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

[Attilitus]

You can fix this yourself, if you desire. The easy fix is to go into file vbstatus_javascript, and do the following find and replace:

Find: $(
Replace: document.id(

That should fix your problem. If it doesn't, then let me know.

~Tim

[Alfa1]

Thanks for your swift reply. There are 18 instances of '$(' in the file. All instances are part of various lines of code. I replaced all and uploaded the file but nothing changed.

[Attilitus]

Alfa1,

What is your forum's Url? If the modification is currently installed, then I can visit and determine the problem.

~Tim

[gorentals]

Good Mod, I could care less about history of status messages, who cares anyways? I don't see a purpose of a history of old status messages. That is why I'm not using dbtech's version. Anyways, the more important thing is to have the admin be able to edit members status messages incase situations arise when its needed.

[infnity8x3]

I know it's unconventional, but if you absolutely have to change a members status you can do a query.

-=[Warning]=- Only try this if you are familiar with using sql queries in vbulletin. Noobs could cause serous damage to there forum messing around with queries -=[Warning]=-

I have tried this and it has worked for me.

READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First things first make a backup of your database!

Then if you are using a prefix add it before "userfield" so if your forums sql prefix is "for" then it will be this "foruserfield" next replace the "X" with the new status you want to replace the old with, and then replace "Y" with the user id of the member who's status you want to change.

PHP Code:

UPDATE userfield SET vbstatus_status = 'X' WHERE userid = 'Y'; 


So if you want to change admins status to WTF it would look like this.

PHP Code:

UPDATE userfield SET vbstatus_status = 'WTF' WHERE userid = '1'; 


Alternatively you could just edit the fields using phpmyadmin.

[manzak]

I did all the transactions without any problems, could not work. ):
None the problem of editing the template.
Playing with FTP file properties do not do?

[Attilitus]

manzak,

If you give me your site's Url, then I can determine the problem.

~Tim

[davidhso]

*fixed..works fine.
thank you

[Attilitus]

davidhso,

If you give me your site's Url, then I can determine the problem.

~Tim

[biggeorge]

Installed, but the status will not SAVE. The url is http://www.extremebusa.com/extreme

Any help will be appreciated.