Profile Enhancements - vBStatus - Facebook Style Status Display (v4)

vBStatus has been released for vB 4.x.x

vBStatus v5 for vB 3.8 has been released.

This modification thread will not be upgraded, since it is possible that some users may prefer v4.

Compatible with 3.6.x and 3.5.x

vBStatus allows your users to update their status to tell other members what they are doing/thinking at any given time. A user's status is displayed under their names in their postbit, in their User Profile, and anywhere else you choose!

User's can edit their status quickly and easily via AJAX.

Administrative options include:

• Banning a list of usergroups from using the hack.
• Allowing a list of usergroups to change other users' status.
• Limit the # of characters used in Status Messages
• Word wrap status messages to prevent broken templates.
• Turning the hack on/off.
• Option of In-Line editting or a popup. (Defined in the admincp)
• Default status for users with a blank status. (Defined in the admincp)
• Status prefix to append an admin-customizable forum standard. (Attilitus is doing something)

There are 3 template edits for this hack. The installation readme file will guide you through the entire process.
Update 2.0:
Please reinstall the product xml file, and re-edit your templates following the new instructions in the readme file. This is to correct a small cosmetic bug that displays non-functional links to guests and non-admins.

Update 3.0:
A number of bugs were fixed, and a few new admin options were added. Please uninstall the previous product and reinstall this one. Please re-edit your templates and reupload all files. Sorry for the inconvenience (but at least we are getting this handled in the first 12 hours of release.)

Update 4.0:
This is a fairly comprehensive update. You must remove all previous template edits and add the new template code. You must also "Allow Overwrite" when importing the new product. The DB structure hasn't changed.

New features include:

• In-Line Editting (This is on by default, but you can return to the previous popup style by changing an option in the admincp)
• Default Status: If a user doesn't have any status message it will be set to a default status which you can define in the admincp
• Visual improvements: Various small visual improvements were made, including a change in the location of the small "edit" link.

Update 4.01
I added status prefixes. If your updating from version 4 just reimport the product (with overwrite set to yes), and reupload all the files. No template edits necessary when upgrading from v4 to v4.01. (And I'm not going to change the file version because this update came so quickly on the heals of v4.)


Please do not forget to click INSTALL

[Attilitus]

Originally Posted by Roxie

I love this so much better with the inline editing!

Yea, so do I actually. That is why once I made the change, I had it set to in-line editting by default.

[hdrmut]

Thanx but this not support arabic Character

charset=windows-1256"

Can you fix ?

[Attilitus]

Thanx but this not support arabic Character

charset=windows-1256"

Can you fix ?

I haven't a clue how to fix it. Perhaps someone who has experience dealing with foriegn character sets can send me a PM?

[TimberFloorAu]

We have found an issue.
If we view the USER PROFILE of one of our users, in the current activity, we get:

error

Current Activity: Unknown Location /forum/vbstatus/vbstatus_ajax.php?postid=9&doupdate=1&userid=9&sta tusupdate=havin%20a%20bit%20of %20toast

Any suggestions what could be causing this please?

[TimberFloorAu]

I have reset the Status hack, using the previous version without the (is) in.

All seems to be working now.

Ozzy

[Attilitus]

This issue has already brought up. This hack does not update a user's Last Activity location. The next version of the hack will, and thus this "problem" won't occur. Until then, don't worry too much about it. It will appear as "Unknown Location" for all non-admin usergroups on your forum. (Thus regular users are not seeing the URL as you see it)

I have reset the Status hack, using the previous version without the (is) in.

All seems to be working now.

Ozzy

That is a bad idea, and will not in any way fix your "problem" haha...

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Attilitus

This issue has already brought up. This hack does not update a user's Last Activity location. The next version of the hack will, and thus this "problem" won't occur. Until then, don't worry too much about it. It will appear as "Unknown Location" for all non-admin usergroups on your forum. (Thus regular users are not seeing the URL as you see it)


That is a bad idea, and will not in any way fix your "problem" haha...

Gottya.

Sweet.

Seeing as you are such a smart bugger fancy doing a weather module lol.
We have lots of requests for it, have found one on vbcpms, but not on vb.

Be cool to just have a weather temp thing, in users postbit.

Temp: 32c
Current: Sunny

Gonna have a look , see what I can do.

Brill work mate

[snake-boy]

This is awesome, it's just what I was looking for!

Is there any way that status updates could be sent to the shoutbox? (inferno's shoutbox) as they are updated? If not, could I request that as a feature for an upcoming version?

Clicked "installed" - thank you !

[Attilitus]

Originally Posted by snake-boy

This is awesome, it's just what I was looking for!

Is there any way that status updates could be sent to the shoutbox? (inferno's shoutbox) as they are updated? If not, could I request that as a feature for an upcoming version?

Clicked "installed" - thank you !

I'm afraid that I won't integrate this into other third party modifications. It is too much of a hassle, and would require modifying and releasing new versions of other coder's work.

I may, however, make a box that will display recent status updates that can be displayed on the forum home page.

[snake-boy]

Originally Posted by Attilitus

I'm afraid that I won't integrate this into other third party modifications. It is too much of a hassle, and would require modifying and releasing new versions of other coder's work.

Thats a shame, but I get your reasoning...

I may, however, make a box that will display recent status updates that can be displayed on the forum home page.

Now that would be ideal