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

[solboy]

I get this error when I try to save the changes to my MEMBERINFO template:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mydomain.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 Server at www.mydomain.com Port 80

Any chance on making this validate? It throws a slew of errors. I ended up wrapping it in a conditional for showthread only in the meantime so that it doesn't un-validate the rest of my site.

[b6gm6n]

I have an error when i click 'edit' i used the APC datastore cache system and usually uploading a 'php.ini' file into the right directory solved the problem, but in this case i don't know... please advise

Fatal error: APC not installed in [path]/includes/class_datastore.php on line 386

EDIT, uploaded php.ini to 'vbstatus' and it was fine

[Null Parameter]

Going through this thread I never found a definite solution to fixing the "Edit" link not doing anything when clicked. Some have pointed out that this may be due to TCatt Image Resizer, of that I'm not sure, but I do have a solution that doesn't involve uninstalling and reinstalling everything.

If you open up ajax_wrapper.js and change this code:

_ajax.prototype.encode_datastream = function(_datastream)
{
	_datastream = _datastream.split('&')

	for (key in _datastream)
	{
		if (_datastream[key].match(/\=/))
		{
			bits = _datastream[key].split('=')

			_datastream[key] = bits[0] + '=' + encodeURIComponent(bits[1])
		}
	}

	return _datastream.join('&')
}

To This:

_ajax.prototype.encode_datastream = function(_datastream)
{
	_datastream = _datastream.split('&')

	for (key in _datastream)
	{
		if (_datastream[key].toString().match(/\=/))
		{
			bits = _datastream[key].toString().split('=')

			_datastream[key] = bits[0] + '=' + encodeURIComponent(bits[1])
		}
	}

	return _datastream.join('&')
}

That got rid of the Javascript errors for me, and I have TCatt installed and it is all working just fine. I hope this helps a lot of you out. Enjoy!

[thenewuser]

Thanks!

[GabyZ]

Works perfectly, thank you, such a great idea! Keep it up with your work.

[JawadIT]

thank you dude nice mod

[saturngod]

It's can't support unicode or what problem is that

I am written
Playing ThreeKingdom ကစား

but It's just save like

Playing ThreeKingdom အရမ္း

How to fix it ?

[ZomgStuff]

I would suggest adding this to the template where it say "welcome X, you have X new private messages" in forumhome.

[Taragon]

Originally Posted by saturngod

It's can't support unicode or what problem is that

I am written
Playing ThreeKingdom ကစား

but It's just save like

Playing ThreeKingdom အရမ္း

How to fix it ?

I guess this would solve that:

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.

Originally Posted by ZomgStuff

I would suggest adding this to the template where it say "welcome X, you have X new private messages" in forumhome.

I know at http://www.vbulletin-germany.org/ there's a working example for this. Just run a search for vbstatus there.