Major Additions - vbF Journal by vbFreelancers

Removed by the Author
due to luck of free time to support it.
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vbF Journal
Article Publishing Module
by

1.- Credit goes to:

1. MicroHellas, as this module has developed by her.
2. Olympic, for his corrections to secure this module according to vB's standards.

2.- General information

• 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
• RSS per category
• 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

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().
2. Upload the contains of /forum directory to the same directory where you've installed vBulletin. Please note that if you've another vbF module already installed, you'll get a message for file "loading.gif" that already exists. Don't worry. You can skip or overwrite it as it's the same image.
3. CMOD following directories to 777
   1. /photos (inside vbjournal directory)
   2. /tmp (inside vbjournal directory)
   3. /thumbs (inside vbjournal/photos directory)
4. For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
5. Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
6. From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbjournal.xml
7. If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:
   1. Search For:

      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

   2. Add Below:

      <td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="vbjournal.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Journal</a></td>

      ....or use any other word you want.
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.
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.
10. 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
vBulletin Freelancers

[S7rik3R]

Sorry but I just tried adding the pix into the article was always successful ... but whenever I edit the article the picture I uploaded always disappear. I had to re-upload the picture again.

Is that normal ?

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by S7rik3R

Sorry but I just tried adding the pix into the article was always successful ... but whenever I edit the article the picture I uploaded always disappear. I had to re-upload the picture again.

Is that normal ?

Of course it's not normal. I duplicated the bug and tomorrow I'll post an update. Also on Monday, I'll post an upgrade by adding photo gallery in each article.

Marina

[giorgiotave]

Great Job!

You can make a tag for article in the future?
Can make a rewrite or article?

[Olympic]

Originally Posted by giorgiotave

Great Job!

You can make a tag for article in the future?
Can make a rewrite or article?

I can't say that I got your meaning, so can you please give me an example of what exactly you want?

[mabe38]

Could not download vbfJournal.zip

Invalid Attachment specified.

Martin

[vbFreelancers]

Hello,

A new version (1.3.0) of vbJournal is available for download. In this version:

1. A bug which was appearing by removing the article's photo when you're editing the article, has been fixed.
2. Added feature. Now every article can has a photo gallery and not just a photo.
3. Code correction. It appeared in one installation that every photo upload was taking the same filename, so we change the way that the files are naming.

How to upgrade:

1. Upload file: vbjournal.php in your vB installation directory.
2. Import product-vbjournal.xml from your admincp. Don't forget to check "Overwite" option.

Of course is always wise to backup the table XXXX_vbjournal_articles before upgrade.

Regards
Marina

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by mabe38

Could not download vbfJournal.zip

Invalid Attachment specified.

Martin

Hello Martin,

I just tried and download worked fine.
You can also try with right click and choosing "Save target as..."

Marina

[S7rik3R]

Hi Marina,

I just re-install everything as the bug for remove article is fix but now I face this problem.
the photo I uploaded everything works fine but in the "photo article" column is showing the same size photo as the breaking article or did i mislook somewhere or I installed incorrectly.
Now the column is not proportional anymore.

http://www.evotus.com/vbjournal.php

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by S7rik3R

Hi Marina,

I just re-install everything as the bug for remove article is fix but now I face this problem.
the photo I uploaded everything works fine but in the "photo article" column is showing the same size photo as the breaking article or did i mislook somewhere or I installed incorrectly.
Now the column is not proportional anymore.

http://www.evotus.com/vbjournal.php

I found the bug As I copied the code for image manipulation from another mod, in 3 instances I forgot to rename vbjengine to vbjournal, so the mod was trying to find settings from vbFEngine. I apologize for my novice mistake. Please upload the attach file.

[S7rik3R]

Wow you are the Greatest ! Thanks for sharing the mods really loves it ... you did a very good job. Working prefectly now it's a great beauty.

Thanks Once Again ~