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:
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.
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).
Hi MicroHellas, I have a question. I have thinking about installing some article management system on my site. My question is, in case I opt to use vbNews, would there still be any use of vbJournal, or for that matter of vbArticles?
I overcame my bizarre problem with the insert image icon by editing my editor_toolbar_on template.
Still having problems with the permissions though. On my set up, a member cannot edit their own articles even though the permission is set in the usergroup. However if I select 'Can Moderate' then they can edit their own articles (and everyone elses though, which is not what I want!)
Hi MicroHellas, I have a question. I have thinking about installing some article management system on my site. My question is, in case I opt to use vbNews, would there still be any use of vbJournal, or for that matter of vbArticles?
Thanks,
Everything is depending on what exactly you want to do. Get as an example my site at: http://www.microhellas.com
What you're seeing there became with vbNews, but can easily be done with the free vbJournal. All it needs is a bit imagination and some template modifications.
Also dont forget that vbJournal is Free, while the others are commercial mods. Tell me what exactly you want to do and I'll give you the right direction. Also the time frame that you want to finish it. vbJournal maybe isn't now a full features mod, but soon I'll add ti it more features.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: imagecreatetruecolor() in /home/XXXX/public_html/forum/vbjournal.php on line 1123
im getting this error and it wont let me upload images. ive checked permissions and the thumbs are 777
this is in IE6
It's not about permissions. Check your php.ini to see if GD2 is installed. Is the image library that comes with PHP but many providers don't installed it as it's not including in the default PHP installation.
I overcame my bizarre problem with the insert image icon by editing my editor_toolbar_on template.
Still having problems with the permissions though. On my set up, a member cannot edit their own articles even though the permission is set in the usergroup. However if I select 'Can Moderate' then they can edit their own articles (and everyone elses though, which is not what I want!)
Any ideas how I can fix this?
Can you see which version do you have installed? 1.0.0 or 1.0.1?
Step by Step my dear friend I wrote many times. Everything (I'm talking about adding features) is depending on its popularity or not. If I see that there are enought members using it, for sure I'll add it and many more.
It's not about permissions. Check your php.ini to see if GD2 is installed. Is the image library that comes with PHP but many providers don't installed it as it's not including in the default PHP installation.
ImageMagick is very nice tool, I also have it in my server, but the common image library is GD2 which comes with PHP. Actually, unlike versions 1.x, GD2 is equivalent to ImageMagick in quality.
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08-24-2007, 07:51 PM
I wrote many times. Everything (I'm talking about adding features) is depending on its popularity or not. If I see that there are enought members using it, for sure I'll add it and many more.
