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]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Can you see which version do you have installed? 1.0.0 or 1.0.1?

Hi Mary, I have version 1.0.1 installed.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Piccante

Hi Mary, I have version 1.0.1 installed.

Try this trick:

1.- Open with a text editor vbjournal.php
2.- Goto line 1359 or search for:

  if(!($permissions["vbjournal"] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp["vbjournal"]["canmod"]) OR (!($owner==$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']))) {

Change it to:

  if(!($permissions["vbjournal"] & $vbulletin->bf_ugp["vbjournal"]["canmod"]) OR (!($owner=$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']))) {

(Actually you change == to =

3.- Save and upload
4.- Try it

[unitedpunjab]

looking forward for better version. Many flaws in present version

[simunaqv]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Everything is depending on what exactly you want to do. Get as an example my site at:
http://www.microhellas.com
What you're seeing there became with vbNews, but can easily be done with the free vbJournal. All it needs is a bit imagination and some template modifications.

Also dont forget that vbJournal is Free, while the others are commercial mods. Tell me what exactly you want to do and I'll give you the right direction. Also the time frame that you want to finish it. vbJournal maybe isn't now a full features mod, but soon I'll add ti it more features.

MicroHellas, thanks for your reply. I am fully aware that vbNews and vbArticles are commercial add-ons. Actually I am evaluating a good articles management system for my Urdu forum. I really like the way vbNews present lead articles, feature articles and links to different categories. Ideally I would have liked the article system to pull its content from designated forum posts, i.e. any post marked as news. Also I would like to put more control in the hands of the moderators, i.e. I would like moderators with the right permissions to decide which news goes into the lead position and which becomes a feature articles. I am not under any pressure to finish it soon. That is why I am first doing research on article management add-ons for vBulletin.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

looking forward for better version. Many flaws in present version

Many flaws???? What is not working from those features that I'm saying that it has? Did I wrote anywhere that it has the "X" feature and you didn't found it or you found it but is not working??

[unitedpunjab]

I m having admin permission on my board but still i can't delete a user's posted article from vbjournal on my site.

I have checked my usergroup permissions and all of them are on yes. still can't delete a user's article. Some users posting same article in different sections.

Please help me out of this. And when you are planning to upgarde this wonderful hack.

[unitedpunjab]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Many flaws???? What is not working from those features that I'm saying that it has? Did I wrote anywhere that it has the "X" feature and you didn't found it or you found it but is not working??

I can't delte articles from vbjournal when already am havin all the permissions on YES.

If u delete ur own article jorunal won't confirm it. Last nite i incidently clicked on delete instead edit. And the article is gone.....

There is no way to find new articles posted on journal. U can't make every jorunal as breaking news, editor choise or important. There shuld b a function or feature from where a user can have the list of new articles since his last visit.


I m not sayin that vbjournal is not worth anything. This is a wonderful hack to have. And i can see my users posting new articles everyday. And it's really great thing if u want enhance ur search engine rankings.

But plzzz release the new version soon, atleast with basic features. i m not askin for features u have planned for later versions.

Thnx.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by unitedpunjab

I m having admin permission on my board but still i can't delete a user's posted article from vbjournal on my site.

I have checked my usergroup permissions and all of them are on yes. still can't delete a user's article. Some users posting same article in different sections.

Please help me out of this. And when you are planning to upgarde this wonderful hack.

One by one....

1. Can you see as Admin "Delete" at the bottom of the article in full article view?
2. If yes, clicking it are you getting any error message?

[Piccante]

Hi Maria

I tried the changes you suggested and sadly it still didn't work.

[Ratman2050]

I already have my articles posted here:

http://www.thedevnetwork.com/cmps_in...ageid=articles

If I install this mod can I import those pre written articles easily?