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).
I'm so sorry to be a pain. Can you tell where I need to go to change the phrases? Should I be in the phrase manager section of the control panel? This is all new territory for me
Login to your admincp. Goto Language&Phrases .. Choose the group vbJournal. There you can see and edit all the phrases.
There is a phrase "vbjournal_navbar". Change it to anything you want.
^^ ya, that helped, Thanks
1 more thing, how can i change the word Articles to Guides, eg. Latest Articles = Latest Guides, My Articles = My Guides, Approve Articles = Approve Guides.
Great mod. Before I install it, I would like to ask you some questions.
Does it supports VBSeo? Is it possible for users to comment? Is it possible when you create an article to create a topic in the forums and the replies to appear to both forums and article?
Thnx in advance
Great mod. Before I install it, I would like to ask you some questions.
Does it supports VBSeo? Is it possible for users to comment? Is it possible when you create an article to create a topic in the forums and the replies to appear to both forums and article?
Thnx in advance
VBSeo - not yet but it's on Maria's to do list in later versions
Comments - not yet but again on Maria;'s to do list in later vesions.
BTW that functionality is all available on her vbnews product which is available now, about $50 or so.
Great mod. Before I install it, I would like to ask you some questions.
Does it supports VBSeo? Is it possible for users to comment? Is it possible when you create an article to create a topic in the forums and the replies to appear to both forums and article?
Thnx in advance
Hello Panayiotis
Well this mod started as a combination of my other mods vbArticles and vbNews, having in mind (depending of it's popularity) to add more and more features and to keep it totally free even for its addons (vBa CMPS blocks).
Everything that you asked for, are already including in my other mods so from time to time I'll add them.
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09-04-2007, 09:27 PM
