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

[Piccante]

chadi's screenshot of the malaligned category listings is the same for me in firefox, but the alignment is correct in IE.


Maria, can I make some grammatical/spelling suggestions?

Phrase vbjournal_at should be "on" rather than "at"
Phrase vbjournal_action_ok should be "Successful Action" rather than "Successfull Action"
Phrase vbjournal_no_permissions should be "You don't have permission for this action!" rather than "You dont have permissions for this action!"

Also vbjournal_author_articles should be "All Membersname's Articles" rather than "Membername's All Articles"

Hope you don't think I'm being picky... I'm just trying to help you perfect it as I guess English isn't your first language!

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Piccante

Hope you don't think I'm being picky... I'm just trying to help you perfect it as I guess English isn't your first language!

No, no... Don't worry. I know that my English are average, but I'm proud for myself as I learned them alone. Self teached on the same way as I learned programming. Having my vocabulary on hand firstly trying to undersatnd the meaning of the word and then to understand it's programming meaning . At least in 3 years I had finished my first programm in Clipper (DOS), while my daughter is studying 10 years now programming and still she is studying (at least as she is saying).

[shabab-on-line]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

I tried to visit your site but seems that Guests don't have permissions to see vbjournal. In any case I've noticed that except the traditional Arabic right to left, you've the scroll bar moved to left too, something I didn't seen in other Arabic sites. Are you using any special template or code? Maybe this causes the problem.

Hi Mary,

something I didn't seen in other Arabic sites. Are you using any special template or code?

I know, we are like no other .!!!! We are SHabab On Line!
Kidding!!

I don't use any special template or code to do this change in the scroll bar, also the scroll bar on the left 5 years agoo without any problem on any hack or code or script or product!

I'll give the guests permition to visit and add an article for 24 hours wish you can give us a visit during those hours.

Best regards.

[shabab-on-line]

BTW, when I let the guests add or edit article ,
the text box appeared!
But still the admin can't see it!

What is this!

[Cybertims]

It seems to be not parsing the $messagearea in newarticle page, any idea why?

It results in no editor showing to be able to create an article.

Cheers.

[howiulf]

Hi Mary,

pretty good work, download, upload files, install in less than ten minutes. Mark as installed.

And it works so fine.

Do you see any chance to allow uploads of .pps or other documents? Accidently the editor doesn't show this.

rgds
Ulf

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by howiulf

Hi Mary,

pretty good work, download, upload files, install in less than ten minutes. Mark as installed.

And it works so fine.

Do you see any chance to allow uploads of .pps or other documents? Accidently the editor doesn't show this.

rgds
Ulf

I'm investigating why the attachment button don't works but I can say that editor outside forums acts a bit strange.

[Chadi]

I confirmed the category <ul> listing (alignment) is a bug in firefox view, but works fine in IE7.

[lilfields10]

This mod is fantastic, I hope someone makes a vBadvanced module for it, otherwise I'll have to

Edit: that appears to be against the copyright

[Cybertims]

any fix for the missing text/editor box yet?

Cheers