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

[rapidphim]

Mary,
Reading through 14 pages on this hack, I did not see:
1/ If this mod compatible with 3.6.8
2/ How are you going to make the Journal page as your default index page?
3/ Can you please tell me any of your mod is like on this page? I'd like to have or to purchase a mod like that. http://www.ngoisao.net/News/Home/
4/ I forgot to ask what is/are the different between vbJournal and CMPS/Dynamic?

[wfcmod]

Hi Mary,

Just installed! Works great...finally found what I was looking for! I have 1 question.

I removed most of the boxes from the front page and therefor the features selection on the add new article page are not usefull for me. (photo article, breaking article, important article and editor's choice) Is there any place were I can remove those options? thanks!!

[njoker555]

@rapidphim - it is compatible on 3.6.8 - i use it here - www.gamers-forum.com

but i have a question as well: How do you make the active authors appear at random than just the first few people posting??

thanks, response appreciated!

[madotds]

Thank you for this great mod. I have just started my board and after license fees and hosting plan it does not leave much spending money So to have people you giving mods like this to the community is very much appreciated

Madotds clicks installed and rates ***** and votes For MOTM

Thank you for all your hard work so far but if i could be so bold as to express my interest in some possible add ons?
User Add Comment
User Rate Article
cmps module
Would be great to have some of these Are we likely to see them?

Regards
Madotds

[Phlex]

Maybe it would be possible to automatically create a new thread in specific, when an article s posted, and a comment button, which leads to the thread, in the article.

Unfortunenatly i am a very lousy vb coder. ;(

[74corvette]

I've installed this mod but do not get the WYSIWYG editor, it just a text box. VB 3.6.8 and it only allows 255 chars.

[shabab-on-line]

Originally Posted by 74corvette

I've installed this mod but do not get the WYSIWYG editor, it just a text box. VB 3.6.8 and it only allows 255 chars.

I got the same problem because I'm using a none official editor!
So, I uninstalled the mod! I really liked it but what can I do with no editor box!

[74corvette]

I figured thats what is was, I'm GTSmiliebox - Move Smilies Below Editor, when I disable that mod the journal editor apperas. Its is probably an easy fix but the coder would have to give instruction.

[kiennt718]

How can I modify Categories: edit/add/remove categories?

Sorry reload CP and everything OK

[Claudia99]

Has anybody installed this mod and can say: Can the user rate every entry (=article) of an other user?