vBulletin Blog - 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


New Diary & Edit Diary Password Option


Password Screen if protected by a password, admins do not need to enter a password.


Diary Forum Display

[andor]

seems to be working with earlier versions of vB, but not latest. I'm getting:

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: vb_datamanager_blog

Pity - this offered what vBlog didn't which is permission control on blogs per user/usergroup

bummer

[HIVEDesigner]

The only issue that I have with this is that you cannot reply to a blog entry.

Maybe it's something in my site, or if it's a well known bug, I'm not too sure. If there's a fix, please reply within.

[deltagsm]

if i try to post some comment to some diary/blog post,alway view this message :


Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: vb_datamanager_blog in /home2/my dir/public_html/includes/functions_diarycomment.php on line 206

how to fix this error.....????

[ktaylor]

I still can't use the blog version of this because of it not being able to find uploaded images....

but the other thing i'm wondering is if there's a way to change the date on the diary blogs? it constantly says 31, December and i'm not sure how to change that.

[tillcat5]

it worked fine when i installed but will not allow replies.. any suggestions

[jamesk]

i installed this on a clean 3.6.8 pc1 site today.

i immediately got this error when attempting to submit first blog (thread):

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT
post.*, post.username AS postusername, post.ipaddress AS ip, IF(post.visible = 2, 1, 0) AS isdeleted,
user.*, userfield.*, usertextfield.*,
icon.title as icontitle, icon.iconpath,
avatar.avatarpath, NOT ISNULL(customavatar.userid) AS hascustomavatar, customavatar.dateline AS avatardateline,customavatar.width AS avwidth,customavatar.height AS avheight,
deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason,
editlog.userid AS edit_userid, editlog.username AS edit_username, editlog.dateline AS edit_dateline,
editlog.reason AS edit_reason,
postparsed.pagetext_html, postparsed.hasimages,
sigparsed.signatureparsed, sigparsed.hasimages AS sighasimages,
sigpic.userid AS sigpic, sigpic.dateline AS sigpicdateline, sigpic.width AS sigpicwidth, sigpic.height AS sigpicheight,
IF(displaygroupid=0, user.usergroupid, displaygroupid) AS displaygroupid, infractiongroupid

, count(comments.commentid) as commentcount
FROM vb3_post AS post
LEFT JOIN vb3_user AS user ON(user.userid = post.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_userfield AS userfield ON(userfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_usertextfield AS usertextfield ON(usertextfield.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_icon AS icon ON(icon.iconid = post.iconid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_avatar AS avatar ON(avatar.avatarid = user.avatarid) LEFT JOIN vb3_customavatar AS customavatar ON(customavatar.userid = user.userid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(post.postid = deletionlog.primaryid AND deletionlog.type = 'post')
LEFT JOIN vb3_editlog AS editlog ON(editlog.postid = post.postid)
LEFT JOIN vb3_postparsed AS postparsed ON(postparsed.postid = post.postid AND postparsed.styleid = 3 AND postparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN vb3_sigparsed AS sigparsed ON(sigparsed.userid = user.userid AND sigparsed.styleid = 3 AND sigparsed.languageid = 1)
LEFT JOIN vb3_sigpic AS sigpic ON(sigpic.userid = post.userid)
LEFT OUTER JOIN vb3_diarycomments AS comments ON(comments.postid = post.postid)

WHERE post.postid IN (0,10) GROUP BY post.postid
ORDER BY post.dateline;

MySQL Error : Table 'vbulletin.vb3_diarycomments' doesn't exist
Error Number : 1146

it either 1) didn't run the v1.2 install part of the xml or 2) erred on or before that point in the xml product installation. unfortunately you had db errors turned off.

update: confirmed #2 above:

also, attempted to manually create the table:

CREATE TABLE `diarycomments` (

`commentid` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ,
`threadid` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL ,
`postid` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`parentid` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`username` varchar( 100 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`userid` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`title` varchar( 250 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`dateline` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`pagetext` mediumtext,
`allowsmilie` smallint( 6 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`showsignature` smallint( 6 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`ipaddress` char( 15 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`iconid` smallint( 5 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`visible` smallint( 6 ) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`attach` smallint( 5 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`infraction` smallint( 5 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`reportthreadid` int( 10 ) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY ( `commentid` ) ,
KEY `userid` ( `userid` ) ,
KEY `postid` ( `postid` , `userid` ) ,
KEY `threadid` ( `threadid` ) ,
FULLTEXT KEY `title` ( `title` , `pagetext` )
)

MySQL said:

#1214 - The used table type doesn't support FULLTEXT indexes

update: notes i found claim fulltext only works with MyISAM and not innoDB. i am using mysql 5 so i like the innoDB for speed and scalability. guess i will have to get a different product.

secondly, @ HIVEDesigner, the intro description clearly states that the "diary" can only have enties by the thread creater; there is no "comment" capability.

[forumrunt]

any way to show a link to the blog in the profile?

[Chachacha]

Originally Posted by jw00dy

I'm guessing we've never heard back on the "no DataManager" error?

I guess I'll have to remove this until it's fixed. Great mod though as long as you don't try and use attachments.

I'm having the same issue and will also have to uninstall. Oh well.

[ktaylor]

I've got the same problem with the replies now too... didn't have that before and i'm running 3.6.7

the comment box is really small/short and it doesn't allow you to click into it.

not sure why/what changed?

[Santharian]

Great hack. But is there anyway to show the diary entries on the users profile?