vBulletin Blog - vBdiary & vBblog - Convert a forum into a diary or weblog (blog) forum.

Notice: This mod is no longer being developed by the original author. As of today (1-1-2008) it will be continued by Laura!

This mod will enable you to convert a forum into a diary of weblog (blog) forum. A diary or blog can be started by any user who has permissions to post in the forum and only the author of the diary is able to post entries.

The autor of the diary is able to protect the diary with a password so that only users (also guests) who know the password are able to view the diary or blog.

This mod may contain some bugs as I did not yet test it extensively. Please let me know if you find any bugs and I will work on it. Feature requests are also verry welcome!

Have Fun!
Jan Jaap

Updates:

• v1.1
  • Diary Forum Display
  • Diary Thumbnails (professional, using the vBulletin Avatar thumbnail management system)
  v1.2
  • vBBlog extension
  • Comments page (comments per diary/blog entry)
  • Customized Diary/Blog template wich shows the post date for diaries and entry title for blogs in a <h2> tag.

This mod makes use of the original vBulletin systems so it will perform on a big high traffic forum. Aprox. 30 hours have been invested in this mod so far. Ofcourse also a lot of study work to get to know the vBulletin systems like Postbit factory and datamanager.

No template edits are needed, all is managed via the plugin system, a onetime install and further configuration from the original vBulletin forum adminpanel.

Screenshots:

Forum Configuration Options


New Diary & Edit Diary Password Option


Password Screen if protected by a password, admins do not need to enter a password.


Diary Forum Display

[laura66a]

I installed this to test and when I post a message as either a Blog or a Diary entry, I get the following database error:

MySQL Error : Table 'community.diarycomments' doesn't exist

Community is the database name.

Thanks.

Laura

[ktaylor]

something must have happened during your install, uninstall and try again but go explicitly instruction by instruction cuz i had that happen to and it was just because i was "skimming". i tend to do that....

[laura66a]

Originally Posted by ktaylor

something must have happened during your install, uninstall and try again but go explicitly instruction by instruction cuz i had that happen to and it was just because i was "skimming". i tend to do that....

No install instructions were included with what I downloaded. I just put the PHP file where they seemed they should go and installed the XML.

Laura

[Mum]

I've read through and can't see an answer. What is the difference between weblog and diary?

Weblog the user can reply? And diary they can't?

[Mum]

Originally Posted by Chachacha

I'm having the same issue and will also have to uninstall. Oh well.

Same issue here, uninstall

[pxd]

In the templates list, I see $stylevar[htmldoctype]_diary
Does this mean product installation did not go smoothly? (3.7.0 Beta 4)

[GuaRRand]

So.. is this been updated/tweaked yet?
Last updated 2006???..

I'd really like a "blog" functionality on my site... but i'm hesitating to install this.

[pxd]

Here's a temporary fix for the "no DataManager" that worked for me on vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 5.

Add this line at the very top of class_dm_diary.php right below <?php

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_diary_dm.php'); 


[Mum]

What is the difference between a diary and a blog? I would have thought they were the same thing?

[athlon64bit]

I hope that this is released for vb3.7