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

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by PimvanJ

Thank you Maria for sharing your great hack!

Any vbadvanced modules in progress?

Thanks for mentioning it. I've forgotten it I'll develope them during weekend and I'll post them on Sunday.

[Heath]

wow, this looks like a incredible mod.

I'm going to install it now and check it out. Great job though Mary.

[chickadee]

Hi Mary, still loving this hack, but when someone uploads a photo article, the thumbnail doesn't seem to be created automatically. Is it supposed to be?

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by chickadee

Hi Mary, still loving this hack, but when someone uploads a photo article, the thumbnail doesn't seem to be created automatically. Is it supposed to be?

No, that's not normal. Thumb must be created automatically. Are you sure that you've cmod 777 /thumbs directory inside /vbjournal/photos ?

[shabab-on-line]

Hi Maria,

Do you expect any solution for the edit box problem?
Maybe if you make the script support the tools which are using on "Quick Replay Box" as an extra choice!

Regards.

[Ba$im]

hello
thanks for great work
I have a problem when I ho to any usergroup to give permission to see vbjournal
and click update I have this error
Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE usergroup SET

### UPDATE QUERY GENERATED BY fetch_query_sql() ###
`title` = 'Guest',
`description` = '',
`usertitle` = 'Guest',
`opentag` = '',
`closetag` = '',
`passwordexpires` = '0',
`passwordhistory` = '0',
`forumpermissions` = '655363',
`pmquota` = '50',
`pmpermissions` = '0',
`pmsendmax` = '0',
`calendarpermissions` = '1',
`wolpermissions` = '0',
`genericpermissions` = '1',
`genericoptions` = '40',
`profilepicmaxwidth` = '100',
`profilepicmaxheight` = '100',
`profilepicmaxsize` = '65535',
`avatarmaxwidth` = '80',
`avatarmaxheight` = '80',
`avatarmaxsize` = '20000',
`signaturepermissions` = '139263',
`sigpicmaxwidth` = '500',
`sigpicmaxheight` = '100',
`sigpicmaxsize` = '20000',
`sigmaxrawchars` = '10000',
`sigmaxchars` = '5000',
`sigmaxlines` = '0',
`sigmaxsizebbcode` = '7',
`sigmaximages` = '65535',
`mgccustomusergroupperms` = '0',
`nbmsgshowchatbox` = '',
`vbjournal` = '1',
`credit_induction` = '100',
`credit_referral` = '100',
`credit_refbonus` = '0.05',
`credit_daily` = '0',
`credit_active` = '10',
`credit_birthday` = '100',
`credit_repgive` = '0.1',
`credit_reppos` = '10',
`credit_repneg` = '-15',
`credit_thread` = '20',
`credit_threadrate` = '5',
`credit_post` = '5',
`credit_ownthreadpost` = '3',
`credit_postsize` = '0.1',
`credit_pollmake` = '10',
`credit_pollvote` = '3',
`credit_unthread` = '-20',
`credit_unpost` = '-5',
`creditpermissions` = '0',
`adminpermissions` = '0'
WHERE usergroupid=1;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'mgccustomusergroupperms' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Monday, October 1st 2007 @ 06:01:07 PM
Script : ********/admincp/usergroup.php?do=update
Referrer : ********/admincp/usergroup.php?do=edit&usergroupid=1
IP Address : ********
Username : ******
Classname : vb_database

thanks in advance

[chickadee]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

No, that's not normal. Thumb must be created automatically. Are you sure that you've cmod 777 /thumbs directory inside /vbjournal/photos ?

The thumbs directory is definitely cmod 777, I'm going to upload a test article and see if it still does it.

Just had 2 questions, are there any vbadvanced mods for this? Also, can users post comments on the articles?
Thanks so much!!!

[Jay-MOB]

is there going to be anything for cmps soon?

[MP3]

In the main page for the journal; we can see:
1- Journal / Journal Description
2- Last Entry
3- Entries
4- Comments

I want to add one column for the last comment in each journal and to join the Entries and Comments columns in one column. I edit the following code in the journal.php form:

PHP Code:

$fjournals = $db->query_read("
                ### Journal Listing ###
                SELECT
                 journals.lastentry_uids, journals.journal_id, journals.journalname, journals.journaldesc,
                journals.journalist, journals.journalist_id, entrycount, commentcount, usertextfield.jbuddylist, ipaddress, journals.lastentry,
                journals.lastentry_date, journals.private, journals.whocanview, journals.lastentry_id, journals.status, journals.allowbuddies, journals.journalviews,
                journals.journal_totalrating AS totalrating, journals.journal_totalvotes AS totalvotes
                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "journals AS journals
                LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usertextfield AS usertextfield ON (journals.journalist_id=usertextfield.userid)
                WHERE journals.active=1
                AND (journals.journalist_id=" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . " OR journals.private != 1 OR FIND_IN_SET('" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . "', journals.allowedusers))
                ORDER BY $sort $order
                LIMIT $start,$perpage
        "); 


To:

PHP Code:

        $fjournals = $db->query_read("
                ### Journal Listing ###
                SELECT
                journals.lastentry_uids, journals.journal_id, journals.journalname, journals.journaldesc,
                journals.journalist, journals.journalist_id, entrycount, commentcount, usertextfield.jbuddylist, journals.ipaddress, journals.lastentry,
                journals.lastentry_date, journals.private, journals.whocanview, journals.lastentry_id, journals.status, journals.allowbuddies, journals.journalviews,
                journals.journal_totalrating AS totalrating, journals.journal_totalvotes AS totalvotes,
                journal_comments.comment_id, journal_comments.journal_id, journal_comments.entry_id,
                journal_comments.commenter, journal_comments.commenter_id, journal_comments.comment_title,
                journal_comments.comment_date
                FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "journals AS journals
                LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usertextfield AS usertextfield ON (journals.journalist_id=usertextfield.userid)
                LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "journal_comments AS journal_comments ON (journal_comments.journal_id=journals.journal_id)
                WHERE journals.active=1
                AND (journals.journalist_id=" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . " OR journals.private != 1 OR FIND_IN_SET('" . $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] . "', journals.allowedusers))
                ORDER BY $sort $order
                LIMIT $start,$perpage
        "); 


but there is something wrong! Can someone please guide me how to edit the code and the templates?

[chickadee]

Also Mary, the thumbnails are definitely not working, and I've definitely chmod 777 the directory. Any ideas?