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vbJournal · **Released**: 08-20-2007

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:

Code:

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

Add Below:

Code:

<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

soulface · #**102** 08-27-2007, 07:01 PM

2 uncached templates

Quote:

Page generated in 0.18422 seconds with 30 queries (2 queries for uncached templates) [Server Loads: 0.29 0.25 : 0.20]Uncached templates: vbjournal_categoriesnewbit (1)Uncached templates: vbjournal_vcategorybit (1)

shabab-on-line · #**103** 08-27-2007, 09:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

I'll appreciate when you're placing a post for incompatibility (because it's an incompatibility issue and not bug), to give me more details like server type, browser type and version etc, otherwise it's impossible to give any help.

Thank you
Maria

Quote:

Originally Posted by shabab-on-line

Hello,

I installed the product and its run as well.
But I have a problem!

When I try to add a new article there is no place to write!
(The message box) is not available!

So, what is your suggestion?

Thanks all!

BTW, this is my first post here

Hi,

Quote:

server type, browser type and version etc

the server is Apachi the browser is E v.7!

Now I would explain the problem again,

When I click on add new article I got alarg box consist of:

Category:
details,
title
description (max 255 char)
and box under it to write the description.

Then "fullarticle " without a box to write it on.

Actually I thought that the problem comes when I translate the XML file,
so I rewrite it again and I used a new xml file from your last upgrade.

The same problem accure!

no "fullarticle box".

Another Q please:
About the last upgrade 1.0.3
I did upgrade to 1.0.2 by replace the php file
so now what the good way to do this upgrade?

Best regards,

MaryTheG(r)eek · #**104** 08-28-2007, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by majorvbuser

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.

HTML editor is a 3nd party commercial editor full of features. You can test it at:
http://www.richarea.com

MaryTheG(r)eek · #**105** 08-28-2007, 03:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

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

Have you upgrade to version 1.0.3? From the zip file you need just to upload vbjournal.php

MaryTheG(r)eek · #**106** 08-28-2007, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shabab-on-line

Another Q please:
About the last upgrade 1.0.3
I did upgrade to 1.0.2 by replace the php file
so now what the good way to do this upgrade?

Yes, till now the upgrades were bug fixes so you need just to upload vbjournal.php
Could you please give me your installation URL to check it?

shabab-on-line · #**107** 08-28-2007, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Yes, till now the upgrades were bug fixes so you need just to upload vbjournal.php
Could you please give me your installation URL to check it?

Hi,

Yes for sure, but it's in Arabic language.
http://www.shabab-on-line.com/vbjournal.php

I interduce it as a beta virsion 'till it will be compleat.

This is a dirct link to add new article:
http://www.shabab-on-line.com/vbjour...?do=newarticle

Thanks :-)

unitedpunjab · #**108** 08-28-2007, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Have you upgrade to version 1.0.3? From the zip file you need just to upload vbjournal.php

yes i have done updation. May b there is some bug in previos version.

Chadi · #**109** 08-29-2007, 01:15 AM

Please see attached screenshot.

How would I make the category list more left aligned, and possibly remove the bullets without ruining the vertical alignment?

My code is this:

Code:

        <tr>
          <td align="left" valign="top" class="alt1">
            <ul style="margin-left:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0px;">
            $vcategories
            </ul>
          </td>
        </tr>

MaryTheG(r)eek · #**110** 08-29-2007, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chadi

Please see attached screenshot.

How would I make the category list more left aligned, and possibly remove the bullets without ruining the vertical alignment?

My code is this:

Code:

        <tr>
          <td align="left" valign="top" class="alt1">
            <ul style="margin-left:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0px;">
            $vcategories
            </ul>
          </td>
        </tr>

Try setting margin-left:15px;

MaryTheG(r)eek · #**111** 08-29-2007, 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shabab-on-line

Hi,

Yes for sure, but it's in Arabic language.
http://www.shabab-on-line.com/vbjournal.php

I interduce it as a beta virsion 'till it will be compleat.

This is a dirct link to add new article:
http://www.shabab-on-line.com/vbjour...?do=newarticle

Thanks :-)

I tried to visit your site but seems that Guests don't have permissions to see vbjournal. In any case I've noticed that except the traditional Arabic right to left, you've the scroll bar moved to left too, something I didn't seen in other Arabic sites. Are you using any special template or code? Maybe this causes the problem.

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