Major Additions - vbJournal

vbJournal by Mary
Article Publishing Module
http://www.MicroHellas.com

Totally different and incompatible with my other Mods
vbArticles & vbNews

I just informed that there is another mod with this name
Except that I apologize to its Author for any trouble
I want to make clear that my mod has nothing to do with Blogs.

1.- General information

vbJurnal it is a combination (in features but in interface too) of my former (Free versions) vbArticles and vbNews. What I'm delivering in features in this 1.0.0 version is the main mod. There are nearly dozens of additional features that can be add on it, but everything is depending on it's popularity. If I see lots of installations, sure I'll spend time to add more features.

Some of the additional features that I've in mind are:

• Text Search
• RSS feeds
• Assign a future date for publishing
• Rating and Reviews
• Video upload
• Attachments
• Article Pagination
• Chapters
• etc etc

Please note that I'm not planing to add subcategories. I don't like it to become completitor of my commercial modules

2.- Features

• This module is mainly for use for Article posting with 1 photo. Unlike vbNews and vbArticles which are using 3nd party HTML editor, vbJurnal uses vB's Editor.
• Editors choice Articles
• Breaking Articles
• Important Articles
• Newest Articles by category
• Most Active Authors (according to the number of post Articles)
• All these blocks can be turn off in case that you don't need them, by setting 0 as the number of appearing articles
• All these blocks are following the active category. eg Breaking news in main page shows articles from all categories. Breaking news while you're in X category shows breaking news from X category only.

3.- Installation

• Step 1: Open vbjournal.php file with a text editor like notepad. At line 9 you'll find a variable: $mydateformat = 'm/d/Y'; This is set to default US date format. You can change it according to your country's setting eg. for UK d/m/Y or for other European countries to d.m.Y or d-m-Y. You can also add the time if you want. eg 'd/m/Y H:ia' this will give 20/8/2007 14:15pm. The reason that I didn't used the internal vbdate function is because that some users from Scandinavian countries, Spain and France had problems with vbdate().
• Step 2: Upload the contains of /forum directory to the same directory where you've installed vBulletin
• Step 3: CMOD following directories to 777
  /photos (inside vbjournal directory)
  /tmp (inside vbjournal directory)
  /thumbs (inside vbjournal/photos directory)
• Step 4: For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
• Step 5: Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
• Step 6: From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbjournal.xml
• Step 7: If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:

Search For:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

Add Below:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbjournal.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Journal</a></td>

....or use any other word you want

• Step 8: By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbjournal, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
• Step 9: In your adminCP, under vbJournal, choose vbJournal options and configure it depending on your needs. If you can't see vbJournal's menu, press F5 to refresh the page, or logout and login again to your admincp.
• Final: Now, you can access vbJournal at: www.youdomain.com/vb_installation/vbjournal.php

4.- Copyright

The script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this
script and sharing or publishing your modification A-N-Y-W-H-E-R-E (including here)without the author's written permission is not allowed, but you can modify it as you want but just for your own use.

In addition to above restrictions you can't develop and share addons for 3nd party scripts (eg for vBadvanced).


Greetings
Maria

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

I would be tempted to grab vbarticles as it seems to have the missing features bar the VBSEO, can I ask if we installed the current version of either vbarticles or vbjournal and you then upgraded them in the next version to VBSEO, would we be able to upgrade, implement the VBSEO option and still retain all our articles, comments etc or would we have to start from scratch with the new version? Would the existing articles then all have URL's VBSEO Style?

You don't loose anything by upgrading to vbSeo version as nobody lost anything by upgrading vbNews.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

The only reason I'm now hesitant to buy vbarticles is your saying vbjournal is going to be better, so your free s/w is going to surpass your paid for software. What would be the benefit of purchasing vbarticles if vbjournal is about to supercede it and it will allow you to have the vbnews functionality. Did I miss something?

Actually you didn't missed something other than the fact that vbArticles is already ready (except vbSeo) and it has a powerful HTML editor. This is something that other members love while others hate. You can do many things more with that editor, things that you can't do it with vB editor (eg tables, adding and configure unlimied photos, audio, video inside the article body etc).

