Profile Enhancements - vBStatus - Facebook Style Status Updates (v5)

Compatible with 4.x.x

vBStatus allows your users to update their status to tell other members what they are doing/thinking at any given time. A user's status is displayed under their names in their postbit, in their User Profile, and anywhere else you choose!

User's can edit their status quickly and easily via AJAX.

Features and Configuration options include:

• Admin Option: Turn modification on/off
• Admin Option: Ban usergroups from updating their status.
• Admin Option: Set a max character count for status messages.
• Admin Option: Set the number of characters of a status message displayed per line. (Word wrapping will occur for status messages longer than this defined value.)
• Admin Option: Define a standard status prefix to be appended to the start of all status messages after the username. (i.e. Attilitus is doing something.)
• Admin Option: Define a default status for users with a blank status.
• Admin Option: Define the character set used for encoding status messages. (The default value of this option should work for most character sets.)

• Feature: Status messages may be updated in-line.
• Feature: All languages and character sets are supported. (Most, if not all, should work with the default encoding option. Others may require some configuration in the admin options.)
• Feature: Users may press the Enter key to confirm their status update.
• Temporarily Deactivated in v5: Admin Option: Allow defined usergroups to modify other user's status updates. (For moderation purposes)

There are 4 template edits for this hack. The installation readme file will guide you through the entire process.

Version 5.1

• Support for non-english characters has been added.
• A small modification was made to the installation script to make it more robust.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files (allow overwrite), and reimport the product (allow overwrite). No additional template edits are required to for the upgrade.


Version 5.2

• Users may press the Enter key to submit their status.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files (allow overwrite). No additional template edits are required for this upgrade. You may reimport the included product, if you desire, to update the version number to 5.2

Version 5.2.1

• Extra white space will no longer appear in the status update input field.

Version 5.3

• Important security update to fix a cross site scripting exploit.

Upgrade Instructions: Reupload all files in the upload folder to your forum root, and allow overwrite. It is not necessary to re-import the product xml file.


Note: The files available in this thread will always be for the most recent version of the modification.

If you previously used vBStatus in vB 3.x your member's old status messages will be preserved.

Please do not forget to click INSTALL

[coolankur49]

what I need to edit to remove the username from the start of my status. i guess there is no need to have the name two times

[coolankur49]

Originally Posted by coolankur49

what I need to edit to remove the username is start of my status. i guess there is no need to have the name two times

got it...

its by editing the postbit legacy and removing username tag

[BlueCheri]

Can you provide total code for postbit ? (Horizontal style)

Thanx in advance.

Originally Posted by coolankur49

got it...

its by editing the postbit legacy and removing username tag

[tele955848]

Gute idee aber ich als noob keine möglichkeit das zu ändern in den templates etc.
hochladen kein thema das klappt

[Wordplay]

so this doesn't work for 4.1.2? too bad.

[Mark.B]

Instead of people just posting "it's not working in 4.1", could they please post WHAT aspect of it is not working and WHAT error messages they are getting?

Nobody has a hope of being able to assist and/or offer potential fixes for any issues if all we get is "it's not working".

[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by Mark.B

Instead of people just posting "it's not working in 4.1", could they please post WHAT aspect of it is not working and WHAT error messages they are getting?

I'll take that as a "no" then.

[DNN]

Not too eye catchy

[BlessedFWI]

I loaded it and it is enabled but it isn't showing in the postbit. I don't get any error messages...it just doesn't show up. I love this mod too.

[JasonReynolds]

All works apart from wont let me edit the status