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

[Olympic]

Originally Posted by Extreme24

I installed it and everything seems fine. Only problem is I can only have one picture for my articles...

Later today we'll post an upgrade which will add a photo gallery per article.

Originally Posted by Extreme24

If I create a new article and give it it's own image, all other articles made before that one will get that one's article image as well..

What could be causing this?

Would the Attachment options be scewing it up? (I've turned them off and set the size of attachments to be really low.)

This happen once in another of my mods (vbPhotoVote). For some unknow reason your PHP can't give the random name according to our function, so it gives to all uploaded files the same filename.
We'll check it again.

[Extreme24]

Well what I meant about the "one image" was about the whole "all images are the same image" problem. Not necessarily that I wanted more images in a single article. I think it's ok the way it is (with just one pic per article) but it would be a plus to have more

But yeah, my whole post was about all articles having the same image

Thanks for the answer Hope a fix is made for this for people like me

[Olympic]

Originally Posted by Extreme24

Well what I meant about the "one image" was about the whole "all images are the same image" problem. Not necessarily that I wanted more images in a single article. I think it's ok the way it is (with just one pic per article) but it would be a plus to have more

But yeah, my whole post was about all articles having the same image

Thanks for the answer Hope a fix is made for this for people like me

You're the only one having this problem for 100+ installation (this mod was under Mary's name before), but be sure that we try to correct even single incompatibilities.

[seangworld]

installed, looks great. im loving all your products!
im lookin forward to the vbclub and vbevents!

[Extreme24]

Originally Posted by Olympic

You're the only one having this problem for 100+ installation (this mod was under Mary's name before), but be sure that we try to correct even single incompatibilities.

Oh wow, thank you so very much! This mod will definitely be handy at my site. Wow, GREAT support!

[Dilldogs]

Since this was restore has the problem been fixed?

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by Dilldogs

Since this was restore has the problem been fixed?

The problem has been fixed and the updated file has been uploaded in less than 2 hours. After it, the delay was due to checing by staff. So the file is ok.

[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

[Extreme24]

Thank you so much! Works great now!

One question though... Aren't images in the "Breaking News" section supposed to be scaled down? Mine stay the same size as the originals. They are scaled down in the right side column though.

Small thing but I was just wondering (don't remember if they were before or not). A great mod

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by Extreme24

Thank you so much! Works great now!

One question though... Aren't images in the "Breaking News" section supposed to be scaled down? Mine stay the same size as the originals. They are scaled down in the right side column though.

Small thing but I was just wondering (don't remember if they were before or not). A great mod

I checked the template: vbjournal_breakingarticlebit and it's correct as it's shows the thumb and not the full photo.
Could you please check at your admincp vbJournal->Options what's the setting for thumb width? The default is 150px