Profile Enhancements - vBStatus - Facebook Style Status Updates (v5) (vB 3.x)

vBStatus has been released for vB 4.x.x

Compatible with 3.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.

Special Update Instructions for users of vBStatus v4
This version of vBStatus was mostly written from scratch. Please note that there are two features that are missing from v5 that were present in v4: the ability of members of certain usergroups to modify the status updates of other users, and the ability for users to edit their status in a popup window. If you need those features, don't upgrade yet.

The upgrade process that I suggest is:

• Import the new product xml file. Make sure that you check Allow Overwrite.
• Remove all template code in templates: postbit, postbit_legacy, memberinfo, and header that is between <!--BEGIN VBSTATUS--> <!--END VBSTATUS--> tags.
• Delete your current vbstatus folder and all of its contents.
• Install vBStatus v5 as instructed in the installation instructions text file included with the modification.

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 5.3

• 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

[FreshFroot]

I think a cool feature would be the one you mentioned, with the users status changes for X times.

Also, another neat feature would be to have a box on the forumhome. And, this box would state the latest status updates. This would not be just for 1 member, but say the last 10 status updates would show from all users.

[infnity8x3]

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Thanks dev.

[CharLzarD]

This is really nice. Thanks.

Is there anyway to change the text size? It's a little small for my preferences.

[mmllc]

A conflict was detected in the bitfields. You cannot continue with the installation of this product until this has been fixed. The conflicts found were:

* Bitfield Collision: credits_cantearn = prefixrequired

Any ideas?

[mmllc]

n/m, got it guys, unrelated issue to your plugin. really like it :-)

[Brandon Sheley]

nice mod
is there anyway to pull our actual facebook status update into it?

[MikesSite]

Dev,

I have been using v4 for a while and would like to upgrade to v5. Any idea when Admin will be able to edit status? Would also love a Status History as others suggested.

Thanks.

[MikesSite]

Does NOT work. No matter what I set the status to it automatically changes the status to Username is "utf-8"

Forced to uninstall and revert back to v4.

[Attilitus]

MikesSite,

If you provide me a link to your board, then I can tell you why you encountered problems with this version of the modification. (I am assuming that you followed the upgrade instructions, which stated that you must undo all template edits from the previous version of vBStatus before installing v5.)

Also, if your site is the same as that listed in your vBulletin profile, then I know the problem. That site uses the jQuery library which interferes with the operation of other Javascript libraries including Mootools, the library used in v5.

Although Mootools will almost never break another Javascript library, it can be broken by its less considerate peers. There is an easy way to prevent jQuery from breaking the operation of vBStatus. I will implement this change in the next version of the modification.

~Tim

[Alfa1]

I just upgraded to version 5, and encounter the same problem. Can't edit status, due to jQuery.