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Do you have a timescale your prepared to divulge for the addition of VBSEO and ability for users to rate articles, and will VBJournal allow for users to post their own comments or just to rate the article

Sorry I can't give an ETA. But I'm already working in a new upgrade adding some features. Only in this point comes the fact that I'll give priority to my commercial mods.

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Thanks again for your time Maria, greatly appreciated.

You welcome

[majorvbuser]

I see and VB Journal would not allow you to add tables ? If that's the case it makes my decision much easier as many of our articles include workouts and we need tables to support that, we also often need to include photos so it would seem vbarticles is the way forward for us.

Will go grab a copy , thank you Maria.

Can I just confirm one thing. When we upgrade to the new version of vbarticles which has the VBSeo will all the articles automatically become SEO friendly with SEO friendly URL's or will it only apply to articles we add after we upgrade to the new version?

[Piccante]

Thanks Maria, it is working now

To majorvbuser, I am using custom bb codes available from these forums which allow me to insert video clips and youtube movies into the body of the articles using vbjournal. Plus, of course you can use your normal [img] tags to insert as many photos into the body of the article as you like.

[majorvbuser]

Originally Posted by Piccante

Thanks Maria, it is working now

To majorvbuser, I am using custom bb codes available from these forums which allow me to insert video clips and youtube movies into the body of the articles using vbjournal. Plus, of course you can use your normal [img] tags to insert as many photos into the body of the article as you like.

Hi

Thanks for the heads up but it's more the issue of being able to add avanced html such as tables etc which would be absolutely critical to us. A lot of our content is fitness based and therefore require a lot of flexibility in tables etc but thanks for info.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Can I just confirm one thing. When we upgrade to the new version of vbarticles which has the VBSeo will all the articles automatically become SEO friendly with SEO friendly URL's or will it only apply to articles we add after we upgrade to the new version?

I wasn't clear in my responce. Sorry. Yes, all links will be change to vbSeo format, without loosing anything.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Hi

Thanks for the heads up but it's more the issue of being able to add avanced html such as tables etc which would be absolutely critical to us. A lot of our content is fitness based and therefore require a lot of flexibility in tables etc but thanks for info.

Just wondering how deep is this flexibility for posting articles and I don't mean the editor. eg if it's important for you:

• Page breaks for articles
• Chapters
• Attachments to articles

then don't even think about vbArticles. Only vbNews is the right one. But I'm saying again. If you're not pressed of the time, start with vbJournal.

[majorvbuser]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Just wondering how deep is this flexibility for posting articles and I don't mean the editor. eg if it's important for you:

• Page breaks for articles
• Chapters
• Attachments to articles

then don't even think about vbArticles. Only vbNews is the right one. But I'm saying again. If you're not pressed of the time, start with vbJournal.

Hi Maria,

No we don't need any of the above, I think vbarticles will do the job.

One thing I did notice in some of your documentation for vbnews is that you state VBSEO only works if the mod is installed in the /forum directory.

Our forum on the site we want to use this mod on is located in the root , we have it as our home page, it's not in /forum, does that mean that the VBSEO will not work when you upgrade VBarticles.. ?

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

Hi Maria,

No we don't need any of the above, I think vbarticles will do the job.

One thing I did notice in some of your documentation for vbnews is that you state VBSEO only works if the mod is installed in the /forum directory.

Our forum on the site we want to use this mod on is located in the root , we have it as our home page, it's not in /forum, does that mean that the VBSEO will not work when you upgrade VBarticles.. ?

It will works in any directory (root or subdirectory) where vBulletin's index.php file is locating.

[majorvbuser]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

It will works in any directory (root or subdirectory) where vBulletin's index.php file is locating.

Excellent thank you. Would it be best to move questions to your madebymary.com site as I have a few more as regards the editor. For Example can you place an image in the body of the article and then justify it L, C or R and have the text flow around it etc?

Can you simply take existing HTML and paste it directly into the editor? I'm talking vbarticles now as opposed to vbjournal.

[unitedpunjab]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

One by one....

1. Can you see as Admin "Delete" at the bottom of the article in full article view?
2. If yes, clicking it are you getting any error message?

i have the delte button at bottom and when i click that button it say's u don't have enough permissions.

I checked my poermissions twiced. Still not able to delete a duplicate article from the journal