vBJournal for vBulletin 3.5

This is a Port of vB Journal by An-Net

A t t e n t i o n
This Hack is unsupported and incompatible with PHP 5.
You are herby advised to not use it.
If you do have this hack installed it is advised to use vBulletin Blog instead.
You can import current entries to vBulletin Blog via Impex and uninstall this hack afterwards.

[Snake]

Are there any bug fixes to do while running on 3.5.x?

[offline]

I have installed this hack and it will allow me to create my first journal but then when I go back to it I just get a blank page. Any ideas what I have done wrong?

Thanks!

Chris Edwards

[Halarkin]

I need help. I've been using this hack since it was first released for vb3 and so my users have accumulated large amounts of posts in their journals. The problem is that regardless of the pagination, the larger their journal, the longer it takes to load and the heavier it is on server resources. For some users, I click on their journal link and come back 5 minutes later. If enough people are browsing journals, it brings my server to its knees. This isn't how things should work.

So, I'm faced with a decision - either clean up this hack myself, or find a new way for users to keep journals. Has anyone had to do any work on the queries to make them more efficient? Please please help!

[Halarkin]

Ok I fixed the problem. The issue was not the query itself, but the database structure. The install script does not set up proper indexes. If you want this mod to run faster, you need to set up an index in the journal_entries table for the journal_id column.

I would also suggest setting up similar indexes on the other tables, as they are also lacking.

[Snake]

I can't view the journals page instead I just get a blank white page.

http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/journal.php

And yes, I am running on PHP 5+ and mySQL 5.

[Omega Prime]

Originally Posted by Omega Prime

Just so everyone knows, while this hack will work with 3.6, there's something within the code which caused errors in the admincp (fatal error in adminfunctions_options.php), so I hope a fix can be made soon

To reiterate what I said eariler, there's an issue with the bitfields_journalhack.xml file that causes the error in adminfunctions_options.php. Because of that, having the journal enabled causes such things as bbcode to not function, so I've had to remove the xml file for now until a fix is released soon.

[Alien]

Yeah, having the Journal enabled on 3.6.0 also causes a problem with about 4-5 vBulletin options where multiple checkboxes are listed for the admincp>vbulletin options (such as bbcode, image verification options, memberlist field options, active members options, etc.) Disabling journal allows those fields to appear normal once again...

[Omega Prime]

Originally Posted by Alien

Yeah, having the Journal enabled on 3.6.0 also causes a problem with about 4-5 vBulletin options where multiple checkboxes are listed for the admincp>vbulletin options (such as bbcode, image verification options, memberlist field options, active members options, etc.) Disabling journal allows those fields to appear normal once again...

Ok... so it wasn't just me. Well, here's hoping Andreas will check this thread again

[Alien]

Sure hope so, I'm just leaving it disabled (and deleted the files) temporarily until this is updated.. My members love this.

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

couldn't find it in the thread sorry if its been asked...

anyone have trouble getting the postbit edit (link to journal for those that have it) actually to appear? It seems to work in Firefox but I get nothing in IE.


any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.