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

[basilrath]

First of all upload the relevant files to relevant areas ie..............

Diaryimage forum root
Files within includes to forumroot/includes
Import vbulletin - diary as a product

Go to ACP /Forums and Moderators / add a forum ...........title, description, parent etc
Then make it a diary or blog (drop down box at the bottom)

Should be done

However i beieve jan is working on the issue with the date problem.............

[adonfun]

How were your christmas days Jaap

I suddenly get the errer "no Datamanager" when posting a new blog...but the message is posted..raar

Also...when I post several blog entries all is fine and looking good. But when I delete all blogs and leave 1,..then it looks like a regular forum post. So when I try to add another blog it is just a forum post. It doesn't give me the possibility to enter a password or use an image for the blog. I checked the forum and it somehow jumped back to Forum type (default, diary or blog): Default Forum

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Oke, here a summary of the bugs that I encountered with the BLOG. Hoping that it might help you Jaap fixing these bugs one day if more people have these bugs

1. Error message "no datamanager" when posting a new blog with Weblog Thumnail
   BUT the post appears in the blogforum. Posting a blog with or without password is no problem.
2. Forum type (default, diary or blog) switches back to Default Forumwhen deleting a blogpost.
3. When posting a 'quick reply' in a existing blogpost I get the error:
   
   Fatal error: Class 'vB_DataManager_blog' not found in /home/eikwijt/domains/mijneikwijt.nl/public_html/forum/includes/functions_diarycomment.php on line 206
4. When I post an empty 'quick reply' in a blogpost then an empty popup popuppes. But when I post an empty 'reply' in a blogpost then the popup contains the reason why it popuppes.
5. When posting a 'reply' no error encounters
6. When I hide a blogpost, I can not tell which one I hided as admin. This blogpost isn't marked or anything, nothing says to me which blogpost is hided or soft deleted.

Am I the only one with these bugs?

[basilrath]

nope i can say ive got the same although its early stages as the guy has said ............

xmas is a relaxing time lol

give hime time

[adonfun]

Originally Posted by basilrath

nope i can say ive got the same although its early stages as the guy has said ............

xmas is a relaxing time lol

give hime time

I am not rushing him Basil. I am only posting what I encounter in case he wasn't aware of it. If I am the only one with these bugs then there is something wrong with my forum script. But if more people have these bugs then Jaap can do something about it. If I don't speak, Jaap wouldn't know perhaps.

ETA: where do I get the name Jan from? His name is Jaap right?
ETA2.. nvm.. Jan Jaap it is

[basilrath]

lol jan is correct !

i agree and yes its always worth knowing bugs .............much better for the end product !

[Lottis]

Originally Posted by basilrath

First of all upload the relevant files to relevant areas ie..............

Diaryimage forum root
Files within includes to forumroot/includes
Import vbulletin - diary as a product

Go to ACP /Forums and Moderators / add a forum ...........title, description, parent etc
Then make it a diary or blog (drop down box at the bottom)


Should be done


However i beieve jan is working on the issue with the date problem.............

Thank you.

[ccmoon]

Is this working OK with 3.6.0?

[basilrath]

its got a few probs as stated on 3.6.x

be patient

[parabat]

Waiting for the bug fixes before I install on my 3.6.4 board. Have the perfect use for it :classic:

-Parabat

[scan-pa]

Great MOD, will install on main Board after these Errors are fixed. This add-on will be well used by one of my users.