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

[Zizou_SCD]

I am considering using this mod. However, HTML is essential to the article writting process.

Is this possible with vbJournal?

Also what about including youtube vids, google vids, music clips? All the stuff that was included in the full version of your other products. Are these still possible in vbJournal?

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Zizou_SCD

I am considering using this mod. However, HTML is essential to the article writting process.

Is this possible with vbJournal?

Also what about including youtube vids, google vids, music clips? All the stuff that was included in the full version of your other products. Are these still possible in vbJournal?

No. But as vbJournal is using vB's editor there are plugins here so you can insert them.

[masterweb]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

In the next upgrade I'll seperate add/edit/delete to 3 permissions.

Really a good idea!

[Doc31]

A quick question if i may.

In internet explorer 7 i am getting an error in the bottom left corner. A script error im thinking.

It happens when you go to post a new article. IE: vbjournal.php?do=newarticle



I tried this on your demo site also and the same error.

i Hope i have given you enough info to understand what i mean.

Any idea on how to remove this error thanks in advance

[SherryG]

Hi Mary,

This mod is fantastic and is working perfectly on my board. I do have a question though. How would I go about changing the 'Journal' word as shown in the image below? I'd like it to read 'Newsletter' instead.

[shabab-on-line]

Hi

I think this is the answer for what's you looking for.

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Change the phrase $vbphrase[vbjournal]

[hubba]

I have the same issue with the missing image icon...

>activate inline images at vBulletin options

Uhm.. cant find that option there??

If I switch to "simple Editor" in User cp there is nothing shown in the Journal editor... If I switch to adavanced editor in Usercp I see the same like here... without the image icon.

[SherryG]

Originally Posted by shabab-on-line

Hi

I think this is the answer for what's you looking for.

I changed that phrase but I still see 'Journal'. I think there must be another place to do this.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by SherryG

I changed that phrase but I still see 'Journal'. I think there must be another place to do this.

Just below that phrase there is another one: [vbjournal_navbar]

[bts420]

Whats the deal with support Mary?

We started e-mailing to resolve the issues with your product. Support was first rate. You offered me a refund, I said no if you can fix your product I don't need a refund. You agreed.

Then all e-mail stopped, you never made the changes promised, you have ignored all further e-mails from me.

This is not cool.