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 have had it working.

In fact this is a demo of it working.

http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/tutor...ng_status.html

Since the upgrade to version 4, I think any such html injection which compromised security , have been addressed.

Ste

[PoetJA-1975]

yeah - it's not the security bit that's at issue.
There's evidently some sort of javascript conflict.
It's odd really - because you and others have had no issue with the mod, works right out-of-box so to say - But me and others have had an issue where the Edit button does absolutely nothing... It just sits and looks fabulous LOL

Jacquii.

[grunt482]

Is it possible to change the color of you vb status. Maybe make the status in another color. Anyone got any idea of it can be done with a simple code manipulation?

[Ov3rrun]

Originally Posted by Konstantinos

it doesnt work for non english characters it messes up the encoding

Yup, same here, dont work with spanish characters (? ?????)

[orel]

what about hebrew support?

[bocek]

Originally Posted by Ov3rrun

Yup, same here, dont work with spanish characters (? ?????)

Originally Posted by orel

what about hebrew support?

working fine for me for turkish with below modification:

Originally Posted by marcinl

For anyone having problems with non-English languages being improperly displayed by this mod, there is a very simple solution. But you need the iconv extension installed for you php - it's probably by default if you have PHP5.

Open the file vbstatus_ajax.php

find:

PHP Code:

if($vbulletin->options['vbstatus_wordwrap']){
        $att->clean['statusupdate']=wordwrap($att->clean['statusupdate'], $vbulletin->options['vbstatus_wordwrap'], "\n", true);
        } 


And after that add just one line:

PHP Code:

$att->clean['statusupdate'] = iconv("utf-8", "iso-8859-2", $att->clean['statusupdate']); 


Obviously, in place of iso-8859-2, you have to put the correct encoding that you're using on you VB site.

It works perfectly for me in case of Polish.

thanks marcinl :up:

[jlew24asu]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before but how do I add this above the post count (on the right), instead below the user name?

[aykolandforum]

very nice thanx

[bada_bing]

I have installed this but when I click the edit nothing happens. I tried both inline and popup and in both IE and Firefox. Whats going on?

[chris1979]

Works great for me!