vBJournal Lite 1.1b

ATM, this hack would work with ALL versions of vB unless they renamed the 'user' table :speechless:


README.txt (can be found in the zip)


README.txt
New in 1.1b
- Edit journal.php (2 lines). New journal.php here, for 1.1a users

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=== vBJournal Lite version 1.1b =============================================
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This is an addon to vBulletin and acts as an online journal/diary. Users can add entries, either

making them private or public(for all to see). For the public entries, users can comment on them.

Thats about it. You should be able to get a better idea viewing a live demo at

http://sgstudents.com/forum/journal.php. The GUI was modeled after gamingforces journal at

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/journal.php .
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=== This being my first hack, i am SURE that there are going to be =======
=== some bugs, and problems, so just to warn you first =======
=== :: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE ! =======
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Now thats over with lets start... I will list the steps of what needs to be done...
NOW :

1) Edit the images to suit your site.
2) Upload the images to the forum's /images folder.

3) Upload install_journal.php to your admin directory.
4) Run install_journal.php and follow instructions... shouldn't be a problem. but i only tested

it once .

5) Run this query (using phpmyadmin,or use this hack

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/show...&threadid=26272 , etc)

ALTER TABLE user ADD journal SMALLINT NOT NULL

[note this will add a column in your 'user' table, but i think that shouldnt be a problem ...]

6) Upload journal.php to your forum's root directory.
7) goto journal.php page and click on the button ... (should say "Get a journal" or "Unlock

Journal" Cant rem which
... bad memory. lol) this will enable the admin journal (userid=1) and show the first default

welcome msg.

8) Link to journal in postbit.
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- open admin/functions.php

FIND

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

$datecut = time() - $cookietimeout;

if ($counter%2==0) {
$post[backcolor]="#13486D";
$post[bgclass] = "alt1";
} else {

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Add ABOVE THIS


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// vBJournal Hack by Ryangel
if($post[journal]==1){
$journal = '<a href="journal.php?s=&journalid='.$post[userid].'&action=view"><img

src="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/images/journal.gif" alt="View '.$post[username].'\'s Journal" border="0"/></a>';
}
else {
$journal = '';
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////


save and upload admin/functions.php.

9) open your postbit template and add $journal to where you want the link to show.


You are done ! The journal should be able to work now

FEW THINGS TO NOTE
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- private entries can only be viewed by the owner or admin.
- erm... did i say a few? ok thats the main thing to note.... I'll edit this as it comes to my

mind. lol :laugh:

IN WORKS FOR NEXT VERSION
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- incooperate moods
- better interface ( but that you can do now by editing the templates yourself )
- Admin interface -> from admin cp.
- New user option to choose whether buddies/admin can view private entries.
- anything else that might come up from discussions.


Version Update Log
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1.1a
- Fixed some table color code.
- Added template txt for manual install.

DEMO: http://sgstudents.com/forum/journal.php

[Riddel]

yea..the templates in the install.php is a little buggy in mine too

[indiamike]

Thanks for releasing this. It's been a long wait for something like this.

Installation went well and will give a little feedback in a few days when I have a chance to play around with it for awhile.

Very Cool...
Thank You :classic:

Mike

[indiamike]

uh--oh---

Need some help.

On the main journal page my user names and journal titles are coming up in an unreadable color (white on white). In which template can I find the color that controls the user name and the journal title.
I have been poking around and can't figure it out.

http://www.indiamike.com/india/journal.php

Cheers
Mike

[Ryangel]

Originally posted by indiamike
uh--oh---

Need some help.

On the main journal page my user names and journal titles are coming up in an unreadable color (white on white). In which template can I find the color that controls the user name and the journal title.
I have been poking around and can't figure it out.

http://www.indiamike.com/india/journal.php

Cheers
Mike

yeah i did think that this would be a problem.. you'll have to edit the journal_mostentrybits, journal_mostviewbits, journal_recententrybits ,

find the first <normalfont> and change to <normalfont color="{ categoryfontcolor }"> , tell me if it works. (without the spaces in categoryfontcolor and the {})

I'll update the zip file later when I'm home.

[Ryangel]

Originally posted by Odil
I have 4 styles installed on my board so this hack when it goes to install the templates, it says it does but there are no templates ever installed for any of the 4 styles. What do I need to do?

Can you at least provide a text on the templates to install so I can do them manually?

Odil

mmm thats a whole load of templates, but I'll create a txt file and post it up when I'm back. say 2 hours from now.

[Ryangel]

Originally posted by ptbyjason
Low Tek I think it puts a link to the journal of the person when you view their profile, but I might be wrong. I know if you look at his post bit there is a button that will let you view the user's journal if they have one.

atm, there isnt a link in the user profile to the journal, will add that in the next update

I have a question of my own also. Is there a way to allow the user to attach a file or photo in the journal entry?

Not atm, only if you use the vB code tags, theres no attachment support atm. Will consider this iin future updates.

[Ryangel]

Originally posted by Low Tek

What about adding a Mood selection to each entry?

I hear ya Mood selection is in the works atm. I'm still deciding whether to incooperate other mood hacks or just implement a real simple one. Will have to check with the other hack authors.

[Ryangel]

Originally posted by zachb
suggestion: let user's search for member journal's on the journal page.

Noted !

[indiamike]

Originally posted by Ryangel


yeah i did think that this would be a problem.. you'll have to edit the journal_mostentrybits, journal_mostviewbits, journal_recententrybits ,

find the first <normalfont> and change to <normalfont color="{ categoryfontcolor }"> , tell me if it works. (without the spaces in categoryfontcolor and the {})

Thanks for the response.
That was actually the first place I had looked when I was having problems. Even after editing it and replacing it with your code and hand doing it over and over it still didn't take. The solution...well....I cheated...since I couldn't figure out how to get the font color to change I just changed the color of the table.

I am dumbfounded why this didn't work and tried all sorts of different color combos in the font tag....hmm....dunno...I am usually pretty good at editing templates.

We will have to keep looking into this.

Cheers
Mike

[Ryangel]

hmmm *confused*
/me waits for more bugs.