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 BecomeUnbroken

is this another Lite version with a full version available to purchase? or is this the full thing?

No. I will not develop anymore Lite and Commercial versions of the same script. This is a Free, with no restrictions mod and depending on it popularity or not, it will grow up by adding new features.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by yahoooh

what is the difference between it and vbarticle?

also if i installed it , and then i want to use vbnews does this give errors or not

thanks for your great job

It dosen't has Rating & Reviews of vbArticles but it has some features of vbNews. As i wrote before, depending on its popularity or not, I'll upgrade it by adding new features.

No, you'll not get any error if you've vbArticles and/or vbNews installed in your site. It uses different tables.

[0tolerance]

You always do create some of the best modifications for vbulletin .
If i had the cash i'd certainly purchase quite a few of your mods.

keep the excellent work comming

[bdude]

Is there a demo anywhere of this?

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by bdude

Is there a demo anywhere of this?

For the moment (as I'm moving site soon) there is a demo at:
http://www.madebymary.com/demoarea/vbjournal.php

[bdude]

Thanks - looks like a good product, I don't think I'd use it. One suggestion would be the addition of RSS feedds.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by bdude

Thanks - looks like a good product, I don't think I'd use it. One suggestion would be the addition of RSS feedds.

I wrote it before. Depending on its popularity or not, should be upgrades or not. RSS and many, many other features can be easily add.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Ahaa.. No, surelly is not a blog system.

I suggest you put a bit of a description in the main post to say what it is (or isn't) - esp as there is already a (quite well known) modification on vb.org called vbjournal, that is a blog system.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I suggest you put a bit of a description in the main post to say what it is (or isn't) - esp as there is already a (quite well known) modification on vb.org called vbjournal, that is a blog system.

Thank you so much. I've to check it mainly for the reason of a possible duplicate database structure. As for the description it's easy, I'll do it right now.

[Renada]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Ahaa.. No, surelly is not a blog system.

Thanks Maria I have your vBarticles and vBNews and it's good to know they won't clash.

Regards,
Renada