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

[TimberFloorAu]

We use a marquee, that pulls the latest threads in our Betting shop, onto the forumhome page.
Similar system, for latest edits to status would be so funny.

Some people have a weird sense of humour, that we could then integrate a voting system,for best status message.

Or even setup a forum, called My Status Message for example.

And soon as someone edits their status message it writes that to the forum, as a new thread.

Similar to Staggers, latest high score in ib arcade.

Either would be fun

Ozzy

[snake-boy]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

We use a marquee, that pulls the latest threads in our Betting shop, onto the forumhome page.

Would that be this mod?

Similar system, for latest edits to status would be so funny.

Agreed

Since this is a "Facebook Concept", the way they do it is pretty cool - have like the latest 3 status updates reflected somewhere on the homepage. (Ideally I'd like to see it just to the left of the block in the upper right that contains the "Welcome username" "Last Visit" and "Pm Status" etc) There's quite a big "block" of screen real-estate over there that never gets used for anything...

[Attilitus]

Originally Posted by snake-boy

Since this is a "Facebook Concept", the way they do it is pretty cool - have like the latest 3 status updates reflected somewhere on the homepage. (Ideally I'd like to see it just to the left of the block in the upper right that contains the "Welcome username" "Last Visit" and "Pm Status" etc) There's quite a big "block" of screen real-estate over there that never gets used for anything...

Yea that would be the direction that I would take.

[LisaD1]

Very nice!! Thanks for the work, I like the inline editing, it is so easy!!

[Martell]

Problem



charset=windows-1251

Can you fix ?

Or where to correct?

[Attilitus]

I'm afraid that I do not know how to handle charset related errors, as I have only developed/worked with english-based websites. If someone has an easy way to fix these character set errors, please send me a PM.

[imam1]

the mod do not Support Arabic !

can you fix it plz?

and thanx

[NeuroLancer]

Attilitus thank for this mod! :up:

I made a small change that suits me. With the postbit template edit i changed the first line of code to this:

<if condition="$vbulletin->options['vbstatus_active'] == '1' && $post['vbstatus_status'] != 'has no status.'">

in this way the has no status message doesn't display in the forum, yet still appears on the memberinfo page. I prefer this, especially in early stages when many people haven't updated their status yet.

[Attilitus]

That template edit will be different depending on the default status message user's specify in the admincp. Replace "has no status" with $vbulletin->options['vbstatus_defaultstatus']

<if condition="$vbulletin->options['vbstatus_active'] == '1' && $post['vbstatus_status'] != $vbulletin->options['vbstatus_defaultstatus']">

That code will work even if you change the default status in the admincp.

However, I don't see why you want to remove that message. Seeing the "has no status" message will motivate users to set their status.

[imam1]

araaaaaaaaaaaaabic plz