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

[unitedpunjab]

installed.. and working like a champ.

http://www.unp.co.in/vbjournal.php

[Hornstar]

This is something that I will really need to take a look at more! Thanks.

[sensimilla]

I'd love to see vBPals CMPS module first, it has ben soooooo long and nothing comes out.

[unitedpunjab]

I think it have some issues with MGC shoutbox. I installed vbjournal and after 4-5 hourz i observed that my MGC Chatbox is now vanished from forumhome. I installed it again and now it's workin fine...

[Wulfnoth]

At my forum i use a style with a sidebar for the menu. (see screen) Thats look not that good in combination with the left column of vBJournal (by the way, great mod!:up. How can i move the boxes of the left column into the right column?

[Endurer]

Installed, rated, and nominated for MOTM. I'd sure like this mod to be developed further. Thanks a lot for the release.

[unitedpunjab]

There should be a feature NEW ARTICLES like we have NEW POST in vb.

and is there any way to show news on forumhome also. If scrolling text, it will be awesome.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Wulfnoth

At my forum i use a style with a sidebar for the menu. (see screen) Thats look not that good in combination with the left column of vBJournal (by the way, great mod!:up. How can i move the boxes of the left column into the right column?

My congratulations. Very nice interface in your site. There are some changes that you need to make at templates:

1. vbjournal_main
2. vbjournal_viewarticle
3. vbjournal_approvelisting
4. vbjournal_categorylisting
5. vbjournal_myarticles

If you open product-vbjournal.xml with a text editor and search for:

width="$vboptions[vbjournal_left]"

you'll find them easily.

Unfortunatelly I'm very busy right now to help you more, but on Sunday I'll have some free time so I can do these modifications for you.

Maria

[Wulfnoth]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

My congratulations. Very nice interface in your site. There are some changes that you need to make at templates:

1. vbjournal_main
2. vbjournal_viewarticle
3. vbjournal_approvelisting
4. vbjournal_categorylisting
5. vbjournal_myarticles

Thanks for the tpl-list. Now it looks very good.

It is possible that the modification still not support the "who is online" location?

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Wulfnoth

Thanks for the tpl-list. Now it looks very good.

It is possible that the modification still not support the "who is online" location?

Maybe I'll spend some time to check for this feature. But in person I don't like it in any program. It's like spying the others where they're and what they're doing. But this is just my personal view.