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.

[aranthorn]

Originally Posted by KirbyDE

I said at least mySQL 4.0.4 is required (due to the fact that the install code uses multi-table updates).
You are running mySQL 4.0.25, which is newer than 4.0.4 so there won't be a problem.
Even if you were running an older Version, just a few queries upon install would fail, but the script itself would work just fine.

pwn3d, but I did warn about the stupid question...

thanks for the responses kirby and dethfire

[john1744]

I do have a question Kirby, my forum currently has about 250 active members a day, and is pretty active all day and night. Most would embrace a journal system. Is this ready to go primetime? As in do uninstallation issues still exist? Also the only issue I had with the journal when I beta-ed it was the new posts going the wrong order.

I'd love to install this tomorrow, but am not sure if its ready yet. Should I hold off a bit longer?

[Andreas]

@john1744
This Hack is in alpha stage (eg. pre-beta).
It's up to you to decide if you want to use it; i'd strongly recommend not to use it in production environment.

[Leah]

Hello,

This is a great hack.
I love it, and the members of my forum loves it.

I do have one request/wish though.
Could it be possible to connect the last entry, like shown on the members profile page, to the postbits? Like it's done here?



That way the journal, in my opinion, would be fully integrated.

[Andreas]

@Leah
Should be possible with a slightly modified plugin - but will require a bit more processing.

[Daniel]

I'm not sure this has been asked, but since the MEMBERINFO change for 3.5.0 is different than RC3, how would we do the template mod for it?

Thanks

[Andreas]

Please make a bug report so I can keep track of it.
Thank you.

[n1ckn4me]

hey very nice hack!

I was playing with get 5 latest journals on my vBa CMPS indexpage!.. can't get it totally to work so was wondering if there allready an add-on out there or if someone can help me?

I have made a new module witch calls the following phpfile "latestjournals":

PHP Code:

<?php
// ++=========================================================================++
// || vBadvanced CMPS v2.0.0 (vB 3.5) - ****
// || ? 2003-2004 vBadvanced.com & PlurPlanet, LLC - All Rights Reserved
// || This file may not be redistributed in whole or significant part.
// || http://vbadvanced.com
// || Downloaded --
// || 
// ++ ========================================================================++

$getlatestj= $db->query_read("SELECT journalname,journalist,journalist_id,journal_id,journaldate,journaldesc FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "journals
                 WHERE active=1
                 AND (journalist_id=" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . " OR private != 1 OR FIND_IN_SET('" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . "', allowedusers))
                 ORDER BY journaldate
                 DESC LIMIT 5");
    $countlatestj= $db->num_rows($getlatestj);
    if($countlatestj>0)
    {
        while($latestj= $db->fetch_array($getlatestj))
        {
            $journaldate= vbdate($vbulletin->options['dateformat'], $latestj['journaldate'], 1);
            $journaltime= vbdate($vbulletin->options['timeformat'], $latestj['journaldate']);
            exec_switch_bg();
            // TODO: fetch_trimmed_title()
            if(strlen($latestj['journaldesc'])>200)
            {
                $latestj['journaldesc']= "".substr($latestj['journaldesc'],0,200)."...";
            }
            eval('$latestjournalbits .= "' . fetch_template('journal_latestjournalbits') . '";');
        }
        $db->free_result($lastestj);
    }
    else
    {
        $latestjournalbits="There are no journals.";
    }

eval('$home["$mods[modid]"][\'content\'] = "' . fetch_template('journal_latestjournalbits') . '";');
?>

As you probably can see this isn't sufficient or even good but I am still a tottaly noob with a willing to learn more..

Thanks in advance!

[Andreas]

The next version will have a CMPS module.

[n1ckn4me]

nice!.. will get it sooner or later ciao