the rest of us. But I would need to create one more path... This way, people add their two cents according to their interests

Yes, I was just thinking about that. On some of our threads, you'll see that there are people who respond...then edit that thread and say "oops, etc...." because they were posting at the exact same time as another person. IF that happens...then the story could be "jumblefied". But 2 points:

1) This will happen on "interactive story threads" no matter what.

2) The further along the story is...it's less likely there will be 2+ plus posters at the same time, because the options will be story options will be greater.

Lionel - having more than 2 paths would be very hard to do using the system i'm using at the moment, and make the hack a lot harder to make, so I personally don't have any plans for more than 2 paths.

Nice idea.

Does the forum censor automatically work?

Smilies?

Also, there has to be a quick way that staff can edit or delete entries in case of abuse.

what do you mean by forum censor? if you mean the login page? then yes, it's set to block people that are of the following user groups:

1 - Unregistered / Not Logged In
3 - Users Awaiting Email Confirmation
4 - (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation.

more can be added :)

staff moderation is something that I will be working on, but I want to try and get the main code working as I want it first :)

I like your hack but I prefer to wait for "support multipul genres" Good job with this hack, I keep my eyes on this one.

i've almost finished the multi-genre verson of the hack, will be uploading soon, the only problem with it at this stage is that you will have to add all the genres and stories to the database manually because I've not yet got as far as developing any form of admin for it yet.

Cool hopefully you will solve the Admin system problem, you can PM Firefly and ask him about it.

Also I wonder if I go ahead and install it, Does it has capability to upgrade the hack whenever new features come out?

I would love to say yes, but i'm going to have to say no.

Reason for this is that the new one add's 2 more tables to the database, renames and story table, and add's some extra fields to it.

But, with luck, after this next verson, upgrades will be possble. *fingers crossed*

K thanks for response, wish you good luck with your hack, it look fabulous for my board though

No sweat, just as long as ya add instructions. :) I'm not experienced with myphpadmin, I can only add queries and drop tables and edit a few obvious fields. :)

heh smoking is bad ;). and yes i could spare one

<font size="4">vBstory beta 3 has been released</font>

please see the first post to download it.

This seems like a very cool hack! Thanks a lot! :)
* Click Installed *

Can you have multiple stories in each genre? (I haven't installed beta 3 yet...you are updating it too quickly! lol j/k...don't stop man!)

VietSoil - Thanx :D

Apok2002 - each genre can have unlimited stories, you can in turn have unlimited genres, so basicly the sky is the limit :)

The only problem with beta 3 is that I've not done any of the admin features yet, that will be something i'll be doing tomorrow, after I've had some sleep, and a smoke :)

Oh, and if anyone want's it, i've still got beta 2.5, it's not as powerful as beta 3, but it's a lot simpler, and some people might prefer that :)

when you do the admin, can you make it that people from a certain group could start a story?

It would be 1 user doing there own one for people to read and any user can make one if they wanted to, i know it would go down on very good on my board has a few of them like doing fan fics

Lionel - I was going to give admins and Mods the ability to add new stories to the database. If any other users wanted to start a story they would just have to ask a mod/admin to do it for them.

C.Birch - I'll see what I can do once i complete the hack, although this is really not a feature that I had in mind - let me think about it :)

Ohh...very cool idea. I'll be using this, thanks. :)